Tutorial Tuesday on the GingerScraps Blog

[StephanieH]

Did you know we have a new feature on Tuesdays? Ad Team Member JanInAlberta has be publishing some great tutorials.

Keep a watch on this thread as we link the ones already published and add the new on each week!

 

[StephanieH]

Published on 1/3/17 -

Sizzling Signatures

It’s a brand new month, a brand new year and it’s time for a brand new siggie. Signatures… we all have one. Our online presence is greatly enhanced by having a pretty one, or an intriguing one, or a sizzling one. The January 2017 Signature Challenge hosted by CathyK Designs asks us to use glitter in our signature and there’s so many ways we can do that. (psst…. any text that is bold and green is linked to the very spot in the forum, store or gallery I’m talking about… you can just click on it and you’re there!) I know there are some of you who find creating signatures to be a daunting thought – largely due to the very teenytiny size required – so I’m going to give you some tips on making yours fabulous. The guidelines given for these files is that they can’t be bigger than 750 x 150 pixels. But who can create in a space that small? I sure can’t. So I start out with a file size FIVE TIMES the guideline size so I can see what the heck I’m doing.

Click here for the rest of the tutorial.

 

[StephanieH]

Published on 8/30/16

Turning a Font into a Sticker

Gingerscrapper Heather requested some help with creating eye-catching titles, so this little lesson will focus on turning a font into an outstanding sticker. Over the next few weeks we’ll go into more detail on how to really jazz up your layouts, so stay tuned!
The very first step is to figure out what to call your layout. You want to choose something that works with the topic, but you don’t want it to be “Joey’s 8th Birthday”… where’s the excitement in that? Instead you could go with “Today He’s 8!” For the layout I created to help with this lesson, I looked up some surfing terms, looking for a hook. I came up with “Rippin’ the Foam”.

See more on the blog.

 

[StephanieH]

Published on 9/6/17

Use a Basic Template

Annette asked for some help using templates, so that’s what we’re going to talk about today. Every month there are two free Challenge templates provided by Gingerscraps designers, one on the first and the second halfway through the month. The reasons I mention this: they’re FREE and they’re readily available, plus they fulfill two challenges each month! Templates are a great way to speed up your workflow and to stimulate creativity. First, they take some of the decision-making out of the process by showing where to put papers and elements. Some templates are also pre-shadowed, so that’s one fewer step to take in building a layout. But they’re not set in concrete, so there’s a lot of opportunity for making the template truly your own. Today we’re only going to stick with the basics.

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[StephanieH]

Published on 9/20/16

Titles Revisted - Alphas plus Fonts

Hey all you Gingerscrappers! I’m back with another Tutorial Tuesday for your viewing pleasure. Today we’re going to build on that first lesson on titles. If you need a refresher you can find it here. Many of the kits available to digiscrappers come with matching alphabets – I’m always really happy when I find them in the kits and use them a lot. They can be combined nicely with a font or two to create very eye-catching titles and that’s what we’re focusing on today.

Read more on the blog!

 

[StephanieH]

Published on 9/27/16

One Photo, More than One Photo Spot

Greetings Gingerscrappers! Are you ready for another Tutorial Tuesday?
Ruth posted the following when Stephanie asked what kinds of topics I should cover: “How do you add a single photo image across more than one photo spot… I see this all the time and can’t figure it out.” Well Ruth, let me show you!

Read more in the blog!

 

[StephanieH]

Published on 10/4/16

Making Templates Work for You

You’ve probably heard a million times that templates really speed up your scrapping, but if you’re new to digiscrapping you might wonder when that kicks in.

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[StephanieH]

Published 10/11/16

Simple Photo Blending

Last week Carla asked if I would do a quick tutorial on blending photos into backgrounds. There’s always more than one way to do things, some quite easy, others more involved. Today we’re going to look at an easy way to blend photos, with a twist.

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[StephanieH]

Published 10/18/16

Extractions - Choose Your Method

When Stephanie first proposed this series of tutorials, we decided to ask the GS community what sorts of things they’d like to learn about. Danica‘s comment was, ” I would like to know the best way to extract things out of photos. I have the worst time doing it to see if there are any tips.” Digital extraction is similar to using cuticle scissors to cut out an image from a magazine or photo print – but it’s much more forgiving. Today, I’m going to show you two ways to do it… one that takes a LONG time, and one that’s a lot quicker. The photo I chose for this demonstration presents some of the issues you might come up against in your own extractions, as you see as we move through the images.

Learn more on the blog!