Step THREE: Select any ONE of the following to do to your picture or photo mat
1. paper piece or faux paper piece one of your pictures
2. Mat or frame your pictures in a word or number like this example
3. Crop at least one to a shape other than the original
4. make a frame and on the frame do your journaling so that your handwriting is the decorative part of the frame
5. Double mat at least one distress the edges
6. Horizontal mosaic cut like the picture on top of this layout
7. Holes in picture to reveal bottom layers. Check this
8. Use store bought decorative corner
9. Artistic Transfer
10. Try a quilled frame. Check out Lisa's example.
11. distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding
12. Make the picture itself a shadow box.
13. single mat at least one
14. add an interactive slider
15. Break away mosaic corner.
16. Use buttons as a frame or partial frame
17. Make one pic a Photo pendant
18. Crop at least one to a shape a circle or heart shape
19. Make a brick wall mat... Cut squares, stamp, mask, or put down molding paste and layer with brick. Here's an example
20. Make a matt using a scalloped edge with lace or ribbon to accentuate the scallops. Here's a great tutorial.
21. paper roll (or fake paper roll by glue paper behind picture). Here’s a tutorial on how this should be done, but feel free to improvise. Rolled paper
22. As a decorative corner use a doily or faux doily. Here’s an example
23. Crop your picture into an item. Not a shape, but an item. Make the picture look like a teddy bear, a butterfly, etc. Anything but a rectangle, square, circle, oval, or diamond.
24. Use a black and white photo
25. Denim frames
26. Use hole punches and eyelets on your picture or matt for a masculine distressed look. Here's an awesome example by Natasha AKA Luv.My.Babiez's.
27. repaint picture
28. do pleating around the picture- Pleating 1 Tutorial or here Pleating 2 Tutorial and here too Circle Pleating
29. Metal corners
30. add non-traditional decorative corners (use punches, stickers, rub-ons - be creative)
31. create a faux metal frame
32. Add paint on your photo. This is a great technique to remove unwanted background clutter and to make your picture blend to the page.
33. Transparency decorative corners
34. Water color a portion of a black and white picture like this.
35. Rolled Frame
36. Accent your picture by adding stitching to the edge of the picture or matt
37. Cut photos into multiple letters or shapes lie this Example
38. Instead of a mat use a frame!! That means it must extend over the picture and have the center cut out. You can place it anyway you want over the picture and any frame type transparencies count
39. Use a fan flower as a frame. See Sherry's incredible example here.
40. You must be in at least one of the pictures.
41. Use double sided tape and make a frame to your page. Here's an example to make your frame look like tinsel frame using double sided tape and glitter to make a frame.... hum anyone for a twist to make this year round
42. Make a photo banner. Here's an example
43. Use a round mat or frame but a square picture fit to the round. Here’s an example
44. Frame a picture is lace, ribbon, or trim
45. Improvise on digital effects. Check out this tutorial for an example
46. Use good old-fashioned round corners. Here's a trick for making round corners.
47. Molded frame or you can do something similar but just for at least one of the corners
48. Stamp frame
49. Make decorative corners by quilling a shape to attach to at least one of the corners
50. Make these type of photo corners.
51. Two picture illusion
52. Use decorative scissors on the picture or mat
53. Matt the core of your layout including embellies. Here's an example.
54. Use a heart shaped frame
55. Use paper strips- placed or weaved under pic as mat: example
56. Make a mat the same size and shape as the picture but justify the picture to one edge leaving me mat uneven on the other side. Here's an example.
57. Stack your photos with the biggest on the bottom to the smallest on top. Make a little pocket to hold them and place each picture on a tag that can be pulled out to view. Here's an [url=http://designs-by-ju lie.blogspot.com/2011/11/never-naughty -always-nice.html]example.[/ur
58. Create a mat of circle punches as a border like this
59. silhouette crop at least one picture (to make it fit the area on your sketch or scraplift place it on a mat that is about the size of the original
60. mosaic cut the picture mosaic 1 mosaic 2 mosaic 3
Bummer! I will be scrapping away today anyway! I hope I get to make the monthly one, but with working nights on the weekends (5:30pm-2:00am, Fri, Sat, & Sun) it is hard to make it for me I will figure something out so I can play though! Have a nice day ladies!
With all the recent changes to my life, I won't be able to host the weekend after Thanksgiving. If someone else would like to that would be awesome. I plan to have the front page templates reduced by then so it'd be easier. I can and will host Dec 1st however.
And Megan what time of day are you awake with the strange weekend schedule?
I won't be around next weekend at all...headed to KS to try to cram a lot of family events into a few days. I might not be online much the following week until Friday, either...classes/test/homework, dr appt in STL, kids appt, etc., etc., etc. BUT, if I can remember....I should be on Friday! I got a Kindle Fire for my bday this week, so I may be able to sneak in some random online times between now and then.
1st weekend of December sounds great! I could go for a 12pm EST/11am CST round! I have to leave for work at 3:30 pm CST on Saturdays, so I think that would be perfect and I will get home around 3 am on Saturday morning, so if it is at 11 am, then I can get 6-7 hours of sleep between work and scrapping