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Feature Friday - Let's party!

Hi everyone!!

Emilie's here for Feature Friday! I've picked Lauren Reid's kit 'Let's Party'. It's the perfect kit for birthdays but it's also very versatile and can be used for other events. I particularly love the bright colors, the alphas and the papers. It's 30% off in the store, so go grab it now! ;)

Take a look at the layouts done with this kit.

Jennifer's layout:

Credits: Here

Eva's layout:

Credits: Here

My layout:

Credits: Here

Don't forget to post your pages in the Featured Product Gallery! You can win a GC for the ScrapArtist shoppe!

Emilie

Tip Thursday - how to do a quick zoom

If you want to zoom in on a specific area of your image quickly, hold down the Control (Mac: Command) key and the Spacebar, then use the mouse to drag a box around the area you want to zoom in on. When you release the mouse button, the area you selected will fill the screen. To return the image to full screen, hold down the Control (Mac: Command) key and press 0 (zero).

Guest Goddess Scraplift

Earlier this month we learned a few FUN facts about Gina our Guest Goddess for September. We also got to see her galleries and her own personal FAVORITE layouts. This week I'm bringing you some scraplifts of her layouts.  Each month we have a guest Goddess we open up the gallery for scraplifts of their work and a chance to win a coupon to the store. This months scraplift winner is  Megsvets with her scraplift of Birdwatchers. Here is Megsvets layout, what a great photo of family/friends and the outdoors.

And here is Gina's Birdwatchers

The ScrapArtist Creative Godesses posted some fabulous lifts of Gina's work.

Here is Kathy's Dare to Dream 

Kathy's  inspiration was Gina's Cherished Dream layout.

Aja's Natural Beauty layout is gorgeous

and was inpsired by Gina's Faded Memories, both use such beautiful soft papers which highlight perfectly there faded photos.

Jennifer chose Remember Moments as her inpsiration for a gorgeous heritage page entitled Troupe-Retonde Wedding.

Gina' s Remember Moments layout 

It's been such a pleasure having Gina as this month's Guest Goddess, getting to read more about her and browsing her galleries and especially "lifting" her work. We're always keeping our eye out for artists that love ScrapArtist products and participate in the gallery - next month's Guest Goddess could be you!

anna

Twofer Tuesday is back!

HERITAGE CHALLENGE ~by Robyn England (happyrobyn)

"IN THE NEWS!"

The challenge this week is to create a heritage layout that has the look of a newspaper article ... read more >

Layout by happyrobyn. See credits here.

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ALTERED/COLLAGE CHALLENGE ~ by Christine Honsinger (Fiddlette)

"COLOR YOUR WORLD!"

This week's challenge is to use crayon doodleys in your art and layouts ... read more >

ATC by Fiddlette. See credits here.  Layout by happyrobyn. See credits here.

Thank you to all of our Twofer Tuesday participants.  We look forward to Tuesday every week!!!

Mojo Monday - September 24th

Welcome to Mojo Monday!  It’s Laurie here, {aka: nEEd2creAte} and I’m happy to assist in getting you're Monday started with a fun and easy challenge.  Split-It-Up and Shake-It-Down is the name of today's Random Challenge; we're splitting the photo and removing the color to a section or two!  With little effort, you'll achieve big results...

My example below is a photo with the focal point or subjects in the center.  You're focal point can be on the side, providing more background.  My photo split is in three uneven sections; your split can be in even thirds.  You're photo will determine how you split it up.  I chose to keep my subjects colored, you could do the opposite!  Give it a try and see what amazing results you come up with!

Here are the rules and tips:

• 1 medium size photo, split into thirds and at least one section needs to be changed to black and white.
• 1 {at least 1} stamp or brush to be used on the photo... this can be a stamped alpha or a doodle etc...
• Your layout must have 85 to 90% ScrapArtist products.
• Upload your finished layout to the Mojo Monday Gallery!

Here's my layout... Click for credits!  Father to Son Rite of Passage

The winner of this challenge will receive a ScrapArtist Gift Certificate!  Have you checked out all the NEW stuff in the Shoppe yet?  It's jammed packed with fresh goodies so get you MOJO on and happy scrappin'!

Feature Friday!

This week's featured product is so much fun!  It's Kim's "So Fabulous" paper pack!  From the colors to the patterns, these papers are just a joy to play with!  And, you can pick them upon sale until Tuesday in the Shoppe, so be sure to snag them now!

To give you a little inspiration, here's some layouts from our creative team!

From Suzy:

Credits Here

And from me:

Credits Here

To play along with us this week, just create a layout using Kim Christensen's So Fabulous papers and post it to the Featured Product Gallery by Thursday the 27th!  The winner will receive a gift certificate for the kit of their choice from the Scrapartist Shoppe (worth $6.99)! 

Finally, the big announcement - last week's winner!  I absolutely love Ana Amorim's beautiful layout using Jomi's Chirpy Days!  Be sure to leave her some love!  And, Ana, I'll pmail you your prize shortly!

Credits HERE

Tip Thursday

Okay, I know Tip Thursday is usually all about the technical tips, but this week I thought I'd mix it up a little with something more in the nature of a design tip.  Actually, a link to a blog that has some great multi-photo layouts for your inspiration!  It's called the Multi-Photo Scrapbook Layout Gallery.  If you're anything like me, it can be tough to work multiple photos into a layout - I tend to be a one photo kind of girl.  So, I love looking at the great layouts at this site for ideas on how to work in more than one photo without getting overwhelmed!  You can check it out HERE.

Twofer Tuesday: On Hold!

Howdy to all of our loyal Twofer Tuesday participants!  We have the Heritage and Altered/Collage Challenges all queued up and ready to go.  However, with the maintenance going on at Scrap Artist, we have decided to put the challenges on hold this week.  But not to worry ... we will be back with a bang next week!  Because, as you know, we look forward to Tuesday every week!!!

Feeling chirpy this Friday?

Have you seen designer extraordinaire Jomi's stuff at the shoppe? Let me introduce you to her beautiful collab with guest designer Jackie Eckles, our featured product this Friday.

Chirpy is right - this kit just makes me smile. The soft, bright colours work so well and just jump out at you from the preview. Just the right amount of grunge on those papers to keep scrappers of all styles happy! Just check out what our creative team have done with the kit, and don't forget, if you feel inspired by this week's feature, we're giving away a free kit from the shoppe for one lucky layout posted in the Featured Product Gallery before Thursday (20th September)! Old or new, lets see those layouts!

Kirsten's credits ..:.. Aja's credits

And if that wasn't enough to convince you, the kit is marked 30% off this week only! Under $5 for this beautiful extensive kit by two of the industry's top designers! Don't miss out!

Tip Thursday

For today’s tip, I’d like to share one way of protecting your images that you post on the web. I have heard of a number of incidents where a photo was lifted from someone else’s blog or profile and used as their own. It is particularly troubling when you post images of your family and kids.

So, one way to deter such people from lifting your images is to stamp a watermark onto your image.

 

1. Open your image and type in your copyright information in white.

 

2. You can leave that as is but I prefer it to be more subtle so it does not distract too much from the photo. So, I change the blending mode to overlay and adjust the opacity, usually between 40-60%.

 

3. Save this as a copy as you don’t want the original photo to have that watermark.

 

Extra tip: Instead of typing in your copyright info onto your photo each time, you may type your info on a new file and save it as a .png file. So, when you need it, simply drag the file onto your photos.

 

Joy