WINNER ANNOUNCED: Tips & Tricks Challenge with Karen Schulz, April 2022

[Karen Schulz Designs]

Welcome to the Tips & Tricks Challenge of 2022! My name is Karen (Karen Schulz Designs), and I am your Hostess for this challenge.

• Each month I will be presenting you with a Tips and Tricks Tutorial.
• Your challenge will be to take what you learn and put it into practice.

This month we will be focusing on Photoshop Brushes and Stamps. There are so many ways to use brushes creatively on your scrapbook pages. I've posted an article on the Oscraps Blog with 5 suggestions.

1. This Month's Challenge is to read that post and create a layout using one of those suggestions OR use a brush in your favorite creative way and tell us about the technique you used.

2. Sharing Your Work:

• Post your Preview in Oscraps Gallery and add the following tags: tips & tricks challenge and also #karen schulz
• Link your image in this thread for a chance to win a $5.00 Gift Certificate to my store. (Linking instructions below).

3. Challenge ends April 30, 2022, at midnight, PST.

4. Please credit all products in your project.

 

[faerywings]

Brushes are one of my most favorite tools!

 

[Kythe]

Thanks for the reminder. I used brushes to darken the wood, and erase parts of the wire and grunge up the title.. (credits in the gallery)

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• Kythe
• Apr 9, 2022
• 4
• #cheeryo #easter #karen schulz designs #tips & tricks challenge featured products

As Karen Shultz indicates in the tutorial, brushes can be used in many ways. In this layout I...

 

[Jam-on-toast]

Oh, this is a wonderful challenge - I have always thought of myself as not a fan, but reading your blog post I realized I actually use brushes all the time - as an eraser, to create a blending mask... and I love those I can use as stamps... In fact, I use brushes in practically every layout!!!

I particularly love your idea of using brushes to create journaling paper... why haven't I thought of that???

This is the page I created not long ago - I used a watercolor brush that came with the software to mask the photo - I actually prefer this method to using the masks that come with the kit - they often don't fit my photos.

Cliffs of Moher

• Jam-on-toast
• Apr 4, 2022
• 2
• #cheeryo #karen schulz designs #spring karen schulz memory photo collage template

There are so many possibilities tha come with...

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

You're so right, Olga! We use brushes so many times without even realizing we are using them. Your use of a brush to create this custom mask is just one more example. Beautiful page, and I love how you used the Memory Photo Collage template too. Thanks for participating in the challenge.

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

Thanks for the reminder. I used brushes to darken the wood, and erase parts of the wire and grunge up the title.. (credits in the gallery)

Tips and Trick Challenge.jpg

• Kythe
• Apr 9, 2022
• 4
• #cheeryo #easter #karen schulz designs #tips & tricks challenge featured products

As Karen Shultz indicates in the tutorial, brushes can be used in many ways. In this layout I...

Nicely done, Kythe! Thank you!

 

[Mary Davies]

Thank you for the challenge Karen, I used a mask and brushes to erase part of the frame.xx

Tips and Tricks Challenge

• Mary Davies
• Apr 16, 2022
• 5
• karen shultz. tips and tricks challenge

Thank you for the challenge.xx
I used a mask and brushes to erase part of the frame.
Photo from...

 

[seniorgal]

I used a scatter brush (also for the large frames)

Whole box of Crayons

• seniorgal
• Apr 20, 2022
• 2
• karen schulz tips & tricks challenge

 

[tanteva]

Thanks for a fun challenge! Here's my layout:

You Color My World

• tanteva
• Apr 25, 2022
• 3
• #karen schulz designs brushes love tips & tricks challenge

Created the background paper by using a white cardstock from the kit, added the flower brush & a doodle from the kit. Then I clipped a paper from the kit onto them. Created a new layer and painted it with the Bokeh Brushes & then clipped another paper from the kit onto that. Decorated with elements from the kit. (Found the photo like this on the EHD, I've altered that ages ago, and don't remember what I did to it.)

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

Great use of the brushes, Eva. What a fun page, full of color and whimsy! Thanks for participating in the challenge!

 

[TrishD]

I created a mask using a brush and on the brush layer I added a Bevel and Emboss effect which makes the mask look like 3D

Tips & Tricks Challenge with Karen Schulz, April 2022

• TrishD
• Apr 26, 2022
• 8
• #lynne anzelc designs lynne anzelc some kind of wonderful

Some Kinda Wonderful by Lynne Anzelc

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

Nicely done, Trish! I love how you incorporated the stamp into your page design too.

 

[Pia/Pippin]

Fun challenge. Here is my page. I used the photomask included in the kit, but the edges were a bit too sharp for me, so I blended them with a brush. I also used some other brushes on my page.

Wintertime.jpg

• Pia/Pippin
• Apr 28, 2022
• 1

Created with [URL='https://www.oscraps.com/shop/No-Matter-When-Kit.html']No Matter When[/URL]...

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

Beautifully done, Pia/Pippin. That's an excellent use for a brush!

 

[tltolsch@gmail.com]

Thank you for the tips on using brushes and for hosting this challenge!
I used a brush from your "texture brushes 01" to add some light green color on the bottom and right side of the page.

Summer 1968

• tltolsch@gmail.com
• Apr 30, 2022
• 3
• #karen schulz designs karen schulz tips & tricks challenge tips & tricks challenge

The photo was taken by my mother.

Journaling: Our cat, Cocoa, had kittens that my brother and...

 

[Karen Schulz Designs]

I apologize for being late here with the Winner announcement. Congratulations to Olga, who was chosen by Random.Org. I'll be sending you a $5 gift card to my shop, Olga.

 

[AZK]

Congrats, Olga!

 

[bcgal00]

Congrats Olga!