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February 28th Challenge Winners & Prompt Party
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Quick Color Schemes for Templates
As much as I love the paper textures and the flowers, sometimes working with ScrapSimple products can feel overwhelming because the color scheme is left up to me. When I start feeling overwhelmed, I head over to my stash and pick an existing collection that has a color palette I’m drawn to, then I use the Color Picker tool to select colors from it. For this layout, I picked the purple, pink, and teal from Old Friends Collection Biggie.
Let me show you my favorite way to color ScrapSimple products by using the Hue/Saturation window.
First, select the color you want your paper or embellishment to be. You will see the selected color in Foreground/Background Color Palette.
Open the Hue/Saturation window, then click Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation. Put a check in the Colorize box. You may or may not see your embellishment change color at this point, depending on the color you started with and the color you are changing to. Don’t worry if the color seems off.
Adjust the Saturation slider and the Lightness slider until your paper or embellishment is the color you want. Click OK to close the window.
That’s it! Coloring ScrapSimple products is really that easy. Use an existing collection to find the perfect color scheme and recolor them using the Hue/Saturation window.
February 21st Challenge Winners & Forum Schedule
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Heritage Layouts using Large Patterns
Method 1: Pair Large Prints with Small Prints
One of my favorite techniques is to mix large prints with smaller-scale prints. An easy way to do this is to use a blending paper template because the blended edges provide a smooth transition between the large and small print designs. The example below uses ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Capturing Life Blenders. You can see how the horizontal blended edges help the designs work together beautifully.
Another way to make sure your photo isn’t overwhelmed by a print is to use a large mat behind your photos. I created the doily in the next example by clipping papers to ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Circlets 1 Biggie. The doily mat gives the photos a place to cluster and stand out against the large floral print of the background.
My final example uses a border of a contrasting print to anchor the photo. You can use the larger print in whatever amount works best for your page. In the examples below, I’ve used different prints on the same page to show the difference the paper placement can make. In each example, I relied on Tip 1 to contrast large prints with small prints so that neither design is overwhelmed by the other. The photo is still the star of the layout because of its placement on the page with the horizontal paper border serving to draw your eye right to the photo.
February 14th Challenge Winners & Multi Photo Sketch
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February 8th Challenge & January Game Winners
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