Video Tidbit: Chapter Starter - Circles
Have fun making a quick and easy page to start chapters of your book. Travels, months in a year, or even a recipe book. This design will help you make those dividers in no time.
Have fun making a quick and easy page to start chapters of your book. Travels, months in a year, or even a recipe book. This design will help you make those dividers in no time.
Have fun getting a bit organized (or at least pretending to be) as you create file folders to stash away photos and embellishments on your pages.
Using a colored overlay, create a simple page in your book project, highlight one or two photos, or make a canvas to commemorate a special occasion.
Watch as Cindy makes a chapter starter page from Start 2 Finish. This will be the first page in her Baltic States book beginning the section on Warsaw, Poland.
Use an Alpha Set and vellum boxes to create a title on top of photos for a title page or just a nice title on a page.
Are you looking for a cool title page to document your travels? This compass page is just for you. This technique is not just for travel pages. Let this inspire your pages about changing course or direction in life in general.
Using custom shapes, create the look of long or stretched shadows. The video uses text as the starting point, but Text Shapes and wordart could also be used.
To celebrate our 300th posting of Bright Ideas, we want you to choose 3 past Bright Ideas and combine them to create your page!
This quick and easy pop out photo technique will add clean and classic style to your full bleed photo pages.
Use three photos, a border, and three words to make a unique title on your page.
Most of the time my pages start with the photos. This page came together because I started playing with a digital art kit and then selected photos for my page. I designed the page to look like a photo journal.
This Bright Idea will turn any word art into a decorative photo card using the Embedded Image and Mask Effect.
This blended collage technique will help you create stunning title pages and covers.
Create a title page for your album or wall décor for you or a loved one using this fun idea!
Using a shape, create a fun photo focal point to help tell the story of your photos.
Create a simply elegant layout in minutes with this beautiful designed collage.
Create a unique background using your own photo! Find a photo with a detail that you would like to highlight. The kaleidoscope is created by using the rotate tools on the arrange ribbon.
Create a beautiful page worthy of wall art! With this Bright Idea, you will apply a mask effect along with frame effects. If you are new to using masks, take a look at the related video offering (found at the bottom of this post), Fundamentals of Masks.
Create this fun circle design using shapes, lines and the wand tool. Once the Wagon Wheel is created, just drag and drop your photos into place. Add a title and some journaling to tell the story. If desired, add some fun paper and embellishments and your page will be ready to share! In this Bright Idea you will create a straight line. To make sure your line is perfect, watch the related video listed at the bottom "Inserting a Straight Line."