FantasticDisFamily
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Ok, my dear friend, GS co-leader, and fellow scrapper says I have to attempt to explaing/share a layout idea I came up with. And since I have an open internet connection in front of me while my last, straggler student finishes (I HOPE) a test I'll try. You all know I'm no good at trying to actually make a photo available!
I'm working on DS's freshmen year in HS right now (and have to say all the different stuff is fun!) and was up to the spring musical. He has turned into a theater techie and I wanted to illustrate that somehow in the layout - not just the journalling. And I certainly had NOT climbed all the way up to the top catwalk to get photo of him doing his thing during the show.
The show was "Grease" so I decided to do all black background not only for the darkness of the theater but also that 50s feel (older scrapbooks used black pages). Then I took a template I had that was actually one of those school theme sets with a pennant and megaphone. Using the top small circle and body of the megaphone I cut these shapes out in yellow (to symbolize light) and angled them on the page. I did a two page layout so they both angled towards the center (spine).
The small circle was set about 2 inches from the top, outside corner. I traced around it, leaving a tiny bit of black between the yellow and the silver ink. Then I ran straight lines from the outer edge of the circle (oval) to the edge of the paper and made several lines inside this - the effect is that of a theater spotlight!
Ok, I hope that description gives you a visual! And that it sparks an idea for someone.
Deb
I'm working on DS's freshmen year in HS right now (and have to say all the different stuff is fun!) and was up to the spring musical. He has turned into a theater techie and I wanted to illustrate that somehow in the layout - not just the journalling. And I certainly had NOT climbed all the way up to the top catwalk to get photo of him doing his thing during the show.
The show was "Grease" so I decided to do all black background not only for the darkness of the theater but also that 50s feel (older scrapbooks used black pages). Then I took a template I had that was actually one of those school theme sets with a pennant and megaphone. Using the top small circle and body of the megaphone I cut these shapes out in yellow (to symbolize light) and angled them on the page. I did a two page layout so they both angled towards the center (spine).
The small circle was set about 2 inches from the top, outside corner. I traced around it, leaving a tiny bit of black between the yellow and the silver ink. Then I ran straight lines from the outer edge of the circle (oval) to the edge of the paper and made several lines inside this - the effect is that of a theater spotlight!
Ok, I hope that description gives you a visual! And that it sparks an idea for someone.
Deb
