Think Outside the Frame

2015 >> UPDATE to this Post  Sept 2015 <<  - this originally was written in April 2011, and in four short years, most of the websites I linked to are now gone - 
I have tried to edit and/or removed the links that no longer work.  
Please remember that websites and online businesses go out of biz or move to a new web addy - Everyday in cyberspace - so if something is important to you, copy and paste information you find useful to a word document for your personal reference. And if you see something in a digital webstore that really calls to you, buy it or do it very soon.  The majority of artists that I use their clip art in digital and real life creations - that I bought via digital stores, are NO LONGER selling their art in downloadable kits or collections.  I  bought from places such as PCCrafter, Aimee Asher and from artists that once upon a time sold digital art sets at Daisie Company  
(Note: Daisie Company.com still is open and sells the art of Gina Jane - a former pccrafter artist)  Laurie Furnell and Tammy DeYoung are 2 other former pccrafter artists that now have Etsy stores. 

Original post:
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 :-)  
This artwork is NO LONGER AVAILABLE
UPDATE>PCCrafter closed its digital doors in 2011


Update : Digital Scrapbook Place is no longer online and this set by Elizabeth Weaver is no longer available for purchase
Out of Bounds Frames/Elements by Elizabeth Weaver  formerly sold 
@ Digital Scrapbook Place. No LONGER AVAILABLE 

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 (OOB)
I posted these links in a 2007 thread on the former 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. 
(no longer available)
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:

Corel  create out of bounds photo

http://learn.corel.com/photo/tutorials/view/148/Create-An-Out-Of-Bounds-Photo

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

Making Your Subject Pop Out Of A Photo With Photoshop

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

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

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And last year (2010) I put up a How I Do It page, showing how I separate/extract a graphic from a background:
http://www.sippingtea.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 (kit no longer available) - that I had in my posts on the former pccrafter messageboard back in 2007

Photobucket....just another place I signed up for

I own 6 web domains with lots of server storage space, so I don't really need ANOTHER place to upload photos to, just so that I can link to them in messageboard forums etc. - But some of the places that I hang out online, pccrafter's messageboard, the new hugsister forum that was created in Dec 2010 by hugsister Lynne a.k.a. Blondemoments (cause none of us knows how long pccrafters' will be online, not much going on with that once wonderful site for buying clipart collections), and I belong to Scrappy Friends, and Aimee Asher's forums too...and at those sites many of the gals use Photobucket.
Often over the years questions came up about how to use it, if it was easy, safe and or worth using. So a few years ago I did join it, just to see for myself just how difficult and/or easy it was to use. They've added new features over the years, but its still an easy site (for me anyway) to use and upload photos to and/or then be able to "link" to the photos or albums etc. and post images within messageboard communities postings that you might make.

You sign up for FREE, then from your computer - just begin to "Upload" photos, you can create albums, name them and then upload just photos you want to go into just that particular album.
You can resize photos right within the Photobucket.com options. Then if a photo is much too big to post full size in a forum, you can resize it and save that "resized" image as a new image, in your album.
OK - now if you want to post that "image" in a messageboard forum, find it in your album(s) and click on it so your are viewing just that image on its own. Then over to the right or underneath the image..are some boxes with "codes lines" in them...YOU want the IMG code line. Simply click on that complete IMG line it will start with [IMG] and end with [/IMG] you have to have that complete line copied - you can't miss a [ or a ] - and then that copied line goes onto to your computers clipboard. Then you go to your message that you want to put that image, and click on your computer keyboard the Control Key plus the V letter and that should paste whatever you just copied to your computers clipboard. Easy peasy.
A thing that I do when I want to post more than one image in a single post -
I copy each IMG line code into a WORD document or a Notepad document, and type any notes I want to go with each image. And then when I'm ready, I just copy and paste all that stuff from the document and paste it all into a message forum post.

When I opened my Photobucket account, I really didn't have a "Need" to upload much there. Most of my photos are stored either at Snapfish.com or at Kodak.com's album spots...and ones I link to for message forums, I upload to my web domains and link directly from there.

As long as an image is online and accessible** (**Accessible means: doesn't need passwords, and you are the owner of the image, and you have the "rights" to link to the website where the image is located, - meaning you can't see an image on someone elses website or blog or album, and create a link to it from that website or blog. That's called hotlinking and also stealing bandwidth!!! Don't do it!!!) you just need to get the web address for just that image (the url) - you would right click on the image, and find the Image Properties, on the Image properties you should see a Location line, that is the image's web address or location of just that image..copy it and enclose that entire web address within those image tags of [img] and paste the url here but with no spaces after the ] bracket and then exactly at the end of the pasted url put in the closed image tag of [/img] - every time you put a code on a web page, it must have an open and a closed tag. the back slash of / is the one used to "close" tags. If you use a forward slash \ the tag won't work for what you need the tags to do.

