My 5-minute Layout - Instructions

Hiya... Thank you for stopping by. I hope to show you lots of tips and tricks each week .This first entry will walk you through the basic steps of my 5-minute layout!

I am an independent designer. You may have seen my work at Scrapbook-Elements and Scrapbook-Bytes. I also have a few items at Pages of the Heart.

I'm thinking that I want to create a blog that is interesting and informative to my scrapping sisters, where we can share some of design and layout tips, projects, an occasional freebie sample to show my customer appreciation, and more if i can get feedback that this is useful to others. So it does make a difference if you can stop by and leave a comment.today's entry will walk you through the basic steaps of my 5minutes layout above.

Here are the items I used:

1. shopping cart:
   ARTIFACTS Brushes (scrapbook-ELEMENTS.com): http://www.takeapick.com/SBE-TerryArtifacts_1WU.
2. DESIGNER BRUSHED Borders (scrapbook-elements.com)(in .png format): http://www.takeapick.com/sbe-DesignerFrames_6

Today I wanted to show you a layout I did in 5 minutes. It is so much easier than I expected. I used my ARTIFACTS 2 brushes from SCRAPBOOK-BYTES. I stamped one design in pink and duplicated the layer, and laid it out to create the border on the right.

I placed the photo in the center, then I used my Designer Brushed Borders from SCRAPBOOK-ELEMENTS and changed the color to white. These come in .png format. I resized the photo and frame, but required no cutting. That was a really quick way to frame a photo.

I took the same white frame and placed it on top of my pink brushed pattern (I resized it of course). That's how I got the messy edges!

Finally, I used a standard font, and added the words.

I hope you like this mini tutorial. If you find it helpful, interesting, or whatever, can you leave a comment? If I get interest in this type of blog, I'll add more.