Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine

By Gina Lideros Dream Team

Did you know that you can create Digital brushes from your own rubber or acrylic stamp? Save time and money by getting more versatility

out of tools you already have on hand. I’ll show you how.

First, coat your stamp with dye based ink (I prefer to use black ink, because it shows up better) stamp onto a piece of matte or white cardstock paper.

When image is dry, scan it into your computer and save it.

Open your scanned image in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, select the Retangular Marquee tool. Click and drag to create a selection

around your image. Your Image should look like this.

Next, Go to Edit> Define Brush. Type in a name for your new brush and click OK.

To use your brush, open a new document. Select the brush tool. In the Options bar drop down menu scroll to find your brush, double click

to select it. To change the color of your brush click on the foreground color box at the bottom of the toolbar. Click on the color that you would

like to use and click OK. Now, click on your document to stamp your brush. Your brush can be resized by using the slider at the top of your

Options bar. If, you are stamping multiple images it is a good idea to create a new layer every time you stamp.

To do this, go to Layer> New >Layer and click okay. This will give you more freedom to edit your layers without having

to go back and delete them all.

Now, that you are getting comfortable with your brush, you can use them to create digital papers.

To achieve this look I set my Background color to brown, and my foreground color to white and then stamped

in a pattern across the page.

Here are two Hybrid Projects that I made using my new brush.

For my layout, I set the foreground color of my brush to brown, then I resized it down using the size slider at top of the option bar.

I printed the stamped images onto matte paper and adhered them to my layout.

For my Hybrid card I left the foreground color the same (brown) but resized my brush up and added some journaling. Then I printed

it and adhered it to the front of my card, and embellished with buttons.

Credits:

Daisy D’s: Bambino Collection - Sock monkey, Giggle Dot and Bambino stripe papers;

Jenni Bowlin: red ledger alpha, brown label paper, felt buttons; Bazzill: white cardstock

Rubber stamp: Yasuyo N Dunnett Rubber Soul; Tsukineko: ink; Computer Font: Tahoma

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