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Best Scrapbooking Weekend!

May 4, 2023 admin Comments 0 Comment

It’s time for inter-National Scrapbooking Day/weekend. Many online festivities have already begun. What a great weekend for all scrapbookers across the world. National Scrapbooking Day was created in 1994 by Creative Memories. Ever since then it is celebrated on the first Saturday each May. When digital scrapbooking started in the early 2000s, scrappers realized digital scrapbooking was a global community and the “i” for “international” was added to include all scrappers around the world. Since I don’t sell product and…

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Want Just Part Of An Element?

May 2, 2023 admin Comments 0 Comment

Several weeks back in my post about Journaling I mentioned I would have a future post discussing how to cut elements into pieces. Well, that’s this post! Let me just say, in case it isn’t already obvious…I love digital scrapbooking! One reason is the supplies, which are truly only limited by my own creativity. As I’ve already discussed in prior posts about Re-coloring elements & Re-coloring paper, amazing digital editing programs like Photoshop Elements (PSE), makes altering digital supplies a…

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Amping Up Your Embellishing Skills

April 25, 2023 admin Comments 0 Comment

Do you get flustered by clusters? You’re not alone. A lot of people feel unsure about creating them. Good news is…clusters don’t have to be complicated to be eye-catching. When I was a paper scrapbooker, I always tried to limit how many elements I piled onto a page. Nobody wants bulging albums. And you have to be careful that all of those dimensional elements don’t cause damage to underlying layouts. With digital layouts you can be as dimensional as you’d…

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Investing In Our Planet

April 22, 2023 admin Comments 3 comments

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2023 is Invest In Our Planet. Are you up for a challenge… Help Save A Tree In the spirit of investing in our planet & the environment I’m posing a simple challenge for you. To…

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Don’t Let Your Pages Look Flat

April 18, 2023 admin Comments 0 Comment

Good shadowing is perhaps the most important element in digital scrapbooking. If you want your digital layouts to have the same dimensional look as paper layouts, proper shadowing is key. If you are new to digital scrapbooking, I hope to give you some basic pointers to get you started. I also hope that you “seasoned” scrappers will pick up a few new tips here or there. Over the years more than a handful of people have asked me how I…

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