Hello!
Last week I released a set of Black & White Photo styles for PS and PSE that I LOVE and since a girl cannot possibly have too many styles I released a Sepia version of the Black & White Magic. Check them out!
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Black and White Magic 6301
Video Tutorial(click to play):
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sepia Magic 6301
There are so many apps for my iPhone that I can get lost in the app store, so lately I have been staying away. But I have to tell you about Camera+! I LOVE it! It is a vast improvement over the camera app that comes on the iPhone (Sorry Apple). I love that you can set it to show a grid when you are taking a photo and the great adjustments and effects that you can apply! Right now it's only .99 and worth so much more.
Here's a photo of Turnip before applying adjustments and effects:
After playing with the adjustments and adding a 'toy camera' effect & a frame:
It really looks grainy and toy camera-ish! Love that! I can just imagine a artsy layout using this photo.
Here's a photo of our other cat Fiona after adding adjustments and effects:
Here is my youngest son before: (I am notorius for taking photos with bad lighting!)
Please fail to notice my son's chocolate stained t-shirt, notice I cropped it out of the after photo! LOL I thought about Photoshopping it out of the original but it's real life after all.
After using some adjustments and effects:
The best thing is that the adjustments and effects are as easy as the push of a button! I hope you give this app a try!
After what seemed like months Armi and I's ScrapSimple club went live yesterday - Woo Hoo!!! She was so much fun to work with on this! Create your own imaginary world with these creative products.
Scrap Girls April ScrapSimple Club - click here.
I was inspired by Joyce Schardts Vignette style layouts and was so fortunate to have her do several layouts with the club products!
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Room With A View
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Wall Decor
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Plates
Layout by Joyce Schardt
Layout by Joyce Schardt
Layout by Joyce Schardt
Hello there,
I have a set of free shading styles that go perfectly with my ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Easter Egg Tree available at Scrap Girls. I have also included a tutorial!
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Easter Tree
These are for Personal Use only, if you are interested in a CU version send me an email.
Enjoy!!
I am going to start offering some free designer help items on my blog, I know how much I love it when I find something useful for free or some inspiration. I LOVE swatches, can't get enough of them and they are such a big help to me in my designing so here is the first swatch based on a photo my Dad sent me a few years back. I love the colors in this and think it would make and interesting kit or piece of artwork!
Photo by Fotabug
I have a set of Photoshop & Photoshop Elements styles for you! These are 3 great basic photo editing styles: Lighten, Darken and Burned edges! Enjoy!
Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?s11evgen5e27y5o
***Please note: Make a duplicate copy of your photo by hitting Cmd+J(Mac) or Ctr+J(PC) and apply the style to the duplicate layer. You can then adjust the opacity slider to your liking.
There are many things I love about digital scrapbooking:
1-Inexpensive compared to paper scrapping.
2-No mess (somehow my desk is still a mess)! LOL
3-You can use your favorite supplies over and over again, no more saving that special paper because you are afraid to use it up and not be able to find anymore! LOL
4-You don't have to commit to anything, there is no glue involved! So 2-3 years down the road when you look back at your layouts and think 'What was I thinking?' you can swap out the background, change things around a bit and be done with it!
5-It's easy to find other digital scrapbooking fanatics all over the world, right at your fingertips! I have met some of the greatest people through this obsession! It's comforting to know there are a lot of chronic insomniacs out there to keep me company at 4am!
6-There is no end to the inspiration you will find online.
7-It's easy to 'pack up' your supplies and take your scrapbooking on vacation.
8-You can change the colors of your favorite papers and elements to match your photos, try doing that with a paper layout!
9-You can change the color of your photos, bring an old photo back to life or give a photo of someone a facial before adding it to your layout.
10-Share your layouts instantly with friends and family via email, facebook or flickr!
The only thing I struggle with is that I am a much better paper scrapper than digital, I don't know exactly what it is but I think it has something to do with the fact that I am a very tactile sort of person. I need to touch things. So I struggle with digital layouts, but love love to design digital products, crazy huh?!
So in order to try and combat that to some degree, I have started designing several sets of Digital Layout Templates and my recent favorite is my ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Blendability. These make layouts a breeze and your not limited to the designs provided, you can easily move things around and mix and match with other templates!
