The February desktop scrapbooking calendar is now available in the freebies section including an iPhone wallpaper as well!

The next time you’ve got a scrapbook page with a spot that needs a little something more, add a “sprinkling.”




Simple Classics No. 02 Kit, ArtPlay Palette Mini Kit No. 02, ArtPlay Palette Mini Kit No. 08, Bedazzled! Layout Jewelry

A sprinkling of what? A sprinkling of something small. Buttons, brads, gems, and sequins all fit the bill here. You could also use a brush—just ramp up the jitter settings for size, orientation, and color, and brush away! A sprinkling of small embellishments can soften up a linear page, create a bit of whimsy, and just simply add charm.



Crystallized Flakes No. 03 Brushes and Stamps with foreground set to purple and background set to pink. Brush settings: spacing at 48%, size jitter at 81%, angle jitter at 77%, scatter at 460%, foreground/background jitter at 65%, opacity and flow jitters both at 50%.

While a sprinkling should appear random, a little tweaking and attention to the balance of the elements within the sprinkling never hurts.

Tips:

• Incorporate repetition with variety. (You can repeat and vary the embellishment type, size, color, and, where relevant, orientation.)

• Work with odd numbers and threes.

• Still stuck? Use one of Katie’s “Scatterings” on its own, beneath other elements, or as a temporary placement guide for gems, buttons, and other small delights.


Scatterings No. 01



On “Sorry Little Buddy,” Amy LeJeune {Amy L} sprinkled an assortment of flowers, hearts and gems in shades of blue and red at top left and bottom right corners of her photo. These two groupings set a light tone and move the eye in a path diagonally down through her page.

Materials Used: Just a Hint Paper Pack, Beth Kit, Worn Hearts, Worn Flowers, Tatty Alphabet by Lynn Grieveson;Stitched by Anna White No. 02, Stitched by Anna White No. 04, Stitched by Anna White No. 05, Spiced Jewel ElementSet by Anna Aspnes; Botanist Notebook No. 03 Paper Pack, Seeing Stars Paper Pack, Border Templates by Katie Pertiet; Corner Its!, Fanciful Felt Page Mats and Frames: Hearts by Pattie Knox
Font Pea Carolyn



Merrilee Larson {digigrandma} sprinkled white buttons and chipboard asterisks on “Snapshots of You.” The simplicity of the white buttons and their seemingly-random placement give the page a fresh yet whimsical feel.

Hint At It Love Brush by Lynn Grieveson in store January 31; Cathy Zielske’s Layered Template No. 19 by Cathy Zielske; Classic Cardstock: Authentic, Seeing Stars Paper Pack, Alandia Meadow Element Pack, Chipboard Alpha Whiteby Katie Pertiet; Just Linens Paper Pack No. 02 by Michelle Martin; Love Bandit Stickers by Mindy Terasawa


Share your pages with sprinklings in the Embellish It! Gallery. Find more ideas and design lessons for embellishing scrapbook pages in Embellishing with Alphas, an e-book by Debbie Hodge and the DesignerDigitals team.

Saturday Scraplift No. 138

This layout by Digibug77 is a real eye-catcher, and I hope you’ll find lots of inspiration in it.

Those gorgeous rich colors - and the clustering of elements and layered paper really make it shine. And notice how the aqua from the striped paper is pulled for the little scatterings above the photo cluster. We had a lot of fun lifting this great page:

Credits: layout by Lynn, date stamp from bracket dates no.02, brushes from Hint at it {love}, stitching from glitter thread stitches No.04, everything else from Wings of Love kit all by Lynn Grieveson.

Credits: layout by Tara, Classic Cardstock-Journey (darkened), Yarn Swirls Love, Cardstock Tabs No.01, Lovely photomasks, Hinge pack, and Glitter lines alphabet by Katie Pertiet, Love You Embellishment Collection and Love Outline by Ali Edwards, Beautiful Me kit by Mindy Terasawa.

Credits: layout by Linda, Roughed Up Photo Mats - Outdoors, laced Up no.01, Roughed Up cardstock Greens, Simply Quilted paperpack, Photo clusters 26, paisley Bouquets, Collection Manuscript, Wax seal alpha, Make a date brushes, tailed journalers,, Colleageables No.02, Defined Clippings megapack no.02, Frightful element pack, Heartstrings, tied fasteners, Flossy stitches brown all by Katie Pertiet, Carissa solids paperpack by Michelle Martin, Rising Higher paperpack and bookplate from Sunkissed kit by Jesse Edwards, clock and stitching by Anna Aspnes, taped stripey and Distressed edge overlay also by Anna, The Flower shop, Have a heart No.05, fasten its 2, Putting on the Glitz Fabric Hearts, Round a Bout felts no.02, and Shimmer me Tidbits: Scattered by Pattie Knox.

~ Lynn

Congratulations to stephie_long. Her layout Say Worm! has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on How to create a mirror image in Photoshop or PSE.