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Organizing in Artisan 6 with Categories

5/4/2024

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I was chatting recently with someone working on organizing her content. If you are just starting this process, using categories gives you a quick way to throw entire kits into an organization system. You can group them by seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter), holidays (New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, etc.), digital artist (Cottage Arts, Mags Graphics, Seatrout Scraps, etc.), themes (birthdays, travel, boyish, girly, etc.), styles (art deco, farmhouse, etc.), and more.

Other uses for categories: 
  • Pick kits you want to use on a particular project so that you don't have to look through all your kits when completing pages. 
    • One time I did this and then deleted the category after the project was done. I regretted that because I really liked how those kits worked together. I would suggest renaming the category rather than deleting it. 
  • Create categories for temporary use. You can look through your content in the content manager and throw kits into a temporary category that would be at the top of the list when you go back to the page you are working on. I use "000 Home."

Below you can see some screen shots I took of my categories. I hope this helps you get started on organizing your content.  More training can be found in the getting started guide (see page 27). Click the blue button to open a handout on this topic from the Getting Started Guide. 

p2P Getting Started Handout on Categories
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Consistently Using Artisan 6 - Brings Success

3/6/2024

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I met Sharon March 2023 at a scrapbooking weekend where I was a vendor for FOREVER. May of 2023 she purchased both Artisan 6 & Historian 6. She also signed up to take my beginner classes for both. She finished both classes and started attending my Digital Cafes. I believe all of these helped her to get going in Artisan.

Her first book was a reprint of a traditional scrapbook she had digitized. Once her pages were in FOREVER, she used the
12x12 Scrapbook Page Project Bundle by pixels2Pages to create a photo book. She added a few pages and ordered two copies for her sons at the beginning of December (just in time for Christmas).

The thing that I believe helped the most is that she has come to my FOREVER Day Crop starting in the Fall of 2023 She committed a few hours every Monday to work on her books. 

In January she attended a weekend retreat and she said to me, it feels like my page needs something. It was then that I knew she was ready for the next class Artisan 6 Tool Time 101.  She watched week 1 and learned all about finishing touches she can put on a page and fell in love with overlays.  We reviewed her project before ordering and I gave her a few tips and reminded her on how to add shadows, glows, etc. to finish her pages.  She was able to order her second book in January 2024. This was a book about fun activities & adventures from 2023. 

In the next month she was able to complete her third book almost completely on her own. This vacation book was ordered just over a month after she returned from the trip. Amazing!!

​She's still learning & having fun, but working on it regularly helps her to start where she left off the last time and there is less re-learning what she figured out the time before. 

Congratulations to Sharon for your great progress with your photo projects. 

Tips to Take Away: 
  • Use software regularly
  • Attend workshops/retreats/day crops
  • Take available classes

I'm here to help you. If you'd like to make more progress than you are, let's connect and see how I can help. 

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Why is calibrating your monitor important?

5/15/2023

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During week 2 of my Artisan 6 Beginner Class we discussed the process of print preview. During class we covered the warning screen that you see after preview and before upload. 
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The third point states: "I understand that if my monitor is not properly calibrated that the colors on the printed material may not match exactly what I see on my monitor."

I have actually had this happen. Back in May 2016 I ordered a hardbound storybook from FOREVER.  I noticed that the blues were way off. 
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Above: What I saw in my screen.  Below: The printed book.
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Below: Side by side: my screen and the book. 
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This is when I understood the importance of monitor calibration. I found out from another FOREVER ambassador what they used to fix this. There is a product by Datacolor called Spyder.  I ordered it and have loved it. I haven't had an issue since. Below is a link to check it out on Amazon and a screen shot showing the product in use during calibration. 
Check it out on Amazon
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Separated Titles

1/25/2023

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While I was creating the above page, I added the title on the bottom left and wanted to add more color to the page. In the process of figuring this out, I came up with the technique separated titles. In the close up images below, you can see on the left the title is just yellow. On the right, I have added a section that is pink and have applied the 3D bevel edge effect.
Click do open pdf handout
Handout includes step by step instructions as well as samples. 

Samples

All fonts can be found on dafont.com.
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Font Manager - Jouranling Fonts

8/29/2022

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Last night during my Virtual Café I was asked what are my favorite fonts for journaling. I have LOTS of fonts. 1000's. So, my list of journaling fonts is quite long. I ended up taking screen shots of the fonts I put in the journaling group in the Font Manager in Artisan. 

But, let's back up a minute.  Did you know that you can organize your fonts in Artisan? First, go to the Content Manager and then in the Manage section of the Content Ribbon, click on "Fonts."
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Next, your font catalog will pop up. It comes pre-loaded with some suggested groups. You can add additional groups and remove any of their suggested groups that you won't use. Then, just select one of the font groups from the drop down list, select the font(s) you want to add to it, and then click add.
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You will see these font groups at the top of your list of fonts whenever you are choosing the font for a text box or text shape.

My Journaling Fonts



There are sites where you can get fonts for FREE and others that you can get bundles of them inexpensively. Here are some sites I have used before.


dafont.com: FREE
fontsquirrel.com: FREE

fontbundles.net: 
For purchase & some FREE
CreativeMarket.com: For purchase & some FREE

​There are many more, of course, but this will give you access to many to play with. 

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Rainbow Puff Paint Titles

8/28/2022

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Color Wash Layers

8/28/2022

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Did you know that you can apply color wash in multiple layers to create a deeper cover of one color? 
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Click to Open PDF of handout
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Applying Overlay to Multiple Layers

5/4/2022

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You can see from the pages below what it looked like before and after I added the overlay to all layers of the page layout. 
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Before overlay has been added to the right side. 
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After overlay applied to right side. 
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Using Artisan 6 to Help you Plan Out Wall Art

3/30/2022

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Do you have a wall you want to create canvases for? Do you have a hard time envisioning how it will all look? Well, me too!  I hope that this video will help give you tips in your planning process. 
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Page Design Tips

3/25/2022

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