This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on Creating Keylines with Rounded Corners in Photoshop and PSE.
I hope you’ve all stocked up on your brushes at the recent sale, because you’ll be wanting to lift this gem by bbe entitled “Natali’s Christmas 2010”. I love the dark background contrast with this photograph and the clipping mask she’s used with the loopdaloop just scrolling through the page. It’s really dramatic and at the same time gives us a glimpse of a special moment in time.
Such a lovely page that I hope you enjoy getting that special photograph out and sharing the story of it.
Sharon and Janet have had fun playing along with me and we’ve all come up with quite different takes on a theme, obviously Sharon and I are the chatty ones with our pages having lots of journalling!
Layout by Sharon, Credits: Anna Aspnes:Showcase FotoBlendz Layered Templates No. 01, ArtPlay Palette Thankful Heart (background paper). Katie Pertiet: Alandia Rancheros Kit (alpha).
Layout by Janet, Credits: Products coming this weekend - Metal Rimmed Glittered Alpha Red No. 1, Lovisa Solids, Lovisa Paper Pack, Doodled Daisies, LoopDaLoop Layered Masks No. 1, Weathered Wood Word Strips No. 1. Other products: Be Labeled: Harvest, Heart Strings, Staple Its!, Filed Photo Frames No. 04, Stitched by Anna Red No. 02, ModGrunge FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No. 01.
Layout by Carol, Credits: Anna Aspnes: PotPourri Paperie No. 07, Easy TornEdges Layered Templates No. 01, FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No. 06, LoopDaLoop Melange ArtStrokes No. 01, MultiColor MagicFlares No. 01, FotoGlows No. 02. Art Warehouse: Candles and Cake Solids Paper Pack. Katie Pertiet: Leather Flowerettes. Fonts : Texas Hero and Love Letter TW
Will be looking forward to seeing your lifts.
The year moves fast; this morning I was grocery shopping amongst the first easter eggs! Eeek! But before Easter, we still have some time to go, and some other occasions to celebrate.
Next month is Valentine’s day of course, and the previews of Katie’s upcoming work are starting to fill with red and pink, hearts and loving sentiments! Plus, in store already are over 266 products for Valentine scrapping 
Over here in the UK we don’t celebrate everyone we love on Valentine’s day, just our partners. So I get it easier than most of you; I need to make just one gift!:)
I’m thinking a photo book, a round up of some sort, or some quotes and phrases that say enough without going overboard.
Now is a good time to start to file away photos ready for a Valentine project. Yes; do it now, before January rushes by you and you run out of time. Little by little, as and when you get the time.
The fastest way to whip up a book is of course to get hold of a set of templates. You pick your style like the doodle ones, the little one, the arty ones, the graphic ones, the film strip ones… there’s quite a few 
These are Shutterfly ready, working perfectly well with Blurb’s 7x7 or 12x12 full bleed pages too.
A few years previously I made a book from this set.
I didn’t even alter it, I simply clipped in paper, photos and was good to go. Because I had my little pile of photos ready to go, it took just minutes.
The documenting a decade book is looking fabulous as everyone’s appears in the gallery, check out Katie’s latest here. If you’ve been together the whole decade that would be a truly great Valentine’s gift. I still cant find my 2000 photos… it was pre-digi mostly for me and I have a shoebox ‘somewhere’ of them! Hurrah for files and the digital era I say!
In the store there’s the sweetest valentine printables, ready to be clipped to the top of your sweeties for your sweetie
What about cards? I think if youre making lots to be handed out by your kids, or you, then you cant get easier than this.
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and for something less ‘hearts n flowers’, these squares would look fabulous printed out as they are.
If you’re not mad about red or pink {like me} don’t forget Cassie’s tutorial on selective colouring, making it super easy to switch from pink to green/blue/etc.
The very best thing about the Valentine goodies in store is that, unlike Christmas trees, all these hearts and‘love’ words have a place on our pages all year
Today is Day six of our Brush Sale at DesignerDigials where every Photoshop Brush is marked down 30% through Saturday, January 8th at 6am EST.
Today’s featured $ 99 cent Brush is Stamped Blocks No. 10 Brushes and Stamps which will be at that price through 6am EST on Friday, January 8th and is the last $ 99 cent featured item in this sale.
Today is Day five of our Brush Sale at DesignerDigials where every Photoshop Brush is marked down 30% through Saturday, January 8th at 6am EST.
Today’s featured $ 99 cent Brush is Floral Edgers No. 01 Brushes and Stamps which will be at that price through 6am EST on Friday, January 7th.
