Hi - poki here with a tip on how to stretch your scrapping budget/getting the most out of your supplies. Back in my college days while taking a THEORY AND COMPOSITION class (I was a Music Ed major) one of our assignments was to compose a series of variations on a theme: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, much as Mozart did sometime around 1782. The melodic theme of the song had to be there, but our variations could take us anywhere we wanted. This was absolutely one of my favorite composition assignments, and I made about 6 or 8 different variations, changing the style, mode, tempo and other elements to complete my collection.
Today's post is going to show variations on Amber's template FLIP IT (which she graciously created just for this project)
We challenged the members of Amber's Creative Team with creating layouts using "variations" on this template by flipping and rotating it to get different looks (thereby, getting the most possible usage out of the supplies!) First off, I want to show you some layouts created with this original template.
Amber created this layout using her ORIGINAL template, with kit by Melissa Bennet SUNSHINE. You can see that she used an element (Bingo card) in place of a photo in the middle bottom cluster. That is another technique you can use to "change up" the look of a template! I like how Amber used the journaling block for wordart and other elements!
Linda created this beautiful layout using the FLIP IT original template with a kit by Karen Diamond PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. That white space in the journaling block, gives the eye a little "resting space."
Deb (aka Victorian Soup in TDC gallery) combined the ORIGINAL template with Kimeric Kreations HELLO SUNSHINE (available at The Digi Chick). You can see that she filled the journaling space with a large title wordart.
But now, I'm ready to FLIP IT! Let's start with ROTATE RIGHT. Open your ORIGINAL layered template and just turn it 90 degrees to the right, then work it just like you would the original. Here's what the template looks like with ROTATE RIGHT applied to it.
Nancy (aka NMarti in the TDC gallery) accepted the challenge, rotated the layered template and came up with this beautiful layout. I like her lovely vertical wordart title in the journaling spot. The delicate lace edge border makes a beautiful substitute for the scalloped border in the template. She combined the FLIP IT template with The Digi Chick designers SLAINTE (available at The Digi Chick)
So, let's go back to the ORIGINAL and do a ROTATE LEFT version of the template. Here's what that one looks like ... hopefully you can tell that I did some individual rotating on the text so it wasn't backwards in these examples. Be careful if you use the text that is already there without rotating or your could end up with backwards text in your layout. Most layout artists probably create their own text box so this will probably not be a problem
Conny (aka ConnyS in the TDC gallery) created this lovely layout using the ROTATE LEFT variation. She replaced the journaling block with her pretty striped background paper, and rotated her title to horizontal. Conny combined the template with Lauren Grier & SugarPlum Paperie PERFECTLY ORDINARY kit.
poki (aka poki04 at the TDC gallery) also created a variation ROTATE LEFT combining the FLIP IT template with Etc by Danyale COTTAGE ROMANCE (available at The Digi Chick). She turned the text in the journaling block to horizontal, as well as the title in the top left photo, and a sub-title in the journaling block.
Next we're going to see an actual FLIP ... FLIP VERTICAL (This layout variation cannot be accomplished by rotating 180 degrees, you need to actually flip it! - there will be a variation later that looks like a 180 degree rotation)
Jenni (aka Chaos Lounge in TDC gallery) created this beautiful variation with FLIP VERTICAL template and a charity collab kit called GUARDIAN ANGEL (It features her new grandbaby - congratualations!) She added a simple title in the journaling block, as well as a subtitle on the bottom right photo! What a sweet layout!
poki (aka poki04 in the TDC gallery) also did a layout with the FLIP VERTICAL variation combine with Kimeric Kreations JUST BECAUSE (available at The Digi Chick) . Notice the horizontal text in the journaling block as well as horizontal title on the bottom right photo ... and the buttons in the template were replaced with butterfly elements from the kit!
Let's follow up that one with FLIP HORIZONTAL -
Suzan (aka Smurfie in the TDC gallery) took this challenge and created her variation using the FLIP IT template and The Digi Chick Designers JOIE DE VIVRE (available at The Digi Chick) I like how she extended her title, and added an extra photo at the bottom! Great variations as well as the FLIP HORIZONTAL!
Now on to some two step variations ... for the next one we first did a ROTATE RIGHT and then a FLIP VERTICAL to achieve this look.
Heide (aka HeideC in the TDC gallery) created this beautiful layout using the FLIP IT variation and Jumpstart Designs MY LITTLE CAPTAIN JACK. I like that triple frame she used on the bottom 3 photos, and the element clusters that fill in the journaling block.
The next variation (another two-step process) is ROTATE LEFT then FLIP VERTICAL
Christelle (aka christellevandyke in the TDC gallery) made this cute zoo layout using her FLIP IT variation with MHK Scraps ZOO CREW and Stacy's Scraps Z IS FOR ZOO. I love that wordart title she made! And aren't those such amazing photos?
Just one more variation to go for today's article .. (you might be able to get more, but I just stopped looking!!!) Here is a DOUBLE FLIP - first FLIP VERTICAL then FLIP HORIZONTAL. (This variation can also be accomplished by rotating 180 degrees)
Chrissy (aka ChrissyC in the TDC gallery) created this beautiful layout by combining her FLIP IT variation with Kimeric Kreation ON THE WATERFRONT (available at The Digi Chick). I like her button scatter, repeating the tan color and creating a line to move the eye from top to bottom on this layout!
So, from one template we have 12 beautiful and unique looking layouts. No one would suspect that they were all the same template with variations applied (until you told them in your credits!) This is a great way to maximize usage of your supplies! And it's fun too!
Be sure to come back tomorrow, so you can join in the fun!
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