Category Archives: Layouts

School Theme Scrapbook Layout

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Although this site is about much more than scrapbooking, I do talk about it often! If you come to my site for other ideas, I hope you will see the value in the variety of things offered here. My hope is that you find things that inspire you or prompt you to want to try something new. Even if you don’t scrapbook, you can find something about a scrapbook layout that may inspire you in other ways. For instance:

  • You may look at a color scheme in a new way and use it in your next creation.
  • A layout may give you an idea for a smaller version to translate to a card layout.
  • The embellishments may remind you of stamps you could use in a new way.
  • The combination of papers, embellishments, quotes or word art may spark an idea for a mixed media or art journal page.

It’s all about the journey and having FUN! So if you see several posts about one thing or another, I urge to check back, because we’ll be on to something else soon.

Here is a 2-page layout with a back to school theme. You could even use this as a beginning and end of the school year layout, or anything in between. It was created with Studio J, using:

      • Kit: (School/Friends) Class Act
      • Pattern: (4-photo) Backstage
      • Kit Mix: 6

School Theme Layout
Join us for Studio J Live! to see pages done right before your eyes! Here is how this page was created.

Get started on your own digital layouts now!

Until next time!
KS

Four Scrapbook Layouts Using Studio J

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Since I was out of town, but wanted to get a scrapbook page done each day for the Layout A Day challenge, I decided to turn to the Studio J free online software from Close to My Heart. I knew I had plenty of digital photos, and Studio J would be easy to access while I was away!

When I get ready to create a scrapbook page, I often look through my photos and find some that I haven’t done anything with, but I want to make sure the story gets told. This week I created a page of my daughter’s graduation, a firetruck ride my grandson took, and my granddaughter’s t-ball experience last summer, and photos of a crashed car and new car of another daughter.

The most recent event was a graduation.

graduation
This layout uses the digital kit, Notebook and the layout is 6-photo, Through the Lens.

firetruck ride scrapbook layoutThis layout of a firetruck ride uses the digital kit, Later SK8R, and the 6-photo layout, Golden Section.

tball digital scrapbook layout
This next layout is my granddaughter while playing t-ball during the summer. This is from the digital kit Discovery, using the 7-photo layout Sweet Symphony. I guess my time spent with cameras shows in my journaling, as I spelled “cannon” as “canon,” making it a camera. Luckily I can go back in and fix the  mistake before I print the pages!

new car scrapbook layout
This final layout shows photos of not only a new car my daughter got, but the reason why. A friend of mine said it was sure a pretty layout for such photos! Might as well make it better looking, right? This layout used the digital kit LaBelle Vie, and the 4-photo layout Leading Lady.

If you’d like to find out more about Studio J and how to use it, please let me know by signing up below and you’ll have access to our live and recorded sessions showing what’s it all about and how to create layouts. During each session, we’ll walk through a specific kit and do a layout! Hope to see you there!

 

 

Selecting a Tetradic Color Scheme for a Project

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Artful Adventures Kristie Sloan Always Happy Scrapbook LayoutWe have been taking a look at the color wheel and discussing some of the ways that color combinations can be made. One of the reasons I wanted to take you on this little artful learning adventure is to challenge you to stretch the way you look at the color combinations you use in your projects. Even if you know that you love a certain group of colors and they are your go-to colors, using a different method of coming up with a color palette, can introduce you to something new you may like.  I’m not talking about just going completely opposite of what you like, I’m just saying that you may be pleased with using a couple of your favorite colors and just using a different method of color selection.

Tetradic Color Scheme

Tetradic Color Scheme

One of my favorite scrapbook pages I made last month is the one shown in this post.  When I began to examine what type of color scheme this might be, I was surprised that it actually used a tetrad of colors – four colors.  Another name for this is a double complementary color scheme, since it is two sets of complementary colors. The four colors in this method form a rectangle and on a more simplified color wheel you see that the short sides of the rectangle have one block of color between the points of color.  Here is a look at this on the color wheel.  For some reason, when I upload this to my website, it just doesn’t look the same, so you’ll just have to look at it and get the general idea that the four colors are yellow, green, blue, and the purply-pink color.

