Swim School - Week 7

This week was exciting for me! We learned how to use blending and the gradient tool. I've always seen this done on layouts and just think that it's a beautiful way to create a layout. Here is mine:



I scrapped a photo of my hubby and I that was taken at a 30th Birthday Party.

Credits: LoveUForever - Collab at SSD

Swim School - Week Six

The homework for this week was to create our own elements. I used the Cookie Cutter tool in Elements to do this. In my LO, I created the paw prints and the paper clip. It was very easy to do.



Credits: Doggone by Snowflake Beach Designs

Swim School - Week Five

The Law of Thirds. Something I've NEVER even heard of. Course, I'm pretty new to the digiscrapping world. It makes complete sense but was a bit of a mystery to me. We were given this template:



Basically the object of the rule is to use the dots/squares as your focal points of your layout. Put images either in the boxes or allign faces/images where the dots are. Here is my lei-out:



My daughter's faces are alligned where the two lower dots are.

Credits: BFF by Lauren Grier and Shawna Clingerman

Swim School - Week Four

The assignment for this week was to create custom Drop Shadows. Drop Shadows are something that took me a while to figure out. I use Photoshop Elements 5 to create my layouts and the preset shadows don't always look right to me. I had to learn how to create my own a different way.

Here is my Week 4 Lei-out:



Credits: BBQ & Bottle Rockets by Sarah Morgan Designs and Gabby Palmer Digitals

Swim School - Week Three

The assignment given to us for the week was Negative Space Layouts. This kind of layout is something that I really love. It was very easy for me to come up with my LO for this assignment and here it is:



Credits: Ohana by Britt-ish Designs

Swim School - Week Two

This week our assignment was to use a Layered Template. We were all given the same template to use with our assignment. It was really neat to see all of the different lei-outs using the same template. Here is mine:



Credits: Shabby Daddy by Traci Reed and scrapkitchen designs at SSD

Swim School - Week One

I've been participating in the Swim School at Scrapable. Each week we have a new assignment that we have to complete. It's been a lot of fun.



Week Ones assignment was to create a basic layout. Here is mine:




I chose to scrap a picture of my daughter, Mattisen. I think the title and picture pretty much say it all. LOL!

I used Rock On: Chicks Rule by Lauren Grier at Sweet Shoppe Designs.