If I get some time I am going to make some type of freebie since I haven’t made one in forever, but wanted to share some of the pages that I’ve made recently.

credits:
Kay Miller Designs - All Organic
alpha - Tracy Dane CU Stone Alpha2

credits: Rebecca Lynn by Melissa Bennett
alphas - for the word just I used Brown Paper Alpha by Julie Bullock and for the word peachy I used Alpha Number 01 by Lydia Kurniawati/Silversword71

Credits: Essential by Natali Designs

Credits: Purity by Natali Designs
alpha - Notables by Dianne Rigdon

I decided to write up this tutorial after seeing this question asked for the 1000th time and no really easy tutorials on it.

Step 1

Open your template.  For the sake of this tutorial I will assume it is a layered PSD file, but will discuss how to do it without a layered psd file at the end of the tutorial.

Once your template is open you will see all the various layers in your layer palette.  We are going to start with one of the elements in our template.  In my template I have a star your template may have whatever, but anyhow this is how you do it.

Make sure you selected the star layer in your layer palette and then go to the magic wand tool to select the star.

Then click on the star layer with your magic wand tool to select it.

Leave your star still selected in your template file and then open up the paper you want to use and then choose Edit > Copy to copy it and then go back to your template and choose Edit > Paste as new layer.

You should automatically be on the new layer with your paper and star still selected, but if your not just make sure you select the paper layer in the layer palette.  Then all you have to do is go to the top and choose Selections > Inverse and then hit the delete key and voila you have a star with your patterned paper!

You can then just delete the original star from the template since your done with it.  Deselect your star and repeat this process with each layer in your template.

NOTE:  As I stated above I said I’d mention what you had to do if you didn’t have a layered PSD file for your template.  If your template comes in seperate png files you will have to create a new file and Edit > Copy, then Edit > Paste to copy each layer into the new file.  You will then have to move the pieces around to get them in the right place and then follow all the rest of the steps for this tutorial.

Busy as usual, but here are a couple pages I have made recently.  Maybe I’ll make a freebie again soon.  We’ll see.

Credits:
Julie Billingsley - YesterYear Shabby Boy
Stitching from Kay Miller’s Allorganic

Credits: Chrissy Snow Birds & Butterflies

I haven’t posted my recent layouts here so I figured I’d share them.  I haven’t had much time for designing lately, but I have done a couple pages. I did one from my vacation, but still have more vacation pics to scrap up.  Here’s my recent pages.

Credits: me- Backyard Explorer

Template: Cookie (modified)—by Missy Strand based on a LO by Mrs_jb
Credits: Cherry Blossoms by Kristin Cronin-Barrow

Alpha - Colour Your Own Alpha: Felt Tip by Zoe Pear

Credits: Melissa Bennett Marmalade

credits: Dani Mogstad Gidget

Well, since I am not going to be designing (for a shop) I figured I’d go ahead and share this kit I made as a freebie. I spent a lot of time on this one so I hope you all like this one.  This is a pretty big kit so I broke it up into a few zip files.  Everything is designed at 300 dpi. Here’s a preview of it. Enjoy!

Download links

backyard explorer freebie alpha

backyard explorer digital scrapbook freebie elements

backyard explorer digital scrapbook freebie papers 1

backyard explorer digital scrapbook freebie papers 2

Sharing some link love today and linking out to a freebie today. I found a cool back to school freebie so I figured I’d post it here. I hope to get some freebies here soon, but figured I’d share this one for now. Anyhow here’s a link to it - back to school. I plan to make some scrapbook pages soon so I’ll share those with you when I get them done.

Not going to go into the details of why, but for legal reasons due to one of my contracts with Justmommies. (I am an administrator over there for those that do not know that.) I will not be doing designing after all. I’m bummed and not sure what I am doing with my blog at the moment. I feel awful about putting my name in the hat and wasting everybody’s time. Been in a bad mood about it all morning.

With some encouragement from my friends I decided to go for it and apply to a designer call and see what happens.  I have been working on a new kit.  This one will not be a freebie, but if I can get it together I will try to put a few things together from it and offer that as a freebie.  I really want to get more into designing, but I also like offering things for free.  My freebie kits I haven’t spent as much time on and the amount of time I am spending on this kit I just can’t see myself not getting into designing for a shop.  I am going to try to put more tutorials on my site as well.  Hopefully I can get some of those together soon.  Summer time is tough for me though so it may just have to wait until the fall.

A page I did with some old pictures of Leo.  I figured I’d share it since I was happy with how it turned out.  He’s still my little doll baby.

credits:
Frame from Manuella Zimmerman Happiness Gift
Papers & elements from Kjersti herbs & spices Vanilla
Alpha from me (mommyscraps torn paper alpha)

As promised, an alpha freebie for you.  I plan to make a few more alphas as I have discovered they come in very handy for making digital scrapbook pages.  This one actually took a lot more time than I expected, but I think it will come in handy for me so I hope you all can get a lot of use out of it.  Here’s a preview of it.

link to download freebie

torn paper alpha freebie