Fine Tune The Moment

April 13, 2009

Polka Dot Tutorial

I created a tutorial how to create a polka dot paper of any 2 colors. http://lillyartimages.blogspot.com/2009/04/polka-dot-tutorial_13.html

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March 20, 2009

The Image should be the most important part of the page

My number one rule is and will always be
The image is the most important part of the page. As a photographer and artist I learned alot about composition of a piece of art. How the image itself is composed and furthermore how the scrapp page is composed.

Image composition is not always percieved the same by everyone. But as long as you love the image, that is what is important. An image you love should not be over shadowed by page elements and embelishments.

I see so many page examples on this website that are beautiful and well thought out. But many I see, my eye does not see the image first. I see all the embelishments first then my eye makes its way tho the photographed image. It is my opinion that the photograph should be the first thing to draw the eye. Every photo you choose to put on a page deserves to shine above all the page elements.

posted by cookiesncream @ Mar 20, 2009 | 1 comments | |

My Credentials

I was an art major turn photographer in college. I have been a scrapper for 13 years. I started out using the creative memories system and adapting it to suite my needs (it was to plain!). Every page would take me hours to design, create, and embellish. Those scrapbooks mean a lot to me, but I no longer have the time to devote to scrapping that way. I have 4 children ages ranging from 2-10.

Digi scrapping cuts down on the time I spend. I still design my page the same, but now I can create as I design so it takes less time.

I have a few ruls that I scrapp by.

1) the image is the most important of any page
2) not every image should be scrapped, it's okay to throw away bad photos.
3)It is okay to use the same template on another page.
4)Nothing should out shine the image
5)Always have fun
6)All ruls can be broken except #1 & #5

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