This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on Making Holiday Cards from Templates in Photoshop and PSE.
The Days of December are continuing here at DesignerDigitals. We have a new batch of 260 items marked down 30% and a brand new item priced at just $ 50 cents. These specials will only be at this price until 6am EST on December 5th.
Today’s special item is Holiday Trees No. 12 Brushes and Stamps
A gorgeous page by the very talented Julie aka MaggieMae is this week’s scraplifting inspiration:
She very cleverly used a gorgeous “All Done Up Frame” by katie as the starting point for her page, then took it to the next level with her great design and lovely monochromatic color scheme. I love that grungy journaling block outline - and the placement of the stitched down phrase tags is absolutely perfect.
It was a truly inspiring layout to lift, and here’s what Sam, Amy and I came up with:
Credits: layout by Lynn, December Nights kit (coming soon) and Flitter kit by Lynn Grieveson, Stamped Stitched Frames No.02, All Done Up Frames No.05 by Katie Pertiet, Stitching by Anna Aspnes, A Checkered Past Numbers: Green by Pattie Knox (coming soon).
Credits: layout by Sam, Postage Strips Words No.04, Banner Strips No.01 (coming soon)and Pencil Lines Frames by Katie Pertiet, Santa’s Stockings Kitby Lynn Grieveson.
Credits: layout by Amy, fairmont Solids Paperpack, Letterbox Colors Sky paperpack, Stamped Blocks, fab Fall Photomasks, Journal Strips No.01, Letterbox Brushes and Stamps No.03, grungy Ledger Grids, postage Strip numbers, Roughed Up Photo mats: Ledger No.01, All Done Up Frames No.03, Blank Safety Tags No.02, Stamped Years Brushes and Stamps, Cut Ups Black and White by Katie Pertiet, ArtPlay Autumn Crisp Mini-kit, Heartstitched by Anna White No.01, Painted Fotoblendz No.03, Stitching and Artist’s Edges Overlays No.06 by Anna Aspnes, http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/supplies/product_info.php/products_id/9114 by Jesse Edwards, The Places We Live brushes and stamps by Ali Edwards, Staple Its Clistersby Pattie Knox, Eilon Kitby Michelle Martin.
The Days of December are continuing here at DesignerDigitals. We have a new batch of 260 items marked down 30% and a brand new item priced at just $ 50 cents. These specials will only be at this price until 6am EST on December 4th.
Today’s special item is Ornament Collection No. 01
Here we are at the start of December! If you are taking part in Days of December I hope you are capturing as many moments as possible, in either words, snapshots or carefully planned photographs.
If Days of December is not for you, and thats fair enough, I hope you are still gathering seasonal stories for your scrapbook pages. Take a moment, in this full and busy month, to look around you and see the moment. Notice the details and take a deep breath.
The next few ‘get it together’ blog posts are about creating and using our supplies for Christmas. Plenty of ideas about gifts, packaging, and decorations you can create.
This is the month a lot of us decorate for Christmas, some of you will have already done so, and some of you arent even contemplating it for a week or so yet {Hello fellow Brits!}
I create many of my decorations myself. It was saving money that first made me do so, and now its the fact I cant find exactly what I want that keeps me making them… Okay; that and the fact I can never sit still 
Some are a labour of love, but others really do take moments, or just part of your evening anyway…
Festive signs made from tin seem to be everywhere at the moment. I cant quite believe what they are charging for them either, so I set out to make my own!
A local cheap interior store was selling {badly painted, LOL} tin signs saying things like ‘hot coffee served here’ with a supposedly retro vibe {hmmm…} I’m sure you know the kind of thing. I picked up some for a few pounds.
I created a new PS document the same size, designed my own festive cheery signs and printed them out. I used high resolution paper, and the best print setting.
After trimming them down, I glued them onto the tin sign front. Chalked the edges for a little ageing effect- oh yes, I have old paper supplies like chalk still - You could always protect it by varnishing, but I haven’t.
I’ll be posting these in the gallery with credits too.
You can see the red one I am keeping {the others are gifts} in this picture, underneath the tag advent calendar. This is my mantle, partially ready for the festive season!
