First Frost

The last 2 month I did a fantasy style workshop (by MissB) to improve my Photoshop skills. I already knew a lot, but I also learned some very interesting new things! One of the first things we learned is to look in a different way to the backgrounds in a kit. Let's take First Frost by Raspberry Road Designs as an example.

For my background I combined three different papers from the kit to get a whole new scene. So at first I ended up with this:

But I wanted a bit more drama in my layout. I created an extra layer for dodge and burn. But to get the real drama on my layout I copied all my layers and merged the copied layers to one layer. I converted that layer to B&W and instead of normal I used Multiply and lowered the opacity a bit (in this case 79%).
You can also easily add an extra fill layer on top of your layers. But then you have to slide a bit with the settings to get the right result. In the way with the B&W layer I know most of the times the effect is right.

A whole other look, don't you think?

My first since long long time.... with a picture by deathbycanon on deviant art...

Stephanie

Pumpkin Hollow

Another great new kit in the Raspberry Road Designs shop: Pumpkin Hollow!
You can use this kit for your Halloween layouts, but it's also great to create Autumn pages, just because of the wonderful variety in colors of the papers and elements!

I just couldn't wait playing with this great kit right away:

Simple Pleasures

 Hi Girls hope you are all having a great weekend
its now coming round to that time of year when there is a nip in the air and the changing colours of  the season
to days card has been inspired by this
i have used the simple pleasures kit but i have to say there is nothing simple about this kit it has beautiful colour palette and a stunning aray of patterens ,
and for all the lovely ladies that have e-mailed me for the details and what i use when i print the kits out  here you are
i have cropped my papers in photo shop to 6x6 size and then just printed them out on to 160 gsm bright white  paper on setting Text and image setting
the image is coloured with distress inks

Hope you like it
Dawnxxx

Fresco Italiano

Maybe not all of you know already, but I'm half Italian. Can you imagine how I jumped up and down for a minute when I saw Fresco Italiano, the newest kit from Raspberry Road Designs in the shop?!

Doesn't that look great! I love all the food in the kit, but the rest is also great!
I decided to make a layout with a recipe from my Italian grandmother. It's all in Dutch, because I don't know all the food related words in English.

Grass Stains

I wanted to do another kind of layout than I normally make with Raspberry Road Designs kits, so that's why I chose to work with Grass Stains. This kit is perfect to create little scenes!

I love the bright colors of this kit!
Here's my layout:

Made with Love & Barnyard Blowout

Hey guys! Just thought I'd pop in and share a couple of LOs I've made with Susan's beautiful kits this past month. The first is a page I did using my son's first homework assignment sent home from Pre-K. I used the Made With Love kit, which is technically a cooking themed kit, but I just loved that little apple to pieces for a homework page! I did a little cut and paste magic on the green postage stamp frame to get it to the same proportions as his homework page I'd scanned in. The red font is by the lovely Ali Edwards, and the black font is just your standard Century Gothic. This was such a fun fresh kit that I can't wait for the holiday cooking pages I'm sure I'll use it for this year!


This next page is one I started working on the night before the 9/11 anniversary. I found it so surreal to be scrapping such an event and to scrap my thoughts from so long ago, but as I'm sure is true with everyone, that day is still so fresh in my mind... even as I was just a little 19 year old girl in my first year away at college. I took the photo on the mission trip I'd just been on there, in NYC... in the Twin Towers, just two months before they were attacked. Anyway, I used the Barnyard Blowout kit in a rather unconventional way, playing it mostly neutral for a peaceful contemplative feel. I actually even desaturated the red and blue buttons just a bit to keep the monochrome feel with just a small hint of the patriotism the 9/11 anniversary stirs every year.


I also made this into a quickpage for you to share a photo and jot down your 10 year thoughts too.

Happy Fall! ( Summer Camp LO)

Happy Fall fellow scrappers! Today I just wanted to stop by and share a layout I finally got around to making with Susan's amazing Summer Camp kit.



Believe it or not, this is what it looks like:



Just goes to show you can get TONS of great layouts using RR kits- don't limit yourself to one theme!

If you like the kit, get it HERE!

Autumn Sunset

The Autumn Sunset kit is so gorgeous, that I just had to do another layout with it!:

The link to the kit is in my post from yesterday!

Autumn Sunset

Although it looks like we finally got Summer here in the Netherlands, after a very long rainy period, I'm so in the mood of creating layouts with Fall kits! Autumn Sunset by Raspberry Road Designs is one of my favorites to work with!

For my layout I not only used this amazing kit, but also a template from Fiddle-Dee-Dee's latest set Flower Garden: