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So! In response to some interests expressed by some people here in Hong Kong to learn digital scrapbooking, I decided to hold some digi workshops! How exciting! I have several workshops planned, ranging from the basic to advanced hybrid projects.  Let’s start with the basic first:

Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
A small workshop for beginners to get you started with digital scrapbooking.
Maximum 3 participants per session.

What it covers:
1.  The Principals of Digital Scrapbooking
2.  The Basic How To
3.  Creating Your First Page Using QuickPages

What you will get:
1.  US$20 (approx. HK$155) worth of products of your choice from Ztampf! Shop + a 25% OFF Discount Coupon for your next purchase at Ztampf!
2.  Print out of your pages on an A3 Canon Photo Pro Paper and on an A4 Canon Fine Art “Photo Rag” Paper. FYI: one A3 size paper will fit one 12″x12″ layout or a few of smaller sized layouts/cards, while one A4 size paper will fit one 8″x8″ layout or a few card sized layouts.
3.  The necessary knowledge to start doing digi, plus some tips and tricks!
4.  Three hours of fun :)

Fee:
HK$450 per person per session, to be transferred to my bank account* by three days prior to the workshop date at the latest. Upon receiving the payment, I will email you a US$20 Gift Certificate to use at Ztampf! Shop. Download the products you want to use for the workshop and bring them with you to the workshop (either in your laptop hard drive or on a CD-Rom).

Bring along with you:
1.  Your laptop (make sure the battery is fully charged, and bring along the DC power with you)
2.  You have to have an image editing program installed in your laptop, i.e. Photoshop Elements, Corel Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Picture It or anything similar
3.  Photographs that you want to scrap with, along with the Ztampf! products you got
4.  A Folder or a Paper Tube to keep your print outs later

Snacks and drinks will be provided. You are more than welcome to bring your own to share too :)

Time:
Monday, February 23rd 2009
Morning Session, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

and

Tuesday, February 24th 2009
Afternoon Session, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Where:
Greenish Court*, Greenvale Village, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

If you are not familiar with DBay,  I can also meet you down at the DBay Ferry Pier around 30-45 minutes prior to the workshop time.

*Complete address along with banking information will be disclosed upon registration.

To Register:
Email me with the following information (you can copy and paste this to your email):

Name:
Mobile No.:
Session Preferred:
Operating System you are familiar with:
Image Editing Program you have/use:
In the scale of 1 to 10, how familiar are you with your Image Editing Program?
Have you worked with Layers in your Image Editing Program before?

That’s it! Hope to hear back from you soon :).
Thanks!

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So… I’ve got quite a few new stuff up now… as usual, better wait until you’ve got the newsletter before shopping ;). Here are the previews:

This luscious Burnin’Love Kit is perfect to scrap your Valentine’s Day photos!

The Heavenly Series is appropriate to scrap about loss and grief, but it is so versatile you can use it to scrap babies and children photos, love and spring themes, magical moments and more:

Heavenly Package Saving is also available: automatically save $6.00 and get a cool Bonus Pack:

Enjoy :)

Natural, Realistic Looking Use of Digital PaperClips

Ever wonder how to apply the paperclips so they look realistic? Especially pretty tough when using on say, a short piece of tag, or a ribbon – anywhere when the lower bit would show. And how about on a sheer ribbon or a piece of vellum paper?

Well, Ztampf! makes it easy for you. In most cases, I would provide the paper clips in 2 versions:
• Full Version, showing the entire clip.
• Clipped Version, showing how it would appear when ‘clipped’ to a paper/tag/picture with the ‘back’ section partially erased.

Now, to use a paper clip in the most common way, you would just drop the Clipped Version where you want it, align it well with the edge of the paper and you’re done! It even has the natural looking shadow where it should have! Convenient!

For other type of usage as described at the top, you would need to use both versions:
– Place both version on your file, each on its own layer.
– Align them well, so they would look like there is just 1 paper clip. Use the top as the base to align them precisely.
– Next, adjust the layers order: place the Full Version layer to be BEHIND/underneath the layer of paper/tag/picture to be clipped.
– Now, while making sure that they are still linked together, drag them to where you want the paper clip to be.
– Voila! See the result for yourself!

On the left is the common way of using just the ‘Clipped Version’. On the right made use of both versions to create a complete paper clip being clipped through a short material, with the bottom part of the paper clip peeks out.

The samples above were taken from these layouts below. Click the thumbnails to see them larger:

I’ve decided to move the Tips’n Tricks Section on Ztampf.com here over the next few days.
Below is a tutorial I did upon customer requests to use with my The Ultimate Torn Pack, can also be used for similar products.

THE ULTIMATE TORN PACK – TUTORIAL
For using the Cropping Templates with Torn Overlays
based on Photoshop CS

• Choose the paper you want to ‘tear’, open it in your graphic software.
• Choose the style of ‘tear’ you want, noting the name i.e. Circle.
• Open the CroppingTemplates folder and find the cropping template for Circle.
• Open it and copy the layer on top of the paper layer.

• Open the the Circle torn overlay file and copy it on top of the cropping template layer.

• Link or group the Cropping Template layer with the torn overlay layer, they should be automatically aligned when you copy them. Otherwise make sure they are perfectly aligned before you link/group them together.

• Position them where you want the ‘tear’ to be done.

• Use your Select Tool with Color Range or Magic Wand Tool (set the tolerance level to Zero) to select the area, a marquee should appear.

• Now hide the Cropping Template layer and Un-hide the paper layer.

