Studio Starts #47

I participated in my first SBG's Studio Starts challenge last night (#47). This one asked us to scraplift from Jen Caputo and this is my resulting layout:

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I want to focus your attention (all two of you who are reading ;0) ) on the cool photo frame around the large photo. That is by Jenn and is in one of her two sets of photo templates. This is the link to the set I grabbed the one in the layout from. I really love the torn and stitched frames, but haven't used them yet in a layout I've posted anywhere. Really unique frames...check them out. They are REALLY easy to use. They even open up in Photoshop with all the layers selected so you just go right to copy the layers into the document you are working in...key strokes saved!

A wild title

Last night I took a couple of the photos from our recent Disney trip and made this layout for the color challenge at SOTB:

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I would like to share with you how I did the "disney's animal kingdom" title. I use Photoshop CS, so keep that in mind.

First, I typed the title in and put the text in the yellow color that is in the patterned paper that is on the top right of the layout. Then, I took the patterned paper that is on the bottom left of the layout and put a copy of it on a layer above the type layer and hit CTRL+ALT+G to make it a clipping mask for the type layer. That turned my text into patterned text. However, it was very dark and I wanted something lighter and, if possible, that looked like a different pattern than the paper I was using to create the pattern. So, I took my paper layer and scaled it to 200%, making the pattern look different because the spots were now bigger. Then, I changed blending on the paper layer to "luminosity". That made the yellow color of the text come back, with the pattern over it.

Father's Day

We just got back from a week long vacation in Disney World. I had a lot of great photos and I picked out these of Steve and Lizzie:

Credits:
Papers by Dana Frantz from This Amazing Life (blended two papers for the background and cut the flourish from one of the two papers also)
Frame by Nancy Comelab from her Vintage Frames 1 set
Date tag by Holly McCaig from her Old Tag Dates
Stitches by Shannon Lee from her Stitches, Sequins and Scraps-Border Collection
Moments tag and bow from Miss Mint's Honeydew Lemon
Flourish cut using a template by Jill D~Zines
Fonts are Gweet (title) and Janie (2007), both Hallmark fonts I have from CardStudio

Lizzie Style

Lizzie and I put together a funky outfit for her to wear the last day of school this year. And, Lizzie really played to the camera while we were waiting for the bus that day. The result:

Used in this layout:
Paper in top left corner is from Eva Kipler's Persian Peacock Papers at Digital Freebies. I blended this with a paper from Maya's Art Attack at Scrapbookgraphics. Both of these, plus the stitching made by Eva were part of some great gifts that each of these ladies gave when Melissa G. featured them in her Friday interview series on her Digi Pick of the Day blog.

Journal label stamp from Miss Mint's Casual Friday Elements Pack at Peppermint Creative. Font in that journaling is Palatino.

Flower sequin shape from Shannon Lee's Sequins, Stitches, and Scraps-Shapes Collection at My Digital Muse (picked this up in one of Shannon's grab bags one week).

Frame from Doris Castle's Sunshine Bright which was part of Week Four's Queen of the Crop grab bag at Scrapbook Graphics. I also used one of her papers in to make the "Lizzie Style" word art, along with two Atomic Cupcake actions (plastic and sparkle). The font in that is LD Pookie from Lettering Delights. I picked that font up during one of their dollar days promos.

It was fun to dig into some of the great freebie and grab bag items I had accumulated to do this layout!

June Challenges

I've already done several of the June Challenges at SOTB, so I decided to just put them in a slideshow to show them here. You can check out my gallery for details: