100 in 10, day 2.

We are getting some AWESOME ideas in the comments! How amazing would it be if every person who shows up writes one idea every day? We’d have thousands. I’ll compile ALL of these into a massive list you can download at the end of our 10, ok?

Photoshop Friday - ish 

This idea idea will take the place of Photoshop Friday this week. I’m in Chicago, and while I have Photoshop on my laptop I don’t have any pictures to scrap, and all my digital stash is at home. :) But I will point you to my relaunched, hybrid-friendly tutorial that is the Paper and Pixels Column at Creating Keepsakes Online. The trapezoid video is back! :D Have fun!

100 in 10 

So without further ado, here are the next 10 things on my list.

 10. Use a gradient overlay or masking to blend a photo into the background.

11. Paint with watercolors or watercolor pencils. Scan this in and use it as a background (there’s an AMAZING article about this in the new Computer Arts magazine. Click over there to read the online companion tutorial, just scroll down to Watercolour Effects. So awesome. (And I’ve always wanted an excuse to say “watercolour” with a u. :D)

12. Do a Google search for a map, download it, and use it as a background overlay. The layout can be about your neighborhood, your city, etc.

13. Along the same “map” idea lines - do a layout about the keyword “routes”. Perhapse this is your life’s route, or the routes you take every day to work, store, school, and so forth. Include a map if you like.

14. HO(ME) - Create a typographic treatment that blends the two ideas of “Home” and “Me”, and then create a layout about this blend. Perhaps it’s the story of how this came to be YOUR home, or your relationship with your home, or how your home is an extension and expresssion of your personality. Run with that. :D

15. Create a layout about the very last song you heard or sang. And yes, if it’s Elmo’s song, you have to scrap it. Sorry. (But if it IS Elmo’s song, perhaps you could talk about the influence that children’s music has had in your life).

16.  I saw an ad yesterday on the plan that had a phrase that totally jumped out at me: Heart of Lightness. Scrap a layout about these keywords. Perhaps this could be what makes your heart light. Perhaps it could be what it means to have a heart of lightness (vs. a heart of heaviness or darkness).

17. Scrap a layout (either ironic or serious) using the keywords, “I have arrived.” I think mine will be about purchasing my very first laptop that was JUST mine. Other takes could be items you own that are trappings of adulthood or parenthood, and so forth.

18. Create a layout where everything is turned at an angle. Easy in Photoshop: Shift-select your top layer and your bottom layer in the Layers palette, select your Move tool, and click and drag on the transform handles. (I can’t wait to see these!) Here’s a paper version:

 

 19. Stand in your very favorite spot (outside or inside), and slowly rotate 360 degrees with your camera taking pictures. See what kind of layout you can make “in the round”. :D

20. Create a one or two page layout that catalogues what you did this week. Or you can keep a log of what you did this week, and create the layout next week. :) Photos help.

Alright! Did any of these spark addtional challenges, ideas, or techniques? List away! Come back tomorrow to play again! We’re going to end up with an enormous pile, and I can’t wait!

Happy (non)Photoshop Phriday! 

 -J

Comments

[Melanie]

Stamp on the petals of a fabric flower - and do it digitally (yes, done right would very time consuming, but possibly gorgeous when finished!)

[minna]

Create new digi papers from your stash by putting one paper over another on separate layers and playing with the opacity and blending options.

[Angi Smith]

I look for inspiration at http://www.thedigidares.com/. I can always find something to scraplift there.

[Victoria]

Do a monochromatic layout using tints and shades or just one color (journaling can be done in that color or black/white).

[Chris]

Some terrific ideas so far!! Mine:

For a new twist on a layout already done. If you open each link in a new window you can compare them side by side!

I took this layout that was on layers in photoshop!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=140962&cat=all&ppuser=692

I removed the background paper and photo, then grouped the rest of the elements and turned them with transform > rotate. I then sliced the right corner off, and placed it on the opposite sides of the page. Then I gave it a new background, photo and initial as in this one
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=140965&cat=all&ppuser=692

[PeggyNC]

Scrap a LO about what "home" means to you.

[PeggyNC]

These are such terrific ideas!! Since I missed the first day, and I thought of another one, I'm adding another. I will try to add one each day (and hope I don't forget what's already been said LOL)

Scrap a LO with no photos (embellishments are fine, just no photos... let your journaling and/or word art tell the story).

