For y'all that are interested in the digital scrapbooking gig, here are two pages from our trip to Appleberry farms that I did. here and here.
To do the first one, I just filled the background with a ginham pattern, then I made the text, and applied another pattern to it. Then I did the postcard, grouping it as a layers set so after I was done I could move it around as a group. It's mostly polygons, lines and text, but the stamp is an image with a white border around it, that then has a round brush with 150% spacing around it to take away some white and make that scallopped stamp border.
The apple I got from microsoft's design gallery (or maybe from google's image search?) and then I took away all of the background and let photoshop resize it nicely (photoshop is gooood at that!).
The photo is a regular photo, but I added a white border to it by increasing the canvas size. Then I used a rough brush around the edges to make it look a bit more realistic … and that is it.
On the second page, I did the same technique with the photos. The other elements were done by using the rectangle tool. Then on top of each, I used a symbol from the dingbat (font) called “Counter Scraps” and put them on red, and then messed around with the layer opacity until I liked the effect.
The text around the edges is just that … text. I did it in four pieces, since PS7 doesn't let text follow a path. Note: this entry was pre-recorded for your amusment as my cable modem has savagely been taken away by the bastards at Charter