• If your paper layer is a background layer, turn it into a layer (Layer 0 in PSCS).

• Hide all layers except the Cropping Template layer.

• Select the paper layer, then cut/crop (Command X or Control X). Another way to do this is using the Create Clipping Mask under the Layer Menu (Opt+Cmd+G in Mac). This way your paper is not actually being cropped/cut.

• Un-hide the torn overlay layer.
• Remove the remaining unwanted portion of the paper using cropping tool.
• Delete the Cropping Template layer.
• Merge the torn overlay layer with the paper.
• If you want to add drop shadow to the paper, do this before merging it with the torn overlay layer.

• See the samples given to see how they look like.

• Compare the ZtampfTornThings_FloralDelight07.png with the ZtampfTornThings_FloralDelight08.png. The first one used the Framed Circle, while the latter one used the Circle.

• You can combine the tear overlays on 1 paper as shown in the ZtampfTornThings_ChatreuseBloom.png in The Ultimate Torn Pack.

Hope you will find this useful!

Need help making special Valentine’s Cards for those special people in your life?

There are 3 sets of Mini AlbuMail included. What is Mini AlbuMail? It is a unique mini album (and a card too!) designed to be easily folded for mailing which can then be hung on the wall for display by the recipient! Each Mini AlbuMail fits 3 photos with your own title/notes plus a short letter/message on the other side. It’s as easy to use as QuickPages. The unfolded size is half A4 (vertically divided). Can be printed on A4 size or US Legal size papers. Easily re-sized down to fit the size of your paper. Full Instructions is included with the pack.

See more detailed preview of each set below:

And there’s more… You’d love this set ;)
Yup,  plant some passionate kisses on your projects with this “Been Kissed” ARTiStrokes Set! Just perfect for Valentine’s Day, Engagements and Weddings themed projects! There are a total of 24 kisses in this set: 6 Kiss Overlays – each provided in 4 luscious colors of Deep Red, Deep Peach, Bold Pink and Bold Red. Get yours now!

Enjoy!

I created this set a while ago but haven’t made the preview and then forgot all about it, can you believe it!!!

Anyway… here it is… hope you like it!

Frame your photos and pages with this set of delightfully detailed hand-drawn corner stamps. 36 individual PNG files, ready to use stamps: 12 different corners in 3 finish each (Flat Black, Golden Embossed and Full Color). Shown in the preview are the full color version – sizes are not to scaled with each other.

Easily re-size to fit your needs. Can be recolored or converted into brushes using your digital imaging program. Created at 300 dpi resolution for optimum print out result. Email me for any questions or comments you might have. I would love to hear from you!

Need help to create unique Valentine’s Cards for your loved ones? Enters Amore TentFold Cards Set:

This Amore TentFold Cards Kit contains 3 sets of tent-fold cards, the finished card is 5″x7″ folded. Each set has Outer Side and Inner Side parts that you can use together or separately or mix and match as you like. Personalize with your own photos and message. Use them as TwoFold cards, Doubled-Sided Cards, Postcards, Mini Albums, etc. Instruction is provided with the kit.

The variety offered in this set makes it perfect for Valentine’s Day, Weddings, Anniversaries, Birthdays, Mother’s Day, Thank You notes… and more.

The structure of the finished cards look like the ones shown  here.
If you have any questions, just e-mail me!

One of my early layouts got published in Somerset Memories Magazine – Dec/Jan 2009 Issue, page 55. Cool eh!

Imagine… how many women now have looked at his face! Well, at least the top half of it! Hahaha!

So what’s new, you ask? Here they are!

Spring Festival Kit:

See the papers a bit better here:

Spring Festival Album Set is available too:

Don’t forget the Spring Festival QuickCards Set and Hong Bao Envelope Templates Set:

And rejoice to romance and the romantic:

Of course… La Durelle Package Saving is also available! But better yet… read Ztampfever #41 just released today for the benefits ;). Yes, I said benefitS ;).

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For this coming Chinese New Year, why not creating your very own Hong Bao to give to your kids and family members? They are easy and fun to make with this new set:

This HongBao One Envelopes Set contains 6 ‘Hong Bao’ (‘Red Pockets’ for Chinese New Year) to help you create beautifully unique ‘Hong Bao’ this coming Chinese New Year! The finished size of each pocket is 3.5″ wide x 6.5″ tall. PNG format created at 300dpi, just insert your photos/add your own greetings, then print, trim and glue together (or use double-sided sticky tape or tape gun) – quick and easy with gorgeous results that sure to impress everyone who receive them! Simple Instruction is provided with the kit. Warning: the actual set shows so much more ztampfilicious details than the preview image shown above!

The Chinese Greetings on the pockets read:
– “Gong Xi Fa Cai” means: “Congratulations and be prosperous” – the most common greetings used for Chinese New Year
– “Xinnian Kuaile” means: “Happy New Year”
– “Niannian Youyu” means: “Wishing you bountiful surpluses year after year” (it’s a word play involving the word “yu”: fish which sounds like “you”: bountiful – hence the symbolic use of fish)

Hope you’ll find them useful :). Let me know if you have any questions.

Chinese New Year is just around the corner! Here’s a kit to help you create your very own Chinese New Year Greeting Cards. It’s versatile because versions without the Chinese Greeting are also provided so you can use these cards for various other occasions from Weddings to Birthdays to Anniversary to Babies and more! These cards were created using mostly the brand new upcoming Spring Festival Kit! So watch out for it ;).

And don’t forget… The Calendar SALE is ON!

ENJOY :).