No matter how hard I strive for sophistication in design, my projects take a right turn towards the wild side as did my first journal kit, aptly named Zany.
I had fun creating Zany papers, buttons, brushes, and elements.
My favorite brush is the Lip-Smack Brush, and my favorite element is the pool ball button.
Here’s a preview of my kit, which includes 16 Papers, 20 Elements, and 2 Brushes.

Creating brushes in Adobe Photoshop is a cinch!
- Slick your lips with a bright lipstick and kiss a piece of paper.
- Scan the Lip-smack into your computer as a jpeg.
- Create a black and white copy of the lip-smack. (Optional: I cleaned up the image and removed the white background from the scan so that I had a transparent background for a .png file.)
- Select the Elliptical or Rectangular Marquee Tool and drag to create a selection around the Lip-smack.
- With the Lip-smack selected, go to Edit>Define Brush Preset>Name your brush>Click OK.
- Look for a visual image of the Lip-smack brush at the bottom of your brushes palette. Deselect your Lip-smack image.
- Now the brush is in your brushes palette whenever you want to seal something with a kiss!
Before you close your image, save the lip-smack as a .png file so you have a brush and a handy image of the lip-smack, ready to put a personal stamp on your projects.
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