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I am heading into the chat room in a few minutes to start a slow scrap. I will also be posting the instructions here to follow along. To qualify for the prize your page must be uploaded to the gallery by 11:00pm EST tomorrow October 26th. Please also post your layout to this thread.
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Please post your completed layout in The Lilypad gallery. GALLERY RULES: Layouts must contain at least 50% TLP products. (Templates count as 15%.) Uploads must be less than 250k. List all credits; no off-site linking allowed.
1. Your layout must include at least three different kits/element packs. Paper packs do not count towards this requirement. The products chosen can be BYOC packs, but CANNOT be from the same collection release (you can't pick three packs from the April 2022 collection). Templates can be used but do not count towards one of the three different kits/element packs.
2. Please use at least two different designers.
3. Your layout must have at least one photo, so no photoless pages this time.
4. Your layout must include at least 5 flowers and two leaves.
5. Please use at least one of the two techinques I spoke about in the chat: recoloring or covering up. Please be sure to post in your credits which of the two you used and where in your layout you used the technique. I know some of you use software other than PSE or Photoshop, so recoloring is not a requirement, but if you have those programs and never tried recoloring, you should give it a try.
You have until 11:00pm EST tomorrow October 26th to complete your LO
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I am going to give some tips about one of my favorite things: how to mix scrapbook kits. Sometimes a kit may not have enough of or is missing a certain type of element, and an easy fix for this is to use something else you may have on hand already in your stash.
A key to mixing kits is to know what you have in your stash. You don’t necessarily need to be super organized for this to happen. Some scrappers use software like Bridge or the organizer in Adobe PSE and import their entire collection into to it. These programs allow you to tag items and conduct quick searches for what you are looking for. Another option which I use but not consistently is pinning kit previews of my stash to Pinterest. You can quickly peruse all in one place. You can even make your boards private. In a pinch I have also just gone to the shop I purchased the kits from to look at previews of my purchases.
The easiest method to mix kits are those products that have the same color palettes. With the Lilypad’s monthly BYOC collections, this is a no brainer! These products are all created with coordinating color palettes to leave all the guess work out for you. Sometimes themed kits can be easily used together as well. The key is to make sure that your colors do not clash. I will discuss how you can recolor elements in a bit. A third option is to pick neutral color elements. Black, white, and kraft tones work well if you do not want to do any edits.
The two main techniques I use when mixing kits is recoloring and covering things up. In the next section I will go into a bit of detail about each. In my layout below I have a key which technique I used on which part of my layout. The fun arrows are from Valorie Wibbens Ninety-two Arrows!
Covering things up is just what it sounds like. I do this a lot with flower centers. You can easily dress up or dress down a flower by switching out its center making it a better match for the layout you are working on. I used this technique several times in my sample layout.
The other technique that I use often is recoloring. In my layout I used four different techniques to recolor various elements. I use Adobe PSE 10 to digitally scrap my layouts.
Color Variations- If an element has the same color as another element in a different kit, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good match. The yellows in the collections I used have either warm tones or cool tones. They look fine together but would look better if I tweaked the color just a bit. The way I did this is by using Color Variations in the Enhance Menu. With the element selected follow this path: Enhance>Adjust Color>Color Variations. There you have several options to choose from. I usually choose the one that looks best.
Paint Bucket – I use the paint bucket tool quite a bit to change colors on word strips or paper type embellishments. I also use it sometimes on journal cards and titles too. I will use the eyedropper tool to pick the color I want, and then use the paint bucket tool to add the selected color to my element. I did this for the heart tab changing the red heart to black. This technique was also used on the “Fur Baby” word strip and “Happy Kitty”.
Converting to Black and White/ Blending Modes - Sometimes I really love an element but it is totally the wrong color for my layout. In this instance I convert the element to black and white and then clip a solid paper or paint bucket filled layer with the color I am wanting it changed to. This works best for solid colored elements. In my layout the string underneath the left cluster was blue and I was able to make it white using this technique.
Replace Color- A fourth way to change colors of an element is using the replace color command in PSE. Enhance>Adjust Color>Replace Color. This method is a bit more complex to explain in detail here, but there are plenty of online videos/tutorials showing how to utilize it.
