It's been so long since I have actually sat down and completed a digiscrap page so yesterday I decided it was time to take the bull by the horns and started searching around for a suitable template candidate.

Now this is where google reader came into play, it makes it just so damn easy to find the information you require. 

One of the scrapbook blogs I have subscribed to via their rss feed is ScrapMatters.com and low and behold there it was, the perfect template for the page I wanted to create, delivered directly to me by the powers of google reader, sweet. (ThanksLoriBear for the beautiful template you created).

When it comes to scrapbooking a page nothing says Halloween more to me than pumpkins, especially the carving, lighting and displaying of them in all their spooky goodness or perhaps I should say badness.

So here are the steps I took and the changes I made to Lori's template to create this page:

For the background layer I open up a photograph of my daughter pretending to eat pumpkin seeds, added filter/blur/gaussian blur and pumped it way up to 250 to create a piece of digital scrapbook paper, as the base to my page.

Each part of the template is labeled within the layers palette, so I went into each element and changed the colours by picking from my photograph using the eyedropper tool, selecting coordinating colours from within my photo to use for the elements. When changing an element, first select the layer then hold down the command key (mac) control key (windows) and using the move tool click on the shape within your layers palette to select it then click on your eyedropper tool to choose a colour from within your photograph this will set your foreground colour then edit/fill selection/use foreground colour and hit ok.

Any parts of the template I did not need for this project I just deleted from the layers palete (make sure you save as before doing this, you don't want to delete the original template!).  I saved this page as delicious-pumpkin.psd so that it wouldn't overwrite Lori's original (that I want to keep for my stash :)

I opened and copied the same photograph twice more into the page layout and positioned each version above the photo element layer, then selected my photo layer and choose layer/create clipping mask to put my photos into the framed mat's within Lori's layout (once they are clipped within the frame just move the photo around until you have the part of the photograph you desire showing.)

Finally I added some text and simply changed the blend mode of the layer to screen and the opacity of the layer to 47%. 

Adding the words delicioso I can almost hear Dora saying yum yum yum yum yum, can you?

Cheers

Groobers


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p.s Especial thanks for the template download created by LoriBear ScrapMatters.com
Here is the link for the blog post about this Digital Scrapbook Page Template