For those of us here in the Northern hemisphere, spring is in bloom and it’s time to start planting those gardens.  With summer soon upon us, it’s a great time to start stocking up your scrapbooking supplies and thinking about how to grow your layout creations.  Check out this month’s Tid-Bytes issue to help you grow your garden and stretch your style.

Try some new things with your scraping software; this month we’ve got tutorials on creating pressed flower pebbles in Paint Shop Pro, how to create painted flower accents in Photoshop, and create fun borders for photos or elements using Photoshop Elements.

Get to know 2 more exclusive designers of SBB, and find out details of a new font.  We’ve got articles to help you create fabulous layouts by understanding what you can do naturally and learning basic design principles to improve your layouts, gain inspiration from garden inspired layouts, and grow your scrapbooking skills.  Be sure to check out this month’s scrap craft too – creating seed packet envelopes!

Also, to help with the scrapping creative juices, check out all the inspiration with the sketch-bytes, scrap this chain reaction, and bytes of you. 

And as with every issue, be sure to pick up the exclusive kit and all the extra special freebies!!  This month’s beautiful kit is by Kari Hentzelt.