It’s almost April! Hurray! Hello Everyone! Jenn J has made this digital scrapbooking word art for us to share with you. She used Game On! Just click on the image to download it.
Want to see the coordinating pieces?
Can you hear the roll of the dice? Enjoy!
Hello Hello! Welcome to today’s tutorial! This is Jenn, aka jk703, and I can’t wait to share a fun and really easy tutorial for you today. You are going to love the Tutorial: Easy Pencil Sketched Photos! It is fun, and has a cool effect, plus I think it can give you a way to change up your layouts. Add a bit of different – 
I hope you like it!
Here is my son, and right before he was done riding his bike, I was able to snap this picture. He is laughing at me for some reason, but I don’t know what it is, lol! I pry told him to get back on the bike and put his helmet back on for a picture. All I know is that he has an infectious smile, and the natural smiles are my favorite. This is the original picture that I will show the tutorial for Easy Pencil Sketched Photos. (This should work for both PS and PSE users – Krista provided instructions on how PSE differs. I will include that in parentheses).
First, make a duplicate of your photo, right click to duplicate or Command + J. This way the original is still available and not written over with layers and other changes.
Next, choose your duplicate layer in the Layers Palette. Then click on Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This will cause your image to turn to a black and white version. (For PSE Users – Krista said that she went to Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue & Saturation. She then brought the saturation slider all the way to the left.)
Duplicate the desaturated layer.
Choose the top layer in the Layers Palette. Next, change it’s Blend Mode to Color Dodge.
Your image will have an almost over white black and white image. Like this:
The top layer is still selected at this point. Next, click Image > Adjustments > Invert. (For PSE it’s Filter>Adjustment>Invert.)
Your image will turn ALL white right after inverting it. It’s normal.
Ok. Next, click on Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur.
You will move the slider to a lower number, probably between 20-60, depending on your photo. Mine is around 46.
The image lost a lot of it’s detail when we added the blur. We will get some back. Create an Adjustment Layer for Levels. I used the half white/half black circle on the bottom of the Layers Palette to do this step.
Now, choose the middle triangle under the chart. Slide it to the right. It will change the image, so watch and slide at the same time. It will bring some of the detail back
Here is what my image looks like at this point.
I feel that the surrounding area takes away from him, so I’m going to bring a little more focus to the image. Select the layer just under the Levels Adjustment. Press D to change your foreground and background colors to the default setting.
Now, choose the Brush Tool, and use a Soft Round Brush, and you will paint with the foreground color, black. Mine is at a size of 715, and I originally had the opacity at 20%. As I worked with the brush, I lowered it to 5%. Play with this and your image. If you have erased too much, just switch up your brush color to white, and you can fix where you erased too much of the image. (For PSE Users, Krista said that for some reason she had to use the white to erase the background. When she used black it made the background black).
Here is what I ended up with. You can merge the layers and save them. Then you can use it for your layouts – framed images, polaroid versions, or blend it into the background. Have fun!
Pretty straight forward! It turns out great for such a simple technique. Here is what the CT created.
Lisa (kelseyll) created this soft and lovely layout. She used Bluebird On My Shoulder and the Curled Frames.
Leah (Cat Lady) made this awesome layout – I think the sketched image is so fun and works so perfectly with that alpha. She used About a Boy and a Fiddle Dee Dee Template.
Jenn (jenny) made this fun layout and had the house sketched! She used Lucky Me.
Krista (kc71595) made this layout and the sketched image fits perfectly! She used At The Beach and a Little Green Frog Template.
Simply too easy for you not to try it out! Have fun and we’d love to see your pages using this Tutorial: Easy PencilSketched Photos in the ScrapPin Galley! Thanks for stopping by!
Today we’re looking at the perfect digital scrapbooking kit for highlighting your Girl’s achievements from earning merit badges to simply entertaining the family with a dance. Of course, with the cheerful greens and blues, it’s a great choice for your outdoor photos, too. Let’s see what the CTMs have done with Girl Power.
First, Melissa chose to use it for her photos of her Pathfinder ceremony when she was just a cute, young girl. I love the way she has clustered the various elements around her two photos and stapled the string to the paper in several places.
Next, Jenn made two pages for us of her little girl dancing for the family. Her little cutie loves to perform, and Jenn captured the memory beautifully using Girl Power. I love the little butterfly in this kit. 
Finally, Helen had some great outdoor photos of a walk in the woods, and she used Girl Power to make a gorgeous page to show them off. I love the plaid paper background, and I love the way she has the butterflies floating up to the pictures. 
Let’s take a closer look at this kit in the market. The preview image is linked. 
Hello Ladies!
I’m so looking forward to green grass and blue sky and birds twittering in the trees. I think Debbyrose agrees with me. Look at her beautiful digital scrapbooking layout. Love how unstructured it is, yet it still has some formal shaping to it. {I hope that makes sense, I meant it as a compliment.)
Here are the Bluebird on my Shoulder & BOMS Quickies links to the products in Chelle’s SO Store.
I found another digital scrapbooking layout that agrees with our shared desire to have winter over for this year. I like Zippyoh’s used of the sunburst rays and her use of chevrons.
She used Hole In One Bundle and Hole In One Word Art.
Hope the weather cooperates in your area so you can have a bright sunny day!
