Creating your own quote cards

Hey,
In my last post I talked about how to create photo walls and the photo walls I have in my room. Today I thought I might share a tutorial of how to create your own photo quote cards using Photoshop (if you have it ) or canva.com if you don't. You could use these cards in a scrapbook as presents/cards or on a photo wall.

1.Choose your photo
I use photos that I have taken, but you could find any image you wanted. Once you have chosen your photo you can open it in Photoshop, or upload it to canva. (using canva choose use custom dimensions, select inches from the drop down menu and type in 6x4)

2.Choose your quote
Using pinterest, or a search engine find the quote you would like to put on your photo.

3.Add the text to your photo
In canva press text, select the size (which you can change later) and type the quote. In Photoshop press the text button from the left hand menu choose the size and type the quote in.

4.Change the font and make the text fit the photo.
Choose the fonts you like and make the text fit around the photo, in Photoshop you can wrap the text if you would like.

5.Download/save your photo card.

Here is one of the photo cards I have created.

Let me know in the comments below if you have created any photo cards, or if you have any posts you would like to see.

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How to use Digital Project life with Photoshop CC

Hiya, It's Poppy here.

Hope you are all having a great week. On Wednesday I shared a review of digital project life which I have been using for the past week. I mentioned  in the review how hard I found it to find a tutorial for creating a scrapbook page in photoshop cc. So I'm going to share how I did it.

1.Download the cards and templates from beckyhiggins.com and 'unzip' the folders. To do this select the folder and press 'extract' you then have to select a new folder to move it to and press ok.

2.Open photoshop cc. You will see a screen that says new, open and has a list of previous documents. Simply click open and find the folder where you saved the templates from before. Click on the template you want to open and press open. The template I have open is template A the original version.

3.A new photoshop document will then open with the template. The first thing I do is save it. Go into the file menu and press 'save as'. I create a new folder for each of my scrapbooks and name the document the page number. So this document will be called 1.

4. Go back to the template in photoshop. You can see a welcome message.

5.On the right hand side of the screen there should be a tab open with a list of the layers.

If you cannot see the layers menu go to the windows tab at the  top of the screen and select layers from about 2/3 of the way down the list. From the layers menu press the eye next to the introduction layer. This will make it invisible.

6.You can then begin to insert cards and pictures into your page. Before you do this it is best to change the layout of the page if you want to. To do this select the item you want to move and hover just outside the selected item and it should let you rotate. Then press the tick at the top of the screen.

7. To insert a image or card press the move tool from the top of the right hand menu and select the space you want to replace 8.Then click file and open.

9.Find the file you want and press open.

10.It will open in a new window

11.Select it and drag it over to the tap with the name of the template, that tab will open and you need to drag your mouse over to where you want the item to appear.

12.It will then appear in the template, as a new layer.

13.Drag it using the move tool so it is on top of the place you want it.

14.To make sure that the edges line up you need to create a clipping mask. Make sure that the image/card appears above the orange/blue card you are replacing in the layer menu.

15.Select the image/card layer that you are adding from the right hand layer menu and right click it, you can then select create clipping mask and the layers will combine.

16.Continue doing this until you have filled the template.

17.Click save in the file menu

18.Open the file menu and click save as.

19. Save it as a jpeg file- THIS STEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE PRINTING IT.

20.You are done!

Hopefully this tutorial will help make a bit more sense using digital project life. Remember there are free templates you can download from beckyhiggins.com and you can trial photoshop for free. So you can give this a go without having to pay any money!

Have a great weekend, and let me know if you had a go at this and how it went!

 Here are two pages that I have created using the inspire edition full collection, photoshop cc and the A template. (click on them to enlarge them)

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How to create a watercolour silhouette

Hey there, It's Poppy!

Recently I have been doing some watercolour painting at school and we used masking fluid  to create silhouettes. 

For those of you who do not know masking fluid is a liquid that is painted around or on areas of the painting that you do not want to get paint onto and when it dries it acts as a barrier against paint, it can then be peeled off to leave areas clean

I loved doing it so last weekend I went to the art shop to get some masking fluid, and I found that it was super-duper expensive (I think it was about $20 for a 75ml bottle). I decided against buying it and tried a technique that I have heard of but never really used before. Crayon.

It worked surprisingly well and I don't think that I will be buying masking fluid anytime soon.

How to create a watercolour silhouette without using masking fluid

You will need:

Watercolour paper (watercolour paper is much better to use for this because it is much more sturdy and can take the amount of water we are going to be adding)

Watercolour paints (the ones I used were not the best quality paints, as in a $15 set of 30, but still worked well)

Paint brushes (I used various sizes, but if you can only have one size a medium or small brush would be best)

Water

Paper Towel

A white crayon

Some printer paper

A led pencil

Optional-a computer to print from

How to: (for variations and different ideas see the notes below)

1. Find an image that could be used for a silhouette on the internet (you could alternatively draw one straight onto the printer paper). (I used a single elephant silhouette) and print it onto the printer paper.

2. Cut around the outside of the image on the printer paper.

3.Lay the cut-out image onto the watercolour paper in the position you want it to be for the final painting.

4. Trace around the outside of the image using a led pencil, make sure you only do it lightly!

5. Remove the image that you cut out earlier from the watercolour paper 

6.Using the white crayon carefully trace just inside the pencil line, around the whole shape.

7.Fill in the rest of the shape with the crayon.

8.Choose the colours you would like to use (I used a turquoise and pink)

9.Cover the area outside your shape with water (this makes the pain easier to spread, remember that you may have to reapply it in certain areas, depending on how fast you work)

10.Paint the area outside your shape (I blended my colours together with water), be careful and try not to get to much paint on the crayon but if you do get some on the crayon simply dab it or push it outside the shape with the paper towel. 

11.Wait for the paint to dry (you may want to rub the pencil out carefully)

12.You are finished. 

Notes

-You may want to do more than one of the same image on your painting, to do this simply do step three and four for the first image and then go back and repeat steps three and four for the rest of the images.

-Alternatively, you could paint the inside of the shape and leave the outside white, to do this simply reverse step three (trace on the outside of the pencil line) and don't worry about filling in the background.

Hopefully, you had fun doing this. I would love to hear about your attempts or see some photos (if we get enough I could post them on here in a few weeks) of your artwork.

I'm about to go out and take some photos that I might share tomorrow :-)

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