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Celebrate Friendship with the Friendship Garden Collection
Celebrate friendship with digital scrapbooking ideas and the Friendship Garden Collection by Vicki Robinson. Create joyful pages for the people who matter most.
Using Photo Masks in Photoshop + Photoshop Elements
Using a photo clipping mask is an easy and creative way to change the look of photo!
Arting for Lockdown Relief
Arting with a friend over Skype gave me a much-needed relief from the Covid imposed lockdown blues
Using Layered Postage Stamp Frames
Add “postage stamp” frames to your photos to add an interesting touch to you scrapbook pages
5 Creative Ways To Use Washi Tape In Digital Scrapbooking
Digital washi tape is super easy to create and so are semi transparent ribbons!
Ticket to Anywhere
A fun, whimsical collection – full of eclectic vintage-y elements to scrapbook or art journal life’s voyages by Vicki Robinson Designs
Make Sure Your Life Story is Unforgettable
If you don’t scrap your life story, who will? Digital templates, elements and prompts to help you document you.
Documenting My Life Story
Scrapbooking about myself is something I’d never considered doing. But surprise, surprise, surprise! I’m in love with doing just that!
Finding the Perfect Photo For Digi Scrapbooking
If you don’t have photos that work with a digital scrapbooking kit, there are lots of sites that will help you find the perfect match!
Six Tips for Scrapbooking Pages You’ll Cherish
These tips will get you off to the right start as you begin your digital scrapbooking adventure!
Using Custom Butterfly Templates for Digital Scrapbooking
Use Layered Butterfly Templates to make endless unique butterflies for your digital scrapbook or art journal page!
Custom Butterfly Digital Scrapbook Layered Templates
I am obsessed butterflies! Aren’t you?
Use the Threshold filter to add Handwriting to Your Digital Scrapbook Page
Use Threshold Adjustment in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to add handwriting to a digital scrapbook page
Express Yourself: Growth Digital Scrapbooking Collection
No matter what stage of life you are in, you are constantly evolving and changing … and growing. Whether you want to document your own journey or that of a child or other loved one, these products let you create artful pages showing that growth.
Extending Your Digital Supply Stash with Artful Add-ons
How to use Artful Add-ons with any kit to add extra interest and create pages that are truly your own
June 2020 Mini O’s
June Mini O’s are Here!
The Struggle is Real: Inequality Digital Scrapbooking Collection
The Struggle is Real: Inequality is a mixed media series about the struggles we face in life but can’t always verbalize – it’s my new collaboration with Crafty Button Designs
May 2020 Mini O’s
May’s Mini O’s are here!
Unfinished Woman Digital Scrapbooking Kit
We are all a work in progress – growing and changing and learning to be exactly who we were meant to be.
Coping with COVID-19 – Time Out
More and more, I’m starting to understand how important creating has become to my own mental health.
Adding Hidden Journaling to your Digital Page
How to add journaling to your digital page and keep it private.
Coping with COVID-19 – Mental Health Days Required
Sometimes you need to tune out the entire world. Today was one of those days for me.
10 Ways to Cope with COVID-19
If you’re sitting at home bored to tears, here are 10 ways to keep you and the family occupied.
Coping with COVID-19: Looking for the Lemonade
With the lemons life has given us dealing with COVID-19, it was more than gratifying to realize there’s more lemonade out there than I thought.
Ten Ways to Fight the Coronavirus Blues
When times are stressful, there are things you can do to relieve some of the the pressure you’re feeling. Arting might be one of those things.
Spring! Digital Scrapbooking Kit
New Release! Spring! A collection of spring floral elements – brighten your day and put some spring in your step!
Installing Layer Styles
Layer Styles are used to add fun or interesting effects to elements on your page. Installing Layer Styles into Photoshop Elements is easy
PSE Power Tip: Bypass PSE 2020 Home Screen
Learn How to bypass that annoying PS Home Screen and go directly to the Editor or the Organizer
Vintage Paper Frames, Bicycle + Camera Stamps for Digital Scrapbooking
Vintage elements – whether frames or digital stamps – coordinate well with any digital scrapbooking kit!
Loading Brushes into Photoshop Elements
Load Brushes into Photoshop Elements temporarily, or install them for access whenever you need them.
Heartfelt Shoutout
Creating cards from digital scrapbooking kits is fun! Here are some Valentine’s Day samples created with my Heartfelt collection.
