Welcome Students brag book Quick Page

Its back to school time and Wimpy Chomper's Creations came up with an oh-so-cute kit to help us scrap it. As this week's freebie, I've created 2 brag book quick pages for you to quickly put some of your cuties into an albumfor Gramma or Grampa.

To download them, click on the image below.

Here is a preview of her kit

Brag Book freebie

Hello all,

I missed a Wednesday freebie last week due to the hurricane that hit the East Coast. What a month it was. Now that most of the aftermath is behind us, here is our weekly Wednesday freebie created from Wimpy Chomper's Just Call Me Elder kit that you can read all about here.

This is another in the series of Brag Book Quick pages. I used it to create my son's first day of Kindergarten page. To download, click here or on the image of the preview.

Wacky Wednesday

I'm actually posting this on Tuesday night and if you are on the East side of the US, you probably heard about the 5.8 earthquake that hit in Virginia and up and down the states. It was scary and crazy in the Northeast, especially NYC. I had to evacuate down 41 flights of stairs, walk 45 minutes across town to catch my train home. Even then, it was over an hour before I got home, and by then, my legs were jello. Exhausting and scary. Did you feel the earthquake? Where were you and what were you doing today?

Needless to say, when I got home, I was wiped out. I've only got one brag book page for you guys. Its from Wimpy Chomper's Sports Nut Girl kit. I used the blue one because I just love blue.

enjoy! click on the image to download this freebie.

Wednesday Giveaway - Sunday Best brag book QP

Wimpy Chompers unique kit Sunday Best made for some pretty quickpages for our brag book set. (Available at ScrapMatters)
< Here are my freebies. Just click on the image to download:

Miss Rachel Quickpage giveaway

Wimpy Chomper's recent kit Miss Rachel is a cute girly kit.

I wanted to create some pages with it, even though I don't have any girls. I love the pink and the glitter. So, I created some brag book quickpages to continue the book.

Click on the preview image to download.

Brag Book Give Away

Here is the third of the Brag Book pages for you guys. Hope you all had a great July 4th. Summer is soooooo here and I wanted you to have a page that was a bit more whimsical that you could use for those hot summer photos.


I was going to put in 2011 on the banner, but if you're like me, it may take some of you longer to make your book, so I've included pngs of the next few years.


Here is my page








Click here to download the files

Create A Simple Alpha

Hi, Linda here (Scrapporreia in the digi-world) with an easy to do type lesson.

Lets say you just did the cutest layout but the kit didn't come with an alpha, or you really love one of the papers or patterns in a kit and want to coordinate your alpha to that, or, well, any number of reasons. Here is a simple way to make your fonts work for you:

1) Select a font that matches the layout style. This whimsical kit, Camden's Buddies, has a bunch of fun, adorable dinosaurs, so I wanted a rough yet playful title art. I selected Jailbird Jenna because of its 'broken' nearly concrete feel and the offset baseline of the letters.

2) I typed the words in the size I wanted. I called my page Sizzling Saurus.

3) Then, in your Layer's menu, select 'Rasterize' (about half-way down the pulldown menu). This converts the editable type into pixels.

From here you can do a number of things. I'm going to show you 2 that are a quick and easy way to make a coordinating alpha for your layout.

Stickers

Do steps 1- 3 from above

4) Creating a font sticker is a simple as stroking your rasterized words. With your word layer selected, Go to: Edit >Stroke.

5) Use a wide point size to get a thick sticker border, lets say I put in 10 here. And then I select the color by clicking on the color box. I use the eye dropper tool to select a color within my layout to make sure it all fits nicely together.

6) Then create your shadow or use as you would any other alpha. What I love about this method is that the word can all connect. I think its a fun look.

This is my page with the sticker alpha words I created.

Patterns/Paper

The second alpha type trick is to take your rasterized word, make it into a mask by pulling in a fun patterned paper. Do up to step 3 from above.

4) select the paper you like, then bring it in on a new layer, above the rasterized type layer.

5) holding down the Ctrl key (Cmmd key on a Mac), click on the line between your paper layer and your rasterized words in your layer palette. This clips the paper to your words.

6) Go to your word layer and select just the letters. (a quick and easy way to do this is to select all (ctrl A /cmmd A) then using your arrow keys, nudge the selection. It will automatically select just the words on this layer).

7) add a new empty layer and, with the outline of the words selected from step 6, go to Edit> Stroke. Select the color and stroke width (I chose 10 pts and the pale yellow from my background paper).

8) add a slight drop shadow and there, you have a sticker alpha created from your paper.

And this is the finished page using this font treatment:

I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy way to create your own alpha words. It really makes your title stand out. Because of Christina's whimsical style, its a perfect technique to use with her fun kits.

Be sure to pop over to ScrapMatters to see what other goodies Wimpy Chomper's Creations has.

it’s all about baby

I am a bit tight on time at this moment. I just don’t got the time to make template for this week entry. Today I would very much like to showcase my layouts using this amazing kit by Wimpychompers Creations called Girl Bundle 1 Kit.  Available at ScrapMatters.
Template is  from Kandy Kane Creations.

till next week.

Friday Freebie!!

Hey all!! Have you heard the news?!?!

Thats right! Christina is now exclusively at Scrap Matters!! AND she is having an awesome sale to celebrate =) So make sure you stop by the store to check out all the awesomeness.

For your freebie today, I made a cute little word art using the new Wimpychompers kit, Tea For Two that hit our new store today! Enjoy =)

this. is. how. i. roll.

Hello Monday! How was everyone’s weekend? Hope it was amazing and creative.
I’ve been spending most of  my weekend at home. It was too hot outside.  Hotter than usual. The climate is going crazy over here. It did rain a bit but didn’t  help with the temperature.
Anyhow I am excited to talk about Wimpychompers Creations new kit available at Scrapmatters. This one is called “How do I roll”. It’s a great outdoor kit for your outdoor photos.

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These are my layouts using the above kit.