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January 6: Dispersion (Technique Challenge)

Here is mine... This was fun... the directions were good... I originally went with a flowing thing , like he was running, which he was... but then decided to do another and this is closer to what is expected here, I think... He was running across the coffee table towards my neighbor, and away from me! It was a cool photo that I probably would not have scrapped were it not for this challenge... as stated in the gallery, I did another version with a dark brown background, that looks like an oil painting... I fully understand this being a BIG challenge for everyone who is not well versed in how masking works... frustrating to have it all set up and find the B/W choice has flipped back and you did not notice it and cant figure out what is going on....without further a do...here is mine!

 
I had directions from the said child in the photo on how to make the splatters. "That's too much Mom" "More Mom" "Now make it look faster Mom!" I duplicated the subject on the journal card to make it more visible.


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Boy Oh Boy!...I Can't Really Say I Enjoyed This Challenge...Not To Be A Negative Nelly But Is Hate Too Strong Of A Word...Honestly I Hate The Word Hate & I'm Not A Negative Person By Heart But I Can't Think Of Any Other Way To Describe This Challenge...Not Having Photoshop & Using An Almost 20 Year Old Scrapbooking/Editing Program Wasn't Gonna Work For This Challenge...I Worked On This Most Of The Night When I Should Have Been Sleeping & I'm Stressed Out To No End Trying To Get This Done Plus I'm Fighting A Throat Infection,Cold,Cough & Fever...My Layout Doesn't Look Like Anyone Else's & The Technique Isn't Exactly Jumping Out From My Layout But If You Look Really Close...You Can See Some Remnants Of The Awful Trying That I Did...I Hated The Way It Looked So I Decided To Make My Layout Design Around It To Try To Highlight It As Much As I Could Stand...I'm Not Ever Gonna Do Or Try This Technique Again & I'm Not Sure If You Will Accept My Layout For This Challenge...So I Won't Start The Next Challenge Until I Get A Yeah Or Nay...If It's A Yeah Than Fantastic But If It's A Nay I Can't Redo This...I Guess I Will Have To Accept The Fact That A Rather Silly Technique Challenge Is The Reason I Won't Finish MOC6 & That My Fellow Scrappers Is Really Sad To Me...

*For My Besties Layout-I Used:

*Unstoppable-Nonsense-MM-Frontier Tales-MM-Main Street Tales-MM-Hear's To The Ears-All Kits By Bella Gypsy*
*Butterfly Basics-Travel Edition-Little Butterfly Wings
*Fur Babies-Dogs-Kristin Aagard
*Frenemies-Flairs-Blagovesta Gosheva(I Item)

 
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This whole MOC will have been worth it just for the Quick Selection tool alone! I've been ignoring it for years because I didn't want to try to figure it out, so thanks for just throwing me in the deep end with it. I have a feeling it's going to change everything!

This was the first challenge I've had a hard time with so far - seems like I'm in good company - and my inner perfectionist was SO frustrated at not being able to create the right angle and flow for the movement I was trying to represent. But in the end I had a lot of fun and I scrapped an experience I probably would have otherwise overlooked because the photos from it were not so great. Thanks for such an excellent tutorial and a cool new technique in my toolbox!

Here's my best friend trying out virtual reality for the first time:
 
My laptop is on system restore, and my phone won't copy the gallery link. Ill do it ASAP
 
so i walk past a photo from this 'mini shoot' (read: he just played like kids do and i snapped at least a dozen on the day) several times a day, it's in a multiframe on the wall and for some reason i decided it would be easier and maybe cool to do the dispersion on the guitar (given i can't for the life of me find the monster truck set of pics i had in mind for this).
Here's my result (i dont know that the dispersion technique is fab with B&W's but i wanted to add a bunch of colours around the guitar so i went with it (in my mind i had the idea of rainbow splatter to signify joyful music - even though i remember this 'toy' being really twangy).

i Love this funky technique - thanks so much for teaching it Jan!:clappy


close up of the dispersion area - i just used some mottled looking sponge brushes
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This one about killed me. In the end, the dispersion ended up a bit more subtle but I like it. It'll be awhile before I try that again. ;)
 
not a design available in my program so I had to improvise...I tried to make the dispersion look like water splashes...I do hope my attempt is accceptable.

 
LBscraps said:
It's taken me well over an hour, and I'm an Artisan scrapper, but between the videos and the tips I DID it!!!!

I don't love it but I learned a lot from it. Tomorrow I'll scrap a layout using it. And as long as it took me I still appreciate all the great things I now know how to do!

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Lori - where did you find videos on how to do this in Artisan? PS. I am still using Artisan 4.
 
Thanks for the fun challenge! I love learning something new.
 
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