Month: July 2015

We took a trip around the scrap-o-sphere to bring you some fabulous kits, templates and workshops for your vacation, summer and travel projects. Here’s what we discovered on the way!

World Adventures

Road Trips

A Taste for Travel: Full Collection! Daily Digi readers can take an extra 10% off with the coupon code DDTravelFull-HT, valid through August 2015.

Travelogue

Magical Memories

Explorers

Seafaring and Seaside

Heat Waves

The Great Outdoors

Paradise

MapQuest

Templates and More

Do you avoid alphas because you don’t like individually opening all of those alpha files and dragging them onto your scrapbook page?

Today I’m going to show you a fast way to make titles with alphas – by making use of the Photoshop Scripts menu!

First, go to the File>Scripts>Load Files Into Stack menu:

From the browse menu, select all of the alpha letters that you need in your title. My title is going to be Awesome:

If you look very closely, you’ll see that the “e” is only chosen once because you can’t load the same file more than once. All that means is that we’ll have to duplicate the “e” alpha letter once it’s on the page.

After hitting “OK”, Photoshop will stack all of the chosen alpha letters into a separate file, like this:

Select all of the letters in the layers palette by clicking on the top letter, holding down the SHIFT key, and selecting the bottom letter. Now drag them onto your scrapbook page layout:

Now just arrange the letters in order and align the edges (if you want) and add drop shadows. Don’t forget to duplicate any letters that you need more than one of!

There you go! A super fast way to work with alphas. Try it out!

It’s okay to treat yourself to some digi awesomeness! Here are a few new things that might catch your eye.

Wild Inside will bring out the Animal in you. On sale this week only.

Tres Joile by Libby Pritchett & Erica Zane at Sweet Shoppe Designs is a fitting choice for scrapping a Paris theme but with it’s versatile style and vintage vibe, it’s perfect for so much more!

Pool Party is on sale for 20% off and it comes with a FWP offer. Purchase Pool Party & get Night Swimming mini kit free.

New Art Therapy templates at Blue Flower Art

Have you seen the new funky templates with cutouts from Jimbo Jambo Designs? The new 4 templates are available as .psd, .tiff, .png and .page files and are 20% off during the weekend.

Life Captured: July is the perfect kit for scrapping all of those July memories and so much more!

Need help with your photos? Join me for a live work along class for Get Organized: Photos. Sign up today

NEW from Amber Shaw – Poppy Sunshine is a shabby sunshiney summer kit perfect for warm summer photos.

NewART in the aA store! Discounts valid for one week only.

A new installments of Memory Pockets Monthly is out at The Lilypad, and Amber LaBau has 2 great new add-ons to go along with the main kit!

See you next week!

I love the look of handwritten text on journal lines. It’s really easy to mimic the look in Photoshop! First, let’s start with a block of handwritten text.

Option 1 – Underline in Font palette

The quickest way to get underlined text is to just select the underline option in the Font palette (highlighted).

This will look like this:

Option 2 – Lines on a separate layer

If you’d like the lines a little closer to the text, try creating a separate layer and typing the underscore “________”. Use the same font or a different one, playing with the weight of the line by making it bold (or not) and adjusting the line spacing as needed.

The result:

Option 3 – Draw lines using the line tool

First, create a new blank layer. Using the line tool, hold down shift, draw the line where you’d like it to be. Repeat for each line. Tip: If the line is too thin or thick, adjust the weight of the line and then redraw it.

This will look like:

So that’s three ways to accomplish the same thing! There are probably more too! Do you do draw lines one the three ways above – or have another tip to share?