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Bright Idea 500: Beyond The Box
Layering a shape on your grid cut rectangle will have you designing pages with a pop!
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Video Tidbit: MAKEAPL8
Create a title that feels personal, playful, and full of meaning. In this Video Tidbit, you’ll learn how to design a license plate-inspired title, turning simple letters into a bold, story-forward focal point. A great technique for turning letters into a cohesive, eye-catching title that supports your photos without overwhelming them.
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Bright Idea 490: Organized Overlap
Love the look of layered pages but want them to feel calm, balanced, and intentional? Bright Idea 490, Organized Overlap, shows you how to create depth through overlapping elements while keeping everything clean and easy to follow.
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Bright Idea 486: Tilted Vertical Cutout Border
This border design adds instant personality and movement to your pages. This technique turns a simple vertical border into a bold design feature by cutting your title directly into the edge and tilting each letter for playful visual interest. Perfect for highlighting locations, events, or themes, this border creates a strong focal point while still leaving plenty of room for photos and journaling. It’s a great way to add depth, direction, and a custom look—using just one vertical photo and a chunky font—while keeping your layout clean and intentional.
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Video Tidbit: The Details
A quick, Clean, and Classic page that will help you focus on the details of any event happening in your life.
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Bright Idea 483: Monochromatic Ribbon Background
A quick and easy background for any layout. Set the theme with the colors and papers you choose. Making ribbons is super easy!
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Video Tidbit: Clean and Classic - Moments That Matter
Create a simple, clean, and classic page using six photos and a Frame effect, also known as an Easy Mask.
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Artisan Tip: Mats and Opacity
This is a fun technique to create a semitransparent mat on both pictures and rectangles.
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Bright Idea 479: Bordered Memories
A quick and easy page to highlight a favorite photo. It would also make a terrific Chapter Starter layout for a child's album or a trip.
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Start2Finish: Tilted and Tucked
In this video, I’ll show you how to create a fun collage-style layout to capture a special event with friends. To add a bit of interest, I’m using a tilted photo in the center of each page as the main focal point. I’ll start by building a template, then adjust it to fit my photos. That way, I’ll have the option to save the design as a reusable template for future projects.
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Video Tidbit: Rectangles Galore
Have fun creating a fun yet straightforward page using a variety of rectangles. Fill them with coordinating papers, and you'll have a quickly completed page to add to your project.
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Pixie Power Minute: Topsy-Turvy Triangles
This splashy layout uses a quick border technique that’s as fun to make as it is to look at! Create bold movement across your page with a border of isosceles triangles - each one rotated at a different angle for playful energy. Add strokes to define the edges and mix in patterned papers and photos for variety. It’s a fast way to frame your story with color, texture, and personality.
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Bright Idea 475: Stacked Words
Using the Text Cutter, 3D edge, and Shadows, create a title that will pop off your page!
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Video Tidbit: Transparent Shaped Text
Learn and practice a quick way to fill your transparent shapes with text that extends to the edges of your outline. Then, have fun creating accents for your layouts.
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Bright Idea 469: Triangle Trees
Quick and Easy "Trees" to match any layout. Great for Christmas, camping, hiking, or walking in the park!
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Video Tidbit: Triple Banner Style
Looking for a fast and fabulous layout technique? This video walks you through creating a dynamic "Triple Banner" page using shape editing tools and a clean photo row. With just a few clicks, you’ll have a polished foundation ready for your photos, title, journaling, and finishing touches. Perfect for quick pages with bold visual impact!
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Bright Idea 466: Rip and Stack
Add texture, depth, and handmade charm to your page with layered paper strips and realistic torn edges. In this Bright Idea, you’ll use the Paper Rip tool to create four unique ripped elements, stack them together, and build a dimensional foundation for your layout. It’s simple, eye-catching, and a perfect way to showcase your favorite papers and photos!
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Challenge 10: Stamped Photo
Create a design focal point for your page using a stamped photo.
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Pixie Power Minute: Sliced and Stacked Quick Page
Looking for a fresh twist on your quick pages? In this Pixie Power Minute, we’re slicing into something fun and totally stackable! Watch as we use the Straight Edge Cutter to transform simple squares into dynamic triangle stacks, creating a bold, modern layout in minutes. To finish it off, we’ll add a clever layered title using both an outline and a fill—perfect for that extra pop of personality.