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Bright Idea 510: Polaroid Title
Create a fun title using a shape that looks like a polaroid.
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Bright Idea 509: Trace the Moment
Highlight the heart of your photo in a creative and meaningful way with Trace the Moment. This technique uses a custom cut to trace your focal point, transforming it into a shape that guides the viewer’s eye while adding text along the path. It’s a simple yet powerful way to combine design and storytelling - keeping your page clean, focused, and visually engaging.
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Pixie Power Minute: Layered Swell Border
Create a soft, flowing edge that adds movement and depth to your pages! In this video, you’ll learn how to transform a simple rectangle into a curved border using shape editing tools. Then, take it further by duplicating and adjusting your shape to build layered “swells” that mimic paper stacking.
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Pixie Power Minute: Masked Word Merge
Learn how to turn ordinary text into a stunning design feature by creating a custom mask that blends your title seamlessly with your photo. In this Pixie Power Minute, you'll discover how to make your words become part of the image itself, adding depth, impact, and a professional touch to your scrapbook pages.
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Bright Idea 507: Torn Photo Color Split
Use a photo with a strong focal point to create a torn-paper effect that combines color and black-and-white versions of the same image.
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Video Tidbit: Vertical Cutout Masked Foreground
Create layouts with dramatic depth and visual impact by combining a vertical cutout focal element with a masked foreground effect. In this Video Tidbit, learn how to use a custom cutter in the image editor to isolate tall subjects like monuments, whales, sculptures, or other eye-catching elements while also incorporating movement and texture from the foreground into your page design.
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Start2Finish: The Beast
In this Start2Finish, I am creating a page highlighting our family afternoon at the local theatre. It was our first time seeing Beauty and the Beast and we were all very excited. My page will highlight our before and after images. With the journaling and a the QR Code, my page will tell the story of our time together. Join me on my creative process of completing this page.
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Video Tidbit: Quartered Circles Heart Design
Take your quartered circles to the next level by rearranging them into a beautiful heart design. This technique shows how a simple shape can be transformed into a meaningful focal point - perfect for telling a story full of love, connection, and creativity.
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Bright Idea 503: Blend and Weave
Add subtle dimension and visual movement to your layout with the Blend and Weave technique. By blending out small sections of narrow strips where they overlap a shape, you can create the illusion that the strips weave underneath the design and reappear on the other side. This simple technique adds depth while keeping your layout clean and graphic.
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Video Tidbit: Blended Embellishments - Trimming And Resizing
In this video, you’ll learn how to make simple adjustments when using one embellishment as a blend layer on another. The focus is on trimming and resizing your embellishment before applying the blend effect—giving you a clean solution for those pesky elements that don’t quite fill the space the way you want.
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Bright Idea 502: Trapezoid Photo Rows
We tend to think of photos in their most common aspect ratios - portrait and landscape. This Bright Idea takes you outside that box by using a single geometric shape to create a fun way to display your photos and text on your page.
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Bright Idea 501: Vellum Title Cutout
Create a striking layered page using simple Artisan features, repeated text cutouts, and a mix of texture, fill, and opacity.
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Start2Finish: Mask: A Focal Point
For this Start2Finish, I’m creating a simple layout using a mask as the main focal point on the page. A mask can turn any page into a simple eye-catching page or a decorative work of art. This video will show you that it can be both!
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FOREVER Tip: Pages vs Projects
Saving both individual pages and completed project files in FOREVER Storage is a key part of preserving your memories. Storing both file types in FOREVER provides flexibility when it comes to sharing, editing, and reusing your work in future projects.
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Bright Idea 500: Beyond The Box
Layering a shape on your grid cut rectangle will have you designing pages with a pop!
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Artisan Tip: Custom Grid For Angle Alignment
Aligning angled elements can be tricky, but with custom grid templates, you’ll always have a quick and reliable guide for consistent, polished layouts, no matter the angle.
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Bright Idea 499: Ombre Strips
Create a smooth, blended background that adds depth and color to any layout. Watch your papers transform into a seamless ombre design with soft transitions and rich texture.
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Video Tidbit: Fragment Fade Headline
Build an easy fragmented-strip mask with a gentle fade, then use it to turn a photo into a beautiful backdrop for your headline.
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Artisan Tip: Filling A Stroke With Paper
Want to take a basic shape or element up a notch? Instead of leaving the stroke (that outline around your shape) as a solid color, you can fill it with patterned paper for a custom, elevated look.