Titles & Journaling Archives

Photoshop Quick Tip: Placeholder Text

The ability to paste Lorem Ipsum placeholder text has been around for awhile in the type menu. But now you can have it automatically placed when using the type tool. Why would you want to do that you might be asking? I use it all the time and here are a few ways I find it […]

Fun With Fonts: Offset

Create a fun offset title quickly using a Stroke layer style and knocking the Fill down to zero!

Terrific Title Tips

electing a great title can put the finishing touch on a layout that will give it the Wow-Wow factor that catches the viewer’s attention. In this article, you will find a few tips to stimulate your imagination as you create your layouts

Super-Size Your Title!

I have to be honest: I’ve been in a rut when it comes to my scrapbooking lately. Life is so busy that I haven’t been tapping into my creativity at all, and all of my pages are starting to look the same. That’s why I was so excited to be given the challenge to create […]

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 […]

Journaling Placement on Scrapbook Pages

We talk a lot about where to put our photos and digital scrapbook elements on our layouts to provide balance, focus, and visual interest. But today, I want us to think about where to place that often-overlooked workhorse that really tells the story – our journaling blocks.

Five Tips for Creative Journaling

If you neglect to jot down notes during your adventures, you may have difficulty recalling the details to include with the photographs when you finally sit down to scrap them. So here are my creative journaling tips for you to put into practice.

Tips for Easier Journaling

For many of us, journaling is one of the most difficult parts of putting a digital scrapbooking page together, yet it’s one of the most important parts of the digital scrapbooking layout. It lets others know why you made the page. I’d like to share some tips that will address the most common problems of journaling

Journaling Your Real Life

I tend to adopt a conversational tone with my journaling. Grammar is important to me, but I sometimes write in incomplete sentences and thoughts, depending on the topic of the layout.

Journaling Inside a Shape

Take your journaling outside the box by typing your text inside a Custom Shape or in the negative space of your layout. This tutorial will show how to create text within a shape using the Polygonal Lasso tool.