ITS MONDAY MADNESS AT DIGITAL SCRAPN DESIGNS!!

We have a new weekly feature at Digital Scrapn Designs! Stop by every Monday for a one day only freebie! Lori Giles has created a cute little mini for you!

MONDAY MADNESS FREEBIE!

You can pick it up in the store but hurry it's today only!!!!!

Grab it here

save $1.00 all week on my newest kit My Girl!!

And don't forget to Grab my latest freebies!!!

Grungy Floral Tag

download here

Grungy Floral Quickpage
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We want to see your layouts!!! Please stop by the Gallery or Forums and show us what you got!

Happy New Year! Freebie and New Challenge

I'm back! I have a quick page freebie for you to celebrate the new year! I decided to leave out Happy New Year so it can be used for more than just new years pics.

Here's a lo using this quick page

You can grab the quick page from 4 shared here

Also wanted to take a minute to let you know about some challenges in the forums at Digital Scrapn Designs.

We currently have 2 challenges going on for January.

An element challenge here

And a sketch challenge here

We also have our first scrap lotto game!

Here's how to play. Pick a number between 1 & 100. Sign up at the forum and submit your number. If you picked the number that was chosen by the Digital Scrapn Team then you win! Your Prize? A $5.00 Certificate at Digital Scrapn Designs. Please check for participating designers. All entries must be received by January 14Th. The winner will be notified by January 16Th.

Enter your number here

Have a great New Year!

Product Review - Virtual Photographer

Well hello everybody! This Wednesday will be the first of a new regular column. Wednesdays are now product review days. So come back every Wednesday to find out what products I like or don't like.

This week I will be sharing a really cool photoshop plugin called Virtual Photographer presented by Opitkvervelabs . Oh and did I mention its absolutely free! Love that!

Virtual photographer is a very easy to use and install product. Once you have it installed (they have very easy to follow instructions on there site here). Simply click on your filter tab and scroll down to optikverve labs then click on Virtual photographer. This is what it looks like when opened.



The options are amazing! If you click on the tab "presets" you will get a pull down menu that has several options for color or changing to black and white. On the right side you can adjust the levels of of softness and color. You can customize it to get the look you really want.

There are so many differnet filters I can't show you all but here is and example of one.

The only downside to these filters is some tend to make the photo a little too blurry depending on the size. Another thing if you are working in layers any open space around your picture will be filled with your background color. So if you are working on a scrapbook page you will need your marquee tool or eraser to remove that. Other than that I would highly recommend it. I use it all the time.

Check it out here.

Fridays are going to be Filter Fridays. I will be posting pictures or layouts using different filters.

ITS A I CANT HOLD BACK THE TEARS SALE!

Check out whats for sale in my store here

Using Group with Previous in PSE

Did you know you can easily change the look of a frame or tag or just about any of your scrapbooking tools in pse by using group with previous? Well you can and I'll show you how.

Step one:

Select the layer/item you would like to change


Step Two:
Under the File Tab hit place and select the paper you would like to use.

Step three

If you followed steps one and two your paper should be directly on top of the item you want to change. Make sure this layer is highlighted.

Simply click on layers at the top and scroll down to group with previous.

Voila your done! You can move this layer around to make it more pleasing. Once you are happy click on layers and merge down. Not you can easily move your new element anywhere you want.

Have fun!

have you joined the 30 day business Challenge?

Over at Digital Scrapbook Designer Professionals they started a 30 day challenge. They will be sharing tips and have several business coaches daily sharing their knowledge. If your interested in learning more click on the picture to take you to day one. Its free! or click here

You have got to see this!

This is the most amazing layouts I ever seen! Animated layouts are here. Its totally cool I can't wait to make one of my own! You know i was so overly excited about the animation at first i forgot to look at the designs themselves. Its really cool how she cut the paper around the words. Just a beautiful layout overall. This awesome layout was created by Digi talk shop member jennylyn. She has another cool animation in her gallery. Used with permission. Ok i have to go wipe the drool off my face now! lol!
For a full list of credits click here

Man's New Best Friend

I was looking through some old photos tonite and found this one of my son Jacob. It always cracks me up so I thought I really should do a layout with this one. Though in our house I would say Menards is man's best friend. hehe

credits:

MissMint Playground Pop - peppermintcreative.com,

fonts used

Georgia, freebooter, freak

screws and metal swirls are from my play all day kit

special thanks to atomicupcake.com