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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Elements getting in the way of your Text? Wrap it!

28 Friday Sep 2012

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When I first started digital scrapbooking, I made square or rectangular text boxes and just made them fit into the space that was available. Somewhere along the way, I discovered text wrapping and now use it frequently. Hopefully, you’ll agree that the example on the left looks better than the one on the right. By using the extra space beside the tag, a larger font could be used. Alternately, more journaling could have been added. You’ll find that wrapping text really increases your options and gives a page a more custom look!

To text wrap: (1) The element(s) you want to wrap around has to be in front of (i.e. higher on the left-side element list) the text box. (2) Select the text and holding the Shift key, select the element(s) you want to wrap around. (3) Under the Format tab, select Text Wrapping. (4) Select your preferences. I typically go with Element Shape. Select an amount for Space around element and then click on OK. (5) Adjust as necessary.

From Feminine to Masculine

21 Friday Sep 2012

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For some reason I thought I could copy this page (which uses the Enchanted Digital Power Palette) for David’s squadron’s visit to an airplane hangar. However, as I worked it quickly became obvious that the design needed to be more masculine. Guys and jets don’t mix with polka dots and sparkly brads.

Denim and metal to the rescue. To change the green circle rows, select “Cut and Fill”, “Gradient”, select the two-color gradient with a line across the middle, and finally select two shades of gray with the lighter shade in the middle of the pattern. I also added dimension (format, filters, 3-D edge, 80, 0, 7, apply).

The tag is from the Silver Hardware collection and the font is Bohemian Typewriter.

Mission accomplished.

Free Frame with Curling Corners

15 Saturday Sep 2012

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Back in spring, Creative Memories posted a fabulous page created by Jennifer Gibson. I pretty much like everything she designs! The instructions for the unique shadowing were included but it was a real challenge to duplicate. I’ve asked CM to share the frame and shadows on one of their Freebie Fridays but until they do, you can use the one I made.

The page below was already done but I really wanted to use this new frame so I went ahead and changed the feature photo (yet another reason to go digital).

Save the file as a png so that the background will be transparent.

Snip & Paste

07 Friday Sep 2012

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My dear friend, Stephanie, introduced me to Zinio. It’s a free online library-related magazine subscription and I recently had time to check it out. The scrapbooks etc. magazine included an inspiring page that I plan to use for the first page of my next family album. Using the Snipping Tool*, I snipped and pasted the page and the directions into my This ‘n’ That album (misc. inspiration, pages for future albums and misc. projects).

Remember that you can make good use of the space around your project – it’s kind of like making a mess all over your dining room table when you used to have stickers, die cuts, papers, scraps, tools and photos scattered everywhere! I also refer to this concept in another post called Two Pages @ Once.

* The Microsoft Windows Snipping Tool is a handy, dandy feature that captures a screen shot of anything on your screen. It’s basically Print Screen but with immediate cropping options. I have it pinned on the taskbar across the bottom of my screen so it’s always on red alert. To see if your computer has it, click on the Start circle on the bottom left-hand corner of your screen and search “Snipping Tool”.

Facebook? No, Familybook.

03 Monday Sep 2012

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The first and last pages of a scrapbook usually take some extra thought. For family books, I almost always start with a picture of the family, not a particular event. For my children’s books, the first page is always their school picture. But then there’s the last page. Like the first page, it’s rarely a specific event. It sometimes ends up as a miscellaneous page for pictures that had no place else to go. For our 2011 book, I got this great idea to make it look like a screenshot from Facebook. It was a ton of work but I like how it turned out. Let me know if you want the template as I’ll need to send it by email.

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