So I've mentioned QPTs before - Quickpage Templates, or layered Quickpages. Are those terms confusing? A few designers have started making them, and everyone calls them something different. Personally I like QPT, because you can use it as a quickpage by adding photos and journaling, and print it just like that, or, because everything is on it's own layer, you can use it as a template by hiding, erasing, replacing, resizing, or moving all of the elements of the page. Isn't that cool? I love them.
I just made one for the shop at Digital Designer Shop. Actually it's my second. But I want to give you some ideas on how to use them.
Here is
the template as you'll find it in the shop.
Here I pretty much used it as a QuickPage and added my photos. I moved the top circle element up a little to fit in my journaling. I took the arrow element and flipped it horizontally, and chose not to add a title.
This one I took advantage of the layered elements by using the move tool with the "Bounding box" selected to widen the rectangle photo clipping mask first, and then clipped my photo to it. I needed that space to be landscape (or wider). Then I moved the paper block all the way on the right out a little bit to keep the spacing between the rectangles in proportion. The ability to change the size of the photo masks is the number one thing I love about templates.
This is fun- select all the element layers in your template, including the text layers, and with the move tool selected, shrink your elements and make more white space! White space is good! Really!
Here is the best part about QPTs- you an use it as a template and completely change out the papers and elements! I dded the sheer clock, changed out all the papers except the one with the cameras, and removed the "Beauty is in the eye..." cluster, because it just didn't match. I added flowers to that space. Then I matched the clipped papers, and the circle element on the top to the colors in Kate's outfit. Isn't that an amazing thing about digital? When I paper scrapped I had to paint papers to get the colors to change! What a mess!!! ;)
You can always flip or turn the template! It will affect your text layers and any elements with text, and you will have to work a little bit to get those to work with your new template, but it's still a new, fun, look!
And finally, you can take elements from the template and drag them to a totally new layout! I clicked on the artsy photo mask in the original QPT and drug it over to this layout! You can do that with any and all elements- and even the title if you want to keep the styling effects! So cool!
Man, I impress myself sometimes! ;)
Just kidding.
Maybe. :)
I finished all these layouts in 3 days with one template, one paper kit, flowers and a clock. Easy peasy.
I'm not even worried that some of them look similar, because they are going to end up in different albums. Here I have the layouts going into the Austin album, Brett's album, the Things We Do album, and the Nana and Kate layouts will go into the People We Love album. You and I will be the only ones to know my little secret!
Don't you want to run over and buy some QPTs now?
{Supply List:
Layered QuickPage Template 01 by Senovia
Kate Layout:
Papers from the
Playful kit by Cilenia Curtis
flowers from the
Creative Musing March 04 kit by Cilenia Curtis
clock from the
Sheers 03_Clocks kit by Cilenia Curtis
Fonts: Times New Roman &Pea Frankie
Eleven layout:
Paper from the
Focused on You kit by Cilenia Curtis
Fonts: Pea Sarah Quick, Champagne and Limosines
Gradiant tool in Photoshop CS4}
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