We are going to talk about a quick way to do a gift album for your family or friends at Craft Sassy.
I want to show you how to make some hybrid layouts using the color scheme of your precious photos.
These layouts can be quickly replicated to make multiple albums for your family and friends.
Select your photographs.
Open your photo editing program. For my example I used Photoshop elements 5.0. The techniques will work similarly in other photo editing programs.
Open a blank 12 x 12 inch file in PSE
FILE > new > 12 inch by 12 inch > resolution at least 350 pixels per inch.
Go back to your photo and sample the color that you want to coordinate.
To do this you will click on the eyedropper tool and click on the area of the photo you which to match.
Your “paint bucket” is now filled with this matching color.
Select new again, open a blank 12 x 3 inch file
Sample another color in the photo
Fill with paint bucket
Added craquelure texture
Add a grungy border and text.
I had this LO printed at Craft Sassy and then did some dimensional embellishments for a unique gift!
Harold
For the Harold LO I used the "Poetique Piquture" by Lorie Davison of scrapbookgraphics.com kit and specifically chose the Faerily Moonlit Night Paper Collection 2, which I dearly love. Harold owns two of my friends, Bridget and Dan. They are his humans. The humans recently took obedience classes with the newly arrived Harold and they are all best of friends. I printed the Harold LO 8 x 8 inches at Craft Sassy and then embellished with dimensional letters (Thickers and MME), felt and chipboard embellishments.
Harold has a Facebook page, Harold Dogini, and facilitates the Portland Dog Page too!
I hope that you will take the opportunity to think of quick albums that you can develop for great personalized gift giving!
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