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Scrap Skills: Blending Photos

February 20, 2013
Scrap Skills
cheryl

One thing I really love about digital scrapbooking is the ability to blend photos. It’s an awesome effect appropriate for many different applications. There are some great tutorials online, if you need some help. One of my favorite tutorials is Chelle’s video on YouTube here. She describes how to make a photo that might not be perfect work perfectly on a layout using blending techniques. Take time to check it out, if you haven’t seen it lately.

Chelle’s Creative Team members have offered some layouts to inspire us. Ronnie likes to use blended photos for sports layouts. She demonstrates a terrific way to include multiple images on a page without including the distracting backgrounds, and she shows us it is a great way to show action in the layout. I love how she has one extracted image of her son in the true color while the other images are blended into the background paper.

Kairyn, on the other hand, has used a portrait-type image for blending. Again, using the soft edge of a mask or creating one by using the erasing tools, helps to remove any distracting background information while putting the focus on her daughter’s lovely smile. The blended photo is the first one to which my eye is drawn, and it is an excellent focal point to the page.

Finally, Shanell had a group photo of her daughters in which the background was also very important, and yet she blended it and successfully gave it the attention it deserves. By using the same photo in the small frame as the one that is blended into the background, she has given emphasis to the subject with a creative repetition. Her page draws me in so much it makes me want to visit this military graveyard.

I hope you have a chance to review Chelle’s video, and I hope you’ve been inspired to play with the blending modes of your scrapbooking program. See if you can replicate one of the ideas here on an action photo layout, or a portrait layout, or even a layout with scenery you want to emphasize. If you make a layout with Chelle’s products, please share it with us in her gallery at Scrap Orchard. I would love to see it!

Leafy Treetop Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

August 5, 2012
Playdates
Sari

Hello Friends! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Wow what a weekend! We have an annual family golf tournament (on saturday) named in honor of my father, The Glen Griffin Classic. You may recall, I don’t participate – the direct sunlight and allergies issues I have. So instead, we get babysitting duty. I love me some little peeps. I just didn’t know they were coming until yesterday morning. 7 of the peeps. (Jayley 12, Mylie 10, Ivy 7, Daizee, 5, Zion 2, Tanzi <1, and Nikkos <1) LOL! NOISE! MORE NOISE! My sister Barb and I (ages 50, and 45) don’t make a lot of noise, so having 7 of the peeps was pretty noisy! They were a lot of fun. Jayley and I played with PSE9 and Chelle’s Girl Power Reloaded kit. She did AWESOM! I knew she’d catch on fast. We also cut out (yes, by hand with scissors, yuck!) some of Chelle’s stuff & put it through my Xyron and made stickers. I’ve had mine for 20+ years and we use it all the time. Especially for sunday school lessons. I think I created a MONSTER! AWK! I definitely should have through that through better. LOL Oh & guess what? My adhesive cartridge is now gone! Love me some peeps!

Leafy Treetops reminds me of a favorite childhood church song and I’ve been humming it since I first saw this kit during the Iron Scrapper Week 1 kit & SOUL’s (Scrap Orchard Live) first live broadcast. I was thinking about Leafy Treetops and couldn’t help thinking about Labor Day and hauling wood when I was around 10-16. Labor day was definitely L-A-B-O-R day in my family. Dad would get us up at 5, we’d make a sack lunch, climb in the wood truck and head for the canyon. Dad would cut down the dead Quaking Aspen and start cutting it up. My job was to roll the big pieces down the hill to the truck. As I got older, I learned to stack the wood in the truck, just as tight as I could. If I didn’t, Dad would throw them all out of the truck and we’d have to hand them to him again and he’d re-stack them. Dad was a jokester!!! Just before he would fell the tree, and he knew it was going to fall upward, he’d yell, “Run! Sara Run! It’s come right at you.” Terrified, I’d jump and run anywhere that wasn’t where I had been! You could hear the tree knocking branches off other trees and I just knew I would die under a quakie! Dad would stand up there and laugh and then tell me I sure could run fast when I needed to. He did that at least once every “haul” and you never knew if it was real, so, each time we would run like crazy! He was a very funny Dad. LOL!

On to the products, this week we have Leafy Treetops & Leafy Treetops Quickies & offers CU Bubble Wrap Brushes for her CU friends.

Oh Snap! Kit, Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! Quickies: The Quickies are the new release this week. We previously released Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! kit was part of Chelle’s birthday daily download in July. I did the playdate on Oh Snap! in July. Here’s the link!

Chelle has started doing short video intros of her new products. What do you think? You like? Let us know, comment to this post. First is: Blending Photos & Second is: 5 Ways To Us Bubble Wrap. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with these videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You Tube Channel.

Did you see Chelle’s post about Creative Club Digi (CCD) & Creative Club Digi Designer (CCDD)? Register HERE. Check out the links, Chelle has some introductory videos about each club.