One of the most valuable digital lessons I’ve learned (using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements) was how to crop photos down to smaller sizes and then print them all on one sheet through my photo developer. I first learned how to do this from Jessica Sprague’s Paper + Pixels article on the Creating Keepsakes website.
The layout you see above (which you caught a glimpse of in paperclipping 18) was my first time using the skill. But since then I’ve used it again and again, expanding to multiple sizes instead of just the 2×2 that Jessica demonstrates.
I love that I can print numerous photos on just one sheet, rather than print a stack of single photos to crop manually. If you have Photoshop software, make sure you read Jessica’s article and try the technique. It’s one of the most useful digital skills that I’ve learned.
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Budding Engineer
12×12 2-Page Layout
Journaling to my son reads: First off, let me comment on the brow-perched glasses; a perfect demonstration of your coolness.
Moving on to the watering apparatus…this tool is actually a grass seed dispenser. But today you turned it into something else. You turned it into a water dispenser. You figured out that if you put water into it and turned the handle, it would spray the water. You wanted to water the grass with it.
Just as interesting to you is the hand-turning. You just love turning handles. I guess the world must feel right to you when you can turn a handle. It would explain why you spent such a long time dispensing water today.
Products used: Cardstock (Bazzill); Patterned paper (7 Gypsies, Creative Imaginations, Creative Memories); Chipboard letters (Heidi Swapp for Advantus); Letter stickers (Creative Memories); Word strip stickers (K.I. Memories); Small green squares (Stampin’ Up); Brads (Making Memories); Pen (American Crafts); Ink (Stampin’ Up).
