Showing posts with tag "Ribbon: Cut".
Video Tidbit: Groovy, but Square
Create a bold, modern scrapbook layout with a unique grooved border effect using the Shape Cutter. In this Video Tidbit, you'll transform a simple grid of rectangles into a striking photo arrangement with custom borders, perfectly sized spaces for photos, journaling, and titles.
Start2Finish: Embarkation Day
Design a Clean & Classic linear chapter starter page that highlights key photos and leaves space for the story.
Pixie Power Minute: The Art of Photos
The inspiration for this Pixie Power Minute came to me after a trip to the Grand Canyon. I snapped a photo overlooking the canyon at the start of sunset and was amazed at its beauty. This video shows you how easy it is to create a layout that lets your photos shine!
Bright Idea 512: Texture, Cuts, and Creative Layers
Discover a fun and easy border technique that brings extra personality to your pages. You’ll still have plenty of space for your photos, while the decorative border helps tell your story and draws attention right where you want it.
Video Tidbit: Split Mask Frame
Learn how to split a pre-designed mask element into three custom photo frames, creating a classic window-pane effect. These individual frames can then be filled with photos, papers, or a mix of both to create a unique and eye-catching layout.
Bright Idea 511: Strips and a Silhouette
This technique combines angled paper strips with a bold silhouette to create a striking title border. Learn how to use the Straight, Shape, and Custom Cutters to build a one-of-a-kind border that highlights your page theme with dramatic black-and-white contrast.
Pixie Power Minute: Title Carve Out
These overlapping technique will add a dramatic look to your titles.
Start2Finish: Valentine’s Day Bike Ride
In this video, we will build a quick and easy page using a single shape, and a gradient fill on a clean and classic white background. We will use our photos to enhance the page with minimal decoration needed. This page design is adaptable to any album size or photos of landscape or portrait orientation.
Bright Idea 509: Trace the Moment
Highlight the heart of your photo in a creative and meaningful way with Trace the Moment. This technique uses a custom cut to trace your focal point, transforming it into a shape that guides the viewer’s eye while adding text along the path. It’s a simple yet powerful way to combine design and storytelling - keeping your page clean, focused, and visually engaging.
Challenge 127: Photo Titles
Enjoy a fun and easy technique that incorporates a photo into a page's title design.
Video Tidbit: Vibrant Glow Border
Creating borders is one of my favorite things to do. It allows me to spruce up my page while leaving plenty of room to add photos and journaling. This technique shows how to cut a shape and make it a border on your page. Adding a bright glow, or a more subtle shadow will be your personal touch on this technique.
Bright Idea 507: Torn Photo Color Split
Use a photo with a strong focal point to create a torn-paper effect that combines color and black-and-white versions of the same image.
Video Tidbit: Vertical Cutout Masked Foreground
Create layouts with dramatic depth and visual impact by combining a vertical cutout focal element with a masked foreground effect. In this Video Tidbit, learn how to use a custom cutter in the image editor to isolate tall subjects like monuments, whales, sculptures, or other eye-catching elements while also incorporating movement and texture from the foreground into your page design.
Bright Idea 504: Shadow Words
Create visual impact by pairing a full-bleed photo with a coordinating collage of images. A shadowed title adds depth and dimension to the feature photo, while subtle edge shading guides the eye toward the center of the spread, allowing both the title and photos to take center stage. The result is a balanced design that highlights both the big picture and the memorable details.
Video Tidbit: Quartered Circles Heart Design
Take your quartered circles to the next level by rearranging them into a beautiful heart design. This technique shows how a simple shape can be transformed into a meaningful focal point - perfect for telling a story full of love, connection, and creativity.
Bright Idea 503: Blend and Weave
Add subtle dimension and visual movement to your layout with the Blend and Weave technique. By blending out small sections of narrow strips where they overlap a shape, you can create the illusion that the strips weave underneath the design and reappear on the other side. This simple technique adds depth while keeping your layout clean and graphic.
Bright Idea 501: Vellum Title Cutout
Create a striking layered page using simple Artisan features, repeated text cutouts, and a mix of texture, fill, and opacity.
Bright Idea 500: Beyond The Box
Layering a shape on your grid cut rectangle will have you designing pages with a pop!
Bright Idea 499: Ombre Strips
Create a smooth, blended background that adds depth and color to any layout. Watch your papers transform into a seamless ombre design with soft transitions and rich texture.