Officially, Family Stories Month is observed in November. But any digital scrapbooker knows that family stories happen every day and we shouldn’t wait to capture our stories. The best time to get stories documented is as soon as they happen, while all of the details are fresh in our memory. But what about the old…
Organize your photos to help you scrap more efficiently By Karen Schulz Can you relate to the chaos created when your digital photos are scattered all over the place – on your phone, your computer, an external hard drive, on a cloud drive, or maybe even still in your camera? Have you ever sat down…
Learn how to quickly make clipping masks using brushes.
When creating an art journal page, you may have thoughts you want to get off your chest. But if they are negative feelings — or could be hurtful, should someone come across your page, you may want keep those things private. You have a couple of options when it comes to hiding your journaling. One…
Use the Spot Healing Brush or Content Aware Fill in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
When I began digital scrapping, the most popular paper size was 8.5 x 11″. Not too long after that, 12 x 12″ became more popular, and the industry standard. No matter what size you prefer to scrap with, you can easily convert templates to the size you need using 1 of 2 techniques: Technique 1:…
Did you know you can easily reposition a Layer Style’s Pattern when using the full version of Photoshop? It’s very easy! Here’s how: In the Layers Panel select the layer that has the style you want to adjust. Click on “Effects” (or anywhere in the “Effects” area, but not on the name of the Layer…
Colorizers. What are they and what do you do with them? Colorizers, by Snickerdoodle Designs, are a new product here at Oscraps. That’s me. And I’m here today to show you 4 ways to use them. They were designed to help you colorize items easily and quickly. Here’s how: Coloring Graffiti Many designers include graffiti…
A customer who purchased my Mixed Media Torn Strips 2 asked for suggestions as to the best way to recolor the book paper areas of the strips. Recoloring can be a bit tricky if an element has multiple colors. In this case, the book paper strips have white gesso on them; but after a little…
Designer News, Freebies, Layout Technique, Tips & Techniques, Tutorials
Photo masks, coupons, challenges and a freebie! Oh boy! I’ve got lots of things to share with you today! Creative Photo Masks First up, one my Creative Team members, Anne Herbert (“Oldenmeade” in the galleries) made a wonderful page called “Precious” using Miss Ella. I just love it’s watery-painterly yummy-ness and her use of whitespace….
How to use Quick Stencil Alpha in Photoshop Elements Video Tutorial
Watercolor Masks and Product Tip Oscraps wants you to learn how to use your stash and in order to teach you more about our products we’re going to have a series of tutorials called : Product tip. If you have any product that you would like help or to know how it works let us…
Sometimes life gets in the way and we find that we just don’t get time to create. When we do finally get a chance to sit down at our desk, we find that we just can’t get started. I recently found myself facing this type of creative block. I am going to share with you…
Art Journal & Hybrid, Challenges, Tips & Techniques, Tutorials, Video
Cheery O, Madi (Diane), is leading this month’s Art Journal Challenge – Borders and she’s created a speed scrap video to help you along. You can find the challenge here: https://ozone.oscraps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34301 If you need some inspiration, you can find the challenge gallery here: https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=872 And, the video tutorial here: Diane is using items from Maya…
Hello digi friends! Please join me in viewing the Watch me Scrap Kitten Jasper video. This is Rita from Blue Flower Art and you get to hear a true blue Aussie accent. Let me know if there are any words you don’t understand 🙂 The people that know me, know that I love my cats…
Design, Designer News, News & Notes, Tips & Techniques, Video
Hi y’all! I made a video message for you explaining a little about 52 Inspirations, it’s history, how it works and what’s up with 2017! I hope you enjoy!
Hi you ! Most of the time our scrap works include photos. But is that it? One month ago, Fran shared us a very simple and great way to make our photos pop. We can also use other techniques like recoloring them or adding some shadows to the frame or blending the photo to be…
If your photo taking skills are equal to mine you sometimes need help making a photo look a bit better. One of the things I use to make my photos pop is a combination of curve adjustments and the gradient map adjustment filter. Curves adjustment can be used to lighten or darken a photo or…
Calling all fontaholics out there (and I know there are a LOT of you out there)! Tropt here to share a fun way to get more out of those bazillion of fonts on your hard drive. I’ve been taking a fabulous Art of Journaling class by our own Amanda Taylor of TaylorMade Designs and it’s…
TrishD asked how I achieved the look in my new avatar, so this is for her and whomever else wants to try this out. 1. Choose the photo you want to work with. For this tutorial I choose the photo I used for my avatar. Start by duplicating the photo twice by pressing Ctrl-J two…