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I started making traditional scrapbooks for my girls many, many years ago but I was never a fan of the bulkiness of the albums I created, and increasingly found myself drawn to the more graphic magazine style layouts, such as those made by the super-talented Cathy Zielske.
My attempts to recreate that style of pages with scissors and glue did not satisfy the perfectionist in me, so when we moved countries and I was stuck in a serviced apartment with a napping toddler and no craft supplies, I taught myself how to ‘digiscrap’.
At the time I very confidently said “I won’t use ‘fake’ buttons and ribbons and shadowed things like that, because they’re not REAL”.
Fast forward many years and let’s see how that’s going, shall we? ….
The thing is, while I still love making largely ‘flat’ and photo-heavy magazine-inspired layouts for our travel or event photobooks, I also love the fun and flow of playing with all sorts of elements on my digital ‘just for the joy of it’ creations.
And to me, it is part of a long tradition stretching back hundreds and hundreds of years of ‘trompe l’oeil’ (“deceiving the eye”) in art.
I particularly love layering leaves, twigs and berries on my pages:
Speaking of trompe l’oeil, the long tradition of double exposure photography surprisingly dates back as far as the 1860s and was popular with makers of postcards, such as this one I found in a French market that I used on a hybrid layout:
I used my new "Deciduus" collection which is in store now
PS No, that name is not a typo! It’s the Latin word used for leaves falling, and is the source of ‘Deciduous’. I love Latin (wish it was an option at my school) but I may regret trying to be too clever …
My attempts to recreate that style of pages with scissors and glue did not satisfy the perfectionist in me, so when we moved countries and I was stuck in a serviced apartment with a napping toddler and no craft supplies, I taught myself how to ‘digiscrap’.
At the time I very confidently said “I won’t use ‘fake’ buttons and ribbons and shadowed things like that, because they’re not REAL”.
Fast forward many years and let’s see how that’s going, shall we? ….
The thing is, while I still love making largely ‘flat’ and photo-heavy magazine-inspired layouts for our travel or event photobooks, I also love the fun and flow of playing with all sorts of elements on my digital ‘just for the joy of it’ creations.
And to me, it is part of a long tradition stretching back hundreds and hundreds of years of ‘trompe l’oeil’ (“deceiving the eye”) in art.
I particularly love layering leaves, twigs and berries on my pages:
Speaking of trompe l’oeil, the long tradition of double exposure photography surprisingly dates back as far as the 1860s and was popular with makers of postcards, such as this one I found in a French market that I used on a hybrid layout:
I used my new "Deciduus" collection which is in store now
PS No, that name is not a typo! It’s the Latin word used for leaves falling, and is the source of ‘Deciduous’. I love Latin (wish it was an option at my school) but I may regret trying to be too clever …
