Spend any amount of time in the art journal world and you’ll eventually run into people talking about inchies and twinchies. If you’ve never heard of this before, it can be super confusing! Never fear,…
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How to fix blurry digital collages | What is DPI?
Sometimes when I create a digital collage it looks perfect in the preview, but comes out blurry in the final export. Or sometimes MOST of the collage looks fine, but one image element is badly…
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How to make a patchwork art journal background page in Canva
This is a quick (well, relatively quick) way to create a quilted or patchwork style background for your digital collages. Patchwork backgrounds make for an interesting texture and can be more fun to work with…
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How to make a heritage junk journal on the computer
Heritage journals or heritage scrapbooks are kind of a new thing, though REALLY they’re just a spin-off from traditional scrapbooks. Traditional scrapbooks combine photos and journals/stories, with artistic embellishments added onto the page to make…
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How to make digital junk journal backgrounds using Canva
Making digital junk journal can be easier than you’d think. You don’t need a lot of computer know-how, and you don’t need years of digital art education or experience. All of your previous experience with…
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Where to get free fonts for digital art (and how to upload fonts to Canva)
Normally collages are pretty image-heavy, and don’t have a whole heap of text. But if you’ve started making digital art journal pages (like me), then you’re suddenly including a lot of text in your collages!…
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How to make a digital collage: Finding a subject
Collages are an excellent way to tell a story or show your perspective on something. While it’s fun to just slap images onto a background and see what happens, it can be even more satisfying…
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