Digital Supplies: ArtPlay Palette Sophistica, Happiness WordTransers No. 1, MagicFlares No. 1,
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New to the Holiday Album Project? Please see previous posts here.
Pages 8 and 9 of The Holiday Album are entitled Festivities, and I'm pressing on with the album in the order it was designed. In this post I want to revisit some of the techniques for selecting the right photos for the masks available in any given template and talk about the different ways you can use transfers in your pages.
1. The masks. The square masks in the first page of this spread are easy to work with. Most photos can easily accomodate the square shape format. Note how I have created a checkerboard effect with the black/white and color photos.
The masks on the second page, however, are long and thin and can be more challenging to work with if you have a lot of photos.
- Clip digital papers to them to provide maximum focus to the small square photo.
- Adjust the masks as I have done. The options for making changes to the masks in templates are outlined in this post.
- Select photos that will best accomodate these long thin masks. Look for images in which the important details are located in a narrow vertical line, such as landscapes, tall and thin objects or subject such as a tree or a standing person. I also like to use portraits. The long thin masks obscure some of the features providing focus to others. Work with what you have.
2. The transfers. I have more photos than I need for this album necessitating the use of all my masks for photos so I have had to get a little more inventive to include some artsy components on each of the pages. Transfers are a quick and easy way to jazz up any layout. I like to think of them as multi-color rub-ons with blended edges that have multiple purposes.
- Place them behind your photos to create a custom arsty background. Notice how the placement of the transfers on my page draws the eye from the bottom left corner diagonally to the top righthand corner.
- Mix artsy transfers and/or wordtransfers with other elements such as brushes or more dimensional embellishements.
- Clip transfers to papers already clipped to a mask.
- Clip a transfer to a photo clipped to a mask. This can be particularly functional if your photo does not completely cover the mask as might be the case with some of the masks in the second page of the template.
- Replace a mask with a transfer and use as an embellishment, a journaling block, are you could get really artsy and blend an image onto the transfer.
Would love to hear how you're getting along with your pages/labums? What aspects of this album are you struggling with? What are you enjoying most about this process?