I hope you find these tips useful. Mixing kits opens up endless possibilities and helps you get the most out of your scrap stash.
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Please post your completed layout in The Lilypad gallery. GALLERY RULES: Layouts must contain at least 50% TLP products. (Templates count as 15%.) Uploads must be less than 250k. List all credits; no off-site linking allowed.
1. Your layout must include at least three different kits/element packs. Paper packs do not count towards this requirement. The products chosen can be BYOC packs, but CANNOT be from the same collection release (you can't pick three packs from the April 2022 collection). Templates can be used but do not count towards one of the three different kits/element packs.
2. Please use at least two different designers.
3. Your layout must have at least one photo, so no photoless pages this time.
4. Your layout must include at least 5 flowers and two leaves.
5. Please use at least one of the two techinques I spoke about in the chat: recoloring or covering up. Please be sure to post in your credits which of the two you used and where in your layout you used the technique. I know some of you use software other than PSE or Photoshop, so recoloring is not a requirement, but if you have those programs and never tried recoloring, you should give it a try.
You have until 11:00pm EST tomorrow October 26th to complete your LO
***********
I am going to give some tips about one of my favorite things: how to mix scrapbook kits. Sometimes a kit may not have enough of or is missing a certain type of element, and an easy fix for this is to use something else you may have on hand already in your stash.
A key to mixing kits is to know what you have in your stash. You don’t necessarily need to be super organized for this to happen. Some scrappers use software like Bridge or the organizer in Adobe PSE and import their entire collection into to it. These programs allow you to tag items and conduct quick searches for what you are looking for. Another option which I use but not consistently is pinning kit previews of my stash to Pinterest. You can quickly peruse all in one place. You can even make your boards private. In a pinch I have also just gone to the shop I purchased the kits from to look at previews of my purchases.
The easiest method to mix kits are those products that have the same color palettes. With the Lilypad’s monthly BYOC collections, this is a no brainer! These products are all created with coordinating color palettes to leave all the guess work out for you. Sometimes themed kits can be easily used together as well. The key is to make sure that your colors do not clash. I will discuss how you can recolor elements in a bit. A third option is to pick neutral color elements. Black, white, and kraft tones work well if you do not want to do any edits.
The two main techniques I use when mixing kits is recoloring and covering things up. In the next section I will go into a bit of detail about each. In my layout below I have a key which technique I used on which part of my layout. The fun arrows are from Valorie Wibbens Ninety-two Arrows!
Covering things up is just what it sounds like. I do this a lot with flower centers. You can easily dress up or dress down a flower by switching out its center making it a better match for the layout you are working on. I used this technique several times in my sample layout.
The other technique that I use often is recoloring. In my layout I used four different techniques to recolor various elements. I use Adobe PSE 10 to digitally scrap my layouts.
Color Variations- If an element has the same color as another element in a different kit, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good match. The yellows in the collections I used have either warm tones or cool tones. They look fine together but would look better if I tweaked the color just a bit. The way I did this is by using Color Variations in the Enhance Menu. With the element selected follow this path: Enhance>Adjust Color>Color Variations. There you have several options to choose from. I usually choose the one that looks best.
Paint Bucket – I use the paint bucket tool quite a bit to change colors on word strips or paper type embellishments. I also use it sometimes on journal cards and titles too. I will use the eyedropper tool to pick the color I want, and then use the paint bucket tool to add the selected color to my element. I did this for the heart tab changing the red heart to black. This technique was also used on the “Fur Baby” word strip and “Happy Kitty”.
Converting to Black and White/ Blending Modes - Sometimes I really love an element but it is totally the wrong color for my layout. In this instance I convert the element to black and white and then clip a solid paper or paint bucket filled layer with the color I am wanting it changed to. This works best for solid colored elements. In my layout the string underneath the left cluster was blue and I was able to make it white using this technique.
Replace Color- A fourth way to change colors of an element is using the replace color command in PSE. Enhance>Adjust Color>Replace Color. This method is a bit more complex to explain in detail here, but there are plenty of online videos/tutorials showing how to utilize it.
I hope you find these tips useful. Mixing kits opens up endless possibilities and helps you get the most out of your scrap stash.
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