Thursday, 9 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Telling a story with numbers.
A successful scrapbook page does four things. It: captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. The traditional way to do this is with a balanced combination of text, photos, color and motif. Here’s a way to shake up your approach: rely on numbers to tell a story with power.
Stefanie Semple says, “I am wrestling with my concept of an ideal weight, and this page documents some of my thoughts as I am processing this issue once again.”
“I wanted numbers on the page to be both bold and subtle, hence the black stamped numbers. I divided the two numbers with the subtitle of “my ideal weight” cuing context and adding another pop of color. I center-aligned the journaling underneath the numbers to act as a visual shelf. I love the overlay with its messiness, rather resembling my inner turmoil. The paper with the hot air balloons echoes the feeling that these numbers are out of reach.”
The stamped numbers I used are a freebie from Karla Dudley.
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Challenged
This year began with a bang.
I have started playing along with The Lilypad's month of challenges.
MOC 1 - blind scrap (we had to follow a set of instructions.
MOC 2 - art journaling my least favourite style.
MOC 3 - broken paint title, a technique I have never tried, even when I paper scrapped. Stamping over layers so that they split. It sometimes happened with rub-ons back in those days.
MOC 4 - Double. I was surprised at the number of folk who complained about this one.
MOC 5 - be inspired by a book cover
MOC 6 - Freestyle with a cluster
MOC 7 - use wordart as your title
I do feel that I am settling into my groove and all is going well.
Here's hoping there are not many more artsy one to come.
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Travelling favourite things
Hi there and a Very Happy New Year to you all. We were very blessed to go away for a three week holiday and so I am back, refreshed and ready to scrap these travel pics.
I played along with Kimeric Kreation's Use it all challenge, available as a mini kit freebie at the Digichick.
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