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Crop Class Articles From NSD 09

Learn Paper Crafting, Hybrid Scrapping, Digi Techniques And More

We had some great online classes being offered during our NSD 09 Online Crop last weekend. Here are the class instruction articles:

Digi Cluster Class, by nun69

Clustering: it’s all about making your elements work with each other. The best place to start is by having a program that you can view all of your elements in at one time. For me, I have VISTA and use the WINDOWS Gallery by adding my Digital Kit Folders {i.e. Favs/ACOT/Alphas/etc} into the gallery I can see everything that is included under that folder, even if it is subdivided… continued

Sewing 101 Crop Class, by Beth

Sewing on your pages is a technique that I love.  You will notice that I like using techniques on my LOs because they are an inexpensive way to add to your page.  We are going to cover the handstitching part first because I am guessing not everyone has a machine for the second part.   Continued...

 

Stickles Class -- How to use Stickles on your layouts, by Cindy

I want to start this class by giving you some basic tips that I have learned about using Stickles, and show you the different types of Stickles available.  I will then show you a few ways to use this awesome product, to accent your layouts and or cards and paper craft projects. Hopefully when I am done you will be reaching for your Stickles as often as I do...which seems to be almost every project I do lately.  Continued...

 

Distressing Crop Class, by Beth

In the hobby of scrapbooking, distressing can be defined as altering paper or embellishments to give them an aged, vintage or well-worn look.  It is a very inexpensive technique that can add a lot of depth and texture to your pages.  Distressing looks great with heritage photos, sepia photos and black and white photos.  Continued...

Using Digi Templates, Learn How To Make Them Pop! by Angie

Using Photoshop CS2, Angie shows how to use Digi Templates to make your layouts really stand out. Continued...

Girl Power Acrylic Album, by Jess

This album can be tailored to fit any girl theme.  I chose to make it into a best friends album but you could easily change the title or make it for a little girl, mom, etc. Don’t be intimidated to jump into acrylic!  It isn’t as scary as you think, I promise. Continued...

The Art of Shadows -- Learn Tree Techniques To Make Your Elements Look More Realistic, by Smiley-Scrap8

 In this lesson we are going to go over several ways of producing shadows for a realistic effect in your digital scrapbooking. This lesson will be taught in Photoshop Elements 5.0 but hopefully the techniques can be transferred into other programs easily.  Continued...

Paper Box Class, by Amanda

Learn How To Make Paper Boxes for All Occassions with this class taught by Amanda. We all have parties - birthday, Christmas, wedding showers, baby showers and more.   Now we don’t do favors for all parties but some.  Want to wow them with the favor containers?? Want to give a gift at a party in something personally made instead of something bought at a store?? Want to include something creative that they can keep and use for something else when the gift is out?? Well here we go.  Boxes, bags and cones that you can use to fill with stuff.  Something you can give in a creative way.  Continued...

Computer Tricks 3 to accompany the Computer Tricks 3 book by Jessica Sprague, by Kathy

This book is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! I have the first two editions as well, and highly recommend all of them, as they function as computer tutorials and idea books! The purpose of this class is to walk you through the book as if we are in a school classroom and her book is your class textbook. Please ask questions throughout the class, as this class is designed to support her book!

Hybrid Heritage Mini Album, by Laura

Do you see the new digi designs and drool over them, but then give up the idea of using them because you are a paper scrapper?  Or, are you a digi scrapper who would like to make more out of the digi designs you have downloaded?  Then, this class is for you!  You will learn how to download, unzip, and print out the digi designs so that you can use them to make a hybrid chipboard mini album. Continued...

Published on 05/07/2009.