Digital Project Life #3

I'm making good progress with my digital layouts. Here's another one from Zoe's first month pictures. More Tracy Larsen and a great kit from Laura Passage at Pixels and Company called Brady's Room.

Digital Project Life #2

Back again with another digital layout of my niece. I'm having a lot of fun using Tracy Larsen's templates and various digital elements, most from Crate Paper's Maggie Holmes digi kit. It's a great way to learn how to use PSE - understanding layers and clipping masks, adding shadows etc. I feel like I've only just scratched the surface!

Digital Project Life

I'm making a regular PL album for my niece but thought I'd also try my hand at a digital album. That way, once I give away the traditional album, I can still enjoy looking at some of the layouts I've created. For this album, I'm using Tracy Larsen's Simply White Life Pages and other photoshop templates she's created. You can check out Tracy Larsen's shop here.

I think I'll be using a mixture of papers and elements, including some journaling cards I made myself using Anika's scripts. But for the introductory page, I used some of the papers and elements from a gorgeous Maggie Holmes digital kit you can find here at AC Digitals.

I'm really enjoying using Photoshop Elements and want to improve my photo editing skills. I think the digital layouts will give me a great opportunity to do that. So without further ado, here's the first layout and look forward to sharing lots more!

Create your own journaling cards

Thanks to Anika for a great class on how to create journaling cards using colour palettes created at Letschipit.com and Photoshop templates and scripts that Anika has created. You can sign up for the class here.

The automation scripts which Anika has written make it so easy and quick to create cards for Project Life or other scrapbooking. Thanks Anika!

And here are some of the cards I created:

Overlays are from Mel Stampz - she has a great selection of free overlays and papers. Can't wait to use these in some layouts!

PTI June blog hop challenge

It's time for another PTI blog hop. Welcome and thanks for visiting.

The challenge this month was to use the photo at the bottom of the post for inspiration. I loved the gradient of colours so wanted to create a similar effect on my card:

The bikes are all digital images I printed using Photoshop.  To make my gradient strip, I inked up the back of one of the Polka Dot Basics stamps with stripes of different coloured inks.

Supplies
Paper - PTI stamper's select white
Stamps - PTI Enjoy the Ride (sentiment), Polka Dot Basics II
Ink - Versafine onyx black, Memento new sprout, lady bug, rhubarb stalk, SU groovy guava, PTI aqua mist
Accessories - Bicycle png images, scor-tape, prisma glitter