I sometimes hear from fellow scrappers that they're finding it hard to scrap with patterned papers. I personally love patterned papers, my pages wouldn't feel complete without them! I cut strips from them or I use them as a mat for my page or I sometimes even use the entire patterned paper as a background. Today I wanted to share a tip on how you could use them differenty.
Instead of just cutting out strips or rectangles or circles from them, have you ever tried the custom shape tool in Photoshop? You could use any custom shape as a clipping mask for your papers!
In the example below I used the rounded rectangle tool. You can find that tool in the dropdown menu of the rectangle tool. To draw a rounded rectangle, you need to set the radius of the rounded corners first. (in the top menu bar) In my example I set it to 30 points (type 30 pt). Then you make a new layer and drag with your tool to draw the rounded rectangle (hold shift to make a rounded square). Then, drag a patterned paper on top of that layer, right click and choose: make clipping mask. And that's it! Repeat with different patterns and arrange them in an appealing way. For the outlined rounded rectangles, I first drew my shape on a separate layer, then I selected the shape, made a new layer and made a stroke around my selection on the new layer (Edit/Stroke). Then I deleted the original shape layer.
You could also experiment with other custom shapes, Photoshop has plenty of them!
I hope this tip was useful to you!
This page was created using Sugar Pie by Christy Lyle.
And the kraft polka dot paper is from the Krafty Dotty paperpack.
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