5 years ago... we became a family of 5. Everything since has been an adventure in every way! We moved to Hong Kong and had twins in the same year... we've traveled around Asia/Pacific for our holidays and enjoyed learning more about the different cultures and people. I cherish this time with our little ones -
I have scrapbooked a lot of the trips individually, but I had never put it all together. This turned out to be a fun experience to look at the last five years on a map.
To create this layout digitally in photoshop, I used:
- Dreamy5 paint backgrounds by Nancie Rowe Janitz
- digital paint brush by NRJ
- cherish - Heidi Swapp
- Asia/Pacific map .gif
- where does the time go - Ali Edwards
- fonts: Tiza, Traveling Typewriter, Georgia, and UCU Charles script
- this time last year journaling block by Ali Edwards
- Photoshop
I used a 12x24 blank workspace to create my double-page layout. In addition, I made a duplicate of the painted background, flipped it, and tweaked it to 'blend' the look across the two pages. Next, I added my map.
I googled Asia/Pacific map images... and then saved the one that I wanted to use onto my computer. After pulling this image into my Photoshop file, I used a linear burn to have the colors from the map mix with the colors from my background - SUPER FUN! Pulling my photos into the layout came next.
Before I could add my photos, I used a brush to create a frame for my photo (click here for a super brush tutorial from YouTube!). The brush I chose is one by NRJ and looks like a paint brush stroke. I decided I wanted my photos to blend into the background a bit, so I used the brush as a frame and a second duplicate brush as a mask (basically, I copied the brush and made the second one a little smaller to use as a mask for my photo). I selected a soft color from my background for the frame, then clipped my photo to the mask (Alt-left click in the layer menu when you get the double circles). Each photo has a date and location above it and an arrow pointing to the country.
Finally, I added the journaling block and the text to complete my layout. Click on the photo to see a larger view!
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