digital scrapbooking Archives

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Sweet Summer

Don’t let your summer memories fade before you capture them in some layouts to enjoy forever – so grab Brandy’s Sweet Summer club to make it all come together fast!

Shape Repetition for More Engaging Layouts

Shape repetition – duplicating elements, textures, themes, or colors in a digital scrap layout – is an easy way to give your layout a compelling flow. A shape constitutes anything from the simplest form, such as a circle, to more complex ideas found in curving lines.

Using Custom Styles to Add Bling to your Digital Layouts!

We have some wonderful styles in the Scrap Girls Boutique to help you add that special touch to your layouts – glitters, metals, jewels, epoxy, foils, and glass. This tutorial will show you how to use them to bling out your layouts.

Fine Tuning Justified Text in Photoshop

Justification works by adjusting the spaces between the words in each line to make all the lines the same length.

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Going Places

Designer Armi Custodio loves to travel, so she created this month’s ScrapSimple Club: Going Places to cater to all kinds of travel themes, whether road trips, air travel, or just a quick trip to the city. Plus, Armi included plenty of cool technology pieces so you can drop them into your selfie-inspired layouts all year long! Fun Fact: Armi explains that […]

Using Levels to Enhance Photos

As digital scrappers, we always want our photos to look their best. There are several edits you might be doing on a routine basis, such as cropping or removing red eye. After that, however, one of the easiest and quickest ways to correct problems and to enhance photos is by using Levels adjustments in Photoshop. […]

Customizing Layout Templates

Templates. Some people love them and some people hate them. The reason for the latter, I believe, is that some scrapbookers find templates rigid – rigid in that they don’t meet the scrapbooker’s needs and rigid in that they stifle creativity. People who love templates have discovered what I’m going to share with you today. […]

Adjusting the Pattern Size of Styles in Photoshop Elements

What would we do without styles? Being able to add touches of virtual glitter, glass, paint, metal, wood, and so much more is one of the best parts about digital scrapbooking. Today, let’s work with one of the options available: adjusting the pattern size of styles by scaling. Since we might want to apply the same […]

Fun with Pocket Life Cards

Journaling cards are here to stay. And these little gems are super versatile and can be used on many types of layouts from Pocket Life to art journaling to more traditional scrapbook pages. You can also wse templates to create customized pocket life cards to match your layout or project.

The Basics of Clustering Digital Embellishments

Embellishment clusters can be a little intimidating. Knowing a few tips can make them so much easier to arrange.
First, remember that placement is key. Think about what you want to accomplish with a cluster. This will help you know where to start putting embellishments.