Tutorial Tuesday (Potpourri)

To Theme or Not to Theme

I apologize for missing my deadline. I got caught up in a Christmas sewing project and by the time I came up for air it was almost bedtime. But I didn’t totally forget about you!

When I was looking in the Forum at the December Challenges I was drawn to the Mini Kit provided by Neia Scraps. Although it’s called Christmas Spirit and has a Christmas-y theme I knew I would be using it instead to scrap one (or more) of my DD’s wedding photos (from July) because the palette is PERFECT for them. So I downloaded the kit and created a layout that has nothing to do with the kit’s theme. And that started me thinking about how often others might use a themed kit for a layout about something completely unrelated. I do it fairly often, and figured we could talk about that a bit today. (Note to Glee… the light source is almost directly centred over the layout, but slightly left and up. The frame is holding the paper star down but the points are free.)

 

For this layout I used a Valentine’s Day kit, the GingerBread Ladies‘ collab Smitten,  to scrap a dog photo. (I know, I do a lot of layouts with my dogs front and centre. What can I say?)

Then I took a (very quick) tour through the Gallery.

Gingerscrapper dshepard created a layout with a kit from Magical Scraps Galore with a candy theme; it’s called Sweet as Candy. The subject of her layout is a visit to a theme park.

This pretty example from honeybee was created with Harvest Sunrise from Mag’sGraphics. No harvest anywhere in sight… but lots of love!

Then I found this cute layout from snojewel about pirates. She used a motivational kit from the GingerBread Ladies called Love Yourself.

And then I found this one from teamkobza about a fun day she had with some little people, although I doubt they were in Iowa. The kit she used is Travelogue Iowa from Connie Prince.

So here’s a challenge for all y’all. I’d like you to create a layout using a kit with an obvious theme but about something unrelated. It’ll broaden your horizons!

Mystery Designer 3/30

Here is our new Mystery Designer!

This is the sneak peek I showed you last week

There were some winners this week which is great!  The mystery designer we had this week was…do you think you got it right?  Maybe?  The designer is….wonderful.  She is working on making more templates for you because well everyone loves her templates.  Ok, you got it!  You were right!

UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS!

 Here is her full template pack!

 

Make sure you pick it up!  Before you buy it let’s see who gets it for free:

Facebook: Shannon Waily

Blog: Nathalie

Forum: bumblebee

I will be sending them to you today!

Here is your new sneak peek for this week!

Who made this?  Let us know in the blog, the forum, and on facebook!  You could win it!

All Fall Down Template Challenge

I am going to be hosting a monthly blog challenge here at the GingerScraps Blog to help you earn extra brownie points. This new challenge is call “All Fall Down.” You will get a template, but the pieces all fell down to the bottom of the LO. On know! 😉 I will have a couple of ‘rules’ for things the LO needs to contain other than the pieces that are included in the template. Other than that you have will have free reign on the LO. This is worth one (1) brownie point, and you will have until the end of the month to complete the challenge.

Click here to download the template. I scraplifted the “idea” for this template from Trina513 in the GingerScraps gallery. Thanks Trina! 🙂

Please post your completed LOs in the challenge gallery under the Challenge Layouts Thread; then put a link to your gallery under the comments section for this blog post. Thanks for playing. 🙂