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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

Wednesday Wonder – Photoshop Elements Shortcut Keys

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Melissa Shanhun ABCS of PSEHave you ever used Photoshop Elements?  Many people have a love/hate relationship ship with digital software – especially when it comes to using them for design.  If you can maneuver your way around a program you can do all kinds of amazing things! Maybe you’d like to do digital scrapbooking, try your hand at designing a card, or even go digital with art journaling!  Whatever you’d like to do, knowing the shortcut keys can be such a time saver!

My friend, Melissa Shanhun, teaches Photoshop Elements (PSE) over at DigitalScrapbookingHQ.com.  Currently she is going through a series called the ABC’s of PSE.  She has daily tips she is putting up on her DigitalScrapbookingHQ Facebook Page.

Melissa Shanhun ABCs of PSE

Click on image to link to training!

You can also sign up for her training here!

Melissa also has great tips for handling all your digital image files for scrapbooking, as far as organizing goes!  Be sure to go visit her on Facebook and on her site, and tell her I sent you over!

Enjoy your Artful Adventures!

KS

 

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?

What is Your Scrapbook Style?

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Artful Adventures Kristie Sloan LOAD513-2 If you are a scrapbooker, do you have a certain “style” that anybody could easily recognize?  Even if you don’t have a recognizable “style” there are probably items that are your go-to things that you enjoy using over and over on pages you create.  That is your style!  Maybe you have certain color combinations that have become your style.  In my opinion, it doesn’t really matter if you know what “style” is yours, the fact that you get a page done is the reward! The memories and stories are captured.  The photos and the stories are what matter!

 

Artful Adventures Kristie Sloan LOAD513-2If you’ve been around me, you know that Layout a Day is something I enjoy participating in.  It is an online group where we have a theme and daily prompts to get one page a day completed for a certain month.  I have done several of of these now, and I can honestly say that when I look at my own work, I am all over the place as far as a “style” goes.  That’s because part of what I enjoy is trying different things. Even though most of the pages I create during these events are digital, I still try all kinds of things; techniques, templates, I even use two different software programs when I create digitally!

Here are the first two pages for this month.  Neither one is very colorful, which personally bothers me!  Yet they seem to work just fine.  The page about the karate tournament was basically started from a template with a pocket page style, and used a kraft colored background.  I tried to swap in some color, and it ended up distracting from the pictures.  Enough time had been spent on it, so it was done.  However, I really want to go back in and add something that gives a little dimension.  That may be after I print it out and it will end up becoming a hybrid page.

You may notice that one is done with sort of a nod to the pocket page look.  That is the first one I’ve tried like that. I recently bought some pocket pages and I think it will be fun to use them.  Think about making some art journal type backgrounds to cut and use in some of the pockets!  Or use your die cut machine to add goodies to the pockets.

Do you feel like you have found your own personal favorite items and methods in your scrapbooking?  Or do you just like to try anything and everything?

 

Turn a Printable Download into Gift Wrap

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printable download small gift wrapThis week we have been on a tour of ways to use or jazz up a printable digital download.  Today I’ve got a quick idea for a bit of gift wrap for a very small gift!  Print out a printable and ta-dah! you have a little piece of gift wrap.  Now, if you are thinking, ‘Why on earth would I do that?’ consider this.

Have you ever had someone give you a little unexpected gift?  Maybe it really wasn’t expensive, but it just made you feel good to know they had been thinking about you, right?  Okay, and isn’t it always nice to have a gift that is wrapped — as if it was actually planned?  Maybe you don’t agree, but that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!  Well, you may be like a lot of people and not have a fully appointed and just for wrapping area of your home.  Little gifts don’t need a whole roll of paper, and why not just print something from your printer? You may have a big roll of green, shamrock, March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day holiday related gift wrap, but I did not.

printable download gift wrap

Small project, small group of supplies!

Here is just a little gift and I went ahead and used the same Lucky printable I used earlier this week.  I like the fact that it has a limited color palette, and uses the subway art look that is popular.  I would normally select a much smaller print for a small gift, but I kind of liked the fact that it was more about the lettering and fonts than it was about the words.  If you’re wondering, the gift has nothing to do with the holiday, it was just a cute paper that was seasonally related!  Added bonus, a sheet of paper coming out of my printer was a lot easier to deal with than a big roll of wrapping paper!

top printable download gift wrapped

A peek of the top of the little gift.

One thing you may want to note, is the fact that your regular white printer paper is usually VERY white!  Notice that the ribbon, which looks white on anything else I’ve ever used it on, appears a little more cream color against the stark white.  That’s OKAY, I’m only pointing it out so you don’t write to me and let me know it doesn’t really “match” well.

Next time you have a small gift, think about printing a wee bit of gift wrap from your printer, and try out using a printable download, ready to go!

Please join me on next week’s Artful Adventures as we explore some watercolor techniques using markers and ink pads!  Until then,

Cheers to YOUR creativity!

Kristie