1. Customize your background and texture paper. You can
change the color and intensity of the background and texture paper included in
whichever kit you choose. Simply select the piece of background and texture
paper, change the color in the color selection tool, and increase or decrease
the intensity of the color in that same popup box.
2. Crop My Stickease® quotes, titles, and tags.
The cropping feature on the My Stickease images allows you to select a section
of a quote, title, or tag to use as a border or other embellishment.
3. Create a customized My Stickease image. If you have a
specific image in mind to use as an embellishment on your page, you can create a
customized My Stickease to fit your theme perfectly. Simply add a text box,
photo hanger, ribbon, ribbon slides, and Stickease to create the little
suitcase! So easy! Be sure to crop or send elements behind other elements when
necessary, and add several elements together for a unique look!
4. Select more than one element at a time. If you want to
move several elements of your layout at once, simply click and drag your mouse
around the elements you would like to select. Let’s take buttons, for example.
After the buttons have been selected, you can click the icons in the popup box
to choose to align the buttons vertically or horizontally if you desire.
5. Make faux washi tape with vellum text boxes. To create
the look of a piece of clear washi tape, make a small rectangular text box,
filled with vellum background (this is the default color for text boxes). You
can make the tape strips as large or small as you want, or even layer them for
more emphasis.
6. Stretch one photo across multiple photo wells. If you
have fewer photos than photo wells, instead of deleting the excess wells, try
scaling the picture to a larger size and then copying the picture to other photo
wells and matching the photos up until they align with an almost seamless image.
This trick works best with photo wells that are adjacent to each other.
7. Create ruffled ribbon. Select “Ribbons” in the drop-down
menu under the Embellishments toolset. Choose ribbon tab and rotate the tab so
that it is vertical on the page. Then layer several tabs on top of one another,
sending every other one to the back to create a ruffled look.
8. Create a jagged border with text boxes. You can create a
jagged border simply by rotating multiple text boxes about 45 degrees and making
them the same color as the background. Put these boxes on top of a long,
rectangular box of another color, and you’ve got a jagged border!
9. Change the background of your layout. Sometimes you may
like the photo and journal arrangement in a layout, and yet want to change the
background colors. Because photos sit on top of everything else, this is easy to
do. Simply pull a journaling box over the space you want for a different
background and fill it with a color from the color selection tool or a patterned
paper from the Papers toolset. Then, send it backwards until the photo wells are
on top of your new background.
Bonus Trick! Use keyboard keys to make embellishments. Did
you know that some of the best tools for creating custom embellishments are the
basic keys on your keyboard? It’s as simple as typing into a journaling box with
no background color. Use periods to make a polka dot pattern, angle brackets to
create a trendy Chevron look, overlapping pound signs to make burlap, question
marks to make rope, and so much more!
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