Valentine Scrap Projects
This week we are all starting to think about valentine cards and love notes for 
the special people in our lives.
We might want to give a romantic card to our spouse, a cute card to our children and a fun card to friends and co-workers but whoever we treat with a Valentine cards or notes it is fun to add a special stamp to the card, letter, or note.
See following article to learn more!
The Newest Rage … Photo Stamps!
(Originally published by Jennifer Barlow on 1/22/09)
Photo stamps are my secret weapon. After creating a very special digitally scrapped card, invitation, or note, I add the finishing touch… a Photo Stamp. And you know what? As soon as I send them out, the phone starts ringing. People go crazy over them, they love them, and I can definitely see why… they’re awesome!
I have used my own edited photos and digital scrapbooking pages to make personalized Photo Stamps, and they are a fun way to “dress-up” an envelope. I have used them for my “Save the Date” cards, Wedding invitations, and Christmas cards. I’ve had people tell me that they not only kept my card, but the envelope too …all because of the special stamp!
You too can design your own Photo Stamps through an Online Printing Company like Stamps.com (or any other website that offers personalized postage) and add a little creativity to your mail!
At Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop you can even buy training about how to use an Online Printing Company to create and buy personalized products like a Valentine Card made from your own digital scrapbooking page!
For more information on the Digital Scrapbooks and More tutorials about using an Online Printing Companies click here for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements tutorials.
BUT, as much fun as Photo Stamps are, they are a little expensive. I think that they are a “must” for special invites and special holidays cards you must mail; but for regular, every-day cards that you can hand-deliver, they get to be a little bit too pricey for my taste.
Make a Stamp with a Custom Brush!
Even if Photo Stamps are expensive, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have fun with the idea of Photo Stamps, even if you are on a budget! Digital Scrapbooks and More has come out with a brand-new Custom Brush Set for adding “Photo Stamp” detail to your digital scrapbooking pages, envelopes, notes and letters! Now, these Custom Brushes aren’t real postage of course so they are best for the notes hand delivered or digital scrapbooking pages, but they incorporate this concept of personalizing stamps (even adding photos to them!) and making your digital scrapbooking notes and pages look absolutely adorable!
The “Love Postage Stamps” Brush Set is being sold on the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop, and is a perfect way to add detail to a personalized Valentine’s Day Card or Digital Scrapbooking Page. ~ Click Here to purchase the Love Stamps Brush Set.
Love Postage Stamps Brush Set features custom brushes that look like Valentine’s Day 
postage; all filled with hearts, doves… even Cupid himself.
One of the custom brush stamps is really cool because you can insert your own digital photo inside and make it look like a real Photo Stamp!
Using these custom brushes you can “stamp” a stamp on your digital page, envelope, note and more! Ps. this set is on Sale 50% off for a short time – hurry and get it now! So now is a great time to try custom brushes like this for only $1.99! But hurry this sale ends soon (2/20/10)!
The image below shows how I took 
one of these brushes from the “Love Postage Stamp Brush Set” and made a photo stamp for my digital scrapbooking project by just “Stamping” my custom brush on top of my Photo.
You can see that you don’t even have to use this custom brush set just for Valentine’s Day projects… these custom brush stamps were perfect for a digital scrapbooking page all about my Honeymoon! These adorable “stamps” could be used for other digital scrapbooking themes too. (See my Digital Scrapbooking Page and my digital ”Photo Stamp” on the Postcard below:)
The Love Postage Stamps Custom Brush Kit is perfect for any digital scrapbooking page all about you and your “sweetheart”, or for a project that shows-off all the special people in your life. These love stamps are super-cute for adding digital embellishment detail to your Engagement or Wedding pages too! ~ Click Here to find out more about the Love Postage Stamps Brush Set.
So, what if you’re not sure what Custom Brushes are exactly or how to use 
them? Not a problem!
At Digital Scrapbooks and More — we have Video Training!
These Custom Brush tutorials come with step-by-step guides on how to use Custom Brushes so you can easily add them to your upcoming Valentine’s Day projects!
For more information on the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Custom Brush Tutorials: click for Photoshop Training or Photoshop Elements Training.
So, with Heart-Day right around the corner, get to work on those Valentine’s Day cards and gifts, and make them extra-special by adding some “photo stamp” appeal… and without breaking the bank!
Get inspired too! Learn how to use custom brushes with our training, buy the custom brush set, and add more fun to all of your Digital Scrapbooking Projects!
Happy Scrapping!
Jennifer
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If you would like to learn more about how to do Digital Scrapbooking, please check out our Getting Started in Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials – Click Here
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We also have other Holiday Scrapbooking Supplies for your Scrapbooking Projects.
