I boosted the colors of the photo somewhat in Photoshop to make them pop. The blue and green are clearly taken from the peacock's colors.
13/05/2011
LOAD Day 13
Today's prompt: take your color cues from your photo. Do the matchy-matchy thing if you like.
I boosted the colors of the photo somewhat in Photoshop to make them pop. The blue and green are clearly taken from the peacock's colors.
I boosted the colors of the photo somewhat in Photoshop to make them pop. The blue and green are clearly taken from the peacock's colors.
12/05/2011
LOAD Day 12
Today's challenge: pick a color you DON’T normally use on a layout and combine it with one of your favorites.
I rarely use orange and/or yellow, but I do seem to have a preference for (off-) white cardstock these days...
I rarely use orange and/or yellow, but I do seem to have a preference for (off-) white cardstock these days...
LOAD Day 11
Today's challenge was to use black & white, either in your papers, photos or both.
Since I wanted to still have a bit of colour, I used a colour photo instead of converting it to black & white as well.
This is my LO:
Since I wanted to still have a bit of colour, I used a colour photo instead of converting it to black & white as well.
This is my LO:
10/05/2011
LOAD Day 10
Today's assignment was to find a color combination from nature and use it for your layout.
I had taken these awesome butterfly pictures at Beekse Bergen last year, and I chose my colours from the picture. The end result is a lot more colourful than usual!
I had taken these awesome butterfly pictures at Beekse Bergen last year, and I chose my colours from the picture. The end result is a lot more colourful than usual!
09/05/2011
LOAD Day 9
Today's challenge was to use a color from the Paper Source colour palette that spoke to you but that you rarely use while scrapbooking.
I chose 'beet'.
Since I had already picked out the yellow and black polka dot papers to use with my lady bug picture (to play up the lady bug's dots), I was lucky that purple just happens to be the complementary colour to yellow :-).
Here's my page:
08/05/2011
LOAD Day 8
Today's challenge was to enhance your page topic/theme by careful selection of colours (e.g. by grounding a layout in place/time by using specific colours).
I decided to use a scanned copy of a photo taken shortly after I was born, paired with a copy of my birth announcement. I based the use of avocado-green on the dark colour in the birth announcement, and the green patterned paper I selected happened to have a purple flower pattern on the back. For a 3rd pattern, I selected a striped pattern (for easy journaling) that had both green and purple in it.
Can you tell, based on the colours alone, which decade I was born?? (don't peek at the journaling! :-) )
I decided to use a scanned copy of a photo taken shortly after I was born, paired with a copy of my birth announcement. I based the use of avocado-green on the dark colour in the birth announcement, and the green patterned paper I selected happened to have a purple flower pattern on the back. For a 3rd pattern, I selected a striped pattern (for easy journaling) that had both green and purple in it.
Can you tell, based on the colours alone, which decade I was born?? (don't peek at the journaling! :-) )
07/05/2011
LOAD Day 7
Today's challenge was to scraplift an existing LO.
Here's my page:
Left: original by Christa Paustenbaugh, published in Creating Keepsakes Magazine issue 10/2010.
Right: my interpretation.
Here's my page:
Left: original by Christa Paustenbaugh, published in Creating Keepsakes Magazine issue 10/2010.
Right: my interpretation.
06/05/2011
LOAD Day 6
Today's assignment was to pay attention to allignment (i.e. common margins).
Here's my LO:
Here's my LO:
The margin to the left and right of the photos was supposed to be the same, but apparently I mismeasured... Oh well...
The title is a play on words.
05/05/2011
04/05/2011
LOAD Day 4
Today's theme was White Space (for those of you unfamiliar with design, it doesn't have to be white in colour, but rather empty and uncluttered, giving the rest of your layout room to breathe, so to speak).
This is my LO for today:
I struggled a bit with this one, it kept feeling incomplete. I finally added a distressed edge to the photo in Photoshop and reprinted it, and added the stamped photo corner to create a visual triangle.
This is my LO for today:
I struggled a bit with this one, it kept feeling incomplete. I finally added a distressed edge to the photo in Photoshop and reprinted it, and added the stamped photo corner to create a visual triangle.
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