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Tuesday Tips and Techniques – Embossing

VickiSTips & Techniques

It’s time for another tip. Today I will show you how to emboss text. In case you are wondering a bit more about embossing, I found wiseGEEK to be particularly informative. This technique can add a very decorative touch to an ordinary title. Once you learn the technique the possibilities are endless. For example you…

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Tuesday Tips and Techniques – Spell Check

VickiSTips & Techniques

Hello there! I’m here to show you a quick tip for checking spelling on your scrapbook layouts. I use Creative Suite 5 but this works in some earlier versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Are you ready? Here we go!! On an open layout make sure a text layer is selected. Highlight all of the…

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Let Someone Else Do It

SaraTips & Techniques

Sometimes, it’s not about what we want to say. Sometimes it’s all about what OTHERS have said. Journaling doesn’t always have to be your view of a situation. We use quotations and lyrics a lot, but what about just normal everyday words from normal everyday people? For example, I’ve been thinking about doing a layout…

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Tips and Techniques – Using Styles & Actions

VickiSTips & Techniques

Happy Wednesday!!! I’m super excited to bring you a quick tutorial on how to use actions and styles in your layouts! In this tutorial, you will see how I created the little details in this LO here: For the awesome picture of my darling Cora’s prom shoes (2nd from left) and her girlfriends’ shoes, I…

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Hybrid: Souvenir Cover

VickiSTips & Techniques

Having recently returned from a short Easter vacation, I had lots of bits and bobs from our trip i.e. ticket stubs, maps etc. As a traditional scrapbooker, I would use them on my layouts. However, as a digital scrapper, I can only scan the items that I want and use them on my digital page….

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Frame It!

DianeTips & Techniques

Yes, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but a picture can be just a picture. A framed picture, however, is a work of art, a treasure, something that is so special that one has taken the time to surround it, emphasize it, give it a border, a boundary, some umph!  Where would we…

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Hybrid: Laminated Mini Album

VickiSTips & Techniques

For my mother-in-law’s birthday present, I presented her with a laminated mini-album of my boys. She wanted some photos which she could show them to her friends and I immediately thought of a mini album. I laminated it as well, just so it could last longer. The pages in the album were completely done digitally….

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Journaling – Fontaholics Unite

SaraTips & Techniques

Disclaimer:  I take no responsibility for how many fonts you choose to download after reading this post!  LOL Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about another way to spruce up the journaling on your pages.  FONTS!  Everyone say it with me now, “Hello.  I’m _________ and I’m a fontaholic.”  Why do we…

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