Hello!
I have some new digital scrapbooking layouts that Chelle created this last week. Let me show you.
Chelle used EIEIO Bundle, Curled Frames & Lucky Me Alpha
Chelle used Curled Frames, background papers from Happily Ever After (recolored), the alpha from Rainbow Blues, & the stars are from Military Bundle.
Chelle used Lucky Me & LM Alpha, & Curled Frames. This is the layout Chelle created during our March Scrap Twister chat.
Chelle used Something Fishy, Love Grows, Curled Frames, Girl Power, Leafy Treetops.
Have a great day!
Hello Ladies! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Just a few things to share with you. Chelle released a new CU digital scrapbooking product this week, CU Watercolor Florals {Daisies} this week. The image is linked to Chelle’s store.
Have a great Saturday. Talk to you soon.
Hello Friends!
Are you part of a family who loves joking around? Are you always pulling a prank on someone? Is April Fool’s Day your favorite holiday? This week we challenged our creative team to tell us via a digital scrapbooking layout about a funny moment in their lives. Let me show you what they came up with.
First, Roxana’s LO is a local political story. According to the latest news the organization/politican in charge of designating areas between the 2 ares of the city, said we would now be part of Surco and we (the residents) are all to decorate street signals, logos, banners and topiairies that are planted all around our neighborhood with “Surco.” I wonder if he realized we were 4 miles a part.
She used: Lucky Me & the arrows from Putt-Putt.
Tammy was watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with her son. During the movie, Harry is transported into the memories of another student and the scenes are in black and white. My son asked why the scenes were black & white, but Harry was still in color. I answered that the world used to be all black and white – you know, like when you see old photos. Then one day, the world turned colored. That’s why when I was a kid, there are black and white photos and then all of a sudden, they are in color. I felt so bad, because he really believed me! Poor guy…we still joke around about the world being in black and white in the “old days!”
She used Rainbow Neutrals, Game On, Jump Zone, Basic Black Alpha, Wet Paint Alpha.
Jenny’s kids got the best of her. Brayden and Tony like to play jokes. Last year the joke was on me. After breakfast I felt that Brayden was watching my every move, so I was sure that I was in for something. I went to go brush my teeth. The second I put my toothbrush in my mouth, I spit out the toothpaste. I turned around and they were both laughing at me. Brayden giggles and says “We put salt on your toothbrush!” He was so proud of his joke. The look on his face was priceless.
She used Pearly Whites.
Last I have Mel N. Her practical joke is that each year at Boy Scout camp someone’s tent goes up a tree. No one claims responsibility but miraculously it keeps happening!
She used the Great Outdoors Bundle.
What funny story or joke could you create a layout for?
I LOVE using large characters on a digital scrapbooking page, don’t you? Chelle’s Creative Team members have been making pages with such features to inspire us. Let’s take a look!
First, Kimberly used a font on her computer for her “&”. She sized the font up to around 200, simplified the layer, and then adjusted size with the aspect ratio turned OFF to make the letter a little more customized. She also recolored the sunburst paper using a hue/saturation adjustment layer. She used Chelle’s At the Park kit for her page. 
Next, Jan used a large “&” in her title. She used Chelle’s Lovin’ from the Oven and the matching {stripes & plaids} for her page about a delicious treat at a very magical place. I love the way she made the “&” stand out by making it larger than the other letters in the title. 
Heather used a large “C” for emphasis on her page since the page was about making cupcakes with her daughter. I love the fun feel of her page and the way the elements seem to pop off the page.
Finally, Jenn wasted no time in making a page about her son’s pi day birthday this year. You know, it was ONLY last week – way to go Jenn! She used Chelle’s One Year Older to make her page, and she used her son’s age as the large numbers on the page. I absolutely adore the way the numbers look like tissue paper stapled and stitched to the page. 
Feeling inspired? If you make a page with Chelle’s kits and this technique, be sure to post it to the gallery at Scrap Orchard and tag your page with #chelle. I would love to see it and leave you some love.
Hey Everyone! Hope you are having a GREAT Tuesday. I have some funky and fun digital scrapbooking layouts to show you. Here are all the coordination products use in the layouts. See Clearly Now & In the Pool. You are gonna love ’em. The images are linked up for you. These 2 kits really pull together some interesting page & color combinations.
First up is Leah.
Next we have Melissa B.
Here are the pieces of the 2 kits used.
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I bet you could take elements of these 2 kits and make them into a lovely layout. What photo would you use?
Hello Hello. Happy Monday!
I’ve been waiting a couple of days to get to share this digital scrapbooking layout with you. I absolutely love it. Catgoddess shares her talents with this fun layout. The clustering is amazing!
She used Lucky Me.
You must be logged into the ScrapOrchard forum for the link to work. $14.99 per month OR $74.99 for six months = Six for the price of Five.
Hi! I'm Chelle: a 40 something mom of 7. My husband & I live in a rural community in the rocky mountains with our 4 children still at home. In the winters we enjoy sledding & snuggling by the fire. I the cool fall evenings we love relaxing around the campfire & meeting friends at the county fair. Admiring the stars 
on a clear summer night and splashing in spring mud puddles. We love making memories together. Me? I love blueberries, fresh salmon, creating, memory keeping, & above all my family & my faith.
