Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Less is More!

Recently my teamies & I decided to base some layouts on a few sketches to get us out of a creative block. We got too used to doing layouts in our own style & thought we needed to break the mould a bit. I am always struggling with minimal so based this page on a Shimelle Laine idea from SI. I used a single rubber stamp for all the flourishes & it was quite tricky to achieve but I am very glad I kept at it, as I am pleased with the results. This is my Dad in Oz. The trouble I had was getting a photo. I have found that photos of photos are always harder to get crisp!

10 comments:

  1. Fab layout Paula, I love those flourishes. I really like the simplicity of the page it makes the photo stand out more

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  2. gorgeous LO Paula, love how you used the flourishes, fab idea.

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  3. Anonymous10:16 am

    Great Layout the minimal look suits the photo

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  4. Fab LO & less in this case is definately more!!

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  5. Anonymous11:11 pm

    love this layout! I am always hesitant to use white as a background on a page, but the hints of blue totally worked out for this page..

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  6. This is beautiful Paula, I love the simplicity of it! The flourishes.... stunning, really gorgeous stamps!!

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  7. Yes you rawked the flourishes , grrl ! wonderful idea ! less is always more ! I just lost hte scrappin' mojo probably because I don't have fab pics to work with ! i have album loads of pics but they just dont seem fab enough to scrap ! oh well !

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  8. Anonymous12:19 am

    It's great -- no trouble with minimal any longer, I'd say!

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  9. Wonderful, wonderful!!! :D :D Brilliant layout!

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