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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.

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 […]

Creating an Art Journal Layout Using Templates

When I first looked at Sherrie Piegdon’s May ScrapSimple Club, Journal Junkie, it was clear there were possibilities for an Art Journaling layout: the painted papers, the subject and style of the embellishments, the many layers… oh-so-many customizable layers! The embellishment pieces all come in three layers, as does the alpha. There is a newsprint […]

Using the Dodge and Burn Tools to Add Depth and Dimension

Even though I am 100% a digital scrapbooker, I love to make my pages look as realistic as possible. I am always looking for little details I can add to make things look three-dimensional. One trick I like to use is to add shadows and highlights to embellishments using the Dodge and Burn tools, making […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Media Circus

This month’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club: Media Circus is a tribute to mixed media and art journaling!We asked Emily what types of projects her club products would work well for. Here’s what she had to say: Absolutely, digital art journaling pages that cultivate creative expression! These templates are perfect for adding texture to your digital scrapbooking, art journaling, […]

Customizing ScrapSimple Paper Templates

This month’s ScrapSimple Club is a wonderful selection of paper templates, paper overlays, masks, and brushes that can be used in your digital scrapbooking in any number of ways. Each part of the club lends itself beautifully towards an Art Journaling theme, but each can also be used for everyday digital scrapbooking. I particularly love […]

Another Use for Solid Digital Scrapbook Papers

We all know that Scrap Girls solid digital scrapbook papers make great backgrounds for our digital scrapbook pages. Today I’ll show you another way to use them to add realism and texture to your layouts.

ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Combining Patterns

The February 2015 ScrapSimple Club Disco-ver Yourself by Jacqui Smith includes wonderful and exuberant paper templates that are ready to color and use. However, you will notice their marketing image says, “Combine patterns for even more designs, and build unique sets by collecting and combining different paper template patterns.” That message is not only found […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Nature Walk

This month’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club takes us on a Nature Walk with a mix of grungy and nature inspired templates! We asked Angie Briggs & Ginny Whitcomb what types of projects their club products would work well for. Here’s what they had to say: We wanted this to be a club that anyone could work with. So […]

Combining Photo Mask Templates

I don’t know about you, but I am crazy for masks and the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Nature Walk Masks do not disappoint! The marketing examples show them highlighting sections of a photo, by clipping an image to the template, duplicating it in the background, and then clipping to a mask. Which is fun in itself! But […]