Digital Scrapbooking Idea - A Jolly Happy Soul, 2 Page Spread

A Jolly Happy Soul

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3 Software
• Delight Tea Party Digital Additions
• Cozy Winter Digital Kit
• Discover Baby Boy Digital Kit Ltd-Ed
• Best Buds Digital Kit Ltd-Ed
• Digital Overlays-Jewel Heritage
• Digital Embellishments-Sewing Room-Baby Girl
• Snow Flourish & Jolly Happy Soul Embellishment
• Distressed Frame Ltd-Ed

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3 Software
• Delight Tea Party Digital Additions
• Cozy Winter Digital Kit
• Discover Baby Boy Digital Kit Ltd-Ed
• Best Buds Digital Kit Ltd-Ed
• Digital Overlays-Jewel Heritage
• Digital Embellishments-Sewing Room-Baby Girl
• Snow Flourish & Jolly Happy Soul Embellishment
• Distressed Frame Ltd-Ed

How to Create:

1. Start with a new 12x12 digital project.
2. Drop Paper 17 in the Background from the Discover Baby Boy Digital Kit.
3. Create Stitched border by Using Stitch #3 From the Baby boy/girl Sewing Room kit.
4. Add Digital Overlay #5 from Digital Overlays -Jewel Heritage and change color of of overlay to all white (go to cut and fill ribbon and select the color white).
5. For overlays in center I used a combination of Overlay #3 and #6 from the Best Buds Digital Kit as well as created some white and cream squares myself and applied the Opacity tool (located under the Format Ribbon to the far left) and I also applied the Select Cutout effect "grass" located under the Format Photos Ribbon to create the look of  frayed edges.
6. To apply Photo Frame effects to items other than photos... there is a small trick to this... you must first insert an empty photo frame (under the Insert Ribbon) Then actually fill the photo frame with something else... in this case a Paper... you can just drag and drop a Paper into the photo box rather than a photo!  Then... you can manipulate that Photo Box with any Photo Frame effect you like!  Whether it be Cutouts/ Mats/Frames etc...
7. To create the small hanging ribbon.  Start by adding the "hanging flowers" embellishment from the Tea Party Addition and then adding your choice of Cozy Winter brads (snowflakes) in place of the flowers.  I simply cut the flowers out by using small circle cutters (located under the cut and fill ribbon).  For the Center "peace" charm.  I created two circles applied a silver gradient to the one and a rough surface (under the format ribbon) to the one on top and typed the word "PEACE" on top.  Use any simple font!
8. Lastly I added four photos to the center (12 photos on second layout) and matted them in white.  Then I added the Distressed Frame Freebies on top.  Add the Jolly Happy Soul Word Art freebie and the Snow Flourishes and you are done!

Comments

[Melissa Harris]

sigh...I LOVE your work Jennifer. You are such an inspiration! Thank you for the cool tip!

[Rebecca]

Great pages. Could you please talk about how to do the sepia photos with the color highlighted hats?
Thanks

[Donnelly]

This is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!

[Jennifer Fehr]

Hi Rebecca, first of all...Thankyou :) and Yes, I can tell you how to do the highlighting... but first... do you own Creative Memories Memory Manager 3.0? This is where I first edited my images! If you do, I can gladly give you some pointers on how to do this in that program! Talk soon!

[Kay]

Yes, please, I want to know how to do the color highlights.

[Rebecca]

Yes, I have Memory Manager... Look forward to hearing all about it.

[Lauren]

Jennifer, gorgeous work. Yes, please tell us how to do the highlighted hats and sepia pictures.

[Steph]

Your pages are always AWESOME! I have always wanted to know how you have color on black & white photos too.

[Jennifer Fehr]

O.k!! :) So... Here are the instructions for color highlighting photos in Memory Manager. You can do color highlighting quite easily in this program, once you get the hang of it you will be having tons of fun with your Digital Photos.

In MM 3.0 there is a NEW ribbon along the top called "Selection", (which will be visible when you double click on an individual picture to view it in the large view).
There are two tools found here. One called "Wand" and the other "Lasso". (BTW there is a fantastic webinar, which I watched on the Help Zone" that shows these very features, it is under MM 3.0... I highly recommend you watch it as it help you understand better how to use these tools)!

When using the Wand tool, it functions like the wand tool available in SB 3.0. You select portions of the photo in which you wish to keep in color (I sometimes find I need to adjust the color and intensity sensitivity bars, located in the tool box that opens when you select wand or lasso... I usually keep both set at about 59... but be aware that you may need to adjust as you select from different types of images!

(Note: please know that you will have to depress the shift key on your keyboard when selecting multiple areas of the image, by holding it down, you can do two eyes for example at one time... try it and you will see what I mean)!

Once you have selected the portions you wish to keep in color, now look along the ribbon and note that you have options... B&W, Sepia, light, color balance, color wash etc... In the case of these images I selected Sepia - once you do a box will open and you will have options - "edge blending" (which works very well when using the lasso tool, it will actually suck in the edges where you may have made mistakes and blend the areas around which you cut out to give a more finished professional look. again something you must try to fully understand :). "Blend Amount" and "inside/outside" selection - Here is where it allows you to create Sepia on the outside of the area you have selected. Click on it and you will see!

Now, you have color on the areas you have selected and Sepia on the outside!

When you click "Accept". You will still see the little "ants" moving around the areas you have selected... so just click on "Deselect" next to "lasso" and they will disappear! :)

"Lasso" works the same way however, instead of clicking on area (as you do with the wand tool) you will be drawing a fine line around the area or areas you wish to select and leave color... it is a forgiving tool (because you can use the edge blending option). Try both and you will find that you either prefer one over the other OR like me... you will use them both depending on the photo or reason!

Be sure to also try the film grain option under the "More" category, along with "soften" and "blur"!!! You can ALWAYS click "UNDO" these features allow you to undo ANYTHING and as many times as you like... so you never have to start over or you can always back up a few steps as well! The undo button will be you favorite!

Have Fun!

[Michelle]

Wow. If I had known how easy it was to do that, I would have been doing it long ago! I just used the technique on a bunch of pictures! Thank you, Jennifer, for great instructions!!

[Jennifer Fehr]

You are VERY Welcome Michelle! I am glad you found the instructions! Hopefully the others will come back and locate them as well! Have Fun!

[Erin]

So doing that color elimination trick is not possible in SBC+ 3.0 ???

[Jennifer Fehr]

HI Erin... The only way is to use the wand tool on the hat-clothing etc... (which isn't nearly as precise as the tool in MM 3.0). Then bring in the picture again in Sepia and copy and paste the hat/clothing etc... on top of the image. It Doesn't give as clean or professional of a look however! :(. If you don't have MM 3.0 yet... it is awesome and super cheap to buy! I love all that I can do with it! It is also the easiest tool for organizing your digital pics... because SB and MM talk back and forth together... it makes it SOOO easy to retrieve images, edit and replace pics in an ongoing project... it really is SUCH a necessity for me! Good Luck!

[Sandwich in Wi]

Hi,

Why am I not finding the overlays in the Best Buds Digital Kit? Where are these located or how do I access them?

Thanks!

[Vanessa]

Good Evening, I am looking for the overlays used in this project. I have clicked on the link but it says it is not available.Could some one please help.