Scraplex: bootcamp

Here are some more layouts I completed with bootcamp and speed scraps over at gingerscraps.net... awesome! I even won layout of the week with the Create chalk scene layout... I think I'm getting better!!!

So this week, my bootcamp exercise was to incorporate shadowing into my layouts. It was very difficult since I was also learning a new program in the midst and exemplifying classic ADD symptoms that accompany learning something new and exciting. I played a little too much with the photo editing and all the neat, cool stuff I could do and didn't hunker down and get my assignment done until late!!! But... I just made the deadline... so its all gravy baby. I used a couple free kits for this one and used a picture of Rowan from last year... I love these pictures of him... its amazing to see how much of a baby he was just less than a year ago... *sigh*

So... in bootcamp, we are doing this thing called "white space"... its a tutorial on using white space to draw attention to your subject... here is what I came up with:

Today's post is dedicated both to my son and also to my digiscrapping boot camp challenge on the Gingerscraps forum. I created a clustered layout that I call "memories." I wrote the little poem for my son also on the side... melding two talents into one... Looking back over the few years he's been here, it is certainly incredible to see how he's grown. Pretty soon I need to take another beach picture to add to this one... now these shorts he's wearing go a few inches above his knees!!! How amazing!!!

Currently I have joined a scrapping boot camp. The goal of this is to help me hone in on my scrapping and photo editing skills while having the option to collect great freebies along the way! Every Sunday we are given an assignment by our drill instructor and it is due the following Saturday. It's been quite a while since I've been in "school" so this is kind of fun for me. And... I always like a challenge.

Here is this week's assignment:Using a photo editing program, crop a picture and adjust it so that it looks better... be it colors or sharpness or cloning. I also chose to do another portion and did the tutorial on black and white photo editing... which you can see in my main page's large pic.

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After: