Never too old to learn...

When visiting DST - Digital Scrap Talk - these days, the home page is like a blog with great articles which change daily. One I found a couple of days ago prompted this layout. It was a Portrait in Font/Text tutorial by Jennifer White (both written and in video format.
Basically, you make 3 brushes from words- one dark/heavy/bold, one light/faint/dainty and the third in between. These brushes are applied to an extracted, posterized, black and white portrait, each brush on a separate layer, which are then flattened into one layer. Add to a layout and adjust the opacity and it is done.




Here's mine using a lovely photo of Tracey in her teens, and the Welcome Kit from Plain Digital Wrapper. Newcomers to the PDW site can earn this huge colourful kit for free by posting a challenge layout, posting in the forum and commenting in the gallery. What a great joining bonus.

Go here for the information Welcome Kit

4x Gallery Stand Out at PDW

I must be on a roll with my digiscrapping as I have earned 4 accolades- Gallery Stand Outs in the last 2 weeks at Plain Digital Wrapper.

ArtgalStyle - Field Trip Ahead

Having spent a few days revisiting my family History research, checking past searches and looking for new avenues (only one slender branch expanded), I was ready to digiscrap again. Here's today's offering- Field Trip Ahead- lovely kit by ArtGal Style at Plain Digital Wrapper.






ArtGal Style Field Trip Ahead here

Scrapbook layouts for ScrapDZines

As a Creative Team member for Plain Digital Wrapper, I have the opportunity to scrap for a selection of great and diverse designers. This month I created layouts for ScrapDZines using her lovely Beach House kit.



My first page features my grandpup Missy on a visit to the beach, created for a PDW white space challenge using a monochrome theme, sepia image and one splash of colour.



The second page features an overexposed photo of a hidden lagoon. This page was for a DDR challenge using a photo I would hang on the wall as a painting.

A face lift for my revitalised blog.

Have spent the past few days digi-scrapping for Plain Digital Wrapper as a member of the Creative Team and found a wonderful digiscrap kit - Afternoon Delights by Digital Ink - to use to revamp my blog. (The designer, Melissa Knopik, allows blog use for non-commercial sites.)
Find the kit Afternoon Delight here:

And here are two pages I created using Afternoon Delight