Creative Memories Project Center - Digital

Cheerful Valentines Digital Additions Mug Scrapbooking Project Idea

Designed By: Jamie Cripps

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Cheerful Valentines Digital Additions

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Cheerful Valentines Digital Additions

How to Create:

1. Start with a new Custom Size digital project.   Set the width to 10.5” and the Height to 3.75”.
2. From the Embellishment tab, select the CheerfulVal PM4 photo mat and add to the page.  Select the object and choose properties and resize to 5.788” x 3.750”.  Move to the center of the project as shown.
3. Copy and paste the CheerfulVal PM4 photo mat.  Select the object and choose properties and resize to 5.574” x 3.750”.  Select the Cut and Fill tab and change the color to black.  Move to the center of the project as shown.
4. From the Embellishment tab, select the CheerfulVal PM1 photo mat and add to the page.  Select the object and choose properties and resize to 5.417” x 3.750”.  Move to the center of the project as shown.
5. Add a 4” x 6” photo and resize to 3.542” x 2.362”.  Use the handle to rotate the photo as shown.   Choose the Format Photo and select Mat.   Select the Change Mat Fill and select White.  Change the width to 1 and click Accept.  Go to the Format tab and place a heavy shadow on the bottom right.
6. From the Embellishment tab, select the LoveRibbon and add to the page.  Select the object and choose properties and resize to 3.750” x 0.244”.  Click on the Arrange tab and rotate 90 degrees.  Line the object up against the red photo mat as shown.  Copy the ribbon and paste, rotate the object the opposite way and place it against the other side of the red photo mat as displayed in the photo.
7. From the Embellishment tab, select the HeartFlowers and add to the page, center on the right side in the white area.  Copy and paste the item to create a second.  Center the second one on the left side in the white area.
8. From the Embellishment tab, select the CheerfulVal PM4 photo mat and add to the page.  Select the Cut and Fill tab and select the rectangle.  Move the gray area over the photo mat, only leaving a small strip of the X/O pattern.  Erase the gray area.  Go to the Format tab and place a heavy shadow on the bottom right.  Place the strip over the bottom of the photo as shown.
9. From the Embellishment tab, select the HeartFlower and add to the page.  Go to the Format tab and place a heavy shadow on the bottom right.  Move the flower over the bottom right edge of the photo.
10. From the Embellishment tab, select the CutiePie and add to the page.  Go to the Format tab and place a heavy shadow on the bottom right.  Move to the center of the flower.

Glass Orbs Digital Scrapbook Layout

Designed By: Trisha Swan

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Distressed Digital Overlays
• Fonts: Adler, VTKS Animal 2

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Distressed Digital Overlays
• Fonts: Adler, VTKS Animal 2

How to Create: 

1. Keep the background white.
2. Place a circle on the page (Insert – shape – circle – make sure it is an exact circle by clicking on “make circle”. It doesn’t matter what color the circle is right now because it will be changing as we go. Once the circle is on the page click on it and choose Gradient fill (Cut and Fill – Gradient – 2 color) Make sure the two colors you choose are one dark and one really light. I chose a dark blue and kept in the same family and chose a really light blue just up the row from the dark blue. Then I choose the very bottom row and the second one from the left circular gradient fill option.
3. Place distressed overlay 8 on the page. Change it to white and cut around the circle that you have created so that the overlay is the exact size of the circle and erase the rest. (click on the overlay – Cut and Fill – Ellipse – you may need to invert so that the circle you want to cut out is showing and the rest of the overlay is shaded – choose erase the shaded area. This should leave you with a perfect overlay on the circle you created.
4. Once this is on the page I created another circle (Insert – shape – circle). I made sure it was white and was an oval instead of a perfect circle. This will act as your reflection on your glass orb and will make it look even more like an orb. Once it is made make sure it fits in the top of the circle you created earlier and make it look as the ovals as shown. It will be a little bit too white so you will need to change the opacity (Format – opacity – drag it to the left). Soften the edges of it to make it blend a little better (Format – Filters – Soften Edge). Take the opacity down again so that the overlay doesn’t stand out quite so much. Now while still clicked on the circle overlay choose the Sphereize filter (Format – Filter – Sphereize – and slide it all the way to the right).
5. Flatten the circle, the overlay and the oval together. Now you can shadow it and flatten it and shadow it again. This should leave you a bowling ball looking embellishment. Do the same thing again in another color. Then Copy and Paste them over and over and place them in different sizes as shown.
6. Add your portrait photos to the page. Flatten them and use the wand tool and the custom cutter (Cut & Fill – Wand or custom cutter) to cut around the photos and take the background out. Place the photos as shown. Shadow them.
7. Create 7 separate text boxes and using the VTKS Animal 2 font write the letters for “BOWLING” in white. Flatten them and shadow them repeatedly to make them stand out . Place them as shown.
8. Add a text box to the bottom of the page and use the Adler font to write your journaling in black font. Put a white glow on it to make it stand out over the “bowling balls” you created. (Format – glow).

