Ztampfilicious

Liquid Kit, Liquid AlphaSet and Liquid Mini 8×8 Album Set have arrived at Studio Ztampf! – SBG. Liquid created quite a splash when it was first released back in 2006. Now the Liquid Series has been made available at Studio Ztampf! – at a Special Discounted Pricing! The unique water overlays add an instant dripping wet look to any projects from pool pictures to baby bath time to playing in the rain events and more. The rest of the kit’s content provides versatile basic and neutral papers and elements which will come in handy.

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Have fun ‘wetting‘ your pages :)

… has been made available at Studio Ztampf! in SBG now. I have recently received requests to re-release it at Studio Ztampf! So here it is – Floral Dance Kit along with the Floral Dance Album Set! Now you can get them as a Bundle Saving too.

Finally… Ztampf! Limited Professional Use License is now available from Scrapbookgraphics. Just like it was at Ztampf!Shop, there are many options for you to choose from to fit your needs the best – from single kit license to the great value of Membership Licenses (M01 and M02).

For those new to Ztampf! Limited Professional Use License, it is provided for small home-businesses, scrappers-for-hire, independent photographers, independent graphic designers and such who wish to use Ztampf! products to create projects (i.e. custom scrapbook pages/albums, announcement cards, etc.) for their clients. This is NOT for items reproduced in mass quantity for mass distribution NOR for re-selling my products. Contact me for Commercial Licensing opportunities.

You can read the Terms of Use and Requirements for Limited Professional License here. Please read it carefully before purchasing.

Hope you will find these Licenses useful for your endeavors!

Have an especially lovely one! Enjoy 20% Off Discount @ StudioZtampf! from now thru Wed, May 12th with this coupon code: happymommaz. Have fun with it!

Share your ztampfilicious mother-related layouts with us at Ztampf! on Facebook to win a $15 StudioZtampf! Coupon! The layout could be about anything related to motherhood: about your mother, about being a mother, thoughts about motherhood, a mother’s wishes, anything at all that has anything to do with mother as long as they are created mostly with Ztampf! products. Post them here to the Fans Photos Section before Sat, May 15th 2010. Good luck!

Some layouts I did about my own mother:

I look forward to see yours :)

Blowin’ Baubbles has just arrived at Studio Ztampf! in SBG:

I’ve made a layout with it! The AlphaSet used in the layout comes from the GelloGlass AlphaSet, which has also just been made available at Studio Ztampf!!

Now the layout:

There are two things to point out in the layout:
1. How to make the bubbles look more realistic on the photo itself
2. How to make the bubble spray appear so seamlessly floating out from the photo

Now, the keyword to question No.1 is ‘blending mode’. I use Photoshop, but I am sure that many other software have similar feature. For the bubbles that I placed on the photo, I just set the blending mode of the bubble spray layer to ‘Pin Light’: voila! The bubbles now look like an original part of the photo!

Next, but then the part of the bubbles spray outside the photo now looks funny! There is a very easy trick to fix this:
– Copy the bubbles spray layer
– Change the blending mode to ‘Normal’
– Crop the part that is overlaid on the photo (use your Lasso Tool)
Now the bubbles spray pop up even more!
Easy peasy :)

Actually, I have another version of this layout done with a different background paper! Which one you like best? The peach one above or the aqua one below?

For complete credit list of other products used in the layouts above, just click on each of the layouts above.

Well, I hope you will find this little trick useful!

The Resilience Kit and Springlets Kit are now available in Studio Ztampf! @ SBG! Each comes with a Bonus Set of QuickPages to jumpstart your scrapping in no time. Check them out:

Oh and I have added a new BeLaced Ensembles too:

Here are a couple of layouts done with the BeLaced Ensembles – the background papers are from BeLaced Kit.

Enjoy :)

Yes, I am back in Hong Kong now – finally! :) It’s been a very long trip and I am happy to be back home!
But before starting designing some brand new kits, I would like to tell you about “The Classics”. What are they?

