As promised I am here with a tutorial that our lovely Yvette has put together for you all, it is one of my favourite layouts that she created with my kits (although I love them all to be honest!) It is created with my Sunflowers and Stars digi kit and Craft Artist 2 professional although remember you can still play along with Craft Artist compact for FREE (tutorial here) So without further ado let me hand you over to Yvette
Shine Like A Star
Right, brace yourselves... but not too much.... I didn’t
attempt any computational wizzardry, preferring to maintain the integrity of
the designer (polite way of saying being lazy).
The beach scenes lent themselves to Michelle’s Sunflowers and Stars kit, with its swirling backgrounds and embellishments emulating waves washing over partially pebbled sand, and swooshing into clear rockpools.
The final page....
And how it came to be...
So, having chosen a background, and having an idea of where
to put the huge pic, I decided to have a few embellishments under the image,
and also one of the quotes that has been recoloured and grouped onto a chopped
down piece of material. The other bits
are the curl embellishment, a branch and a star.
Main pic is just imported into the frame. However, I have ruined Michelle’s frame by a
little judicious wiggley cropping with the eraser, purely to remove bits of the
pic that I don’t want to be seen.
Next, some embellies to the right of the frame to cover up
the dodgy corner – just a cluster of bits: the branches have been spun around
and flipped so that they look slightly different, the flowers have been plonked
down filling gaps, and the ribbons behind everything, purely there to lead the
eye away from the big pic. Items closer
to the front have a larger shadow than the bits at the back to give a little
perspective.
Next, adding the frame with Sebastian looking pensive. One of my foibles is adding shading to frames
and not the combined frame and pic – so, I like to select the frame (bottom RHS
icon) and shadow this alone, so it looks like the frame is slightly more 3D
And finally, adding a few more twiddly bits to fill the gaps
and link the main bits to other bits, the tag in the corner seemed the best way
to add a bit of journaling.. All items were shadowed with the preset shadows – the
ones giving a bigger shade to add depth.
Another of my foibles is always making sure the shadows go in the same
direction – in my case I assume that the light is coming from above and from
the LHS.
Thanks Yvette! I love this layout (and don't think my frame was ruined! the joy of digi crafting is you can make things do what you want them to do!) I love the use of large photos on layouts and think this is done brilliantly on this page!
I hope you feel inspired to have a go at something like this ... I do!
Thanks for stopping by, I will be back soon with more inspiration. Until then, as ever,
Happy Crafting!
Love
MJMx
Beautiful Thank you so much for this tutorial x
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Jenny glad you enjoyed it!
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