6 Tips for Making the Digital Layout - Hybrid Layout Process Easier!

Hi friends! Today I have 6 tips for you to make transitioning your Digital Layout to a Hybrid Layout easier! I created a whole video for this featured below, but if you’d like the quick and dirty list, keep scrolling!

6 Tips for Making the Digital Layout - Hybrid Layout Process Easier!

• Merge your mixed media, journaling and/or scatters to your background or photos before printing, this makes it so much easier than using clear sticker paper or hand-placing small scatters later.

• Gut your papers behind your photos to save paper space and ink - no one’s going to know there’s nothing back there but you! Here’s a tutorial on how to do that.

• Create your cut sheets directly from your layout in your photo editing program, but adjust them in your cutting machine program to get them as close as possible - it’s easier to visualize just how close you can get all your papers and bits and bobs in the Silhouette software. Here’s a video tutorial on making your own cut sheets from your layout!

• While in your cutting machine program, cut and print multiple copies of embellishments you want to have a little “faux chipboard” depth, and then glue them together after cutting. I prefer 3 copies for the right thickness.

• Print a quick copy of your layout as a “draft” on regular copy paper to refer back to while scrapping so you don’t have to keep looking at your computer.

• If you have fussy layouts to reassemble, keep the paper pieces as they are on the layout on your cut sheets and use that as a guide for reassembly!

If you’d like to see the chatty process videos for these two layouts featuring the Poolside collection, check them out below!

The Poolside Collection