Challenge NUMBER THIRTY-ONE

This weeks challenge means the start of new prize draw month

Ok this weeks challenge I have decided to do a semi-scrap your crap ... you guys will be pleased about that!

Ok the challenge is "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue"

*Something Old - An OLD piece of patterned paper

*Something New - An item that is newly bought, it can be anything, but it needs to be the newest thing in your stash!

*Something Borrowed - Scraplift a LO from one of our challenges that isn't yours, make sure you let us know which one you scraplifted from(use another persons LO as a template for your LO)

*Something Blue - Blue must be on there somewhere!

Have Fun, ask as many questions as you want and ...

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

A HUGE THANKS TO MAZ.JEFF FOR DONATING THE PRIZES FOR THE RANDOM MONTHLY DRAWS

FEBRUARY PRIZE DRAW ENTRANTS

Challenge 27 28 29 30
phas3e 1 1 1 0
cranto 0 0 0 1
radar101 1 0 1 1
jasoncmp 1 1 0 1
bhs47 0 1 1 1
shola 1 1 1 0
dinkydmc 0 1 1 0
misskittydragon 0 1 1 0
tki-turtle 1 1 1 1
shanray 2 1 0 0
sue62 1 1 0 1
meg13 1 1 0 0
billie2 1 0 0 0

TM Scrappers FIRST Tutorial

I am the slide show lady, and it's pretty exciting to be able to put all your guys photos together so everyone can see. A couple of challenges I have done some collages with your pics and I have noticed that many of you seem to have trouble getting a real good pic of your LOs. I decided that I would do a little tutorial on how to take the best photo of your LOs!

TAKING LAYOUT PHOTOS TUTORIAL

TIP #1 ... POSITION
The best place to take a photo of a LO is from above. Stand on a chair or lay it on the ground and stand above it. Try to get your page as close as possible to fill as much of the frame as you can so there is little background mess as possible.


The photo on the left, I laid on the ground and stood above it, the photo on the right I put on the table and stood next to it.

TIP #2 ... LIGHTING
First thing is finding the perfect lighting. I prefer to take my photos outside in the sun. This is the BEST place to do it in my opinion. Make sure you stand where you are leaving no shadow on your LO. There are times when you won't beable to go out in the sun! So the best lit room in your house with all the lights on, even if it is in the daytime! Again try and position yourself so there is no, or little shadow on the LO, it is a bit trickier inside than outside.


The photo on the right I took inside. The flash on my camera went off and has made the pic too bright. The photo on the left I took outside, the embellishments on the photo are clear and easier to see.

TIP #3 ... CAMERA
Get to know your camera. Play with the settings. Its amazing what a difference different settings makes when you take a photo in the excact same position


The pic on the right was on auto setting .. the pic on the left I changed the setting ... BIG difference!

TIP #4 ... EDITING
I always edit my pics. I have the programme Picassa, it's free to download and it does everything I need it to. Photoshop and any other photo programme is awesome too!
...CROPPING... The first thing I do with my photos is crop them. Cut off the bits that you don't need!
...ADJUST COLOUR... I like to adjust the lighting and usually use the auto adjust feature in Picassa. There is also a fill light which I sometimes use if the photo is a bit dark.


It is kinda obvious which is edited and which isn't! All I did in Picassa was crop the photo then clicked on the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button and then used the 'Auto Colour' and Hey Presto!! A completely different look!

TIP #5 ... TRADE ME
Uploading to TM we all know how to do, but to make your pic look a little better take off your TM name when you upload. I always forget to do this! But it does look ugly at the bottom of the pic!!

I hope you found this tutorial helpful :)
PLease if you have any other techniques, ideas that you'd like one of us to do a tutorial on just let us know :)
I look forward to seeing your LO Photos!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!!

CHALLENGE NUMBER 30

Ive written this up on behalf of Vetc

Create a single page layout without using photos. Instead you could use a trinket, a lock of hair, write a letter to go on the page, what you put on the page is up to you as long as its not a photo. Start date today and have uploaded on tmmb by 9pm Monday 1st March. Any questions just ask

A HUGE THANKS TO MAZ.JEFF FOR DONATING THE PRIZES FOR THE RANDOM MONTHLY DRAWS

CHALLENGE NUMBER 29

Take an old layout that has really really bugged you and just dont like or didnt quite turn out how you wanted it and pull it apart and make a new one. The new one can use the old bits off the layout or totally new paper and embellshments, its up to you. You have to upload the layout before you change it and also the new one so we can see before and after. Start date today and finish date is 9pm sunday 21st Feb.

A huge thanks to Maz.jeff for kindy donating the monthly prizes

CHALLENGE 28

Create a single or double page layout with the theme BIG IS BETTER. you can interpret that any way you like. for example big photos, big embellishments, papers with big patterns on them. big titles etc. let your imagination run wild. start date today and have uploaded by 9pm sunday 14th Feb. any questions just ask.

A huge thanks to Maz.jeff for donating the monthly prizes

VALENTINES CHALLENGE

This is not the weekly challenge but somewhat of a side challenge if you are keen to participate.

I want you to take a photo representing LOVE ... preferably a new photo but an old one will be accepted. With this photo I want you to create either a Valentine LO or Valentine Card.

These are Due on SATURDAY since Valentines is on Sunday

Have fun and ask as many questions as you want

HAPPY SCRAPPING


Awesome job Phas3e, thanks for participating :)


my effort ... jasoncmp