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The Battle of the Creative Teams at DigiscrapAddicts.com is coming to a close!  I was just soooo excited last week when the Round 1 Challenge was open that I forgot to blog about it!

Anyway, our team Merkeley’s Menagerie has joined the competition!  There are 5 of us girls and each of us had to make a LO based on the current challenge.

The Round 1 Challenge is:

Since this is the first week, we thought we’d go easy on ya! Your challenge this week is:

White Space

Quote:
“White space is nothing. It breaks up text and graphics. It provides visual breathing room for the eye. Add white space to make a page less cramped, confusing, or overwhelming.”
-about.com

Make a white space (or negative space) layout.

Easy, huh? Not so much! Your team layouts must have a common color theme (examples: black and white; monochromatic; red, white and blue…).

Optional: For all you over-achievers out there, see if you can come up with a common theme or topic for your team to scrap, as well!

Our team chose the elements of our team as follows:

Color theme: Brown and Blue (brown background with at least one blue element)
Subject theme: A Sweet Memory and the title should reflect the subject in some way (sweet memory, wonderful memory, memories, Memory to Remember, I’ll Always Remember, etc).
Use of a Sepia/monochromatic photo

And so…uhmm with me loving white space and doing a few white space LOs, I decided to make my LO very, VERY simple.  Of course, it’s also a very sweet memory.

I Used

Background Paper (recolored): A Moment in Time – Kit by Merkeley Designs
Frame & Photo Fastener: The Oldies Frames 2 by Merkeley Designs
Journal Tag, Flower (recolored), brad: Dusty – the Kit by Merkeley Designs
Heart (resized) from Heart It – Open templates and clipped with a paper from Making Memories both by Merkeley Designs
Alpha & String: Chocolate Charms by Merkeley Designs
Flower: Making Memories by Merkeley Designs
Ribbon (recolored/resized): Hey Lady by Merkeley Designs
font: Adler downloaded at dafont.com

Click HERE to see our teams LOs!

I did a tutorial a few months ago about using scrapbooking templates.  Unfortunately, I think it was a bit confusing and some asked me how to use clipping masks.

Anyway, a friend recommended a program that enables recording on any on-screen activity so here is my first attempt!  LOL

Please hold the comments on my voice okay?  I feel weird listening to it. Hehehehe

My  quick tutorial resulted to this quickie scrap.

All papers and elements used are from The Shabby Shop Yours Truly Kit.

I did another page guys! Well, I was inspired by TaylorMade Designs‘ tutorial on how to make mosaic layouts so I gave it a wing.  I also used TaylorMade Designs’ Color Cast Photoshop Action Set and you can get it for free.

This is also another layout using just one kit!  It’s a freebie from Scrapmalin.com.  Unfortunately, some of their freebies are only available for a limited time so I can’t guarantee that this kit would still be free when you go and visit their page.

I only claim credit to the text and of course being the “model.”  Photos are from my stash from last years’ weding.