Think Outside the Frame

Hi,
Happy Spring & Everything!!
On Wednesday and Thursday this past week we really had some wild weather round these parts of Florida. I think they had 7 tornado's touch down within 50 miles of my house!!

On Saturday my grandkids were here for a little while and Mariah and I took a walk around the neighborhood soaking in all the wonderful "SUNSHINE" and looked at how green and flowery everything was. When we were walking, she approached a wee butterfly on the sand of an empty lot (I think someone is going to build on it soon - fingers crossed) and the butterfly flew to her finger and stayed with her through a good portion of our walk. She kept trying to let it go by all the various flower patches we passed along the way...but it kept staying on her hand till we found just the right spot ;-)

Graphics from pccrafter.com by Tricia Santry
Blooming Seasons creatable
**Tricia's Friends Forever creatable would have also been nice to
use with the photos. I love all of her artwork :-)
Please note: PC Crafter has NOT released any NEW graphics collections
since December 2010, and despite what they state on their home page
that they soon will release new stuff, I and many others have our doubts.
so if you're thinking of ever purchasing something from this company
I'd do it NOW rather than Later. PC Crafter still has some delightful
and reasonably priced clipart collections available to purchase and download online.
http://www.pccrafter.com
P/S some artists who are no longer producing new art for pccrafter
have found new spots online -
happy to say you can find Laurie Furnell now at AimeeAsher.com
and Shelly Comiskey is at DaisieCompany.com
Their older artwork is currently (as of March 2011) still available to purchase at
pccrafter.com**

**Update Jan 2012 - pccrafter.com is going out of business, and sets that I mention or link to that were once available on pccrafter.com may no longer be available for purchase. a few former pccrafter artists will continue to sell clipart online (Laurie Furnell, Shelly Comiskey, Tammy DeYoung, Gina Jane, Joy Hall, and Carolee Jones) but the vast majority of pccrafter artists they once had under contract.will not.

Out of Bounds Frames/Elements by Elizabeth Weaver @ Digital Scrapbook Place. https://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/ind...roducts_id=5808

Check out ALL the amazing digital goodies Elizabeth has to offer
over

at Digital Scrapbook Place

If you want the font I used in layout:
Get it FREE at Kevin and Amanda's
(and find lots more fun fonts)
http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/pea-miss-mary/

FYI for those who want to think outside the frame: this technique is often referred to as
Out of Bounds (OSB)
I posted these links in a 2007 thread on the pccrafter.com messageboard community
and just thought I'd share here on my Blog

Image credits:
Frames: Out of Bounds Elements by Elizabeth Weaver @ Digital Scrapbook Place.
Fonts: SandyTextHmk, Sheer Beauty, Slumber Party
Cute boy - my grandson Josh!
Scenic photos taken at Letchworth State Park, NY, July 2007

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I have more or less just used tutorials made for other software programs, and adapted to the tools I have in my Microsoft Digital Image software to create my out of bounds or out of the frames compilations.

Here are some links that you may find helpful in doing some of these types of things yourself:

Digital Technique - How to POP out a Photo
3D Photo Technique
http://www.acherryontop.com/article?a=1178

Pop out photos in PSP
http://scrapyourartout.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/pop-out-photos-in-psp/

Out of Bounds tutorial
http://scrapbookideas.wordpress.com/

Tutorials for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
http://www.escrappers.com/popout.htm

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/pop-out/

Out of Bounds tutorial
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28466683@N00/153507433/in/set-72157594146002408/

See some wonderful examples of out of bounds digital layouts
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=4408

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And last year I put up a How I Do It page, showing how I separate a graphic from a background:
http://www.teas2dine4.com/hugbees/cutoutpic.html

Happy Cut Outs!
P/S
I used one of the Out of Bounds frames that I got in the kit by Elizabeth Weaver @ Digital Scrapbook Place to create a sigtag - that I had in my posts on pccrafter back in 2007