This is the last in the current series of readers challenges – though we’ll be back after the school holidays with another really cool set of challenges based on different scrapbooking styles – we look forward to introducing that to you. In the meantime, the design team have been playing with making their own transparencies… this can be done in a whole load of different ways from digital to stamping and painting and more.
We would love to see your interpretations on this theme! Please send your layouts incorporating transparencies that you’ve created yourself by midday next TUESDAY 5 April though – it’s a day earlier than usual but we’re revving up for the school holidays here! Please email to aussiedt@iinet.net.au.
Sue doesn't often create hybrid layouts as she says it seems to take her ages to decide what she wants to use and she gets often gets sidetracked! Having said that though, Sue really enjoyed creating this layout and is happy with the result. She used digital brushes by Ali Edwards to create images that could be printed out onto inkjet transparency.
Although Sue could have coloured the images to suit her layout, she liked the contrast the black images gave to the soft colours of the patterned papers. The fantastic thing about transparent elements is that you can position whatever you like underneath them to create more depth to your layout and the transparent elements pull the design together.
The photos Sue scrapped are older ones of her son Bailey watching pelicans at the beach when he was five. Sue recently rediscovered the photos and just had to scrap them. The colours from the mix of papers really complemented the photos well. Sue of course finished the layout with some stitching and also by hand stitching a few blue sequins to the design to continue with her circle feature.
The current essence of her 9 year old can probably only be captured in a photograph with his skateboard in tow, Suz acknowledges. He’s a rag tag boy who’s obsessed with skating and shoe brands and won’t have his hair cut and this photo pretty much sums him up.
To showcase the photo authentically, Suz created two different types of transparencies with Crafter’s Workshop templates. On one transparency she blended different shades of Stazon to make the sunburst pattern, and on the second she painted over the template in white gesso, and then sprayed with Glimmer Mist to create different shades. She then shredded the transparencies into smaller patches and stitched them directly onto the photo. Finally, Suz added a Heidi Swapp ‘escape’ transparency from the stamp in the top corner.
