Alright, I’ll send a lovely sparkle brush to anyone who can tell me what musical Brush Up Your Shakespeare is from! (hint: one of our daughters gets her name from this show!)

I have a new brush set in the store at Scrappers’ Workshop (no, we’re not officially ‘open’, but you all can sneak in and poke around!)

and I had fun playing with them today:

AND - I remembered a great tip y’all might not know!

Now I’m sure most of you know that in PS and PSE, when you have your brush tool selected, you can hit the [ and ] keys to make your brush larger or smaller.  But did you know that if you hold down the SHIFT key too, you can make your brush softer or harder?

SHIFT+[ will make your brush softer or fuzzier

SHIFT +] will make your brush harder or sharper

Now THERE’s a quick tip you can really use!  We have 49 more of them in our PS Tips and Tricks class at Scrappers’ Workshop.com.  Be sure to click on BLOG and sign up for our email newsletter we can keep you up to date as we schedule classes and events!

Happy Scrapping!

Jenn

I made these pages for a book for my daughter’s teacher - thought you would like them!  They are 6×6, but they size up to 8×8 wonderfully, so I hope you’ll find them useful.

CLICK HERE to download the freebie

CLICK HERE to see my Changes and Challenges kit at Digitalscrapn.com

Happy Scrapping!

I wanted to share with you this great layout my friend Beckygtx made! She did this with a kit that I made for crop gifts, and it was given out over several different events, so I though you might like to have the whole thing! I know I’ve been kind of quiet the last few weeks, since I gave up my store at SOTB, but I’m leaving my kits at Digitalscrapn, and have all KINDS of big stuff in the works… so stay tuned!

Enjoy Something’s Fishy!

Happy Scrapping!

Just read this great article about gas prices and wanted to pass it along. (See it here). I know that Jenn and I are feeling the pinch at the pump but mostly we feel it buying food. Luckily we can take all the money Jenn used to spend on papers and spend it on gas and food! Help me out - I’m curious about what you’re paying. Leave a comment with:

+ Cost of a gallon of milk
+ Cost of a dozen eggs
+ Where you are (City, State, Country)

I’ll summarize the data in a later post. And thanks for satisfying my curiosity!

Stan - The DaddyKitty

How can the $99 second cousin to the most powerful and best image editing software beat it hands down? By doing something far easier and better -

Here’s what I mean. I love this picture of my daughter Kate:

It captures her in that pensive moment that epitomizes her growing into a teenager. But its not that great a photo - the color’s dull, the water’s an icky green. I wanted to change the mood and make it a black and white. The usual way to do this is by going in Photoshop and using Image-Adjustments-Hue and Saturation and lower the saturation to 0. This gives me:

Notice it’s kind of dull and looses some of that nice light showing on her face. Now I could play around with the curves in Photoshop and get it better. But in Elements you have a whole tool devoted to B&W conversions that gives you a variety of choices. Go to Enhance-Convert to Black and White. You get this box:

Look at all the choices! The styles gives you the basic look and then you can fine tune it using the intensity and color adjustments. Try it and see! Here’s a few variations on our picture:

This great tool is available in Elements 5.0 and 6.0, and a more sophisticated version is available in Photoshop CS3.

Keep scrapping!

Stan - the DaddyKitty

My new kit is in the store at SOTB, but DON’T BUY IT NOW!

I am the Designer of the Week next week at SOTB, and this kit will be 50% off on Thursday Jan. 17.

Come to the Fab 50 Crop on Thursday at 10PM at SOTB, and I’ll have a coordinating crop gift for you!

AND don’t miss the newsletter (you can get to it from the SOTB homepage) because there will be a free mini in there that coordinates TOO!! I’m EVERYWHERE!!

To hold you over though, here’s a little freebie! CLICK HERE or on the image to DL:

Don’t forget to stop by SOTB tomorrow and get the newsletter freebie AND visit my crop - there’ll be a coordinating gift AND PRIZES!!

I’ve done a great new collab kit with my good friend Lisa Minor - and we’re GIVING IT TO YOU!! Lisa is not a selling designer, but she makes the cutest stuff, and is a blast to work with! Check out her blog HERE

Every Friday for the next four weeks, there will be a segment of the kit on each of our blogs! You will need to visit both blogs every week to get the full kit. After that, I will be adding to my portion and putting it up for sale, but Lisa’s portion will be gone forever, so be sure to write it on your calendars!

Here’s my portion for this week:

CLICK HERE or on the graphic to DL

Here’s a sneak preview of Lisa’s Week 1:

CLICK HERE to visit Lisa’s Blog

Happy Scrapping!

By request, I’ve put together a little kit of TAGS and TIES from my Kandy Kat kit! These are perfect to jazz up your layouts or tie onto some goodies! On SALE now 25% off - until Friday! Get them while they’re cheap!