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Digital Scrapbooking – Create a Scrapbook Layout

By Michelle Stelling  ·  May 2nd, 2013

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Take multiple photos and put them together to create one stunning montage that shows them all off.

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Creating Easter Baskets and Grass

By Karen Brockney  ·  March 25th, 2013

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Creating Easter Eggs is wonderful, but what about the basket that holds them? Karen strikes again with Easter magic as she shows you how to make your own basket and grass graphics!

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Decorating Digital Easter Eggs

By Karen Brockney  ·  March 20th, 2013

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With Easter right around the corner, Karen serves up this fantastic video about decorating your own digital easter eggs! Use them for Easter-inspired digital scrapbooking, on custom frames and even hidden in your own images!

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How to Create and Apply Five Essential Patterns

By Liz Ness  ·  November 20th, 2012

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Patterns can be used for all sorts of projects, from birth announcements to unique photo borders. Liz shows you how to make your own basic patterns and then how to apply them in multiple ways!

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Creating Fall-Inspired Leaf Patterns and Brushes

By Dave Cross  ·  November 14th, 2012

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Using just a plain image of a fall-colored leaf, Dave shows you how to turn it into a pattern and a brush that can be used in multiple different ways!

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Adding Gold Metallic Trim and Glitter

By Karen Brockney  ·  October 17th, 2012

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If you love vintage stationary and boxes with glittery gold trim, Karen shows you how to create a similar, digital effect.

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Stack ‘Em High

By Liz Ness  ·  July 23rd, 2012

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Create a playful picture-stack collage that makes it look like your photo was created from scattered snapshots.

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Using Brushes as Stamps

By Karen Brockney  ·  July 9th, 2012

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Karen uses brushes as ‘digital stamps’ to create a textured background for any photo.

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Photo Corners

By Liz Ness  ·  May 29th, 2012

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Liz takes you through an easy step-by-step for creating your own ‘photo corners’ that can be applied to any photo or scrapbooking page.

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Using a Template to Create a Scrapbook Page

By Karen Brockney  ·  April 16th, 2012

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Using a layered Photoshop PSD files as a template, Karen shows you how to create your own scrapbook page with a variety of elements.

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Get Cooking with the Cookie Cutter

By Diana Day  ·  March 31st, 2012

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Discover the fastest way to crop images into creative shapes for scrapbooks, collages, or fun photo edges.

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Word Play

By Diana Day  ·  January 28th, 2012

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When a picture just isn’t enough, learn how to use Wordle to create complex word clouds and then customize them in Elements.

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More Quick Collage Tips

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  November 1st, 2011

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Matt offers some additional tips for enhancing and enriching composites in this companion video to his Quick Collage article.

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Quick Collages

By Matt Kloskowski  ·  November 1st, 2011

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Pump up the drama and create a great composite by combining two versions of the same shot.

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Tips and Ideas for Using Templates, Frames, and Photo Edges

By Diana Day  ·  August 23rd, 2011

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There are numerous ways to customize your Out of Bounds images; here are a few ideas and some links for inspiration.

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Making a Wax Seal

By Elizabeth LePage  ·  June 16th, 2011

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Here’s a video version of Liz Ness’ “Make it Special with Wax Seals” article from the May/June 2011 issue of the magazine.

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Make it Special with Wax Seals

By Liz Ness  ·  May 30th, 2011

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Decorate your digital correspondence, website, or scrapbook pages with this distinctive touch. It’s easy to create, and infinitely customizable.

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3 Digital Backgrounds to Make

By Liz Ness  ·  January 20th, 2011

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Three great elements for digital designs and scrapbook layouts are card-stock, stripes, and off-set polka-dots. Today, we show you how to make them yourself. Plus, we have a download sampler!

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A Ticket for You

By Liz Ness  ·  January 11th, 2011

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Weathered tickets make great embellishments and tools for your graphic designs and scrapbook layouts. Check out the video tutorial to learn how to make your own weathered ticket.

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Designing Storyboards

By Diana Day  ·  November 24th, 2010

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Learn how to create reusable templates that combine multiple photos and text on a single page.

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