What’s New Wednesday – Falling for You
I'm guest designing in the Scrap Outside the Box store, and that means some wonderful deals for you! I'm releasing a new kit every three weeks, with new kits being on sale for only $2.50 until a new kit is released!
Right now I have this gorgeous soft and sweet kit, "Falling for You", made during the be kuler™ challenge, on sale for only $2.50. With colorful papers and soft felt elements, this kit will compliment everything from pictures of your loved ones to those autumn walks in the leaves.
Here are some fantastic layouts from my Creative Team girls and myself, I really love what everyone has done with this kit!
Tuesday Tutorials – Digital Shadowing
So for those of you who are not into digital scrapbooking, this post is going to be a bit dull. Tuesdays are going to be my tutorial days and honestly, I don't have that much I'm good at, except accounting, selling real estate, and digi-scrapping. Oh, and reading. And editing, but I shouldn't add that one because as soon as I do, you'll find a typo in a blog post.
So anyhoo - one of the most important elements on a digi-scrapping page is not an element at all. Its a farce. A fake-out. Its the shadow. Everything needs to have a shadow or your page looks flat. And flat does not look real. So here's an example of a simple layout. Forget, for now, how gorgeous my daughter looks with her new haircut, and how beautifully her hair blends with this orange background. That's not important for the lesson, LOL.
Now, you can tell that things are layered, because they cover each other up, but they still look flat. Let's add some dimension. Some items are "heavier" than others, in real life, and therefore, create bigger shadows. So the shadow from a piece of flat paper is less than the shadow from a piece of chipboard, like my journaling tag. So I'm going to add shadows that are relative to the items. I'm also going to add shadows that make sense related to color. In other words, the chipboard sitting on top of orange paper will have a different shadow than chipboard sitting on top of green paper. The shadow itself will have an orange hue, or some shade of dark orange leaning towards brown, rather than dark green leaning towards black. Depending on your software, this may or may not be very simple to pull off, but check yours out and see if you can edit the color of the shadow. If you can, click in your color box, click on the background behind the item, then choose a darker shade of that same color.
Can you see the difference? Do you see how the chipboard now REALLY looks like its on top of the photo? And that button is really chunky sitting on top of everything else? You really do have to play with your shadows and customize them for your layouts to pop.
I hope this gave you some new ideas and has you hunting around in your software for shadow options. I would love to hear, and SEE, what you do with this new info! Have a terrific Tuesday!
Monday Madness – What the heck are we doing over here?
So I hope you found my new blog! I'm excited about the new look and want to thank Marta from LittleDreamerDesigns for doing such a great job. I'm also turning over a new leaf, so to speak, and am going to try to write in my blog more regularly. I have a hard time with that so we will see how it works out.
Today is Monday Madness. This has absolutely nothing to do with college football, high school football, or any kind of football. Guaranteed. Have I mentioned I have no interest in football? So Monday Madness is going to be a bit of whatever I want to talk about on Mondays. It might be my weekend, which in this particular instance, is STILL HAPPENING - how cool is that? Or I might talk about special events at my scrapbooking stores. You never know what you're going to get at Monday Madness.
So, here's today's Monday Madness!
SumScrapper is having a Labor Day sale and everything in the store is 50% off. If you have been on the fence about buying some kits, today would be the day to grab them!
Our weekend has been fairly normal, except we have this cool extra day off tomorrow. Friday night we hung out, had family night, watched a movie. Saturday, my dad and his wife Nell came into town for another art show in the Heights. Scott helped them set up, came home, then went back when it started raining to help them tear down. They did good at the show, despite the rain, so that's all good. Sunday morning, we had breakfast with them and one of our nephews, the one who bothered to get out of bed for scrambled eggs, bacon and homemade biscuits. The other will remain nameless, but you know who you are T.
Today, we're hanging out and I'm going to get some scrapping done. Oh, and the ever present, ever dreadful laundry must be dealt with. If it doesn't rain, Scott is going to take Isabella swimming at my mom's house, she was very sad she didn't get to go yesterday.
That's it for Monday Madness, but I'll leave you with a question. Do you like change or does change turn you into a quivering ball of goo? I like change, but right now, life is not just changing, its abso-freakin-lutely upside down. And its okay, cuz all is good here in the house. Just need to get my head around everything so I don't spin away. See you tomorrow right here! On the new and improved blog!
Moving day…
Not my house. Not my stores. My blog!!! Is moving over to HERE... go check it out! I've got lots of fun stuff coming up once I get it really up and running. Yay!!!
New blog is at www.cpzdesigns.com/blog
A new blog is kinda scary…
What if no one shows up? What if everyone gets lost along the way? I'm really nervous about my new blog but the new website makes me happy so I'm going to bite the bullet and let it go.
So hi! You found the new blog! Here's the deal. I got a new website with lots of new doodads that I have no idea how to use. But it looks nice and I'm really happy with Marta's work so here we are! I have a plan for the blog that will require me to be a bit more organized, but I'm hopeful its going to happen. I'm not 100% convinced because I'm feeling quite antsy and out of control at the moment. So much going on in my spinning world and I'm afraid I'm just going to fall off.
Mondays are going to be Monday Madness where I talk about my weekend, announce any special surprises and anything new going on in my stores, like sales or forum challenges, etc. So check back tomorrow for the first Monday Madness!
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