Spotted on the way to the Rugby Sevens . Created with SharpShooter Album.
It’s Spring here where I am, but despite that we had the coldest night of the year last night. Regardless, we threw ourselves in the sea this morning anyway. Then it was back to work creating. Check out the sneak peek at the bottom of the email for what I’ve been working on :-)
I’ve written before about the ease of using photobook templates. They allow you to create a page - or a whole album - simply by ‘dropping’ photos into the spots provided, and adding any cards, paint or elements you want.
It’s a fast, fun way to document travels or those red letter days that otherwise might be lost in a camera roll, or languishing without ‘context’ in an old photo album or box.
One of my sets is the “Sharpshooter Album”. It’s great for creating pages with a lot of photos on them - like the one above featuring people I stumbled on one day as they made their way through town to a sporting event that encouraged dressing up.
It’s really easy to make pages that work together, with the simple trick of pulling a couple of dominant colours from the photos to use for the colour block top and bottom. In the case above, black and yellow.
I literally ‘pull’ the colours from the photos by using the color picker tool in Photoshop.
In the page below by Tronesia, the red from her toddler’s hoodie, and chose a complementary colour for the lower block. Where the colour in the playground equipment clashed, she turned the pics black and white, adding to the impact of the page.
So many toddler and kids photos are really busy when it comes to colour! Choosing one colour from them to focus on in this way helps pull the page together.
Here are a few more pages (by EHStudios, Sucali and Tronesia) showing how the colours chosen change the feel and vibe of the page (and also how you can fill some of the spots with patterned ‘papers’):
A SNEAKY SNEAK PEEK
Here’s just one of the creations I have made with the latest ‘Hear My Voice’ collection, that is coming to The Lilypad this weekend. I am really loving the imagery of windows lately.
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