 

Happy Day - Reflections Digital Scrapbook Layout

Designed By: Leann Bailey

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Reflections Digital Power Palette
• Distressed Digital Overlays
• Distressed Digital Embellishments
• Font: Raleway

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Reflections Digital Power Palette
• Distressed Digital Overlays
• Distressed Digital Embellishments
• Font: Raleway

How to Create:

1. Add Reflections Paper 26 to the background and then next add Distressed Overlay1 to the page
2. Add a photo box to the page that is 4.5”x4.5” and add a photo then and to distress your photo you will want to add Distressed Overlay 5 on top of your photo. Change the overlay to white and make the opacity at about 50%. Make sure that the overlay covering the photo is the same size as the photo. You can group the overlay and photo together and then just copy, paste and resize to get the same look for the other photos. The two photos left of the main photo are approximately 2.5”x2.5” and the one below it is 1.5”x1.5”. Once you have the photo in position you can then ungroup the photo and overlay and add new photos to the photo boxes. 
3. Once you have the photos positioned as you wanted you can then highlight the photo box and the overlay and flatten them together. Once you do this you will no longer be able to change the photo or move the overlay around. Then you will right click on the photo and choose “Cut Corners” and I usually use a width of about 20 on the larger photos but you may have to adjust the size on the smaller photos to get them to have the same look.
4. Then add photo boxes to fill in the spaces  around the photos and fill with additional paper from the Reflections Digital Power Palette and also cut the corners on this paper so they will all have a matching look. 
5. Add two of the Green Leaves and one of the Blue Leaves to the page and adjust the size and rotate as shown.  Then I added the Silver Rivet from Distressed Embellishments to the end of the leaves to give the appearance that they were holding the leaves in place.
6. Add the embellishment Happy Day to the page and using the Rectangle cutter from the Cut & Fill tab cut around the words Happy Day. This will give you the option to change the words to white and leave the border green. Place embellishment about your biggest photo.
7. Add a text box on top of one of you paper rectangles and journal.

You Are My Sunshine 5x7 Photo Panel - Fabulous Digital Scrapbooking Project Idea

Designed By: Ginger Williams

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Fabulous Digital Power Palette
• Fabulous Outdoors Digital Additions

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Fabulous Digital Power Palette
• Fabulous Outdoors Digital Additions

How to Create:

1. Add photo to the upper left side of the photo panel.
2. Add paper #3 from the Fabulous Outdoor Digital Addition to right side of the photo panel.
3. Add Ribbon #4 from the Fabulous Power Palette across the seam between the purple paper and the photo.
4. Add paper #2 from the Fabulous Outdoor Digital Addition to the bottom of the photo panel.
5. Add a strip of paper #1 from the Fabulous Outdoors Addition.
6. Add a decoriative edge to this paper with the Cut and Fill Tab.
7. Add Butterfly stickers to the photo panel from the Fabulous Outdoors Addition.
8. Add title and flower From the Fabulous Power Palette.
9. Add a drop shadow to everything.

Living the Good Life 8x8 Photo Panel - Rugged Scrapbooking Project Idea

Designed By: Ginger Williams

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Rugged Outdoors Digital Additions
• Rugged Digital Power Palette

Ingredients (Canada):

• StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0
• Rugged Outdoors Digital Additions
• Rugged Digital Power Palette

How to Create:

1. Add paper #1 from the Rugged Outdoors Digital Addition as a back ground.
2. Add photo to the upper right side of the layout.
3. Add a 1 1/2" x 5” strip of paper #2 from the Rugged Outdoors Digital Addition to the left side of the layout.
4. Add a 1/2" x 5” strip of paper #4 from the  Rugged Outdoors Digital Addition to the left side of the layout.
5. Add Red Ribbon from the Digital Rugged Power Palette Across the layout.
6. Add Compass, Title and Tag from the Rugged Outdoors Digital Addition to the panel.

