Cottage Arts — Team Inspiration

Hi everyone! Time for a text path tutorial with ideas from our creative team (layouts at end of post).  Our Creative Text Paths 1 are available for Photoshop/Elements (psd format), as well as Paint Shop Pro X2 or higher (pspimage format), and help you whip up creative word art in a flash (the rest of our Creative Text Paths are only compatible with PS/PSE). I've written two step-by-step tutorials below...one for PS/PSE users and one for Paint Shop Pro users.   The rest of our Creative Text Paths are compatible with Adobe Photoshop and PS Elements but not Paint Shop...

Have scrapbooks replaced your diary? Rejoice...don’t feel guilty. My parents bought me a hard-covered journal for Christmas when I was seven-years-old. I journaled almost everyday from that time until I was eighteen. With adulthood I outgrew the desire to keep it up. I no longer write in a journal or diary on a daily basis. I scrapbook. Scrapbooks probably paint a better picture of our lives than a journal, anyway. But what about all those thoughts and feelings that we normally record in those private books? I try to scrapbook those as well. Below is a layout that I created...

We all know how important laughter and humor is for our well-being. Using it in your scrapbooking is also good medicine! Creative Team Member, Donna Gibson, is known for her witty pages and creative storytelling, sharing snippets of her family's antics. I believe it is her photo stories, eye-catching design, along with detailed journaling, that make her pages memorable. Check out her entire gallery here.     It's so true that kids say the darnedest things. When Rachel (now 16) was three I started writing down the witty quips that sprang from her mouth. Now I just need to get...

Lots of inspiration and goodies for you today! To me, recipe books are a perfect fit for digital scrapbooking, as you can create them once and print as many copies as you need! We're hoping to have a regular feature on the blog sharing our team's favorite recipes in digital layouts. Our site's gallery has a recipe category for you to be able to copy the recipes in text form, if desired, as well as get layout details. See end of post for some deliciously tasty inspiration by the team. Two years ago, the St. Cloud Times featured my maternal...

Trends in digital scrapbooking change at the speed of light, but some art can handle the test of time...one of our favorite kits that we've had in our shop for a while is Doris Castle's Asian Heritage Pak. Here's what the team recently created with this elegant kit. Click on any of the images below to view them enlarged in lightbox.