Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine

by Chere Nordstrand (Dream Team)

I’m sure you’ve all probably seen those quickpage mini albums in digital stores that look like all the popular paper albums that you can buy such as the Basic Grey tag albums, Cosmo Cricket albums, Piggy Tales, etc. You can make these yourself. It’s easy and a great way to make an album in a flash!

I think most scanners have the inside lid as white, since I was using a black chipboard piece this made the scanning easy. Depending on the color of your chipboard you may have to put a contrasting piece of colored paper onto of your chipboard to scan it in. For example…if you have white chipboard, just lay a piece of black paper over the top while scanning.

For this album I’m using Cosmo Cricket’s Kate’s Blackboard mini album.

Take one piece of your chipboard mini album scan it into your computer. In Photoshop Elements open up your scanned image.

The next step you can do a couple different ways. The first way would be to use the Magic Wand tool (this is the way I did mine) and just click anywhere on the black area. You will see “marching ants” around the outside edge.

The other way to do it is to use the Magnetic Lasso tool and go around the outside edge until you’ve gone all the way around and you see the “marching ants”.

Now Ctrl+C to Copy and then Ctrl + N to create a New Blank File. Photoshop Elements will automatically create a new file in which your copied image will fit perfectly into, just make sure the background is transparent and 300 dpi, then click on OK. If you want to make the new file bigger you can. Now Ctrl + P and your image will appear in the new document onto the transparent background.

Make sure you rotate the album page to get the “hole” where your ring will go where you want it before adding your digital elements. You will need to rotate this back and forth if you have front and back pages in the album.

Now you can use this as your mask for your album. Open up a digital paper, resize it down to just bigger than your album then drag and drop it onto your album page. Then Ctrl+G to make the paper take the shape of the album. Then add elements and photos, print it out, cut it out and adhere it to your chipboard album then add any other embellishments.

I am going camping next week so I wanted to pre-make this album so that all I have to do when I return is plop the photos in and print out the pages. So the album is not completely finished yet but close. Here’s just a few images of how I designed it using the Happy Camper kit from {we are} story tellers !

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