Thursday, June 22, 2006
Learning to Design!
Had to wait till finances were right, the joys of being unemployed, but I finally signed up for a membership at Digiscrap Designer. The reason? Design tutorials! Tandika has a whole slew of design tutorials, available to members. Been having a blast already, I made some textured handmade papers, and a worn paper overlay. Working with my good friend Ripal on this, it's her turn to choose the next tutorials we play with. And hopefully in the fall they'll have another go round with the mentoring program, and we can get in on that! Timing would be perfect, as we'd have played with all the tutorials all summer.
But I used a paper I created for my first week's entry into Peppermint Creative's new contest, Digital's Next Top Scrapper. Not that I'm planning on winning, but I'll have fun trying, and I love seeing what everyone else comes up with too!
The theme was "Stay Positive", ie scrap what you most like about yourself. Not only do I love photography, I love what it means to my kids. There's nothing they like better than to sit through albums and look at what they looked like as babies etc. They're not complaining about my digi-scrapping either, lol!
We also had a design challenge: to use repetition. With the 3 papers and the alpha, I think all that pink served as repetition and helped give the page the cohesive look they wanted. And then the repeating hearts across the photo strip were the icing on the cake.
Journalling reads:
"Some people say the first child gets all the pictures, the second child way fewer, and the third practically none at all. Not the case when your mother is a ... cameraholic!
I got my first camera when I was 16, from one of my first paycheques. And I've never looked back! I just loved capturing moments; pictures of my friends and family to keep forever! Twenty-five years, and thousands and thousands of pictures later, and I'm still hooked.
To me pictures are all about memories, about preserving the present to share with the future. My children have been blessed by this addiction, this abundance of photographs."
We had to use at least 3 elements from Peppermint Creative. The striped paper, and the pink paper behind the journalling are from Miss Mint's To My Mother kit. It was free in May, but of course I didn't see it till June, so had to buy it. But less my 40% participant discount, not complaining at all! Gotta remember to check their freebie kits every month!
Anyways, I created the background paper, based on Tandika's handmade paper tutorial, picking up several very close colours from the striped paper. I think it goes with my page better than a very similar paper Miss Mint had in her kit. The little hearts are also Miss Mint, her Antique Hearts embellishments.
The alpha is Lil Pinky from Kylie Clark aka scallywag. I'm hoping she's entered in this contest, I always love seeing the unique and beautiful pages she creates.
The stitches are all from Serena Thomas' stitch set over at Digiscrap Designer. I was actually on her CT from February on, but life's gotten too busy at the mo, she's taken a step back and disbanded her team. Making it onto her CT was what forced me out into the big online digi world, before that I had stayed pretty much to my own little board. And I'm loving it out here, so thanks Serena! I hope life slows down a little so she can come back to designing seriously again soon, I'd love to be back on her team.
But I used a paper I created for my first week's entry into Peppermint Creative's new contest, Digital's Next Top Scrapper. Not that I'm planning on winning, but I'll have fun trying, and I love seeing what everyone else comes up with too!
The theme was "Stay Positive", ie scrap what you most like about yourself. Not only do I love photography, I love what it means to my kids. There's nothing they like better than to sit through albums and look at what they looked like as babies etc. They're not complaining about my digi-scrapping either, lol!
We also had a design challenge: to use repetition. With the 3 papers and the alpha, I think all that pink served as repetition and helped give the page the cohesive look they wanted. And then the repeating hearts across the photo strip were the icing on the cake.
Journalling reads:
"Some people say the first child gets all the pictures, the second child way fewer, and the third practically none at all. Not the case when your mother is a ... cameraholic!
I got my first camera when I was 16, from one of my first paycheques. And I've never looked back! I just loved capturing moments; pictures of my friends and family to keep forever! Twenty-five years, and thousands and thousands of pictures later, and I'm still hooked.
To me pictures are all about memories, about preserving the present to share with the future. My children have been blessed by this addiction, this abundance of photographs."
We had to use at least 3 elements from Peppermint Creative. The striped paper, and the pink paper behind the journalling are from Miss Mint's To My Mother kit. It was free in May, but of course I didn't see it till June, so had to buy it. But less my 40% participant discount, not complaining at all! Gotta remember to check their freebie kits every month!
Anyways, I created the background paper, based on Tandika's handmade paper tutorial, picking up several very close colours from the striped paper. I think it goes with my page better than a very similar paper Miss Mint had in her kit. The little hearts are also Miss Mint, her Antique Hearts embellishments.
The alpha is Lil Pinky from Kylie Clark aka scallywag. I'm hoping she's entered in this contest, I always love seeing the unique and beautiful pages she creates.
The stitches are all from Serena Thomas' stitch set over at Digiscrap Designer. I was actually on her CT from February on, but life's gotten too busy at the mo, she's taken a step back and disbanded her team. Making it onto her CT was what forced me out into the big online digi world, before that I had stayed pretty much to my own little board. And I'm loving it out here, so thanks Serena! I hope life slows down a little so she can come back to designing seriously again soon, I'd love to be back on her team.
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