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

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