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Discovery Lindsey
Krauss
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Let’s meet October’s Digital Discovery! Meet
sweet and simple Christine Fournier. Don’t take
that the wrong way! Christine is sweet and
simple in the best ways. We’ve all tried
clustering at one point or another but never
have I met a designer who makes it work just
every single time she uses the technique.
Christine takes her photo and pairs it with the
perfect color palette and then adds just the
perfect amount of embellishment in the perfect
amount of space. It’s not that the white space
of her work does the talking; it’s that her
designing is to the point, drawing the eye right
to her subjects and then to the eye candy
surrounding them. Whether she uses shapes, loose
embellishments, placement or even a little bit
of pattern, she’s got the perfect crop of her
photos and a nice page with a serene feeling to
it.
Congratulations, Christine, we love your
designing and it’s impressive how much
versatility you can display with that clustering
technique.
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Design note:
This layout started with the color of my
daughter's eyes. I wanted to really focus in
on their beautiful chocolate brown color. In
order to accomplish this I chose colors that
I felt complimented them in background
papers and elements and then built the page
around that.
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I Adore by ScrapTigz. Supplies:
Heart and Home collaboration by Designs by
Lili, Jungle and Fantasy from Kitty Designs
(Oscraps), Torn and Tattered Templates No. 1
from Anna Aspnes (Digital Designs), Resize
for Web and Perfect Action for ELEMENTS from
PTM (Oscraps).
Editor’s note:
Try loose layering. Don’t be quite so strict
with how you lay ribbons and fibers. Leave
the ends loose and the strands hanging and
you can imply freedom on a page.
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Simply You by ScrapTigz. Supplies:
The Twist Collection, Party Hat and Colored
Cardstock – Retired (Sugarplum Paperie), Calypso
from Holly Designs (Aug DAM Kit), Cherry Crush
from Kasia Designs (Shabby Pickle Designs),
Resize for Web and Perfect Action for ELEMENTS
from PTM (Oscraps), Paper Blocks: Personal
design.
Editor’s Note:
Review your color charts and pick colors a
little closer together for a serene feel.
Design note:
I really wanted the focus to be on my daughters
face so I used a small, tight cluster of
elements to frame the photo.
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Free Your Soul by ScrapTigz. Supplies:
Free Your Soul, Lady Bug Tales, A Twitter Talk
and I Owl you from Kasia Designs (Shabby Pickle
Designs), Resize for Web and Perfect Action for
ELEMENTS from PTM (Oscraps), Classic Date Stamps
from Miss Mint (Peppermint Creative).
Editor’s Note:
Can’t decide which background or patterned paper
to use? Blend them, as Christine did, and use
all of them!
Design note:
To give this page a bit more pop but not to over
power the clustering I blended my background
papers.
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Design note:
I really wanted the focus to be on
the crop of my son's face, so I used
a tight element cluster with minimum
background distraction to achieve
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I See You by ScrapTigz.
Supplies: High and Low from
Madame Mim (CatScraps), I
*Heart* Nature from Kasia
Designs (Shabby Pickle Designs),
Itty Bitty Epoxy Alpha from
Emily Powers(WST), Resize for
Web and Perfect Action for
ELEMENTS from PTM (Oscraps),
Paper Blocks: Personal design.
Editor’s Note: Cropping
truly is its own art. Next
favorite photo you get, try
scrapping bits and pieces of it
in separate pages. You may just
get multiple stories and
thoughts from one snapshot.
A
bit about me: My Digi-Scrap handle
is ScrapTigz; I chose this because
my husband’s pet name for me is Tigz,
I love to Scrap and, well, the two
seemed to fit. My given name is
Christine, I live in Spokane, WA
where I'm wife to Bill and Mom to
Logan, Hope, Meghi, and Adam, who
are all teens now, and furbaby Mom
to 5 cats and 1 dog. I also work
full time as a Medical Claims
processor and I paint my canvas when
the urge strikes.
I
found digital scrapping back in '06
after I realized that paper
scrapping and I weren't meant for
one another. I was brand new to
everything; I had never used a photo
editing program in my life. My
oldest son Logan taught me some
basics and then a few tutorials and
a bunch of trial and error later I
found my niche.
I
don't have a specific name for my
style: it's a mesh of white space,
clustering and bits and pieces (I
use bits and pieces from all sorts
of kits to create). I do enjoy
making tight little clusters of
elements to frame the photos I
scrap. The one piece of scrapping
I've never altered is the Alpha. We
have a very tentative relationship
with one another that I may one day
try to work on...
That's about all there is to me.
Crazy busy and lovin' that I get to
create in this medium and get to
create using the wonderful designs
of the creative teams I'm on.
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