Syndee Nuckles Archives

Holiday Gift Idea: All-Occasion Card Sets

With the holidays rapidly approaching, I find myself in a bit of a rush to get my Christmas gifts ready. Over the years, we have limited our holiday spending and tried to share simple, personal gifts with our family and friends. The minute I saw the word art, bonus items, and papers in Creative Spirit […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Creative Spirit

If you love to stretch your hobby/craft dollars, then you will absolutely “fall” for our November Scrap Girls Club: Creative Spirit from Syndee Rogers-Nuckles! “For any club I create, I want to make sure it can be used year-round for any theme. Even though there’s an obvious fall-season slant when look you look at the collection all […]

How to Use Photoshop Actions

What is a Photoshop Action? Photoshop Actions play a series of recorded commands. While the definition sounds kind of boring, what they can do is definitely exciting! When you use an action from the SG Design Shop, the designers have incorporated tricks and techniques that most of us might not know. You can add special […]

Flowers: Thinking Outside the Cluster

I love using flowers on digital layouts, and the floral elements in Syndee Nuckles’ Creative Spirit Collection are perfectly suited for clusters. For this tutorial, we’re going to think “outside the cluster” and explore a few other ways you can use flowers to enhance your scrapbooking pages. 1. Create a unique title using flowers. Start by choosing […]

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

Enhancing Photos Using Actions

An action is simply a series of pre-recorded steps. And the talented designers at Scrap Girls have put together some amazing ones, perfect to take my amateur photos to the next level.

How to Create Color Swatches from Photos!

When I create digital scrapbook pages, I usually let the photos guide my color choices. I’ve found that whether I am choosing from ready-made collections or coloring ScrapSimple products, using color swatches makes the process easier. In this tutorial, I’ll show how you can create your own custom color swatches from photos. You will need […]

Oh-So-Easy Cut-Out Accents

Angie Briggs reviews some of our popular cut-out products that give the illusion of letters and more punched out of paper!

Using Digital Layout Templates

There comes a time in each digital scrapbooker’s life when they need a little inspiration, a little jumpstart to get their creative juices flowing, or just a little help to speed up the process. Digital Layout Templates to the rescue! These marvels of versatility are beautifully designed with our convenience in mind.

How to Load Actions in Photoshop Elements

One of the greatest improvements Adobe made with Photoshop Elements 11 was to streamline how you load add-ons into the program. In previous versions, loading such items as brushes, styles, and actions involved several steps culminating in the dreaded rebuilding the metadata upon restarting your program. After Photoshop Elements, however, the process for loading actions […]