Importing Freebies in SBC Studio

To use the freebies and your own images in SBCStudio

1. In the upper right corner click on “create package” when prompted name the package and click Create.
   
   
    
   
   
2. Now click on “Manage Packages”  You should see your new package now
     
3. Head back to the digital freebies page: http://projectcenter.creativememories.com/digital/digital-freebies/ 
4. Click on the words: 'Download by clicking here'
5. When your download finishes double click on it. Your zipped file contents should open in Finder.
6. Click on the blue sbcStudio icon in your tray
7. Click on the finder window, arranged them so that you can see the white square for your newly created package and the contents of the zipped file.
8. Drag and drop them from the zipped file into your sbcStudio package.
    
9. Once they are added there, they will be accessible with the rest of your content.

 

NOTE: You can can trash the zipped file that you downloaded and the unzipped file you pulled the files from, when you added them into SBCStudio they were copied into a folder within the application.

Flattening and Grouping - Inquiring Minds Want to Know!

There must be something in the air – I’ve gotten at least a dozen questions this week about flattening, grouping, what the difference is, and why in the heck would you want to flatten something?!?!  So today I’ll do my best to shed light on the subject.

Let’s start with the easy one – grouping.  Grouping allows you to select more than one element and temporarily combine them into one element.  I say “temporarily” because this action can be undone (the elements can be ungrouped) at any time, even after you have saved the page or project.   

[Just a reminder that you can click on the pictures/instruction pages to see a larger image!]

One of the reasons why you would want to group something is so that you will not inadvertently move an element that belongs with others.  Examples of this are: a text box on top of a piece of paper or a shape, two pieces of ribbon and a tag, one element that is in color while the rest of the picture is black and white, word art elements, small elements like staples and brads, a shaped photo centered on a shaped mat, etc.
 
Other times you may be making a design or border where you want certain elements to be filled with the same paper or color – you can group those elements and fill them all at once.

One of my favorite things about SBC3 is that there are MULTIPLE ways to do the same thing.  Pick the one that works for you!  Here are THREE ways to group elements:    

1) On the elements panel, click on the first element you want to group,  then hold the shift key while selecting the other elements.   Now click the drop down arrow on one of the selected elements and choose “Grouping” and then “Group”.  

2) On the editing screen, click on the first element you want to group, then hold the shift key while selecting the other elements.  Right click, choose “Grouping” and then “Group”. 

3) Select the elements you want to group by using one of the methods just described. On the Arrange ribbon, click the Group icon.

You will notice that the elements on the elements panel are now merged into one single element; however, when you select it and move it around, you can see lines around the individual elements.

Now let’s talk about flattening.  Before we get too far, let me just remind you that you don’t have to know how a television works to be able to turn it on and watch a program, do you?  It’s kind of like that with flattening.  Flattening is a process that is NECESSARY to allow you to “cut” a digital image or letters in a text box. 

You probably know that your pictures (really virtual images) are made up of lots of tiny little pixels – sort of like if you had a cake pan full of BB’s.  If I handed you a biscuit cutter and asked you to cut me out a circle of BB’s, would you be able to do it?  No.  But if you could somehow make the BB’s stick together to form one piece, you could!  Bottom line here is if the program tells you that you must flatten something before you can do what it is that you want to do….FLATTEN IT!! 

Here’s the important piece to remember though – flattening is a permanent change after you SAVE the page and/or MOVE to another page.  Flattening also takes away the photo or text properties of an element – you cannot use the formatting options for photos or text after you have flattened a photo or text element.  That’s why I taught you how to use the mat function to make your photos into a shape instead of cutting them!  But what you can do is simply re-insert a photo or text box if you flattened and saved and then changed your mind.  No worries!

Some of the functions that require you to flatten a photo or text box are using the cutters, the custom cutting tool, and the magic wand and adding features (like using filters) to your text.   We'll talk about them on another day, but until then, have fun with it!

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!

Digital Tip - How to Create Eyes in SBC+

Susan Thoenes figured out this fantastic way to make eyes for your little digital peeps in StoryBook Creator Plus.  THANKS susan!! :)

Have fun! :)
 

CM Girlfriends - You can make some too!

Are you ready to create some super rockin' fun girlfriends CM-style? Here's your chance! :)

THANK YOU Kim Hicks, Creative Memories Consultant, for sharing this fantastic idea with us!