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August 2008

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Digital Discovery

Lindsey Krauss

Welcome, Digital Scrapbooker! Ready to meet our newest find in digital scrapbooking? Meet artist Amy Lemaniak! Amy is finding digital scrapbooking as the perfect outlet at home in Minnesota, and man, does she make it look easy!

It seems Amy can scrap just about anything – take a look at all the different subjects in just these four pieces! I’m thinking Amy caught the eye of this digital explorer not only because she does make this look so easy, but that a lot of what she does on a digital canvas we paper and hybrid scrappers kind of wish we could do on paper!

True to my own heart, I love Amy’s title work: combining fonts and sizes and colors and placement can really contribute to the overall tone of each layout. Just in these four, Amy’s use of titling mixtures create a heritage, professional, nostalgic and then romantic sentiment on each of the following layouts. All this from just a title alone!

That’s not all, of course. Amy makes digital scrapbooking look easy by her subtle layering and overall simple look – although at closer look, it’s anything but! It seems that design is fun, but message is imperative.

Congratulations, Amy! We hope to see you creating more and more!

	Design note: I used the grunge brushes to erase and soften the edges around the photo. Journaling: Grandpa Al takes you for a walk down by the river. The two of you have such a special bond. September 28, 2007
Great Fathers by Amy Lemaniak. Digital Supplies: Amanda Sok's Alluring Autumn Collection, Brandy Hackman's Stylize Paper, Lori Cook's Brush Set: Decorative Swirls - Grunged, Brush Set: Grunge, Brush Set: Grunge 2, Fonts: Porcelain and Trajan Pro, Photoshop Elements 5.0.


Photo Shoot by Amy Lemaniak. Digital Supplies: Lori Cook's Brush Set: Film, Amanda Sok's Ponder Collection, Durin Eberhart's ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Old Metal 5101 Super Biggie, Theresa Kavouras' ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Folds 2, Photoshop Elements 5.0. Editor’s note: Just look at all the lovely windows in this one! To make windows in your next digital scrapbook page, explore your options in paper tearing, folding or rolling, or use framing or slides as Amy also did. Design note: Using the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates, Photo Folds 2 was a great way to frame my photos and give them a vintage look.	This Year by Amy Lemaniak. Digital Supplies: Trish Yochum's ScrapSimple Papers: Story Time & Brush Set: Story Time, Angie Briggs' Scenic Route Collection & Embellishment Mini, Mandy Steward's ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Inked Edges 1801 Mini, Cheryl Barber's ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Copper 4102, Melissa Renfro's ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics PSE, Amanda McGee's Friendly Font. Journaling: This year, I want to cherish more memories. Design note: Brush work with ScrapSimple Styles applied.

Design notes: Applied papers from Love Always Collection to the Scrap Simple Folded Borders to get a folded paper appearance. Journaling: At On Top Of the World in Las Vegas in celebration of our 5th Anniversary... I wish I knew your secret to always making me smile. October 2007
Top of the World by Amy Lemaniak. Digital Supplies: Erica Hite's Love Always Collection, Brandy Murry's ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Inky Folded Borders, Melissa Renfro's ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics PSE, Font: Elegant, Photoshop Elements 5.0.

About the Designer

Amy Lemaniak is a busy wife and mom from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. She discovered digital scrapbooking 18 months after her first son, Tyson, was born in 2005. She could no longer find the time to paper scrap as she had before his arrival, but digital scrapbooking was just the answer she had been looking for. She finds most of her supplies at scrapgirls.com. Amy is a Layout Artist at ScrapGirls.com and works full-time at a major corporation as an Executive Assistant in Human Resources.

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