NAODS 2020 Online Summit
The National Association of Digital Scrapbookers is holding is it’s 2020 Online Summit on March 9-12, 2020
Art Journaling in Procreate!
I decided to try to create on of my digital art journal pages in Procreate – a fabulous app for the iPad.
Selectively Coloring Black + White Photos to Add Interest and Focus
Otherwise uninteresting photos can gain new life by changing them to black and white and then selectively re-coloring some areas.
Text + Ledger Stamps for Digital Scrapbooking
Digital Typewritten Text and Ledger Stamps are a great way to add little bits of interest to your scrapbook and art journaling pages and hybrid projects.
Permission Granted!
Choosing “a word” for 2020 turned out to be quite the ordeal.
Customizing the Photoshop Elements Workspace
How to customize the PSE workspace to better suit your personal preferences
PSE Power Tip: Installing Color Styles + Swatches
Vicki Robinson Designs walks you through installing both color style (.asl) and color swatch (.aco) files into Photoshop Elements and explains how they are different.
Put a Little Love in It Digital Scrapbooking Collection
Put a Little Love in It a a digital scrapbooking and art journaling kit by VIcki Robinson Designs
October 2019 Mini O’s!
Mini O’s are released the forth Friday of the month and are 44% off for four days only!
Converting a 12 x 12 Paper to U.S. Ltr or A4 size
If a designer hasn’t included A4 and US Ltr size papers with a kit, don’t fret! Let me show you how you can convert 12 x 12 papers easily!
Selective Recoloring
There are lots of ways to to selectively recolor parts of a PNG element. In this video I’ll show you two of my favorites.
Using Spot Healing + Content Aware Fill
Two easy ways to make corrections to your photographs for use on your digital pages.
Coloring Black PNG Elements
Discover easy, beginner-friendly techniques for coloring black PNG elements in digital scrapbooking and art journaling projects.
Make the Most of Grayscale JPGs in Digital Scrapbooking
Learn how to colorize JPG formate overlays to kick up your digital scrapbooking backgrounds!
Create Stamped Silhouette for Your Digital Scrapbook Page
Turn your photo into a stamped silhouette! This is a great way to use those less-than-perfect, but still meaningful photos!
Using Paint or Gesso Elements as Photo Masks
This tutorial shows you how to use paint or gesso elements in a kit as a mask for your photos
Digital Art Journal Page: As if there is no Tomorrow
I thought you my enjoy watching me create a digi page in Photoshop.
Using Transparent Overlays
This tutorial shows how to quickly make digital background papers using transparent overlays. It’s meant to be an overview, not a step-by-step tutorial.
Layered Frame Sets for Digital Scrapbooking
Layered frames make it easy to add your photos to your layout
Gelli Printed Transparent Overlays for Digital Scrapbooking
Last week I scanned some of those prints and turned them into transparent overlays that you can use to make your own “mixed media backgrounds”.
Just for Today Digital Scrapbook Packs
Sometimes it’s hard to be optimistic and circumstances can feel overwhelming. The Just for Today Digital Art Journaling and Scrapbooking collection has a variety of papers and elements to create your everyday themed layouts.
Time to Fly Digital Scrapbooking Kit
Time to Fly – a Digital Art Journaling + Scrapbooking kit
Time Heals Digital Scrapbooking Collection
Because, even when things are hard, it’s true that time will heal. You won’t forget, but you’ll heal.
Leave Room for the Unimaginable
Leave room in your heart for the unimaginable. Because if you don't, you might miss something that turns out to be very meaningful to you. A year ago it was unimaginable to me that a new little person in my life could bring such joy. Such utter, complete,...
Time Flies and Gratitude
Time flies by so quickly lately. At least more quickly than it used to. I can't be the only one who feels that way, right? Remembering Another Time Not only is it December already, but today Facebook thoughtfully reminded me that it has been exactly nine years (!!!!)...
Do Art Journal Pages Have a Purpose?
Art journal pages – why? What are they for?
Digital Art Journal Page: Joy
Watch me create a digital art journal page.
Facebook Custom Friends Lists
Vicki Robinson Designs shows you how to create custom lists of friends and pages within Facebook, so you can quickly the posts you care about
Art is Not Perfection
Art is not perfection ... That's why abstract art really appeals to me - because there's no expectation that the result is anything specific. Art journaling appeals to me for the same reasons - no rules about what the outcome must look like. Art is not perfection -...