OK enough about that...I did all this blogging on and on, just so I could post a slide show of some of the pics I did upload to Photobucket and have just sitting there.
I uploaded digital layouts that I had posted on one of my community forums I once belonged to, its one I don't hang out at anymore, but I did have all the layouts on my computer. And they were all resized for putting in online galleries. So tonight I created a slide show out of that Digital Layouts album I have on Photobucket, I copied the HTML code (cause that's one I needed to use for a "Blog" posting) so that I could post it in a BLOG post...lets see if I got it right ;-) - I am pasting now:

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day

Photo taken by my late husband Paul at a
Golf course in western New York
October 2006.
* I removed the gray skies in original photo and replaced
with a leafy background paper - don't remember the source

I enjoy doing digital scrapbooking using my favorite program - Microsofts' Digital Image.
Unfortunately Microsoft discontinued the line and it can now only be found on sites like Ebay.
I thought I'd just post for today - some of my layouts that have been posted on other forums over the years - to give you an example of my own style of digi scrapping.

Photo taken at Indianapolis Zoo's Butterfly Garden

The Flower Fairy in these layouts is my granddaughter -
she was 3 yrs old at the time and this was her
Halloween costume that year.
The Graphics/Background papers etc. are by Gina Jane
at DAISIE Company.com

In 2003 she was a Witch
graphics by Laurie Furnell at pcCrafter.com

This year she went as a Ladybug - still likes wearing wings
Ladybug graphics by Kristen Cook / Lollie and Friends collection at
pcCrafter.com

GrandKids Pumpkin Picking - New Port Richey Florida 2007

See some other layouts I posted in this thread over at pcCrafters' community forums
- one of my favorite online hangouts
http://messageboard.pccrafter.com/fb.aspx?m=570816

Many of the online Digital Scrapbook Stores or Blogs have tutorials to get you started if you are interested in learning about Digital Scrapbooking and there are tons of Freebies available daily to download from Blogs and Stores etc. - to test out your own digital skills using your favorite graphics/photo editing programs.

Visit some of my favorites *be sure to sign up for any of their newsletters:
Scrapbook Elements
Gotta Pixel
Scrap Girls
Scrapbook-Bytes
Digital Scrapbook Place
Cottage Arts
Two Peas in a Bucket
DigitalScrapbooking101

Daily Freebies:
DigiFree.blogspot.com
IkeaGoddess.blogspot.com

Happy Scrapping

Sometimes you can get lots for nothing

I do my share of shopping online for graphics, and digital kits - and have spent hundreds of dollars in the process. But I also enjoy the many, many Freebies offered up by amazingly talented digital designers and artists. Today I was going through my ritual of browsing IkeaGoddess's blog and found some really nice kits - but one set really caught my eye - a kit of 3 ribbon frames by Fanette
that you can find on her blog:
http://ledigiscrapdefanette.blogspot.com/

I made up this digital layout below kinda fast - took me awhile to find a photo to use - I only have a limited amount of photos on this laptop, I have with me in Florida. Most of my digital pics are on an external drive or cds - back home in Buffalo.
The photo is of me and my sweet Paul - oh I do miss him - I thought the ribbon tied up our love nicely and the drops coming down from the cloud are our tears for "each other".
He is my Guardian Angel.


Other nice FREEBIES I found surfing online today :
Visit The Daily Digi daily!- they've got lots of news, ideas, and things to share
like this:
Paper bag album how to with free graphics downloads
http://thedailydigi.com/happy-valentines-day-from-us/
**Related: over at the pcCrafter Forums - I have a thread in the
Instruction Junction Forum with resource links to making
Paper Bag Albums

"What Katie Scrapped" freebies *there are lots of places for Digital Freebies
but this was a new site for me found today.
http://digiscrappingqueen.com/blog/?page_id=119

Nice FREE Fonts **there are lots of places for FREE Fonts
But these are whimsical and nice for journaling
http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/
and
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/scrapbook/fonts/freescrapbookfonts/

For software users of Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro

Photoshop Elements Short Cuts keys **PDF document
http://darksideofthelens.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/elements-shortcuts.pdf

Paint Shop Pro Short cut keys
http://www.hypergurl.com/shortcuts.html