{"id":55638,"date":"2025-01-21T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=55638"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:37:44","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-individual-style-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2025\/01\/tutorial-tuesday-individual-style-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Individual Style)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Challenge Spotlight: Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today I’m shining the Spotlight<\/strong><\/span> on Cindy Ritter<\/strong><\/span>‘s Photography Challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, and it’s serving two purposes. Her Challenge<\/strong><\/span> was to use a selfie on a layout, so now we’ll be able to put faces to user names! Cindy<\/strong><\/span> even obliged by posting her own selfie. Isn’t she beautiful?<\/p>\n

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As usual with the Challenge Spotlight<\/strong><\/span>, each layout you’ll see here will be linked to the GingerScraps Gallery<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for closer inspection and the leaving of praise. Simply click on the Scrapper<\/strong><\/span>‘s user name. [Editor’s note: whenever you see text that’s in bold<\/strong>, coloured<\/span><\/strong> text and is underlined<\/span><\/strong><\/span>, it’s a hyperlink. The work’s all done for you!] The layouts appear in the order they were uploaded to the Challenge Gallery<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Our first selfie is this very warmly yellow layout from pjm117<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> (aka Karen<\/strong><\/span>). Her choice of a spring-like yellow and green palette makes her selfie really pop.<\/p>\n

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This one is from zippyoh<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>, and I love the way she’s used ombre paper and pulled the palette from her puffy vest. Lovely contrast is provided by pinks and peaches. So pretty!<\/p>\n

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Ah!! The many faces of Katherine Woodin<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>! She has such a lovely smile, don’t you think? Going with black-and-white for all those “selfies” was a brilliant choice.<\/p>\n

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Stellar palette and paper choice, mdusell<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> – Marge<\/strong><\/span>! The shadows for her seagulls are perfect to give the illusion of flight.<\/p>\n

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Have you met lawyerlyn<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>? She includes photos of herself on many of her layouts. This simple grid-style layout lets the photos tell the story.<\/p>\n

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Glee<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>! What a morbid word strip… I think she’s aging gracefully. I like the spill of elements across the page, with her photos the focal point.<\/p>\n

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This is Alyssa<\/strong><\/span>, aka photocrazy<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>. By keeping her layout clean and simple, that gorgeous sunset and those two beautiful smiles are where the eye goes first.<\/p>\n

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Who doesn’t love a grungy white space layout? It really makes the sky behind pbhill<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> (otherwise known as Babette<\/strong><\/span>) pop… which leads the eye directly to her face. And the background emulates the colours of the desert.<\/p>\n

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Dorann<\/strong><\/span> (dorannmwin<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>) is the one in the centre, in case you don’t know her. Those punches of orange echo the lights in the photo.<\/p>\n

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Tbear<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> used a very similar palette here. That postage stamp frame highlights her photo and what I see first every time I look at it? Her twinkly eyes! I bet she’s a sweet, funny person everybody loves.<\/p>\n

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The next two layouts weren’t in the Challenge Gallery<\/strong><\/span>, but had been posted to the Forum<\/strong><\/span> thread. Ladies, don’t forget to post your layouts to the appropriate Challenge Gallery<\/strong><\/span> if you want them to count toward the Reward Collab<\/strong><\/span>. It’s easier for Missi<\/strong><\/span> to verify your participation there; she has thousands of layouts to vet every month, so let’s make her job a little easier, okay?<\/p>\n

Sometimes I wish I hadn’t removed the SnapChat<\/strong> app from my phone; seeing photos like Sams Scraps<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>‘ is one of those times. I have a bunch of photos of my son and me with these fun filters. Might have to reinstall it. Her palette works so well with those photos!<\/p>\n

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Here, princess-scraps<\/strong><\/a><\/span> has used some low-light New Year fireworks-related photos. Looks like it was a great party! The fragmented arrangement of her photos and papers give excitement and a tiny touch of chaos to the layout.<\/p>\n

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If I decide to take part in this Challenge<\/strong><\/span>, should I follow Glee<\/strong><\/span>‘s and Katherine<\/span><\/strong>‘s lead and go with a then-and-now retrospective, or should I use SnapChat<\/strong> photos of me with (or without my son)? Decisions, decisions!<\/p>\n

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