My local scrapbooking group offered up a "recipe" challenge. You randomly pick amongst several options (ours was Halloween themed) and then those items are revealed to correspond to various scrapbooking elements you had to use on your page. My recipe consisted of 1 photo, black cardstock, rubons, bling, stamping and inking.
I just love this picture of my son on his first day of playing soccer. However, being an action shot, it was a bit blurry. I tried converting it to black and white first, but not quite what I wanted. So then I used the "Posterize" feature within Photoshop Elements. It resulted in this cool, slightly sketchified (??word??) look like an old time newspaper.
I used old rubons:Heidi Swapp Rummage for the title, and some Basic Grey Wholly Cow All Boy rubons for the definition and the soccer ball and circle in the bottom corner.
Stamped a place for the date in the bottom corner using an old SU stamp, and embossed in white. Inked a mat to give a double mat look using Weathered Wood distress ink. And added some tiny bling to the spots between the four words in the Basic Grey swirl rub on at the bottom.
I was inspired by the motivational posters you see everywhere, and thought this simple graphic design would really show off my very cool son. ;)
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 GMT Views: 1559
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