Number 6……DONE! I just finished my 6th layout for the Master of Scrap competition at Scrapaneers and I even have 9 hours and 14 minutes to spare. Phew!
Shape Shifter was the category for the 2nd layout for this week. Seamless blending of photos is the key aspect of this style. The requirements were to use three of your own photos and blend them together seamlessly, have a title using fonts (not Alphas), and must contain journaling. This is not a scrapbooking style that I gravitate toward and found it a definite challenge.
Here is my layout “Picking Pumpkins”.
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I used shapes and brushes in Photoshop to create photo masks and then used a variety of blend modes on the photos. Each of the photos actually have the photos layered six times with various blend modes applied to get the final look I was going for. There was a lot of fiddling around with the layers to get each photo looking just right.
We are coming into the home stretch of this competition, 1 week and 2 layouts to go and it will be all done. Win or lose, I can say that I have scrapped more pages in the last few weeks than I have done in a long time. It feels good to know I have some wonderful layouts done and memories documented. Don’t get me wrong, it would be REALLY nice to win.
I am taking the rest of the day off, from scrapbooking at least. Now to catch up on the bazillion things that I have neglected while I was working on these layouts.
