Karen Day

Thursday 31 July 2008

my first digi scrapping attempt!!!

i saw on the aussie pub calls blog the other day a competition for digiscrapping and thought i would give it a go cos of the awesome prize!!!

here is my entry with more info about the credits and etc: click here

i wanted to do a layout made completely from non-digiscrap-kit-stuff. i found a great site called Urban Dirty and ive used one of their textures and turned it into a page background with alot of cropping and editing to make it more urban and grungy. this is the one i used:


and then i used some cool fonts that i found for free at 1001freefonts.com and some urban brushes ive had for awhile.

i tell ya what - talk about using alot of layers!!!!! i ended up having 20-something layers with this file. but it was so much fun. im definitely gonna stick to paper-scrapping. but this was a nice way to waste a couple of hours on the computer :) it was some nice 'down time' for me.

wish me luck in the comp!!!! the entries close midnight 31st july Tokyo time.

it looks a bit gammin small, so click on it to see all the details if u wanna.

This is the prize on offer: Bamboo Fun Tablet - Medium

sweet!!!!!!! i doubt ill win cos there are some pretty amazing layouts on there! and this is my first try at it. but oh well. doesnt hurt to try!!!!


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in other scrappy news a french scrapper friend of mine - Sophie - has started off a free scrapbooking online magazine with monthly editions. this month is the first month avail in ENGLISH as well!! and it has an exclusive interview with THE tim holtz. so if u wanna go check it out here is the link to download. u will see the english version is the last link on the page:

http://www.scrapea.com/Zine/download.php

this is the site for the free e-zine .... but its all in french so i have no idea what it says haha

http://www.scrapea.com/

was a fun read :D congrats sophie!!!! i havent heard of this before :)

xxx K

6 comments:

TiteC said...

Thanks a lot Karen !!! i hope you enjoyed reading it !!

just one thing... I SO wish it could be a monthly release... but NOT !!
We have a new issue every 3 months... this is a lot of work and we're only two working on it !! (and I'm the only one for the English version!!!)

thanks again

have a nice day

xxx from France
Sophie

Kristy said...

well karen for ur first go @ digital scrapping way to go it looks great I just wish I had the puter brains to do stuff like that:(

kathie said...

Well I know nothing about digiscrapping but your layout looks pretty awesome, I reckon! Good luck with the comp.

TatumW said...

great job with the digi scrapping sweet! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, hope it's been a good one.

tatum xx

Renee Dowling said...

Hi Karen,

This is amazing!!! I can't believe this is your first attempt at Digi..

Reneexx

Wendy Smith said...

wow that urban dirty LO looks amazing