ScrapHappy Page Template Mini: Mega Photo is my new product for quick and easy digital scrapbook layouts. Use the templates as is, or modify with your own creative touches.
Digital scrapbook layouts print beautifully! I printed the layouts with my seven year old Epson printer, then trimmed and added to the album I created for Mallory, my grandniece. Memories to treasure!
My love of art, photography, and technology comes together when I use my photos to produce secondary files. I use a variety of Photoshop techniques to extract a subject from the background and prepare it for use as a single element. “Painterly Flowers” is an example of extracted flowers that I processed for a subtle painted texture. The flowers add a realistic touch of nature to digital layouts and cards.
I designed the “Composed” line of digital collage by arranging highly textured papers, adding paint, then transforming each collage into a digital file. The color version is ready to use. The grayscale templates allow for customization by adding a color fill in Photoshop or other image-editing software. The papers crop easily to 8.5 x 11. For a custom fabric, design a layout with a collage paper background and images of your choice, then print on fabric sheets made for ink jet printers. Use the entire sheet to cover a journal, or cut pieces for use in art journals or mixed media projects.
Digital scrapbooking products are available at Happy To Create.
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“Delight” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
“Peek – a boo” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
“Barbie Purse” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
“Just Mommy!” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
“Toddler Treasure Hunt” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
My latest digital products represent a style that is new for me – art journaling. Paint and paper art journal pages usually have a handmade, artsy look. Keeping that in mind, I worked with real and Photoshop paint and let my creativity take me where I had never dared to go!
No rules apply when designing art journal pages. Typically, they are about feelings or subjects that are close to the artist’s heart. I like to use my photos for these layouts, although I also enjoy using Photoshop brushes or other images as focal points. Journaling is usually featured prominently, but a title or few words can also communicate the message. Sometimes I find it difficult to journal in sentences and it becomes a stumbling block. That is when a quote works for me, or I write a simple poem. I am fond of haiku, especially a variant containing 15 syllables, two lines and two breaks.
Feel free to contact me for more information about art journal or other layout styles created in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements. Find more information on digital scrapbook products at Happy To Create. Free Tutorials are also available.
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