Too Soon for Goodbye

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I love the colors on this! I think that the purple works wonderfully with the photo. You are so talented when it comes to digital scrapbooking! I wish I had the patience to do all of that!

September 26, 2006

Regarding the 'chipboard letters', they are digitally produced. The font is beach thin, the color is taken out of one of the stripes on the delite digital paper, and I used layer masks. I think I first applied the low drop shadow, and then applied the simple emboss. In the last stages of creating a lo, I do a lot of experimenting with layer masks, and PSE2 allows me to combine them. I test out various combinations with each layer. I tend to do lots of layers on my los, so I do not keep detailed lists of the masks. Unfortunately, after I have applied the layer masks in PSE2, I can not see which layer masks I used. Maybe it is a skill that I don't have, and maybe it is a software limitation with that version. The good news is that with the layer masks, you can create letters digitally that look like chipboard. I have actually never worked with chipboard. It is one of those trends in scrapbooking that I sidestepped by going digital. It is also because of the expense of die cut letters, combined with the ease and practicallity of creating titles and journals on the computer, that caused me to go digital in the first place. I could not see spending a fortune on die cut alphabets. If quikcutz and sizzix would change their marketing strategies so that I could use the die cuts in the craft store for a small fee, I probably would still be a paper scrapper. But why bother when I can produce such nice things on the computer so much cheaper? Now that I have done digital, my papers are getting dusty, and I have not even looked at my borders, stickers and die cut embellishments in a long time. Maybe I should have an auction.

September 25, 2006

Totally beautiful lo! I love the colors and the beautiful journaling! I love your chipboard letters and all the elements too! THis is perfect!!

September 25, 2006

Lovely lo! Love hpw the colors, pps, and embellies go so well with the pic; I stayed at home for a long time too, and I guess it's hard no matter when you leave the nest :)