St Patrick’s Day will be here soon and it is so fun to scrap the event and create great activities for children and grown ups too!
For example one activity that I think is fun for children is to color Shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day.
But some times it is hard to find this type of image to let your children color. Especially when all the color books these days seem to focus on cartoon characters.
Here is one idea we talked about last year that is great to use.
Create Coloring Pages for St Patrick’s Day With Photoshop or Elements Custom Brushes
(Originally posted 3/5/2009)
Use St. Patrick’s Day Custom Brushes to make Coloring Pages for Kids!
Brushes are definitely one of the easiest ways to create in a pinch, a quick coloring page for kids and adults (If you are a kid at heart too!)
These Coloring Pages made from Custom Brushes can save money and keeps children entertained during the holidays and other times too!
It is easy to make crafts such as coloring pages for kids by just using custom brushes in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements!
To Make a Coloring Page as a Craft Project Using Custom Brushes Do the Following:
To create a coloring page, you need a brush that is more of an outline than a solid brush.
Purchase a digital brush set such as the St Patrick’s Day Brush Set, then load the brush into Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Next make a new 8.5 x 11 digital scrapbooking page so it can be printed out in a home printer.
Then adjust the brush so that it fits on the page, and stretch it out as large as possible without extending it off the page. Now “Stamp” it on the Page. Another way is to “Stamp” the brush on several different places on the page instead of just one large image now you have multiple images on a page for coloring!
Print and serve with crayons and Waa-Laa! You’re done. It’s that easy!
If you want an entire coloring book, you can combine several pages of stamped brushes, add colored construction paper on the front and back of the pages, hole punch all the papers, tie pretty holiday-inspired yarn through the pages’ holes, and you have created a perfectly personalized holiday coloring book!
Need Training in Using Custom Brushes?
Are you interested in Custom Digital Brushes but you are not sure how to install them and use them? Not to worry ~ we have video training in Custom Brushes!
Our training comes with not only videos about brushes in general, but how to load brushes two different ways to use in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and the benefits of both ways!
Also, our Brush Training comes with another video tutorial just about using Custom Brushes, (tips and tricks) so you can really enjoy them in Digital Scrapbooking Projects and Crafts.
Our Training Has MORE!
This training also comes with Step-by-Step training guides to make it really easy to follow the steps on your own. Not to mention the training comes with 3 Cheat Sheets and a set of Digital Brushes to get you started right away!
For more information or to buy our Training in Digital Custom Brushes for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
See our St Patrick’s Day Brush Set and other Custom Digital Brushes in our Scrap Shop
Also check out our Advanced Training on Making Custom Brushes with Symbol Fonts!
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Once you have a custom brush set like the St Patrick’s Day Brush Set then you can use them to make coloring pages as nice afternoon activity for your children and then later you can also use them in your digital scrapbooking pages too!
In the image above I used brushes from St Patrick’s Day Brush Set to “stamp” some extra designs on my digital scrapbooking page. See the red arrows showing the brush tool (outline) and the final “stamp” the leprechaun hat and St Patrick’s Day Button.
I was able to get double duty out of this brush set making a great activity for my children, taking photos of them coloring the coloring pages I had made from scrapbooking and then using the same brush set to make wonderful scrap pages by “stamping” on some extra designs!
I hope you have a wonderful March and try some of these fun activates with your children – and even use a few brushes for some of your scrapbooking projects too!
Happy Scrapping!
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Here are the supplies I used in this blog article:
The St. Patrick’s Day Brush Set is a wonderful collection of Irish-inspired Custom Brushes! But St. Patrick’s Day is now not only celebrated by just the Irish, but by anyone who wants to wear green, find some gold, and spot a Leprechaun! “Think green” and add some luck to your digital scrapbooking projects using the adorable St. Patrick’s Day Brush Set!
Custom Brushes are just one of the many exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Custom Brushes can be used as a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!
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Digitally scrap all of your St. Patrick’s Day traditions and the fun with the kids this year using the St. Patrick’s Day Digital Scrapbooking Kit. This Digital Scrapbooking kit is is filled with bright green papers and dipped in good-luck shamrocks! It also includes unique, golden digital coins with clever Irish sayings, and a pot filled with golden treasures; perfect for attracting any true, gold-hungry Leprechauns this holiday!
St. Patrick’s Day is now not only celebrated by just the Irish, but by anyone who wants to “think green” and find some gold for themselves! Use this fun St. Patrick’s Day Scrap Kit to digitally scrap the children in their green outfits, or perhaps making some St. Patty’s day crafts and leprechaun traps. However you use this kit to scrap, you and the kids will have a blast doing it and love looking back remembering all the fun you had on this very special day!
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Get more Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies at the Scrap Shop! Also check out the Quick Page Kits, and the Custom Brushes.
