Highlight Journaling | Digital Scrapbooking Words on Wednesday

Hello Friends!

How do you emphasize your journaling on your digital scrapbooking layouts?

Chelle suggests:

• Change the color of some of the words (words you want to emphasize)

• Put paper behind words you want to emphasize.  Use either the marquee tool or the polygon lasso tool to select the spots you want, then use ALT-Backspace  to fill the space (make sure you are on a new layer below the words)

Here are some other ideas.

• Replace words with elements that go along with your journaling
• Use a washi tape or staple to emphasize it
• circle a word or weave a string around a word
• change the font size
• underline something
• use a handwriting font that is similar to your own handwriting

No matter what you choose to do or how you do it, we all want to emphasize something about our layouts. Highlights are a great way to get people to notice something important on a page. Little kids will touch that highlighted spot because they remember it as something different.

Let me show you a couple of ideas from our CT. Kimberly used the brushes in Mark My Words (retired) to match the colors to the papers in the kit to highlight her journaling. She also adjusted the leading so the journaling matched the lines in the ledger paper.

Kimberly used Game On!

Christine changed the font colors in her journaling to emphasize them. They really tie together her use of the term “Jump.”

Christine used Jump Zone & Jump Zone Alpha.

Helen used elements in Bug Town to replace her journaling.

She used Bug Town (Bundle).

What are some things you like to highlight?