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Adding A Stroke in PSE

A stroke is an outline or border that can be added to photos, papers, text, and embellishments. It can act as a frame or mat on any item you choose. Strokes are super versatile as you can adjust the color and width, plus you can also add styles to strokes, thereby changing their look completely. […]

Customizing Blender Mask Templates

I really been enjoyed working with the wonderful blender masks by Angie Briggs found in her ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Capturing Life Blenders. They look great as backgrounds with colors and patterned papers clipped to them. That, of course, didn’t stop me from making changes to them for my layouts! Here are some easy ways I […]

The 3 B’s of Bokeh

Today we will be learning about how to use bokeh effectively in your digital scrapbooking layouts. There are three steps I like to call the “3 B’s” – Brush, Blur, and Blend.

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Celebrate!

Celebrations mark the happiest memories we create, so Melissa designed the July ScrapSimple Club: Celebrate to bring lots of wow-power to your digital scrapbooking projects! We asked Melissa what types of projects her club products would work well for. Here’s what she had to say: When I think of making scrapbook pages for the celebrations in my life, I have to have spaces […]

What is the Scrap Girls Club? All the Info about our Best Deal!

It’s the second or third of the month, and you keep seeing posts in the Forum… “Gorgeous Scrap Girls Club!” and “Thanks for the beautiful club!” By now your probably thinking: What is the Scrap Girls Club? What are they referring to? These folks are members of the Club and are part of something really special. Now we want […]

Enhance Photos Fast Class Review

We gave a few of the members of the Scrap Girls Creative Team the opportunity to try out Digital Scrapper’s New Class – Enhance Photos FAST to see what it was all about. We got four glowing reviews, but one of them was just too good to paraphrase – so we wanted to share the whole thing […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Family Ties

Family Ties by Ginny Whitcomb is full of papers and elements that will help you tell your family story!We asked Ginny what types of projects her club products would work well for. Here’s what she had to say: Layouts and projects that are heritage, vintage in nature or genealogy themed will work the best with this […]

Using Gradients to Color Papers, Embellishments & Photos

Gradients are an often overlooked but easy-to-use tool. They are perfect for adding multiple colors to a photo, embellishment, paper, or just about anything! I’m going to show you how to add a gradient to a paper template, a seashell embellishment template, and a photo.

5 Creative Ways to Use Ribbon on Your Layouts

Ribbons are one of my go-to scrapping supplies. I use at least one ribbon on most of the pages I create. Since I don’t have room to list all the ways I’ve used ribbon on scrapbook pages, I’ll review five of my favorites in this tutorial. 1. Add dimension and texture to your clusters. Ribbons […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: The Daily News

Make your own newspapers and articles documenting your own family events with the June 2015 ScrapSimple Club!We asked Brandy what types of projects her club products would work well for. Here’s what she had to say: Either Family News type layouts or artsy pages and art journaling. – Brandy Layout by Sue MaravelasLayout by Amy FlanaganLayout by Melanie CockshottLayout by April Martell Not […]