I created this fun layout with the Brown Paper Bag Combo by Polka Dot Pixels which is one of this week’s freebies. I wanted to create a layout with some pictures of my oldest granddaughter at the beach and the colors from this paper pack worked very well.
I recently upgraded to PaintShop Pro X6 and I’ve been playing with some of the cropping and background removal tools. I was very surprised at how easy is to do and love the effect.
I made this layout for a challenge at the Paper Wishes forum. The criteria was to use tea bag folding on a layout. Since nearly all of my scrapbooking layouts are digital, I didn’t think I would be able to join in on this challenge, but then I got an idea. Why not make some tea bag tiles from one of the digital paper packs I bought from Paper Wishes?
To make the tiles, I created a photo box 1.75” square, then I dragged one of the background papers into the square and zoomed in on the upper left corner. I copied the box 8 times and printed the tiles. After cutting the tiles out, I inked the edges, then I used a simple kite fold to create a frame. After assembling the frame, I scanned it, then used PaintShop Pro to remove the background and saved it as a .png.
I moved the finished frame into the same MyMemories embellishments folder where I keep the embellishments for this paper pack so I can use it again if I need to.
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I was digging through my pictures this morning looking for something to scrap when I came across the pictures I took at Grandparent’s day last year. I chose the Classmates paper and embellishments because it has a nice heart frame. Sorry about the blurred faces, I don’t know these girls’ parents to ask permission to post their pics.
The heart that comes with My Memories didn’t fit the frame, so I had to make one of my own using Inkscape. You can download it here: http://handcraftedgreetings.com/downloads/Heart1.svg. Save it into the ..\My Memories Suite\Components\Shapes folder, restart My Memories and it will show up in the photo shapes.
After I added the ribbon across the top of the heart, I didn’t like the flower that was included, so I added a different one over the top of it.
I’m still learning how to use shadowing and blurring to make different elements look like they stand out from the page further. I’m getting a little better at it, but I still have a ways to go. Barb at Albums To Remember has a great tutorial on adding shadows: http://albumstoremember.com/4/post/2012/05/shadows-from-good-to-great.html. She also has a lot of other My Memories tutorials, so be sure to check out her site.
I made this page using the Lavender Snow Album by Becky’s Creations ,which is one of this week’s freebies from MyMemories. It comes with six digital papers and eleven embellishments. That’s plenty to make several pages.
I used the recolor feature to change the color of the ornaments, ribbon and packages. I love that feature because it gives me so many more options. I wanted each one of the bows on the ornaments to be different, so I used the search feature to find three suitable bows, then I recolored them to match the ornaments. I could have also used the bows that come with MyMemories Suite 5 if I had wanted them to all be the same.
One of the new, cool features in My Memories 5 is the layers tool. With it you can easily access and manipulate any object in your layout, even if it is completely covered by other objects. There’s no need to re-layer everything just to get to an embellishment that is in the background. I put together this quick tutorial to explain how it works.
