Techniques-Digital

Paper and Backgrounds:


• Antique Pots Paper
• Black & White Swirl Paper
• "Blinds" Paper
• Christmas Diamond Paper
• "Classy" Paper
• Clock Paper
• Diamond Paper
• Digital Woven Paper
• Floral Brush Paper
• Font Collage Background
• Happy Paper
• Lace Paper
• Linen Paper
• Love Definitions Background
• Nautical Paper
• Pastel Grunge Paper
• Plaid Paper
• Special Effects Bkgr
• Striped Paper
• Teal Paper
• Time Paper
• Wavy Fern Paper

Other Digital Techniques:


• Brushes-Making, Using, Installing
• Brushes-Backgrounds, Organizing
• Chipboard Letters-Digital
• Christmas Card - Star in the East
• Collage, Digital - Background
• Collage, Digital - Focal
• Computer Generated Text
• Digital Stamping
• Faux Postage - Digital
• Frames
• Filled Text from Selection
• Filled Text from Pattern
• Filled Text from Image
• Gradients-Digital Brayering
• Page Pebbles
• Quick Pages
• Recoloring Clip Art
• Spot Coloring
• Stained Glass
• Stickers
• Word Art

Time Paper

1. Open a new image, as large as you need, 300 dpi if you will be printing this
2. Add a layer, and fill with your chosen color
3. "Stamp" paper randomly with brushes in a darker shade of the background color (I used PB Grunge brushes, but don't remember where I got them)
4. Add a layer and draw random lines throughout the image
5. Add a Gaussian blur and adjust the opacity if necessary to create the proper shading
6. Save as a PSP file to preserve the layers, and as a .jpg file

   Click here to see the card I made with this collage

Christmas Diamond Paper

1. Open Shabby Princess freebie pink diamond paper, duplicate, resize to 600x600 and colorize to olive green
2. Add a layer, set color to a darker olive, click your Text tool, and add KR Christmas Dingbat font "r" in a small size - position in the center of one of the light-colored diamonds
3. Repeat, filling in each light-colored diamond in one row with the dingbat
4. Duplicate the dingbat layer 8 times and using the Move tool, move each layer down to position the dingbats in the right place
5. On the Layer Pallette, click the "eye" to make the background layer invisible, and Merge Visible Layers. Turn the visibility of the background layer on (you will have two layers - one of the background, and one of all the dingbats)
6. Add a layer
7. Set color to dark red, and using the brush tool set on Round Brush, Size 3, click once at the point where two diamonds meet
8. Repeat across the row, adding the red dot at each intersection
9. Duplicate the dot layer 18 times, and using the Move tool, move each layer down to position the dots in the right place (each diamond needs a dot where it meets the next diamond right to left, and also where it meets the next diamond top to bottom - that's why you duplicated twice the number of layers as for the dingbat layer)
10. Make the background and dingbat layers invisible, Merge Visible Layers, and turn the visibility of the two other layers back on. You will have three layers.
11. Save as a PSP file, and then as a .jpg.
    
    

Font: KR Christmas Dings 2 (Kats Fun Fonts) - page 24; Diamond Paper (Shabby Princess)

Published in SSReflections On-Line Ezine

Click here to see the card I made with this collage

Lace Paper

This one is too easy!
• Lay a piece of lace on your scanner bed
• Lay a piece of cardstock, any color on top and close lid
• Scan and resize image
  
  Scan using a different color cardstock for a different background.
  
  Remember that many fabrics are copyright. This was an old piece of lace, about 30 years old.
  
  

Happy-Good Times Paper

• Create an image 3 times the size of your finished piece at 300 ppi.
• Fill with light purple and use Texturizer plug in, Canvas texture
• Type each word on a different layer, varying the fonts, sizes and shades of purple
• Save file as PSP image to preserve the layers, and then as a .jpg.
  
  
• Fonts: GF Halda (Scrap Village)
  McGarey Fractured (L Egypt - file to download is TT MGAR.ZIP - alphabetical in list)
  Antique Type (Scrap Village)
  My Old Remington (Scrap Village)
  

  Click here to see the card I made with this collage

Black and White Paper

• Create a new image, any size, and fill with black
• Open the white clip art (image below left), and choose Image Menu, Negative Image, which will turn it to the image below right.
• Click the Magic Wand, tolerance 100, and click on the clip art negative image to select
• Add a layer to your plain black image and copy and paste the selection
• Repeat adding layers and clip art images, moving them until you are pleased with the layout

Credits: Clip Art Design (Dover)

    

Diamond Nautical Paper

• Create a new image, any size, and fill with blue
• To get the diamond shape, I clicked on a diamond from another digital paper with the Magic Wand to select, and pasted as a new layer into the blue image
• Fill the diamond with white
• Use the Pick Tool to enlarge the diamond
• Copy and paste the diamond as many times as you need to fill a row, and use the Move tool to set them in place
• In the Layer Pallette, click the "eye" for the blue layer which will make it invisible
• Merge visible layers so all the diamonds are now on one layer
• Add a layer, and using the grunge brush, click on all the diamonds; lower the opacity of that layer
• Add a layer, and using the compass brush and the blue color, click several times on the diamonds in various places, making some of the images go off the diamonds
• Merge visible layers
• Uncheck the "eye" for the blue layer to make it visible
• Copy the diamond layer as many times as you need, and move it into place

Credits: Clip Art Design (Dover)

Click here to see a card made with this paper.

Floral Brush Paper

• Open a transparent image, 300 dpi, any size. (This is a case where my brushes were too small to create my paper 3600 x 3600. I used 1200 x 1200 and it still turned out fine).
• Fill background with pale sage green.
• Make the green a little darker, add a layer and choose the leaf brush.
• Click once on your image to "brush" on the leaf. Leave plenty of room between images, and make sure you brush a few at the edges, just like you would stamp off the edge of the paper.
• Make the green a little darker yet, add a layer, choose your fern brush, and add the images.
• Make the green darker yet, add a layer, and choose your text brush.
• After I brushed a few times, I added a layer, brushed the text and rotated just that layer.
• Choose a complimentary lilac color, add a layer, and brush on the flowers.
• Choose a darker lilac, add a layer, and reduce the size of the flower brush. Brush several images of the flowers. You can move the layers around on the Layer Pallette until you are happy with the look. (My text is the top layer). That's one of the benefits of adding each item to it's own layer.
• Save your file as a .psp file to preserve the layers, and save again as a .jpg.

  Credits: Leaf and fern brushes (feuillage); Flower brush (unknown); Shakespeare text ( Greeneye )

  Click here to see a card made with this paper.
  
  To create the monochromatic blue paper:

• Create the floral background as described above.
• Duplicate the image and close the original.
• Merge all layers.
• Use the Eyedropper Tool to choose the darkest blue of the flower.
• Add a layer to the image and fill with the dark blue. Drag that layer below the floral layer.
• Click on the floral layer to make it active.
• Change the Blend Mode of the floral layer to Overlay.
• Save your file as a .psp file to preserve the layers, and save again as a .jpg.
  
  You can try different Blend Modes, fill your blank layer with different colors, even Colorize the image. All will produce different results.