Digital Scrapbooking by blushbutter

I've made these beautiful lovely styled tiara's and wanted to make a layout showing one way in which they could be used. So went hunting through my photo's and found this perfect photo of my friend Lara's little girl Chelsea! This photo was just way too precious and the perfect choice for what I had in mind. Debra from Keepsakes Photography took this photo,her website is HERE . So I added in wings and a few elements from my Gentle kit, Baby girls Heartstrings kit, Unicorn kit and the plainer background old paper is from my Good Mens kit. The gerberas were from a beautiful flower bouquet my Husband bought me for my birthday, I'm so glad I took close-up photos of them, they turned out so pretty I began just dragging and dropping lot's of things onto the background papers and then thought it would be fun to have the gerbera's popping out of a frame so added that in from the Summer dreams kit, I love white frames! I possibly might have way too much on this one page, but I couldn't help get carried away by the magical fairy dust and bubbles that were coming out of the page to enchant me
I prefer to put my shadowing on seperate layers and distorting those layers in shades slightly darker than the backgrounds, blurring them, reducing the opacity and that gives a more realistic lifting of parts you want to look more 3d and lifted. I use Photoshop for my graphic program, I'm not familiar with other programs, sorry.
My forum has a help section with links in it to several great tutorials for realistic shadowing LINK

A close-up of Lara's little girl Chelsea. (Lara has just had a beautiful baby boy Carson!) www.dustybear.com Congratulations to the wonderful Payton Family! It's times like these that makes me wish I wasn't living so far away! I wish we had teleporters already!! I'd love to drop in for a cuddle, I love new born babies and oh just babies in general!! LOL

22 Tiaras in png file format. 5 different styles in different shades of Gold, Silver and Copper. Included is this beautiful ephemera vintage belle and sparkles in png format. These would be so much fun to add to your little Princesses or your wedding layouts!

LINK TO SHOPPE

Vintage Pink Rose 8 and Photoshop brush stamp set
Brushes made in Adobe photoshop CS2 not tested in adobe elements or other versions of photoshop.
LINK TO SHOPPE

thank-you for coming by today

The quickpage exchange for August has gone so wonderfully! Look at these amazingly beautiful pages!! I am truly blown away with just how beautiful and detailed the designs in these pages are! As a thank-you for all the ladies who have contributed so far I have made a further 5 quickpages and a magical fairytale front and back cover for your book with bleed lines included. So all up I've made 9 quickpages for this exchange! If your wanting to get this album you don't have long! Hurry up and get your quickpage made and sent in to Donna to take part in this fabulous challenge!

KIT on SALE:
I've marked down her “UNICORN” kit in her Shoppe here:
http://www.blushbutter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3_16&products_id=570
And the coupon code to receive 10% off from 7/22/2008 thru 08/16/2008 is: (join group for details). . (Please don’t share these codes with anyone outside of our Yahoo Group).

How it works:
Each participant will submit 1 quick page layout using the featured kit and receive the other submitted layouts in exchange. So, basically you submit one layout and get back an album! The more participants we have the larger the album will be.

Complete instructions can be found here:
http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/view/448d?b=1
And Frequently Asked Questions can be found here: http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/view/448d?b=2&m=s&o=0

So what are you waiting for.... Come join the fun!

I was so excited to get my playing cards this week! Aren't they just so beautiful, they really go well with the Faery Books! I'm putting ribbons and plastic pockets in the Faery book for photos, don't you think that is a great idea?! I just love playing with these faery cards because I made King faeries to match. I made the hearts in pinks and peach, the clubs I made in greens, the diamonds in reds and the spades I made the faeries in blues and purples.

These books were my prototype and I didn't notice I'd not aligned the cover perfectly in the software until I received the book, if your familiar with printing then you'd know how these kind of errors happen all the time and making adjustments until the product is perfect is normal.

These next Photo books are my proof books! I had to acknowledge that it just wasn't going to be possible to get every single photo I've taken of my kids and family into scrapped layouts! I am a passionate digital scrapbooker and needed to concede that I just couldn't scrap every single digital photo I took. I decided I should just get my photos that number in the thousands printed anyway! Well after pricing exactly how much it would cost me($100's) to have them printed and to buy albums for the photos, I put it off even longer until I found that a printed and bound photobook could be a better and cheaper alternative to printing out the individual photos and putting them into an expensive archival album.
I use ARTSCOW
to make my photobooks and I can squeeze upto 192 good photos into one 8inch square 30page book. That works out 12cents a photo which is alot cheaper than buying a 200photo pocket album and getting 200 photos printed at the local printers! Not to mention it takes up way less shelving space and it's too easy to add in some text and dates.

I found artscow book service reliable and fast! The software is pretty straight forward and they make lot's of fun gift items to, I just had to get a watch for my Hubby, when I saw those, he loves it!

So if your considering having your digital photo's developed and they number in the thousands and you have lot's of folders to still get done consider a photobook idea. Don't just take my word for it about artscow, I have tried several book publishers, did you know Officeworks also do book publishing? There are alot of good quality photobook companies out there! I have more photos of my books and pages in my gallery.

Here are some comparison sizes in some different publishers, www,myreflections.com.au , www,mypictales.com , www.blurb.com and www.artscow.com

Here is my Hubby's watch, which he really loves!

Collect each themed kit for the low price of $2.00 to make one huge matching mega kit for Back to school children! All the sites are linked on the main page!

I actually was finding it hard to come up with the inspiration I needed to design a kit to this theme "School spirit" but once I knuckled down I couldn't stop making elements and papers for this mini kit for the digi$hophopcrop.com . I hope you enjoy my contribution to this cropping event! I will be adding my page prizes for the digi simon says challenge later

Please come join us for out kick off chat on August 1st at 10 PM EST. There will be fun, games and even a challenge. So come on, join in and have some fun. Hi

Chat room

Hybrid scrapbooking projects for cards and weddings. Charlie earlier last week sent me some photos of the gorgeous pages she had made using my graphics for her wedding album and a beautiful card for a friend of hers. These pages are so lovely, she has taken the time to cut out the pockets for the photo inserts of her wedding for her album, I am just in awe of the patience it must have taken to do this! It was so worth it, look at how amazing this wedding photo album is! For her craft card that she made for her friend shown above, she has done some papertole craft layering the key elements she wanted to accent, such a pretty card! Charlie used the Victorian wedding album and the Beautiful Belles kit

Here are some wonderful Fairy charms made out of Polymer clay/Fimo by Kim using the fairy Print and cuts available in the store, you can buy these from Kims shoppe on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5324683 aren't they really pretty?!!!!

Thank-you so much Charlie and Kim for sending me your lovely photo's of your projects, I love seeing beautiful work like this!

Have you made fun projects out of blushbutter's images, please send me them I'd love to include them on my blog for inspiration for our readers