Challenge - Print or Stamp on Masking Tape

Hello everyone!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready to get started with this new challenge this week!

You know how much I love masking tape? Well I wanted to play with it a little bit this week :) and maybe inspire you to do the same!

Here, for this layout, I simply put my masking tape on my patterned paper and did the same sketch on a Photoshop file, trying to figure out exactly where I put the masking tape, so that I could write my journaling.

My journaling and the title are both printed on masking tape.

I chose not to print them in black not to get an overwhelming and bold contrast between my bright background and the color of the journaling.


Write your journaling and pick a grey color for it : it will look like it's more into the masking tape.

Choose a bold font for your title.


If you wish to stamp on masking tape, I highly recommend you to use Stazon ink (black or brown) or Distress Ink (and use a heat gun for this one to make it dry faster) because any other ink might not dry on the masking tape.


I did this layout using past add-on kits but any kits this month will look amazing. As long as you have masking tape! :)

So use some masking tape on a NEW layout, print your journaling, title or stamp on it and link it up by next Saturday, March 20th at midnight EST for a chance to win a $5 gift certificate to the Studio Calico shop!

xoxo,

Céline

Colors INSPIRE you!

hello everyone!
Today I would like to invite you to be inspired by COLOR :)
I'm a color lover, I mainly scrapbook color photos as my heart hurts to turn them into b&w but oh well...
I used this week this color scheme :

and here's what I did :

The painted background was made using glimmer mists and maya mists. Simply use a piece of white cardstock to protect your desk, spray over your chipboards or whatever you wanna spray on and keep the white sheet as a gorgeous and colorful patterned paper :)

Take care!

Céline

Text on a path

Im so happy that Jenn suggested digi scrapping as our blog topic the other day.
I have not digi scrapped for ages so it gave me a good excuse to have a little play. The best part of digi scrapping, for me, is that I can do a page on my laptop whilst watching TV. No glue, no mess - just one screen dotted with pretty-pretties to pick and chose at my leisure. And if I am truthful, I do acquire most of my digi supplies from freebie websites or failing that, make my own!
To demonstrate the next tutorial I made this layout below. I wanted to be playful and add a circular journal text style to match the mood of the layout. In Photoshop this is relatively easy but as I am not an Elements user, I cannot give you the tutorial for this - perhaps someone out there can offer a tutorial for us? In the meantime, download this quick tutorial (word document) from here if you are a Photoshop user to give you a clear idea of how to use this nifty trick.

You can also use this principal to make shaped text on your paper 8.5x11 layouts too. Simply mark out where you want your shaped text on your desktop page, print out on a piece of printer paper (to test) before you potentially ruin a good sheet of Bazzill and work your layout around that text.

I think the more we can come to rely on hybrid techniques, the more challenging (even interesting) our projects will become.

Hybrid Theory

Oh I know you will be fleeing to the hills when you see this title but give me a minute or two to explain a few things!

Hybrid, in scrapbooking terms, is a mix of digital and paper. You don't have to go "full on digi" to "get" that printing out digi supplies is a simple yet beautiful thing. I am both a digi and paper girl, I cant decide which I love the most but what I do love the most is mixing them both. Over the next few days Im going to show you my favourite hybrid techniques, one using printables (today) and one using shaped text to print out on a full 8x11.5 page. But let me say this, wasn't Jenns layout yesterday just gorgeous?

So, anyway, take this layout below. Its paper based with a hybrid of digi print outs - you would never know they were not from a must have paper line from the likes of your favourite manufacturers. From the hundreds of online digi shops including free digi download sites you can print the papers to a smaller format (not everyone has 12x12 printer capability) and you can even make use of some of those fab embellishments to cut out and layer to look the part.You see the journal card, the butterflies and the rattan effect paper? Yup, all digi and whats even more exciting is if you print them onto Kraft (like I have done) you will result in a super nifty "you wouldn't think it was a digi product" effect.

So to help you recreate this layout or indeed try digi printouts yourself, I have made a little sheet of cut outs for you to download.You can download them exclusively to the Studio Calico blog from HERE and there you simply click on the download button, save to your desktop, open the zip, open the file and press print (preferably onto Kraft, if not white or cream cardstock). If you do make anything with the download, please share it with us so we can see the fruits of your labour!

So are we selling digi to you? Do you feel slightly hybrid yet? Tell us your for's and against's and we can try and convince you otherwise.