Hello there, Stefanie here today with a tutorial on making a title with pizzazz – although honestly this is the same process I use to create siggies for forums that I hang out in.

I start with the alphas, and I am using Digital Scrapbook Ingredient’s kit Just Be Happy for this tutorial, template for the layout is Life Captured: March.

I line up the alphas and add my drop shadows, saving as a png file as I go along so that the transparent background is kept.

Next I add some brushwork as a foundation and a piece of word art which serves as a sub title too.

Lastly I add the dimensional elements, I love stringy bows for that feminine touch and the way it feels like you could reach out and touch it. I almost always add greenery to my flowers and love buttons that have stitching or strings already added. I add my shadows as I work. My title is now done and I add it into the layout.

(For siggies I would then crop it so that the extra white space is removed and resize to 600px and sharpen. Siggies need to be uploaded to a file sharing site like photobucket and then you add the links into your profile as prompted.)

This layout features photos taken at my niece’s 5^th birthday party. It is only one of a variety of pages that I will make about the day so journaling is kept to a minimum, but I really wanted to show off the cake that her granny created – a true work of art.