8 Ways to Embellish Your Digital Scrapbooking with ArtsyFlowers.
8 Ways to Embellish Your Digital Scrapbooking with ArtsyFlowers
Create your own ArtsyFlowers or find them here.
Seasons | Debbie Douglas
1. Create an artsy background for your photos and words.
- Add an ArtsyFlower element over a solid background paper to create a focal point to guide the placement of your photos.
I love how Debbie has positioned the flower so that it creates a matte and frames her design, pulling the eye into the images and story.
Art Is Art | Viv Haliwell
2. Change the Color of the ArtsyFlower Element Layers.
- ArtsyFlowers are delivered in .png or layered .psd format.
- The latter enables you to adjust and modify ANY of the layers individually.
- Apply a new color color, by accessing Edit> Fill (and ensure the Preserve Transparency option is CHECKED).
- You can also use the Hue/Saturation sliders to modify the Hue/Saturation or Lightness of an existing color.
- Go to Image> Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Photoshop) or Enhance> Adjust Color> Hue/Saturation (Elements).
I love how Viv has created an non-photo art-journalistic layout changing the color of the rose ArtsyFlower to coordinate with her other DigitalART supplies and contribute to the MOOD of the composition.
Bloom | Viv Halliwell
Amidst Color | Miki Krueger
3. Repetition of a design motif enhances the thematic component of a page.
- Use the the ArtsyFlowers as a simple embellishment to make a quick and easy layout.
Notice both Viv and Mikki have mirrored the flowers in their respective pages supporting each theme.
Flanders | Fiona Kinnear
4. Use an ArtsyFlower to add context to the story of a layout.
- The addition of poppies to this composite not only adds visual interest via color, but also transforms the artistry from war to remembrance.
I love how Fiona has made use of scale in adding the poppies to her landscape.
Three O Clock | Barb Houston
5. Use the Colors in an ArtsyFlower to create a Visual Triangle Design.
- A Visual Triangle is formed when you have 3 distinct similarities in your design, in terms of shape, motif and color.
- Learn how to Create Visual Triangles.
- If you were to draw invisible lines between the 3 similar elements, a triangle shape would result.
I love how Barb has created a visual triangle through the use of orange: The dancers, flower ‘head’ and poppy, which moves the eye around the layout.
6. Contribute to the ‘Mood’ of a layout.
- The pink rose ArtsyFlower supports the soft and delicate approach to this artsy digital scrapbooking design.
I love how the soft pink flower balances the much heavier blacks in the composition.
Amidst | Fiona Kinnear
7. Create foundation or background for a blended photo.
- Use a collection of ArtsyFlowers to create a magical jungle of flowers to create a foundation for her focal point.
I just adore all the color her and the sentiment in the story being told.
Color Me Happy | Ulla-May Berndtsson
Not Alone | Laura Tringali Holmes
8. Add the ArtsyFlowers to the focal point of your digital artistry.
- Make them become an integral part of your images.
I love how the ArtsyFlower contributes color to the Ulla-Mays tropical filtered image, and the women are holding, or appear as they are rising from flowers in her composite.
In Summary
8 Ways to Use ArtsyFlowers is just the beginning…
There are SO many ways you can use these flexible elements in your artsy digital scrapbooking and digital artistry designs.
Consider also:
- Make WallART for you home, perhaps as part of a Gallery Wall.
- Create a Calendar or some notes to say ‘Thank you’.
- Re-purpose the layers of the ArtsyFlowers.
- Use them individual as separate elements.
- Create new renditions of these ArtsyFlowers.
- Build a new Embellishment Cluster.
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