MIA

I know I have been missing for awhile but here is why…. I have been hired by Digital Scrapper to help write tutorials for their newsletter.
Come check it out.  Their newsletters are totally free ( you know I am all about that!) You will learn a fun free technique with each one and sometimes like this month there are also free downloads.
You can sign up for their newsletter here.  You will need to become a Plus Member which is free and comes with all kinds of free goodies too.
Once you join you can access past Six most recent digi scrap tutorials by clicking on the Digital Scrapper Plus link on the left side of my blog.
I will explain more about the Premier membership in a few days. 
Come check out how to make something fun out of this in my tutorial!


Kit Taking Time to Relax by Eva Kipler from Digital Scrapper.

Free Kit: Spring Menagerie

Over at Design House Digitals they are having a blog hop with a bit of a twist.  You collect letters from each blog and they will give you the code to get this kit for free. You will also be entered into a drawing for the blog hop grand prize: a Wacom tablet.  Click on the preview to be taken to the blog with the details.

Adorable Olive Tree free kit

I hope you have signed up for the Home is Where the Art Newsletter.  Here is the free kit that you will receive from them this month. 

Each month they feature a different designer with a free kit and discounts to their store.  They also have a Challenge using the kit that could win you  a Gift Certificate to the Designer’s store.

Another Free Valentine Kit

Now that you have all those Valentine pictures here is a free kit to scrap them.

You can get it from Leelou Desings Here

PS when you go to download make sure you choose Photoshop other option

Getting Ready

Make sure you have download the kit from this post.  If you want to use the same fonts  I used you can download them too. Traveling Typewriter  is my absolute favorite font!  I also used the font Cluffhmk a nice hand written font.

Once you have downloaded the font you can just right click on it and choose install.

Good, Better, Best

The first step in making our layout is to turn a picture black and white or make it sepia.
In the following tutorial we will learn how to do that.  Here are examples how how our pictures will look

The original

Good

Better

Best

Sepia



You may not see the difference here on my blog but I bet you will in your photos.


Sepia

Lest Scrap Together

Remember this layout?

I was going to walk you though making it. I think making a layout is the most fun way to learn.  I will also have a new tab at the top of my blog called "Let's Scrap" with links to each layout we make together so you can go back and find them.