An embellishment that is gaining popularity in the the scrapbooking community is wordart. It can be your favorite quote, a title, a defintion or phrase, proper names, journaling or pretty much any tyoe of words you want to add to bring your page to life. Wordart is a step above premade alphas in that you can have several sizes and font types to give the words an artistic feel.

What you want to do first to make your own wordart is open your photo editing sofware, I use Photoshop Elements 6 but this should translate to most software. You want to start with a new 6X6 in transparent page at 300 pixels/per inch for optimal printing quality.

I will be using the phrase “A Dollar Short and a Day Late”, yeah I am too funny right. okay, I am going to chop the sentence up to highlight the words “Dollar Short” and “Day Late. I will typ “A” on the first page, then on a new layer I will type “Dollar Short”. “and a” will be on another new layer and “Day Late will be on yet another. The reason you want to seperate the words is so that you can apply different sizes and fonts to create a dramatic effect to the phrase. Play with your fonts and word placement until you are satisfyed with the overall look. Sometimes I add flowers or other embellishments around the wordart to give it a fancier artistic look. When your completely satisfied with your work make sure that you save as a .png file to maintain the transparency of your document, otherwise you end up with a white or black background.

You will use it as an overlay for a digital scrapbook page or you can print it to cut out an place on your traditional or hybrid scrapbook pages. Well, pretty simple and I hope you have fun making them. Goodnight and kiss your babies.

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