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Creating a Digital Scrapbook Layout Using Scrapbooks Plus |
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By Barbara Eastwick This tutorial is available as a short video and as a written text with screen shots.
Do you have some great digital scrapbooking kits? Are you wondering how to use them? There are so many programs available on the market today to do just that, and some of them you might already own. Let’s get started using your kits from ScrapWOW and make some gorgeous layouts!
Scrapbooks Plus is a ‘bare bones’ version of Scrapbook Factory. The set up and menu are the same. This tutorial will start from after you’ve installed Scrapbooks Plus, and after you’ve unzipped your ‘digi kits’. Please make note of where they are filed on your hard drive after you’ve unzipped them.
To use our digi kit, we’ll open up Scrapbooks Plus, and choose “scrapbooks”. Then choose “blank” and the size you want to work in, for this tutorial, I chose 12” x 12”. We’ll add our background paper first, so choose: Insert – Graphic – From File
I chose Jeannine Baechtold’s Faded Sky kit, and found it in my files (I save my digi kits into a new folder in My Documents). I chose JBaechtold_FadedSky_BG7, and stretched it to fit the whole page. I then went back in to the folder and inserted the button, the flower, the bar, the mat, and ribbon.
Then I started moving them around to see where I wanted them to go. I resized the button and duplicated it (‘Ctrl’ and ‘D’), I duplicated the bar twice, and resized the flower. I enlarged the mat, and angled the ribbon. On every object there are the options to make smaller (by dragging the corner) or ‘squish’ left to right or up and down, but dragging on the square around the object. There is also a bar coming from that box that will ‘angle’ the object in a 360* rotation. I wanted the ribbon to be coming out from under the flower so I clicked on the ribbon once to highlight it, and went into the menu and chose: Arrange – Send Backward. It slid under the flower, but since I chose my backdrop first, it still remains by bottom layer. All of these layers are easily editable. Now, I simply went back to Insert – Graphic – From File and found the photo I wanted to use and I added to the mat. I wanted a title, so I “inserted” the letters ‘w’ ‘h’ ‘y’ ‘m’ ‘e’, and arranged them on the bottom of the layout. I also wanted to add my journaling, and the text box was easily created. On the left, click on “text tools” and begin typing your text. In this program, your text will type a continuous line unless you put in the breaks where you want the new lines to appear. You’ll have to hit the “enter” key on your keyboard every time you want your text to start on a new line. Hit “okay” and your text will appear on your layout, you can move the box anywhere on the page.
Here’s my finished layout, it’s a fun program to use!
You'll find more tutorials by clicking on this link: free scrapbook tutorials or by looking inside the member area. You can also learn more by visiting Jessica's Scrapbook Blog. |
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