Saturday Tutorial and a Who Village Freebie

 

Petra here, aka Sugar& Spice, good evening and apologies for my late post. I’d like to share a couple of techniques with you, which are so quick and effective. I use mainly PSE 5, so the instructions may be different for your programme.  (I used Amy’s latest releases, Who Village Elements and Who Village Papers). First up, is a quick and easy out of bounds.

Place your photo above a square in the template. (I used Amy’s Say it a 100 Ways Template). Click on the small preview thumbnail of the square, in the layers palate. You should see the marching ants on your photo, as you can see in mine below.  Now select your photo, so that it is highlighted as the active layer. Go to your menu bar and click on Select and then Inverse on the drop down menu (Shift + CTRL + I).

Using your eraser brush, erase all the areas outside the square, except those you want to have as your out of bounds. A steady hand is useful here. Trim away until you get the required result.

Deselect your ‘marching ants’ when your finished (CTRL +D) and re-decorate your page, as you wish. I decided the green background was too dark and changed it to red and pink.

My page looks a bit bare and there isn’t really any room for journaling so I decided to make some quick and easy word art.  I used a CU font by That Girl & Darcy Baldwin to bring you a 2nd quick technique. 

Write out your word and create a new blank layer underneath. Once again click on the thumbnail of the text to get your marching ants. Now select your blank layer underneath and go to Edit in your menu bar, at the top. Click on Stroke, in the drop down menu. This should bring up a dialogue box, similar to the one below. You may want to change the settings but I used a stroke of 20 pixels, centred and chose the colour of my background paper as a contrast. click OK when you’re happy with it. Deselect your text (CTRL + D) and simplify it. Merge it with your new stroke layer below. And there you go, a quick and easy focal point for your page.

And after adding some more bits and pieces, here is my finished page.

And for being so patient, here is a page cluster taken from my page above. It is shadowed but I’ve included the shadow settings in the zip, should you wish to match them to your page.

Click HERE or the preview to download from Box.net.

Leave some comments/love if you would like some more similar handy hints or just like my freebie. Have a fun weekend!

Unforgettables Blog Party Day 2 (Something FREE for you)

Hello and welcome to the Unforgettable Moments Backyard Blog Party. I hope you enjoy the party we have planned for you. Grab a cold drink, there's a tub of them over in the shade. Do you like the little tiki lanterns? I hung them myself! We've got lots of patio furniture here so stop and enjoy your self for a little while! Oops, don't sit in the chair by the little inflatable pool - the kids like to splash! Amy's grilling burgers right now, so I'll host the party today. My name is Donna AKA This Dixie Pixie, and I'm an Unforgettable -- a member of Amy's creative team. I have been digital scrapbooking since June 2010 and joined the Unforgettables in May this year. I'm so happy I did because I love it here!

I'd like to thank you for coming by and hanging out in our backyard today! So before you leave don't forget to stop and grab a free party favor. It's a little journaling mat made with Amy's Sweet Sentiments kit:

(click image for direct download)

For today and tomorrow Sweet Sentiments is going to be 50% off. Isn't that awesome! That means you can pick up the amazing Sweet Sentiments for only $2.00! You won't find many deals like that on such a quality kit that even includes an alpha.


(for your convenience, the image is linked)
Coupon Code: SweetSentiments
50% off expires 9/19



Click the image, add it to your cart, and enter this coupon code: SweetSentiments . It will only be available for 50% off for two days so get it while it is on sale.



Also the Amy don't forget Amy is giving away a full size kit a few pieces at a time (check out the kit in yesterdays post).  She gave away the papers yesterday, and they are still available today so go to yesterdays post and pick up the papers free.  Some of the elements will be given away in a day or two, and by the end of the party you'll have the whole kit, a bunch of great CT made freebies, and some great deals too!

Thanks so much for joining us here for the backyard blog party! I hope you enjoy your free digital scrapbook cluster matt today.  Sign our guest book by leaving a comment if you stop by and take the party favor. And don't forget to come back tomorrow for more deals and party favors.  Hey, when Amy and the Unforgettables throw a party - we don't want it to end!

See you tomorrow!

New Product! And a Freebie!

Woo Hoo it is Friday!  Don't you just love Fridays?  I do!  Especially since I have a really cool new product to show you!

Introducing Engraved On My Heart Alpha

This is the coolest alpha!  It comes with upper and lower case alpha hearts with the look of real engraved letters on metal hearts.  It also comes with a complete metal alpha with upper case, lower case, numbers, and most symbols.  It also comes with three bonus hearts with words engraved on them, and one bonus blank heart that you can customize with any word in any font, or the blank heart can just be used as an element to complement the alpha.  This two in one alpha with bonus hearts is regularly priced at $3, but it is now on SALE for $1.75!  You can take a closer look at this alpha, and pick it up for sale in my shop HERE.


With so many cool options imagine the cool title work you can do with this alpha! 

Here are some example layouts

The above layout uses EasyGoing with the Engraved On My Heart Alpha

 The above page uses Baby Mine by Key Of D Designs and the Engraved On My Heart Alpha

I have a FREEBIE for you!!
I promised you a freebie so here you go.  Here are six more engraved hearts free for you. These cute little heart, word art elements will go perfectly on your digital scrapbooking layouts.  Use them as an element or use them as part of your title work.  They would go great with the Engraved On My Heart Alpha!  :) 

I hope you like them!  If you want these little hearts than you can download them from 4shared by clicking right HERE. Don't forget to leave me a comment here on my blog if you plan on clicking the download button.  Your comments are inspiring, and I appreciate hearing from you!

Also, there is a chance to WIN this alpha at DST HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you have a great Friday and an AWESOME weekend!!  And of course I hope you find some scrap-worthy moments and find some time to scrap!

Flower Freebie for you

I got totally distracted by the computer and started messing around when I should have been doing a thousand different things.  I made some cute little metal flowers.  I thought of my scrappin' blog reading friends and wondered if some of you would like the results of my attention deficit ways lol!
So here you go some free scrapbook elements for you-
Metal Flower Freebie

If you can use them you are welcome to them
Download HERE from Media Fire (sorry about the annoying ads on Media Fire).
If you grab them please let me know in the comments on my blog so I can justify to my husband that someone appreciated me making these instead of getting stuff done around the house. LOL!

I hope you make lots of great memories this month and have fun scrapping them!

Tiki Time! Want a Tiki Torch Template?

The fun n' games over at Ginger Scraps aka Scrap Survivor started yesterday.  The first challenge calls for a Tiki Torch element.  I tried my hand at making a layered tiki torch template.  You can clip you own papers and goodies to the layers and merge the layers and Ta-da have a tiki torch element. It is pretty novice looking, but if you want it you may have it.  At least it will satisfy the requirement of a tiki torch and you can have it for free!  Free for you at least LOL!  It took me all night to make that simple little thing lol!  I started over several times, and finally came up with what you see below lol!  Using templates to make pages isn't allowed in the contest, but since this is an element and not a layout this will be acceptable.  You can just put "Tiki Torch by AmyP" in your credits if you use this.  The torch on the right is the one I put together, and the torch on the left is the layered one.

  

~Download~

If you are doing the Scrap Survivor have fun and good luck!
Don't forget to leave me a comment if you download.  Thanks!!