Digital Scrapbooking Day Blog Hop

hello! welcome to my blog & the Design House Digital Digital Scrapbooking Day Blog Hop! {whew! say that 5 times fast!} anyway, if you came this way for the blog hop...& to eventually get this fabulous kit for free...

you are in luck! I have something that you're searching for... right.

here...

that's my part of your puzzle! Just in case you came here first, or came out of order, you can refer back to the blog post at DHD to see the correct order here.

this was my portion of the collab. I had a lot of fun with this color combo.

a few of my creatives sent me some great layouts & tips to share with you too! enjoy!

check out this oh-so-cute layout from my creative {becca dickson} & her little tip:

I added a button from Rebecca Wagler's portion of the collab to my layout. She included one maroon shaded button, but I knew I wanted to use a few buttons in different shades. So, I decided to recolor the buttons to use on my layout. Here's my trick to recoloring elements in Photoshop:

Place the element you wish to recolor on your layout. Then, click on your eyedropper tool, and pick up a color from your papers or other elements that you would like your element to be. With the element layer selected, add a solid color fill layer. It should be the same color as your eyedropper selection and should appear above the element layer. Right click on the color fill layer and select create clipping mask to clip the color to your element. Next, change the adjustment layer from normal to the color blend mode so your element's textures and lighting shows through. And that's it! Now if you copy the two layers, you can drag the element elsewhere on the page. To recolor the copied element, all you have to do is double click the color fill layer and use your eyedropper tool to pick a new color.

& this adorable layout by {claudia harvey} & her tip below:

I love adding outlines to fonts and/or word art; I think it allows them to stand out within a layout. It is very simple to do.

1. Click on the font/word art layer you wish to use.

2. Go to edit, then stroke.

3. Select the width desired (I like to use 10 px), use the dropper to select a coordinating color (I like to use white in most cases).

4. Make sure location is set to "outside".

5. Click ok.

thank you Becca & Claudia! Thank you for stopping by to join in the fun! good luck with your letter hunting!

{robyn}

Comments

[Judy]

Thank you for the tips! And for being part of the hop!

[Margie Visnick]

Your part of the collab is gorgeous!

[Trista]

Oh your portion of the collab is gorgeous. Thanks so much for your generosity!

[Tammy Davis]

Thank you so much for the great instructions! Thank you for your part in this gorgeous collab kit - can't wait to use it!

[Shay]

Your portion of the collaboration is as fantastic as usual! I love all you do. Thanks for the tips as well.

[jennybean]

Thanks for the tips!

[Laurie]

What great tips- thank you for sharing and love what you did with the color palette!

[sherryp]

Thanks for your portion. Love the papers !! Thanks too for the letter N and the tutorial :)

[Miss Becki]

I love your contribution... thanks so much for sharing!!!

[Leslie]

Thank you for being part of this awesome blog Hop!

[Barbara Albrecht]

Love your part of the collab. Thanks for the turtorials, too.

[Heather R...mousemomma]

Great tips! Thanks!

[Paula B]

Thank you for your part of this wonderful collab kit and for sharing the tips from your "creatives" :)

[DoggiNo]

Thanks for the letter !

I could be wrong ... but I always use the stroke layer style because I have in my mind that you can't adjust the Edit - Stroke anymore after, while the Stroke layer style you can ... maybe I'm wrong or maybe this has changed ? Will have to check it out again when I'm home.

[latajava]

Thanks for being part of the blog hop!

[Theresa]

Sounds like a much easier way to recolor. Will definitely remember this - thanks for the tip!

[Karen Freeman]

Thanks so much for the instructions I love to learn something new.

[chalane]

THANKS SO MUCH for the recoloring tip. So often I find GREAT emebellishments in kits but not in the color I'm looking for & being new to digiscrap this info REALLY HELPS me. THANKS also for your portion of the very beautiful Daydream Believer collab.

[heaney]

thank you so much for the fabulous DSD collab contribution!

[Lisa C Johnson]

Thanks so much!

[LizJ]

Thanks for your wonderful portion of the awesome collab! And thanks to Becca and Claudia for their tips.

[ScrappyMama]

Thanks for the great tips...I can't wait to give them both a try!! And THANKS for helping to make this such a fun day for all of us!!

[Skeeter]

Thanks so much for the great tips and for your part in the collab! ~Bev~

[Roberta]

Thank you! love it!

[paula]

thanks for the tip