Here is a closer look at the page. Everybody should have someone this happy in their life!  Even though this is a digital page, you can see how it would be so easy to create a similar page by stamping the background images, and then stamping the floral images.

Artful Adventures Kristie Sloan Always Happy Scrapbook Layout

Digital Paper: Katie Pertiet, Color Inspiration Pack 8.29.10
Digital Journaling Spot: Katie Pertiet, Painted Journalers No 1
Digital Floral: Katie Pertiet, Editorial Inspiration Color Rub-on
 

If you’d like information on other color scheme selection methods you might like to see the previous posts on using a  complementary, triadic, monochromatic, or analogous color palette. Do you have a favorite method yet?

Choosing a Color Palette for a Project – Complementary

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Artful Adventures Complementary ColorsWe often have color palettes we know we are going to use, and sometimes we need something new or different to try for a project, whether it’s a scrapbook layout, an art journal page, or anything we are doing with color. Have you ever wondered why certain unlikely colors look great together, or how a color combination became so popular for a holiday or season?  Let’s look at the old Christmas standby of red and green, and look at another method of selecting a color palette – complementary color schemes.

A complimentary color scheme is based on using colors which are directly opposite each other on the color wheel.  So, you can see that red and green are exactly that – complementary colors.
Color Wheel Complementary

In the case of Christmas, you can see that on a green tree or wreath, red makes a perfect color for decorating with green’s complementary color.

Sometimes a certain color or color scheme can elicit immediate connections because they are so familiar to us being used for the same thing over and over. It often makes us want to steer clear of a particular color scheme because of the immediate connection we have. For instance, in the United States, it’s hard to use a red, white and blue color scheme if it is not for a patriot theme (not that it is a complementary scheme, but you get the idea of how different colors schemes can become engrained in our thoughts). However, you can often use one of these combinations in a new way by varying the intensity of the colors.

Here is a scrapbook layout I did using green and red.  Not only is not Christmas, it’s a completely different season. Because red is the complementary color of green, it brings out the color of the vehicle and the summer’s green grass.

Artful Adventures Complementary Colors

Make a twist on a color scheme and share it by linking here in the comments, or share it in our Artful Adventures Facebook Group!

Previous posts in this series of methods to select a color scheme, discuss using a triad, a monochrome, or an analogous color scheme..

Choosing a Color Palette for a Project – Going Analagous

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Artful Adventures analogous-color-schemeGood thing you know this about selecting a color palette, otherwise analogous doesn’t really sound like something we want!  So far in our series of methods to select a color scheme, we’ve discussed the triad, and the monochrome methods of color selection.  Now, what is this analogous method you may ask.  It is simply using three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel!   Let’s take a look at a very basic color wheel.

6 Color Basic Color Wheel

A very basic color wheel.

If we take any three colors that are located next to each other on this color wheel, we will have an analogous color scheme.

You may feel like you select color just because you like the combinations, but in reality you are probably using a tried and true, known method, of color selection.  Your favorite color combination may be an analogous color scheme, or it may be another method of grouping colors that we will discuss at some point in this series.  Even if you feel like you never think about using a color wheel, that you just select colors because they appeal to you, it is still nice to know how or why those combinations work for you.  That way, if you are ever stumped, you may remember to look at color selection using an alternate method than something that is perhaps one of your go-to color schemes.

Here is a page I wanted to make using some pictures that were from a special day at my grandson’s preschool. It was an indoor beach party. I thought about using a beachy color scheme, but that didn’t seem to be as bright or vivid as I wanted for the feel of the page.  So, the colors scheme of blue, green, yellow as chosen.  Artful Adventures analogous-color-schemeYou can see that it was loosely followed, but it seems to work.  The blue is more in line with the Hawaiian leis some of the children are wearing, as well as giving a more tropical blue feel to the page.  Yellow was used at the background, and the green pulls different greens from the palm trees in the pictures. The added elements on the page were not particularly for perfect placement, as much as they covered the backs of people’s heads!

What kind of project have you used with an analogous color scheme?  Share it with us over at the our FaceBook Group! Remember, it doesn’t have to be a scrapbook page.  I’m just in scrapbook mode this month, and it is an easy way to give some examples of different types of color schemes!