Hope you got a chance to read yesterday’s blog about using junk emails to get inspiration for digital scrapbooking layouts, color, design and text.
If so, I hope you now think of junk email in a new light. Just imagine how many ways you can use junk email in digital scrapbooking design!
So, today we are going to show you how to make one of the digital scrapbooking pages we showed in yesterday’s blog article that was inspired by junk email!
Here are the 5 Steps to make this digital page:
Step 1: Get Digital Scrapbooking Layout Inspiration from Junk Emails!
I received a ‘junk email’ the other day that sparked our Digital Scrapbooking creativity!
This particular ‘junk email’ had a fantastic design; one I could easily use as inspiration for my own Digital Scrapbooking layouts!
I decide that I was going to try to make a digital scrapbooking page based of this bit of inspiration!
Step 2: Create a New Document and Add Interesting Digital Paper
In order to create a Digital Scrapbooking Page with a similar-look as our junk email layout, I start by creating a New Document in Photoshop Elements, then added an interesting light beige paper, and added a black border a round the outer edge. (Note: I could have used Photoshop, it would have work for this project too!)
For more information about creating a New Document or adding Digital Paper to a New Document, please see our Beginner’s Digital Scrapbooking Training: the Getting Started Series for Photoshop or the Getting Started Series for Photoshop Elements.
Like the paper used in this example? For this project, I used the Goals and Resolutions Kit.
Step 3: Crop Digital Photos and Convert to Black & White
Next crop your digital photos and convert regular, colored photos to black and white
For more information about cropping photos,
please see our Beginner’s Digital Scrapbooking Training: The Getting Started Series for Photoshop or The Getting Started Series for Photoshop Elements
(For more information on converting photos to black and white, please see the Digi 
MakeOver Madness Black and White Tutorial )
Step 4: Add Cropped Photos to Page
Add your cropped, black and white photos to the digital scrapbooking page, and arrange.
Repeat for each of the photos you have. Align them on the page so they are spaced evenly.
Step 5: Add Custom Shapes
The next step is to create a black oval, with the oval custom shape tool.
Place the Oval in the middle of the digital scrapbooking page on the layer above the photos.
Next lower the opacity so that the photos can be seen through the oval shape.
(For more information about creating custom shapes, lower opacity, or cropping please see our Beginner’s Digital Scrapbooking Training.)
Step 6: Add Text and Apply Interesting Effects
Add text to the custom shape oval. Make sure it is on the top layer.
Next, add text on the top and bottom of the page. Use a different font and color.
(For more information about adding interesting effects to photos and text,
please see our Beginner’s Digital Scrapbooking Training: The Getting Started Series for Photoshop or The Getting Started Series for Photoshop Elements.)
These are the steps for making a digital scrapbooking page from a junk email inspiration! Make sure you give your junk emails a chance before you delete them! They might spark new Digital Scrapbooking layout ideas for you too!
Happy Scrapping,
Jennifer
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