From Screen 2 Scrap March Inspiration

Stampin Up! Vintage Overlays
Viva Artistry Silver Bells;
Anna Aspnes White Paint 1
12x12 Clipping Masks

This month over at  http://screen2scrap.blogspot.com/ the Movie Poster inspiration is "The Day After Tomorrow".  The bonus criteria is a white title, one photo only, white monochromatic LO with a touch of blue.  The Statue of Liberty's arm reminded me of the photo I took at Christmas of my sister holding the phone up for everyone to yell "Merry Christmas" when my nephew from overseas called.   If you've never tried FS2S Movie Poster Challenge, give this month a try.  I know you'll have fun!

When You Change Up Your Journaling

Souls Scrappers had this interesting sketch challenge-design by Karen Findlay.  When I saw the line of punched shapes I thought of a tree branch which led me to scrap about Scott's terrarium.

At first I journaled the who, what, where:
Scott's new hobby is making terrariums.  He collected materials from our yard and the lake front.  When he was done he showed Jacob. Scott plans to create several more terrariums this spring.  We will have our own Father Nature in residence.

Digi Elements:
Natural History Museum Collab
by Dawn Inskip, MLE Card

Then I paused and thought about why I took those pictures.  I took those pictures because I loved seeing Scott and Jacob spending time together. Scott sharing what he was doing and Jacob paying attention (that's asking a lot of a teenager!)

So I changed the journaling to read:
Scott and Jacob sharing some time together.  Scott showed Jacob his latest passion: Terrariums.  It was wonderful seeing them spend time together. We all look forward to seeing what grows from this project.





Changing the journaling made the LO more meaningful, more personal.  I'm glad I did it.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a Happy Craft Day!

I Made a Drop Shadow!

Digi Credits: Studio Tangie-Ethereal Flowers,
Gesso 2, HearfirstGraffiti;
Studio Flergs-Heartfirst;
Fiddlette Designs-Caliope Catches the Moon;
Charlize Creations-You are Loved; Darcy Baldwin- DigiTara font

My newest LO for the AJC 2012.  I played around with different blending modes .  I even made my own drop shadows for the dancers.  I created a shape using the shape tool and filled it with a medium gray.  Then I used the blur tool to smudge the edges and voila! customized shadowing. 

I also used the pen tool to hand draw the pathway.  I tried to handwrite the journaling, but I will need a lot more practice before I can do that!  In the meantime I keep plugging along in PSE.  The more I learn the more I realize this is one awesome program!  I don't think I'll ever learn it all.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'

Teenagers! ARGH!

Credits: Studio Tangie/Studio Rebecca-

Steampunk Kits Je t'adore & Bandwagon
Other digi elements: Studio Flergs Industr'e,

DJB Fonts Almost Perfect,

Dafonts Capture It, AJF Mock Turtle-Studio Tangie

 and Journal Anthology 7-Studio Tangie

Having a teenager definitely gives me lots of material for scrapbooking as well as art journal pages.  He's been having some trouble in school, just sitting in class and not turning in his work.  When his teachers or I ask him about it he just shrugs his shoulders.  It can be very frustrating, especially knowing how smart he is.  And thus this LO was born.  Say hello to scrap therapy!

I wanted to play with some steampunk kits I bought recently. I love all the rust and grunge, but it needed texture. I used a stencil font and one of the PSE paint spray brushes to spray paint the background. I also used some gesso borders and recolored them. Then a little Disappear It action on the title and I was done. 

Thanks for visiting and Happy Crafting!

Shiny Happy People

Credits: Tangie Baxter Designs,
Lori Davison of Scrapbookgraphics.com

Soul Scrappers is having another song lyic challenge.  I really enjoy those.  This time around it was R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People.  When I watched the video everyone was dancing and the backgrounds had bright colors.  I immediatley thought about this picture I have of my boys doing a happy dance on their way to the shooting range.  We had to use lyrics or the title on our page so I chose "Take It To Town" which is part of the lyrics.  Jacob helped me come up with our own song.  A collaborative effort!  And I'm still playing around with drop shadows.

It was great fun working on this since I normally don't use such bright colors.  If you haven't been over to Souls Scrappers in a while you should check it out.  They have lots of challenges going on that cover all kinds of subjects and projects, not just scrapbooking pages.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

My Brain Adrift

Digi Elements: Studio Tangie-AJF Mock Turtle, Studio Remnant,
Cart Set 3-Brain Stamp
Fidlette Designs-Calliope Catches the Moon
Etc by Danyale-Imaginary Adventure
Creative Memories-Wishes & Dreams

I stated at the beginning of the year that I joined the Art Journal Caravan 2012 as an incentive to learn PSE.  I made myself promise that all LOs would be done in PSE.  Each time I do a LO I try to learn a new skill or experiment with an action or effect.  For this LO I played around with drop shadows and text shapes.  I tried using varying depths of shadows to give the feel of the ocean moving, kind of like the way old puppet shows would do their stage sets. 

Today I received notice that my LO was being featured at

http://tangiebaxter.com/news/latest-news/
for this week's caravan highlights.  I was so surprised and honored.  The funny part is this isn't even the LO I wanted to create when I first started it...LOL.  I am learning so much on this journey, not just about PSE but also about myself, too.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find time to create today!

PSE Actions in well...Action

Credits: Studio Tangie-Creative Felicity,
AJF Contrariwise,
 Steampunk Bandwagon featuring
 Rebecca Mcmeen,
 UpUpAway, Requisites w/Sherrie JD
Studio Manu-To Be Happy

An action is a group of photo effects bundled into one package that when used helps take you through a series of prompts to get the desired effect.  For this LO I saw a really cool action by Wendyzine Scraps called "Disappear It".  The Winged Woman was a detailed graphic that through the action became this 3D image outline with all the details removed so that I could use it for my journaling.

I also used this action on the photos of myself.  I just changed how I responded to some of the prompts and voila I had these great near transparent images.  So even though the action is created for a specific outcome you can manipulate it to a certain extent to get the effect you want.

I then used Tangi Baxter's Paperworn Action to help the images merge with the background paper.  CAUTION!  This action is extremely addictive and once you start it may be difficult to stop.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Thanks for visiting and Happy Crafting!