Digital Scrapbook Page- Disney

Hello Friends!  I have my first from scratch Digi scrapbook page.  As I have mentioned several times I have been learning PSE (Photoshop Elements) from JessicaSprague.com.  In fact that banner sticker is hers and recolored it.  All the other cute stuff on here I downloaded from http://justjaimee.com/.  If you have never made a digi scrapbook page one thing you might find interesting is that you can do as little or as much work as you want.  The easiest way to go is with a digital template.  The other pages I shared used digital templates from JessicaSprague.  Those are very simple to use, you just clip in your pictures and add your journaling.  The page above is made from many different elements.  I used two different papers, a border, three ribbons, two stickers, and a brush.  Each bit is downloaded and can be colored and tweaked and then added.

Will I keep this up?  I have no clue!  But it is so fun to find/buy new digital kits and play with all the parts.  Its almost as satisfying as using actual paper.  One thing the above page is missing is drop shadows, which are little shadows to make it look more real.  Somehow I forgot that part- ah well.  A little at a time, piece by piece.  Thanks for stopping in and as soon as I am back from NYC I will be back with some new cards!

Lovely Layers

Hello friends! I have something different for you today. My PTI package showed up right before the weekend. (Well truth be told I had to tussle with UPS to get it... but thats another very long story...) I got some cardmaking in over the weekend- I even got photos taken!
I started with an aqua mist base.  Then I took the new sunshine set and made the rays.  You can see that they are not perfectly spaced- but this was my first attempt with them and I was cool with how it came out.  Next I took the limitless layer dies and cut quite a few out and begin stacking.  I did cut some of the leaves so its not like these are all still hooked together.  I stamped them with their coordinating stamps in Hawaiian Shores ink.  I added a congratulations sentiment on a diagonal ribbon strip.  That's all there was to it.

The next thing I am even more excited about.  A few months ago I bought Photoshop Elements so I could watermark my cards.  Yes I paid 80 bucks to watermark my cards.  Then I had this great editing program that I wanted to fully use but I had no clue how.  I am pretty computer savvy but this program is not the most intuitive plus its HUGE.  So yesterday I signed up for a free class by Jessica Sprague.  Here's what I made:


This is after half of one free class. That Jessica Sprague is something else. I had never taken an online class before but this was really good. So good in fact, that I just bought two more classes. They are 20% off right now! Stock up! LOL! Anyway its amazing how much easier Photoshop is when you actually have a clue to what you are doing.