Try Something New May 12-18/08
This week I want to challenge you to make scrapping papers using Brushes and Dingbats. Shelleyrae has just added a spectacular new Photoshop tutorial to the reference section on making overlays. You must give this one a try. She has referenced some FREE brushes from Stephanie Shimerdla at Obsidian Dawn: FREE Photoshop Brushes, Patterns, & Tutorials (PS 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
Zee has written a tut for PSP using clipart. You can, however, use dingbats, and the best place I know of for those is dafont.com (I find it useful to print out the page that shows the alphabet with the corresponding digbats on it. That way I can flip through my notebook and easily select the one I want!) Here are some suggestions:
Nature dingbats: Dingbats > Nature fonts | dafont.com
Animals: Dingbats > Animals fonts | dafont.com
You might even see some other wonderful possibilities here for your scrapping!! I absolutely love playing with brushes and SR’s tut really gives you some great info! Dingbats are another great resource for you with endless possibilities  You could easily convert any dings into brushes to use in Shelleyrae’s tutorial!

Photoshop *PSE**ELEMENT: Creating Overlays
*NEW
*Photoshop**PROGRAM BASIC: Create Your Own Simple Brush
*Program Basic
*PSP** Designing Papers Using ClipArt:
*Element
*PSP** PROGRAM BASIC: Loading, Using and Creating Brushes
*Program Basic

Okay! Lots of fun to be had this week!
1. Select brush set or dingbat/clipart to use.
2. View & practice the tutorial listed above.
3. You can post either your paper or use it in a layout!
4. Post in the TSN gallery here: Forum Challenge: Try Something New - My Layouts
5. Come back here & link us up: I don’t want to miss a single layout or paper this week!
6. I will PM you an 8x8 Quick Page from “A Mother’s Comfort” for all challenges this month!

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I love playing with overlays, but can't get mine to look right. Now maybe thanks to you and Shelleyrae I can. Wheeeee off to play!

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Here is my paper make with overlay from Shelleyrae's new tut. Wish I had more time to work on it.
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Here is my attempt. Attempt - My Layouts

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I think you two gals did an amazing job! This is tricky i know, but it really stretches you, doesn't it?

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OMGosh, I can't believe I just now saw this--where have I been?
I am gonna give this a go tonight and see what i come up with...

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well, here is mine--by the skim of my teeth. I will have to work on this technique some more--but I wanted to get one in for the challenge
Green paper

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