Tutorial for Windows 8 phones: How to make 2- 3x4's on a 4x6

Do you have a Windows 8 phone? I love mine, but feel somewhat disappointed when it comes to finding an app that is helpful for creating collages and printing photos for Project Life. Many of the PL groups on facebook talk about great apps for iPhone and Android (Collect, Picframe, to name a few...)

Fellow Windows 8 users, I have discovered an app that makes my PL process so much easier and today I'm going to share a tutorial on how to create 2- 3x4 photos on a 4x6.

Step 1: download the PicsArt app in the Windows Store

Step 2: open the App and tap the "Collage" button

Step 3: tap the "Grid" option

Step 4: Select "Landscape (4:3)"

Step 5: Select the grid design with only 2 boxes

Step 6: 

Here you will see a few tools. The border width is set by default at 20. I set my border to 3 and after the photos were printed and I cut them in half, there was just a small amount to trim. I want these photos to fit inside the 3x4 photo pockets for my project life page protectors. (Next time I may try border 0, I just wasn't sure if it would cut off some of my photo if I did that). If you want a border around your photos by all means set your border width to whatever you like! This is for your project life! Drag the blue dot to make the border width smaller or larger. By tapping on the gray box the settings will go away. 

Step 7:

Now tap "add" to select the photos you want. It will take you to your gallery, or other places like your facebook albums.

 Step 8:

You're almost done!! Tap the save button! From here, you can edit your collage further by using different effects, or adding text if you want.

That's it folks! Now that you have saved your collage, it is ready to be printed. This will print as a 4x6.  I send my photos to CVS to get printed, so when I got them, this is how they turned out. I just cut them down to size and did have to trim slightly to get rid of the border.

This is a collage that I forgot to change the border from the default width of 20 to 3. I had to trim more and the photo was slightly not as wide since I had to cut more off of it. It really wasn't noticeable once I had them in the page protectors.

If you want to make 2 photos that are in a "landscape" setting you can do exactly what we did above and just rotate the photos so that they are on a 90 degree angle. Or you can choose "portrait (3:4)", select the 2nd collage design, and upload your landscape photos this way.

For those of you that have Windows 8 phones, I hope that you were able to learn how to make life a little simpler when it comes to getting ready to print your photos for your Project Life layouts. This app has been very helpful to me, I hope you will find it useful as well! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave a comment below!

- the crafty love girl

All about Gossamer Blue

My layouts today are from Gossamer Blue's Life Pages May kit.

Since becoming a GB subscriber (my first month was May) I am doing the album challenge! If you are a GB subscriber, there is an opportunity to earn a free album if you create 4 layouts/spreads with the monthly kit & upload those photos to their gallery. So after 5 consecutive months, if you have posted 20 layouts you will be shipped an album free of charge in your 6th month! How cool is that?!

In my previous post I shared LO's using GB for week 18 and 19:

Here are my new LO's using GB:

Week 20 continued...

This month's journal cards and embellishments were bright and colorful, a little out of my comfort zone. I usually like to use more muted colors. I checked out the June kit and I definitely like it much better!

If you want to join GB, you can visit their website here. They have kits for scrapbooking and pocket style scrapbooking that you can purchase through a monthly subscription or you can buy a kit individually in their store.

If you do become a subscriber, you can get a referral gift by clicking on the info tab and then click the contact us link. Or you can click here. All you have to do is send a message with the name of the person who referred you. Feel free to use my name, Lindsey Stewart and we can both get a gift! A person on facebook recommended this kit club to me, so I used her name as a referral and this is what I got! So generous of them!

Here is a look at the June Gossamer Blue Life Pages kit:

I hope you enjoyed my GB LO's! I'd love to see what you have done with your GB kits, share or link below! Have a wonderful Monday!

- the crafty love girl