word art Archives

Making Word Art Pop!

I think my favorite part of this month’s Scrap Girls Club: Mojave is all of the beautiful word art. Designer Jennifer Ziegler has given us a mixture of black type and script that is elegant and timeless. If you want to make this terrific word art pop, you can add a little color to it. […]

3 Ways to Make Word Art Stand Out

This month’s Scrap Girls Club by DRB Designs has a fun mix of pretty embellishments, patterned papers, and word art. Sometimes I shy away from working with word art in a collection because it can be hard to read on a busy background or the colors don’t quite go with my page. In this tutorial, […]

Wonderful Word Art

It’s no secret that I love word art. Elisha Barnett’s Simple Joys Collection has wonderful cursive script word art that is so pretty and useful. One of the reasons I love word art so much is its versatility. Let me share with you three fun word art ideas to personalize your page and make your […]

Fun with Warped Text

Create titles and word art using the Warped Text tool in Photoshop Elements.

The Art of Storytelling

As scrapbookers, we work hard to combine photos, elements and papers to make lovely, artistic pages. However, sometimes we forget to showcase another type of art – the art of storytelling. It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think those pictures still need a few words added in order to be […]

Using Layer Masks

Have you ever looked at a digital scrapbook layout with lots of interwoven layers and embellishments and wondered how it was done? Chances are good that layer masks were used. A layer mask is a non-destructive tool you can use to control the transparency of parts of your layer, unlike the opacity sliders which control […]

Customizing Word Art Blanks

Our designers pack lots of beautiful word art into their collections, and this month’s club is no exception! Syndee Nuckles has given us so many colorful choices in her Stories We Tell Collection. But let’s be honest: no collection can contain all the word art you’ll ever need. Sometimes the perfect words are on the […]

5 Creative Ways to Use Word Art

The name says it all: Word art is word(s) plus art. It gives us an easy, convenient, and lovely way to give meaning to our pages. Sometimes, we don’t always know what words to use on layouts (beyond the date and name), so word art plays an important role in pushing our creativity toward the […]

Cookie Word Art using ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: What’s Baking

Article written using Photoshop Elements 8 with Windows 7 The 1st and 15th of each month feel a little bit like Christmas to me. When club products come out, I am so excited to see what the creative designers at Scrap Girls come up with. July’s ScrapSimple Club by Katherine Weaver was no exception. When I first […]