Even though Studio J® is
fast and easy to use, it is helpful to know some great tricks that can make
customizing your layouts even more exciting. Here are some Studio J tricks
straight from our professional Close To My Heart artists:
1. Customize your background and texture paper. You
can change the color and intensity of the background and texture paper included
in whichever kit you choose. Simply select the piece of background and texture
paper, change the color in the color selection tool, and increase or decrease
the intensity of the color in that same popup box.
2. Crop My Stickease® quotes, titles, and
tags. The cropping feature on the My Stickease images allows you to
select a section of a quote, title, or tag to use as a border or other
embellishment.
3. Create a customized My Stickease image. If
you have a specific image in mind to use as an embellishment on your page, you
can create a customized My Stickease to fit your theme perfectly. Simply add a
text box, photo hanger, ribbon, ribbon slides, and Stickease to create the
little suitcase! So easy! Be sure to crop or send elements behind other
elements when necessary, and add several elements together for a unique look!
4. Select more than one element at a time. If
you want to move several elements of your layout at once, simply click and drag
your mouse around the elements you would like to select. Let’s take buttons,
for example. After the buttons have been selected, you can click the icons in
the popup box to choose to align the buttons vertically or horizontally if you
desire.
5. Make faux washi tape with vellum text boxes. To
create the look of a piece of clear washi tape, make a small rectangular text
box, filled with vellum background (this is the default color for text boxes).
You can make the tape strips as large or small as you want, or even layer them
for more emphasis.
6. Stretch one photo across multiple photo wells. If
you have fewer photos than photo wells, instead of deleting the excess wells,
try scaling the picture to a larger size and then copying the picture to other
photo wells and matching the photos up until they align with an almost seamless
image. This trick works best with photo wells that are adjacent to each other.
7. Create ruffled ribbon.
Select “Ribbons” in the drop-down menu under the Embellishments toolset. Choose
ribbon tab and rotate the tab so that it is vertical on the page. Then layer
several tabs on top of one another, sending every other one to the back to
create a ruffled look.
8. Create a jagged border with text boxes. You
can create a jagged border simply by rotating multiple text boxes about 45
degrees and making them the same color as the background. Put these boxes on
top of a long, rectangular box of another color, and you’ve got a jagged
border!
9. Change the background of your layout.
Sometimes you may like the photo and journal arrangement in a layout, and yet
want to change the background colors. Because photos sit on top of everything
else, this is easy to do. Simply pull a journaling box over the space you want
for a different background and fill it with a color from the color selection
tool or a patterned paper from the Papers toolset. Then, send it backwards
until the photo wells are on top of your new background.
Bonus Trick! Use keyboard keys to make embellishments. Did
you know that some of the best tools for creating custom embellishments are the
basic keys on your keyboard? It’s as simple as typing into a journaling box
with no background color. Use periods to make a polka dot pattern, angle
brackets to create a trendy Chevron look, overlapping pound signs to make burlap,
question marks to make rope, and so much more!
I hope you enjoyed all these cool tips and get a chance to “play”
around with Studio J. Simply visit my website www.AlexG.ctmh.com, click on the Studio J
tab and try it FREE!!
Take time to create,
Alex
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