Scraplift Saturday – Color Blocking Updated!

I was out all day – first teaching a children’s quilting class, then taking my son to a barbershop concert – so I’m just squeaking this post in!

I was looking for a color-blocking style layout, because I was in the mood to do one, and this one just knocked my socks off!  It’s by Kelleanne at myscrapbookart.com. What a great chance to use all those cool papers you don’t know what to do with! And LOVE those shadows – this really has a great 3D kind of look.  (If you struggle with shadows, get our free Shadows Style Set download here.)

I hope you try something like this, I’d love to see what your take on this style is!  I’ll post a link to mine here when I get it done.

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday – We’re LISTING!!

I’m at a crop today – teaching brand-newbies to digiscrap!!  We had a rockin’ class this morning, and now we’re all hanging out in the digi-corner scrapping away.  There are still 10 paper scrappers here for every one of us digi-girls – but won’t they be jealous when we pop our laptops into our tote bags and wander off – and  they’re still packing and hauling and hauling and packing!

Here’s what I’m working on – a “List” layout!  I thought this was adorable – I like the clusters of stuff peeking out top and bottom, the swirlies, and the list!  Maybe it will inspire you to scrap something different today too!

Click on the picture to go to the gallery to see the image larger, and leave some love while you’re there!

Don’t forget to post your work in our gallery, so we can be amazed at your talent!!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Saturday Scraplift: An Eye on Shapes

This amazing layout by winston at Scrapbook Elements really jumped out at me!  Besides the beautiful colors, and the way the light part of the paper highlights the photo, the unusual shape of the frame really caught my eye!  How creative is that?

I thought this was worth a try to scraplift!  I had a couple of ideas how to achieve the eye shape:

• notice the circle of light blue dots centers the shape
• I thought the top and bottom borders between the flowers could be cut from segments of a much larger circle
• the corners seem to be part of a swirl that had the right curve to complete the point
• the flower clusters do a great job of edging the photo and filling in the triangular corners.

I also like the glittery borders that are almost the same color as the paper.  They stand out without being flashy!  Don’t have glitter elements or a glitter style that’s the right color?  No problem!  Place what you do have on your paper, and press CTRL+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialog box.  Adjust the color with your Hue slider (you may have to adjust saturation if the color is too strong or not strong enough, or the lightness slider too) to make the glitter pieces match your paper.

If you don’t have a paper with a light spot in the middle, you could add a vignette (tutorial HERE) to a lighter paper to darken the edges, or use your dodge tool to lighten the center of a darker one.

I wonder if anyone is up to this kind of challenge today? I’ll be in and out (celebrating a certain 10 year old’s birthday) but I plan to give it a go! Can’t wait to see what YOU do!

Jenn

Scraplift Saturday – working with words

I thought this layout by misserin at SBE would be a great layout to scraplift this week.  I love how the photos are worked in with the elements, and especially how the words are blended into the background.  This is similar to the technique we used to make word art paper in this tutorial.

Did you get a chance to try last week’s scraplift?  I did – here’s my layout:

If you did a layout for the challenge, post a link in the comments so we all can see!  If not, why not give this one a try!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday: join us as we learn from the best!

We’re starting a new weekly feature here – Scraplift Saturday!  One of the best ways to learn any art is to emulate those whose work you admire.  Each week we’ll post a layout that includes techniques or design principles we like, and invite you to scraplift with us!  All we ask is that you visit the original layout’s gallery post and leave a nice comment for our scraplift honoree – then post your scraplift in our gallery so we can all see your take on it! (edit- you need to register and log in before you can comment!)

This week, we honor the work of Brandy Murry at Scrapgirls! Click here or on the image to go to her gallery post and look at the layout more closely.

I liked the way she worked the words in with the elements, how she used three different photos, the layering of the photos and the blending of the large photo into the background!

(edit) Here’s a set of layered scallop edge templates I made for my layout, maybe they’ll be helpful for you! Click HERE to download!

Some of our recent Tutorial Crop tuts that would help with this are WEAVING and BLENDING.

If you’re on Yahoo IM and want to scrap along with us, I’m bigscrapkitty.  Add me and send me a message and I’ll invite you to our conference where we chat as we scrap!

Happy Scrapping!

Jenn