Wedding Day Forever & Always Throw Pillow

Wedding Day Forever & Always Personalized Pillow by SimplyPillows
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Collage Blends

Beautiful set with birds, Flowers and taped patterns
Collage Blends were created using different mediums such as old papers, brushes, elements and type to create a stunning addition to your projects. They can be used to blend into your papers and also as a clipping mask. You can also use them just as they are.

 

Blog Freebie: Vintage Office Photoshop Brushes

Hope you enjoy this set of Vintage Office Stamps.

They come in .abr and .png format and are at 300 ppi resolution

You can Find lots of other Photoshop Brushes HERE at my DSP store.

You can Download the Free Brushes HERE

Tutorial: Clipping Masks Using Different Elements in Photoshop

Wanted to show you different ways to use some of my designs.  I will be using my Vintage Note Element Set 2 and Collage Elements Set 3 .

Clipping masks are a great way to get that brushed on appearance on your layouts.  You can use photos or you can use papers with your clipping Masks

First you want to learn how to use Clipping Masks.

~ open New document 12x12 300 ppi

~ Open Your Mask for this I will be using Vintage Notes

~ Place your mask in your New Document

~ Open any picture and place it in layer Above Your Mask

~ Take your mouse and place it between the Picture layer and Mask Layer Hold the ALT till you see the round symbol then CLICK your photo is now Clipped

 

~ with your photo clipped you can move it around and resize if needed.

~ It looks pretty cool like this but we can take it a step further with the blending modes

~ right click your picture layer

~ Blending options

~ when the Box appears you will see Normal click on the dropdown arrow and just go thru the different blend modes till you see on that you like I have chosen Multiply here.

~Here are some examples of what you can do with Clipping and Blending

 

~ for these 2 images below I used my Collage Elements Set 3

 

 

 

~Vintage Notes Set 2 for these below

 

 

~When you get the look you want just merge the 2 layers together and your done!!

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I also have lots of regular Clipping masks in the Store your can clip your photo onto and then merge…

then you can use blend if you like.  These sets all come in black they can be rotated and resized!!

 

 

 

Hope You enjoyed this Tutorial on clipping masks..any questions please feel free to ask!!

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The Design Process: Making Collage Papers

I really think I could make these all day long.  The collage papers are so much fun blending papers and images and brushes just sets my artistic gene in over drive!!  Something about vintage images and documents that just excites me artistically that no other medium can.  I troll the little thrift and antique stores often looking for some little treasures.  Recently found a dictionary from 1917 all tattered and torn just perfect.  I also adore old pictures, I like to look at them and wonder who they are and what happened to them, the pictures of the children are my favorite I wonder are any of them still around with great grandchildren of their own? 

I am really excited about this newest set of papers my favorite so far.  Thanks for visiting my blog and listen to me ramble on about my passion!!

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The Design Process: Sneak Peek

Thought I would share a screen shot of a work in progress this should be my next designs in the store soon..or I end up hating it and it goes into my for later file.

Trying to make some collage type word arts, it’s a process and I am finding I really enjoy it.

Thanks for looking.

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Blog Freebie: Maskee Photo Mask

Ever wanted to try using a clipping mask here is your chance to download a free clipping mask from me.
Instructions for use are included any questions please just ask
marcee@thecreativepixel.com



Download Link:
Free Photo Mask

More sets available HERE

OTHER SETS AVAILABLE TOO

Clipping Masks Freebie

software programs that can currently use these templates include - Photoshop 6 or higher, Photoshop Elements 2 or higher, Paint Shop Pro 7 or higher, PhotoImpact recent versions, Digital Image Pro recent versions, Picture It version 7 or higher, and some Corel Paint programs recent versions. Not currently supported - Hewlett Packard Creative Scrapbook Assistant, FotoFusion by Lumapix, or Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer Program.Here is a set of Page Size Clipping Masks…

Instructions for use of the Maskee sets are in your download file.

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This set of 5 Large Page Size Clipping Masks will give your photos the appearance of being brushed on your papers.  These are perfect for Landscape and large photos

 

example of use:

Download Links:

 

Maskee Freebie 200 ppi size

 

Maskee Freebie 300 ppi size

 

Other Maskee Sets are available at the DSP store