The temps are starting to get cooler, children are back at school and it is time to prepare for Autumn festivities.  While school is fresh on everyone’s brain, we wanted to share this fun and fabulous set created by our design team member, DtsArt.  Imagine the fun the little ones will have seeing this combination of goodies.  What a great idea for a teacher’s gift too.

This great set was created using Cupcake Cutiee’s School Digital Paper Pack.

Graphics used in this set were created by Kelly Medina’s  Back to School Days.

This is a very creative and thoughtful gift idea.  Right now, stores like Target have their school supplies on clearance, so stock up on your school supplies and fabulous digital school-themed items here at MyGrafico and put a smile on someone’s face. :0)

Make a bookplate template, and you can use it again and again.  Books make wonderful gifts for teachers, birthdays, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.  Adding a personalized touch always makes a gift more special.

I created a template using Chic Deco Frames & Stamps by Mujka Design Inc along with Free Digital Stamps Vases and Flowers by Cocoa Studio.

Step 1: I chose one of the elegant frames and opened it in Adobe Photoshop CS.  Next, I resized it to 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches, which will work well with a book cover.

Step 2: I chose one of the flowers in the free flower stamps set and added color to it.  I chose pink and green to color.  Item 1 in this picture shows the colors I chose.  Item 2 is the magic wand tool that I used to select the area to color.  Item 3 is the paint bucket tool, that I used for each color, to fill in the selected area with color.

Step3: I dropped the flower graphic onto the book plate frame. Then resized the graphic and rotated it to fit in the corner. Take a look at the graphic. I had both items open in Photoshop.  Then I dragged the flower onto the frame.  Once it was there, it was a little too big, so I used CTRL-T to size it down and then rotated it to be the angle that I wanted for the corner.  From there, I just moved it to the corner.

Step 4: Since my flower was the right size for the frame, I wanted to duplicate it and use it in the other corner of the frame.  To do this, I went to the layers section, right clicked on the layer I wanted to duplicate, pressed the right-click button on my mouse and chose the “duplicate layer” option.  Again, I dragged the flower to the corner and used CTRL-T to rotate the flower until I had it the way I wanted it.

From there I had my completed template.  I saved it with a file name I’ll recognize next time I need to personalize a book for someone.  If you look at the first graphic above, you can see that I filled the text into the template to dedicate some books to our elementary school to honor a fabulous teacher who is moving out of state at the end of the school year.  She loved them!