A Contest

Go Digital Scrapbooking has begun the first round of their Supreme Team IV Contest. I was only one of the 164 to sign up!

We were given a great looking kit by Andrea Gold. All deep purples and blues. The colours were gorgeous! The elements beautiful. Only one thing, being called Winter Frosting you can imagine a lot of snowflakes, mittens and a snowman. Not very helpful here in Florida where we are decidedly snow free.
The pieces that called to me at first sight were the cardboard paper and the knotted ribbon. Once I had downloaded and unzipped the files I opened my 6x4 page and placed my favourite paper, adjusted in size and rotated. Because the challenge is about using the kit for a layout I did not concentrate on pictures. Instead I used two blank rectangles placed on my paper to 'place-hold'. Using my other favourite element, the knotted ribbon, I began wrapping the portrait picture. I wanted it to squish, like this:

image from NBC

After playing with the liquify tool I had to admit defeat. I wasn't getting it. Instead I used the wrapped ribbon provided in the kit. I also put the matching ribbons behind everything.

I chose two background papers to mat my pictures. I didn't want them to frame, just stack. This is hard for me because I love symmetry and balance, but feel scrapping should seem natural. The transform tool let me find that look as I adjusted the size. With the themed ribbons and mats, my page looked very purple.

Using the eyedropper on the colour swatch provided, I painted over the torn cardboard with the color replacement tool to make it a coordinated blue.

To show the judges my creativity I wanted to use a snowflake as something else. One look at the paper snowflake and I knew it could be photo corners, just by clipping it into quarters. Looking back, I should have changed my picture to a square and used the flake as is. By layering a copy of the flake above and below my picture layer, I was able to erase the top flake where I wanted the photo corner to poke through.

I used one of the provided tags for my, undecided, title. I made a hole in the picture so it would appear to be punched together with the eyelet. I also added staples and the paperclip to look as though they were holding everything down. After the difficulty of selecting my pictures, a title was easily chosen. Drop shadows added were the final step, and here is my finished layout.

Posting my layout in the gallery I join all those waiting to see if we go on to the next round. Whether I move on or not, I have a scrapbook page I enjoy.