The Classics are kits that I made in the first several months of my first year designing digital scrapbooking products: between September 2005 – February 2006. Prior to discovering digital scrapbooking, I have been doing paper scrapbooking for several months – which probably show in the kind and style of elements included in my first few digi-kits back then. But even then, I have already tried to create something truly original and unique – something unexpected and yet work very well. There are quite a few gems in these kits that many customers still love and use to this very day which I won’t change a thing about them even if I were to create them now. However, to be completely honest, there were a few things that I would like to improve. Almost five years have passed since I made them after all. My techniques and tools have improved, and I have a better, bigger desktop screen since then; so every tiny detail is even more visible to me now. As someone who is obsessed with details, I can’t ignore them although most people probably would never even aware of to begin with. And when they do, these minuscule details are visible only at 75%-100% view on the computer screen while the printed out files are at approx. 33% of the file size you see on the screen. So most probably they are not noticeable. However, they still matter to me. Hence I decided to do something about them before re-releasing them at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG!

I start with the Batique Kit and BeLaced Kit since there have been a few requests for them. Plus, the time is just right: Batique Kit and BeLaced Kit are just wonderful for spring, weddings, Mother’s Day (for those of you in the US) and well, many other themes/projects as well!

I made some minor improvements on a few elements in the Batique Kit. I also added a few new elements to both Batique and BeLaced Kits, and… both kits are now come with a Bonus of 3 matching QuickPages (12″x12″). Plus, they are now at 25% Off Discount!

If you have previously purchased these kits, you are eligible for a Free Upgrade to download these revamped and improved version! Just email me your Order ID(s) and I’ll email you a coupon code(s) to download them at Studio Ztampf!

So here they are:

With the arrival of ROBOKIT @ Scrapbookgraphics, it is only fitting to base my blog post around it.   Hello, I am Tracy one of Fhungs Z!Girls.

ROBOKIT is the perfect kit for those boys in your lives, I should know I have four of them!   I played with the kit when Fhung first released it at Ztampf and created these layouts…

but today I found I wanted more,  I wanted to show you the versatility of this kit and that it isn’t all masculine..

so I created this art with a couple of pictures of my daughter.

Then I got to thinking,  one of my favourite things about Ztampf products is how perfect the papers are for blending photos onto them.   I love to be able to utilise those not so fantastic photos and the best way I have found to do this is through blending.   Here is how I created the above art using the Hard Light Blending mode which was perfect for this picture.

In Photoshop CS4,  After opening a new 12 x 12 document,   I selected my paper, then dragged my photo onto it.

With My Photo Layer highlighted in the layers palette, I then went into Image – Adjustments  and clicked on Black & White.  ( I find it easier to blend when my photo is Black and White).  A pop up will appear Click OK.

Go to your Layers Palette and highlight the photo layer,  I selected Hard Light as I am blending into a dark background.

Using a large soft eraser – erase the areas not required from the photo

then continue and finish your art.  Once you have erased the unnecessary bits,  Try duplicating the photo layer and using different blending modes on each layer, try using dark and light background or even blending in a couple of photos,   you can get some amazing effects and have lots of fun.

Have A Great Day!

((HUGS)) Tracy

For those who have been waiting patiently for the release of RoboKit Series at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG, here it comes! The new RoboKit AlphaSet is freshly made for this release – I hope you’ll enjoy it too!

And here is a Free Gift for you – a cool 12″x12″ QuickPage created with the RoboKit Series. Click the sample layout made with the QuickPage below to download the PNG QuickPage and enjoy!

Just a quick post to let you all know that Structure Kit and Structure Add-On Pack are now available at Studio Ztampf! @ SBG:

Enjoy :)

Hello readers!  Z!Girl Lynn here with my first ever blog post anywhere!  I’d like to share some exciting news with you.  One of my layouts featuring the Ztampf! Adventouriste Collection was chosen as layout of the week at Scrapbookgraphics.  My layout Paternal Heritage features just that.  I’ve highlighted my grandfather with the unique magnifying glass element found in Adventouriste Trinkets.

Here is my page:

This collection has provided me so much inspiration for my scrapping.  I hope that you find inspiration also!  Until next time, happy scrapping!

Here are some layouts that I did using the new Adventouriste Collection:

The Old Lady of Paris

in Paris with friends

We'll Get There

Ireland

Enjoy :)