Lift This!

Winner & "Lift This" with Nicole

First, let me take the chance to thank you all for participating in our first official challenge. We were wowed by all of your designs and shadow work.  The winner for our first Lift Challenge was a difficult choice.  Congratultions to ~Karen~ for her layout, "Hangin with Uncle Zachary" as our first winner! Vinnie will be contacting you soon regarding your prize! 

Now it's time for this week's challenge. We hope you all play along with us this week.

I was honored to interview and lift an amazing layout this week by Susan Dupre. I hope you enjoy getting to know her as much as I did. Be sure to also visit Susan's gallery at Two Peas in a Bucket. She is so inspiring!

 by Nicole

by Claudia
 

by Vinnie
 

Interview with Susan Dupre:
Tell us a little about how you started paper scrapping.
After procrastinating for three years, I decided it was time to start scrapping my little boy's life. I was in San Francisco visiting a friend, and I stopped into a scrap store. I bought a few things planning to start soon. I remember checking on line, and I found scrapbook.com. I immediately got involved in challenges to help me learn. This was in March 2007. I have never looked back. Since then I have grown as an artist, and I have been so fortunate to have been published and to be on mfg. design teams. Not to mention, I have just made so many wonderful friends out there who are fellow artists.

What colours do you usually work with?
The correct response would be - what colors do I "not" work with, lol. I really can work with any color style of paper. I did interior design before my little guy was born, and I lover every style. This has just rolled over into scrapping. I really love and do every style.

What are 3 of your favourite page designs/projects?
One is of my nephew, "remember". It is very close to my heart because he died way too young in an automobile accident. The other two are from that first year I started scrapping and are special because one shows my more playful side of scrapping, and the other is just one I love - especially the photo I took of my little guy. 
 
 


Who are your paper scrapping idols?
I found this extremely hard to do! I have about 1000+ artists out there that inspire me constantly, but these girls I have admired for quite a while now.
Iris Babao-Uy"quirky and elegant"
Elizabeth Carney"fun and playful"
Jen Jockishch"just plain love her style"

Have you ever tried your hand at digital? If so, please show us a few of your works. Unfortunately, no. I am still trying to figure out the ins and outs of Photoshop. To say the least, I feel intimidated by it. I have done Hybrid and ATC's. I would like to learn though.

If possible, could you please supply a photo of your creative space?
You are so fortunate I just happen to have a photo of my scrap room after I decorated it! Needless to say,  I am "not" the neatest of scrappers. I have friends that have seen the state of my space, and they know their life would be in jeopardy if they even let it be known the disaster area it is now!

 

Lift This With Vinnie! & Win a 20$ GC!

CREDITS

Welcome to our first official challenge! What is the aim of this blog challenge? To help improve your shadow and composition skills! Remember with each lift to focus in on shadows and highlights. Refer to first post on shadow article.

So lets get to it! I am so pleased to feature the talented Marcy Penner. I love her style, its clean and fun with the right balance of whitespace.

INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATOR

Tell us a little about how you started paper scrapping? 
I always kept little things and memorabilia in notebooks.  When I was in high school and started taking my own pictures I put them in the 2-up little albums and decorated those.  Once I had my first kid I started using colored paper and my own hand-drawings on my pages.  After my second child I opened up my own scrapbook store to feed my addiction... and it's been 7 years now.

What colors do you usually work with? 
Lately my backgrounds have been shades of white.  Before that, kraft.  With patterned paper anything goes.  The only color you will not see me use is purple.  ;)

What are 3 of your favorite page designs/projects? 
My three favorite layouts right now are...

Queen Bee

2010

34 kisses

Who are your paper scrapping Idols?
Jennifer Johner, Jamie Waters, Jen Jockish...the J's.  ;)

Have you ever tried your hand at digital?
I haven't... other than the cards I design for my photography clients... but those are usually super simple.

Do you mind showing us a photo of your creative space?
You can view pics of my space here (although since those photos it's changed a bit... and hopefully in a year or so our additional will be finished and I'll be moving my space into the loft!)

By Me -

CREDITS

By Nicole -

By Claudia -
 

Post your pages at www.twopeasinabucket.com, link back here. The best page layout recieves a $20 Gift Certificate to 2Peas!

RULES: You can use whatever products you like, but to qualify for the prize you must use all 2Peas supplies.

Have fun!

Lift This!

Coming soon on the 17th of March

A challenge where we study the paper scrapped page, not just for design but for depth. The aim of each challenge is to create a page copied or inspired by a page created with tangible objects. You can create using whatever style and drift as far off from the original as you like. Just as long as you challenge yourself to get the shadows and light right by studying them on the original.

Want to know a pet hate of mine in digi-scrapping?
When digi-scrapped layouts have no shadows.

Of course I understand when a page doesn't require any shadows, especially if its a graphical styled page. But if you're going to use something like a button, please, create shadows!
I talk about shadows in my book, why? Because I think some of us can forget the importance of shadows and light on a page. Look around you, every object you see has light and shadow. Without light and shadow, objects will loose its definition and appear flat and 2D. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of my eyes adjusting to a 2D kind of world. It's the same with our pages, if you want something to appear 3d, you create highlights and shadows. Do your eyes a favor and start perfecting this skill.

I've always thought, that if you can train your eyes to see light and shadows on an object, then you are another step closer to becoming a great artist. Observe some of the beautiful paintings out there, appreciate the artists attention to translating light and shadow.

As digi-scrappers, the only thing we would really need to perfect is our cast shadow making skills. Sometimes we will need to improve the light and shadows on an object by playing with our bevel effects layer, but mostly just the shadows which the objects will cast.

Here's an excellent article at Dummies.com called Drawing Light and Shadows. It's not aimed at us digi-scrappers, but the principle should be applied to digi-scrapping. I encourage you all to read it, I think you will gain some valuable insight on how to perfect your shadows.

Catch you on the 17th for our first official challenge!