Saturday Special 6/26 – Make Your Own Title
Hi everyone!! I’m here to bring you another Saturday Special challenge! Have you ever bought a kit that you just adored, but it didn’t come with an alpha? Or maybe the alpha, didn’t quite match the "feel" of your page? Today I’m going to show you how to make your own perfectly matched title using your text tool and a paper from the kit you are using!
First, select your text tool.
Choose a chunky font that will show the design of your paper well. Type your title in the font size you’d like and position it where you’d like on your page.
Now choose the paper you’d like to use. Drag and drop it onto your page so that it is directly above your typed title in the layers palette.
Place your cursor over the line between your text layer and paper layer and hold down the Alt key. Your cursor should change to a linked rings symbol. When you see this change, left-click on your mouse. Your paper should now be "clipped" to your text.
Now click on your paper layer and move it around until you like how it looks with the text. Once you have it where you’d like it, click on your text layer. Shadow your text layer, however you’d normally shadow an alpha!
Voila! You now have a title that perfectly matches your page!
Your challenge is to create a layout with a title you made using this technique.
Here is my finished page:
and some inspiration from the CT:
from cursivesmile 
from TanyaH666 
from azrood 
from Abhall76 
from kendallt 
Aren’t they awesome? Since it’s the end of the month, you have until the end of July to submit your page. Upload it to the Saturday Special Gallery and put a link back here in this thread. You will receive 1 point for completing the layout. If you use a new ScrapMatters product (released within the past 7 days) you will earn an extra point, just make sure you tell me in your post that you used a new product. And if your layout is chosen as winner of the challenge, you will win an additional point!
I can’t wait to see all your pages!!
For all you SBC+ Users, Quilty Mom made up a little tutorial for you!
How to do this technique in Storybook Creator Plus 3.0
1. On your layout, open a new text box. Type in your title, using the font of your choice.
2. Once you have the title the way you like it, flatten the text box.
3. Select the title. Go to your content tab and select the paper of your choice. Right click on it and choose <Fill selected shape.
4. Remember that SBC+ will fill the element starting at the top left hand corner of the paper. If your paper has a design and you wish for it to be smaller, enlarge your text before filling, then resize to the original shape.
June 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am
thank you, but I had a question. Not exactly sure what you meant by this step: “Place your cursor over the line between your text layer and paper layer ” – is that on the layers side or the main screen
June 26th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Hi Sherry! That would be the line between the two layers over in the layers palette.
Fiona