Make It Monday

Well, I have a feeling for the next few weeks my Make It Monday will be scrapbook pages. Mark bought me a digiscrapbooking class for Christmas and let me have it early. I just finished assignment 1a from the class and am so excited about all that I'm learning. It's an advanced class and I was afraid it would be too hard for me but I think it's exactly the perfect class for me.

These are the things I learned to do while making this page... I did not use a template for this page at all and it is quite complex.

• Create complex shapes with the Photoshop drawing tools, including the vector drawing tools and the marquee tools
• Use compound shapes as clipping masks
• Create straight scalloped edges on patterned paper
• Add "pop" to a photo with a colored overlay
• Wrap ribbon around objects
• "Hang" a tag from ribbon
• Create compound masks for a single sheet of patterned paper
• Create a semi-transparent journaling box with shaped text in it
• Re-color textured items on their own layer

I can already see some mistakes now that I'm looking at it again... oh well, it's charming to keep the mistakes, right?