[Fiona]

Sketch the floor plan of your home and then take photos from the doorways into each room, just as it is now (don't tidy first). Create a layout with photos, the plan in the background and arrows showing the direction of the photos. Maybe even a layout per room, with journalling about your family life in this room, memories.

I got my Mum to draw layouts of her childhood homes and the ones where I was a child. Great to have to go with the family photos.

[francine]

Take a walk outside and look for interesting flowers, twigs, leaves,ferns etc. to scan or photograph! Press some flowers in a phone book.(daisies are great)!

Crinkle up some paper and scan -- tissue paper and wax paper are my new favs!


Take pictures of textures and use for backgrounds after turning into PSD's such as bark, grass, stone.

This is such a fun link! Thanks, Jessica :)

Can we do this again sometime ?

[Liz Ness]

Creat a layout with one photo that is loosely connected to the story of your page. Be sure it is in keeping with the theme/overall message, but stretch the story. For example, use a photo of your son/husband in front of a firetruck, but write a story about how you were rescued from a fire and what that means to you. (This is an example, and I'm sure you have better stories/ideas). The point is, don't write about your husband/son standing in front of the fire truck on such-and-such a day, write a meaningful story that shares something important about you...a memory sparked by that photo of your son/husband.

[Luann]

Create a layout using song lyrics

[Katiejo]

Create a LO featuring you, wearing your favorite piece of jewelry. Ok, ladies you have to choose just 1.Tell why it is special to you, where it came from, what it means to you and so on.

[LivE]

Hi Jessica, I love the ideas flowing here! Chock-full of inspiration! (It's so funny that your U&R kids have been listing ideas of their own in the forum (thread on Lesson 6)--we should have been looking here in the first place! LOL ). Since I missed the first day, here are 2 to make up :D
1. I've always wanted to do a layout on HANDS. Our hands do so much: how wonderful it would be to celebrate even just one aspect of that. And it doesn't have to be our own hands-could be those of our kid, our loved one, our mother... and the photos don't have to be of hands either (or they could be)... :P

2. What about a layout about something so commonplace to everyone else, but which means so much to us? What makes it hold such special meaning to us? It could be an old rickety chair, for example, that one would think should be thrown out but which you treasure because your mom rocked you in it whenever you were sad... something like that.

I have no layouts to share on these because I've just been *wanting* to do these; haven't actually gotten around to it! HAHA!

Thanks to this idea-ball you have rolling, we will all have more layouts to want to do! :D

[Delwyn]

Create a layout about/including your work "resume"

[scrapinthyme]

I would love to learn how to make a Header (or what ever they are called) like yours above to load onto my blog.... as I love how your pic peaks over the top!!!!

[chris]

write down some things the kids have said today and scrap it,

[Susan]

Take a picture of something that means a lot to you, a collection you have or one piece in the collection or an item you have that belonged to an ancestor. Then create a LO telling about the item pictured. The journaling should tell the story. EX: 1. I have a pottery collection. I will only buy signed pieces; the collection is small in quantity. I began the collection with pieces by one particular potterer, Brian Van Nostrand who only uses clay from WV mountains. This is where I am from. I know quite a lot about the creator and I personally know what the pieces mean to me, but I don't think anyone else in my family knows.
2. My grandmother gave me her sterling service for 6 the Christmas before she died. She never gave us presents because she was too ill to get out for many years. A picture of the settings for 6 and journaling the story would make a beautiful LO, especially with a couple of pics of her included.

[Glynis]

Make a layout about your computer/cell phones/cool gadgets that you have. Imagine how funny these will be in 20, 30 or 50 years!

[Jane]

Take a favorite photo of yourself (or a loved one) and make a layout using the person's name as the title and ONLY words (or phrases) that begin with the person's first letter. Feel free to have fun with spelling by switching letters with similar sounds (if necessary). Ex: Title: Jane; Words: joyful, jazzy, jovial, just in time, jolly, etc.

[Share :)]

I think it would be fun to make a 7 page layout that outlines a typical week in your life, including photos of ordinary things like your car, the line at Target, walking in the front door at work etc and also include things like how much gasoline costs, or the combo meal you ate for lunch, what movies are in the theaters that you want to go see and things like that. I think this would be a fun snapshot in time that would be fun for your family to look at in 50 years and it's a little more fun that just a standard journal.