Fonts.
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The Creating Garden theme on Two Peas this month is fonts. Something near and dear to me. Love those letter forms. Love words. Love layering and maniplating and playing. I also love the convergence of traditional and digital scrapbooking. What a wonderful marriage. That I could create the above collage in Photoshop, print it out, and attach it to a page which resulted in this layout:
Some other pages that tickled my fancy this month:
So many cool pages this month. Love seeing how the other girls play with type. It is easy to get bound up or in a rut when using fonts. Or feel intimidated with ALL the choices out there. I have tons of fonts loaded on my computer. I find myself reaching for many of the same ones over and over. The just do it for me: Garamond, Baskerville, Myriad, 2Peas Hot Chocolate, Jack Frost, AL Modern Type(love most of those Autumn Leaves Typewriter fonts).
One of the great things is that products abound featuring fonts. Rub ons, stickers, patterned paper, metal embellishments - all these can be layered and matched up to create some of the same effects as in Photoshop. I think the key is allowing youself to play. To experiment. And not being afraid that you will "mess up." Remember, this is all about creating & having fun right?
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Love this, Ali! You and Rhonna are the queens of text and photos! The garden this month was incredible!
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This is just beautiful! Such feeling, such depth. Your work is so amazing!
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Font junkie checking in! I have to use some sort of text (besides my journaling) on my layouts.
WOW, WOW, WOW! That PS composite print is way too cool!
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Hey there! How you going you good thing! I'm loving your blog and appreciating it alot! I'm facinated to find that we have alot of the same tastes in music! I love Johnny Cash and Janice Joplin....I'm wondering if you have ever heard of Loretta Lynn?
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Each time I see something new you've done it's cooler than cool! I'm clearly going to have to ditch my job-share and play with Photoshop much more! Thanks for the inspiration
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The garden rocks...your work inspiring as always. One of these days I'll become more computer literate and play more with fonts. I'm inspired. - S
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lovely...
I am fairly computer iliterate but am trying to learn. One day I will invest in photoshop & such.
such an inspiration.
Laura
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WOW! Ali, that page soooo RAWKS! With our busy weekend, I had completely forgotton about the new GG gallery - I'm off to check out the others.
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Oh *drool* That looks wonderful, Ali!
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what a cool page, girlie! I love that you combine your loves, make them all one and they SHINE :)
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totally agree...sometimes the mess ups result in the best creations...thanks for the reminder...the goal is not perfection....it's becoming truely, comfortably me (spelling mistakes and all)...
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Loved the new garden - all of the different font uses were just cool!
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K, ONCE AGAIN, PICKING UP MY JAW!
YOU SOOO RAWKED THIS ONE, GIRL!
LOVIN' IT!:)
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Ali awesome LO! Truly an inspiration..
question...how did you create the soft translucent block sections at the bottom (looks like theres two)?. You also did something like that in your book with font. Is it a selected color? Or some kind of software...it looks like vellum.
Please share
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Your page is amazing, Ali! Wonderful layering of images and type. So cool. And thanks for all the links. Awesome pages in the Garden this month. You girls are so unbelievably good.
Annie
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Beautiful page! I do graphic design as well and am finally realizing that it's ok to use my skills on my scrapbook pages... LOL! You can still be a traditional scrapper AND a digital scrapper at the *same* time! :-)
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Ah, Ali...I am constantly amazed at the creativity that you possess! I can seriously sit and admire at your work for hours...always something to inspire me. I am loving the digi/traditional combos lately - a great way to mix the technology of scrapping with good ol' fashioned paste and paper! You rock, Miss A!
L
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That is like the coolest layout...ever! You've inspired me to take out my Photoshop books, this is so amazing! :)
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