In this layout I’ve used Danielle’s Kiwi Christmas Quick Page No. 2 and added this fun technique to each of the circular photos on my layout–making for a quick yet fun page for the holidays!

To encapsulate your memories inside of their very own digital snow globe use the following steps:

First open a document in Photoshop and create a circular clipping mask (that is relative to the size you want your finished snow globe photo to be) with your Eliptical Shape Tool and rastersize/simplify the layer.

Then select your Eraser Tool and choose a large soft brush (I’ve used a soft 80px brush at 100% opacity) and run the edge of your eraser along the OUTSIDE edge of your clipping mask so that it softens up the hard edge of the mask and gives it a nice soft glow around the edge.

Now take that same large soft brush and change the opacity to 10% and blend the inside of your clipping mask using a spiral motion as you work your way into the center of your circle.

Now clip your photo to your clipping mask–if you are happy with the effect then you can move onto the next step

If not then you can try adjusting the opacity and/or fill of your clipping masks layer to add or take away from the frosty look of your of photo’s snow globe.

You could also try adding a fill layer of white (clipped over top of your photo) paired with your Dissolve blending mode for a fun snowy effect.  Just use your opacity and fill sliders to make the effect more subtle.

Now with your photo’s layer selected in your layer palette, choose Distort and then Spherize from your Filters Menu.  Choose a percentage somewhere between 50 and 100 using the preview to judge what percentage will work best with your photo.   You may want to readjust the placement or size of your photo after you’ve applied this effect.

Once you’ve completed your snow globe you may decide to add a drop shadow to it to finish it off.  And now your snow globe is ready to take the spotlight on your next holiday page!

Amy Kingsford is a happy wife and blessed mother from Northern Utah who has been scrapbooking for 12 years. She teaches at Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design and is a creative team member for Danielle Young Designs and fellow Oscraps Designer Biograffiti.  To see more of her work visit her new site at AmyKingsford.com. And for more “Photo Fun” join us next month to see what other tricks she has in store for you!

Thanks to Lauren Reid’s 100 Things kit (available at My Scrapbook Art) & K Studio’s Dirty Denim Alpha Set for inspiring this page:

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Are you & your kids ready for school this fall?  If you’ve started back already, I’m sure you have a few “first day” photos – and probably at least one standing at the bus stop!  Enjoy this free Otto number set to help you scrap those snapshots.  Just click the preview to download.

Amy Kingsford’s Photo Fun Tips are back next week & I can’t wait for you to see what she’s come up with!!  Stay tuned…

I used my new paper pack & word art set – together with Amy Martin’s garland template and Sahlin Studio’s Sunny elements – to create this sweet page for my furry boy…

In other news, the hubs and I are packing up for our annual beach vacation, and we’re really looking forward to it!

We love Rosemary Beach – whether it’s the cold of December…

Raining in January…

Or hot and sunny in July!

I’m excited to watch Fourth of July fireworks from the beach this year!

For those of you in the States, what are your July 4th plans?  Tell me what you have planned in the comments of this post (before Friday, July 1st at 10pm Eastern Time), and you could win my Funky Fourth Kit!  Be ready to scrap those beautiful Independence Day photos!

My creative team and the girls at Oscraps created these amazing pages with the kit:

And with the help of random.org, comment #15 was chosen as our lucky Through The Years winner!

Congratulations Inger de Wild!!

Please email me at danielle at danielleyoungdesigns dot com to claim your prize.

I started off with this not-so-fabulous iPhone photo, but I really wanted to salvage it somehow.  This is my fuzzy son waiting patiently in the back of the car while heading to his favorite place: the park.

I used Janet’s tutorial as my guide (super easy to follow!), added a little PS burning & dodging of my own, and cropped a bit off the right side.  And now I like it so much better than the original!

I liked the edited result so much that I even made a layout with it!  Using a combination of One Little Bird’s Spring Rain, Design by Lili’s Mishmash Alphas, Pea Missy Cursive font, Helvetica Neue, and my own frame:

Thank you Janet & Jessica for the inspiration!!

What’s your favorite method for converting your color photos to b&w?

I have more exciting news, too… nearly my entire Oscraps store is 30% off this weekend including this new collab!

Here’s a little inspiration from my creative team and Katharyn’s team, too.

THE GIVEAWAY RESULTS ARE IN!

Thanks for your wonderful comments on the sneak peek post!  With the help of random.org, commenter #8 was chosen to receive the kit for FREE!

Congratulations to DADY!

Dady, please email me at danielle at danielleyoungdesigns dot com to claim your prize!

My Blessed Blooms kit, which was created exclusively for The Daily Scrapper, is now available at Oscraps – just in time for Mother’s Day!!!

Here’s some great inspiration from my creative team using Blessed Blooms:

Amy (askings) brilliantly added some yellow to her page and even re-colored the alpha to match:

The composition of Shannon’s page is so calming:

I love the energy of this page by Jessica:

Jessica also combined my Here’s to You alpha set to give this page a more formal look!

Cheryl Ray used the flower pattern to coordinate with her daughter’s outfit.  so cute!

The delicate elements of Jill’s page perfectly complement her sentiment:

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Enjoy 25% off this page kit, when you enter BlessU before checkout – only at Oscraps.  ENJOY!

You can get it for FREE with $2 purchase of my designs at Oscraps right now AND nearly everything is 25% off!

With the frame cluster that’s included in the mini kit, I created this layout in just seconds!  The picture is from Easter a couple of years ago, which happened to coincide with my first wedding anniversary.  We snapped this ONE photo in our blooming front yard after church that year, and I love it!

Maybe we can take a few more this year…

Enjoy your weekend!

I’ve got a new kit that I’m very excited about.  It’s sure to be a Big Time under the Big Top!  Three Ring Circus is available now, and it’s 20% off this week!  Plus, snag a FREE coordinating quick page with kit purchase!!

Does the smell of popcorn, cotton candy and circus peanuts bring back sweet memories? Or maybe your everyday feels a lot like a family circus!

If so, you’ll love this kit – filled with the sights and bright colors of a three ring circus.  It has lots of goodies to play with.  Perfect for the circus, zoo or kids layouts, and so much more!

I love the layouts that my creative team has come up with:

Head on over to Oscraps to catch the Big Show!

AND my new kit is perfect for those baby boy layouts!  Bundle of Joy captures the whimsy and exuberance of having a baby boy – capture the love, but also capture the fun!

Grab it now, while it’s on sale at Oscraps!

For some inspiration, here are a few layouts from my CT team:

by Shannon:

by Jessica:

by Terese:

by Amy:

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