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January 2008

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Discovery Drive

Lindsey Krauss

Welcome to Discovery Drive, the first of the New Year! Please welcome Heather Lough to the discovery map!! Heather was so much fun to work with! She seems so dedicated to her family and to her work – so thorough!

Heather’s work is just so much fun, too. I love her use of large and bold shapes, and she’s certainly not afraid of color, either!! You can just feel the love and work on every page. Her memories are all perfectly captured with loud and loving messages. Don’t forget to check out her wonderfully out-of-the-box uses for so many supplies we use every day: look for ribbon as a monogram letter, balance of stars and flowers, and photo corners as directives. Fun!! Congratulations, Heather!!

	Editor's note: This title technique is the perfect way to set up the pictures. Excellent job!
Baby, You're on a Roll by Heather Lough. Supplies: Paper: Scrapworks, Cardstock: Bazzill, Letter stickers: American Crafts, Chipboard arrow: Deluxe Designs, Ribbon: May Arts, Brads: ScrapArts, Ink: Ranger, Scrapbook kit: Personal Scrapper March 2007. Journaling: I thought Owen was never going to roll over. We really didn't leave him on the floor much, and when we did, he did not like to be on his tummy. He finally rolled over from back to front when he was 7 months old. When he rolled over though, which he didn't do very often, he was not happy. A month later, he rolled over back to his back from front. Once he figured out how to do that, he was much happier. Now he rolls over to his tummy as soon as you put him down, and he'll roll across the floor 3 or 4 times. It's just the beginning of him being completely mobile, which is exciting, but also scary. Design notes: It seemed like forever before my third child would roll over, and when he finally got it down, I snapped these great shots of him in the act. He actually was rolling over from right to left (he always rolled that direction), but because I wanted the movement to flow from left to right, I flipped the digital photos horizontally, making a mirror image of the original photo. I then grouped the three photos together and printed them out as a single image. I printed the journaling out on the edge of a piece of cardstock and used that to matte the photo montage. In addition to showing the movement with the photos, I also wanted to show movement with the title, so I sketched out the big swirl and then placed letter stickers on the swirl and finished it off with a swirl arrow at the end.


3 Siblings by Heather Lough, Supplies: Paper: My Mind's Eye, Number sticker, Fabric tag: Junkitz, Rub-ons: Making Memories, ChatterBox, Metal word: Pressed Petals, Foam stamp: Making Memories, Chipboard photo corner: Junkitz, Acetate letters: Heidi Swapp for Advantus, Paint: DecoArt. Journaling: 100% Pure Love Design notes: My main photography subject is my children. I can usually only manage quick snapshots, but sometimes I do put up a background and try to do more of a photo shoot. This particular time, they cooperated pretty well, and I love how these photographs turned out. You can really see the love my children have between them. I wanted the layout to be pretty simple and to focus on the photographs, especially the focal point photo. I used the large swirl and the photo corners for arrows to direct the eye right to the focal photo. I also used the acetate letters to show the first initial of each of their names, and I applied small rub-ons to them to show lg., med. and sm. to indicate their ages and sizes. The lg., med., sm. theme was also shown on the fabric tag that says siblings. I also sanded the edges of the photos to just add a little bit of a frame and to tie in with the distressed patterned paper.	Boy or Girl? by Heather Lough. Supplies: Paper: Pebbles, Inc., Fabric Labels: Junkitz, Chipboard letters: Pressed Petals, Chipboard photo corner: Junkitz, Letter and foam stickers: American Crafts, Rubons: BasicGrey, Clear acrylic embellishments: Heidi Swapp, Ricrac: JoAnn Craft Essentials, Ribbon: Michaels, Paint: Making Memories, DecoArt, Pen: Uni-ball Signo, Other: Kraft Paper. Journaling: Pregnant w/ baby #3. Already have a boy and girl - both of which we knew before birth. This is our last chance (we think) to be surprised. It is both exciting but infuriating to not know the sex. Can't wait to meet our new boy or girl. Design notes: This layout really isn't about ultrasound photos. I wanted my main focus to be the title and the journaling, which I housed in the oversized arrow, which I just thought would be a fun and interesting way to divide the page. To go along with the boy or girl theme, I made everything on the layout half pink and half blue right down to the chipboard photo corner at the end of the arrow that I painted half pink and blue. I also embellished around each photo with either boy or girl accents like the ghost flowers or stars in addition to using different trims and fabric labels to coordinate with the boy or girl side. This layout is a bit of a departure from my typical clean style, and it was a lot of fun to put together and to now look at.

Journaling: What Matters the Most (on tag)

Our Family of Five by Heather Lough. Supplies: Paper: WeRMemory Keepers, Cardstock: Bazzill, Transparency: My Mind's Eye, Rub-ons, Tag: Deja Views, Felt letter stickers: American Crafts, Small letter stickers: Die Cuts With a View, Ribbon: May Arts, Buttons: My Mind's Eye, Other, Ink: ColorBox, Scrapbook Kit: Personal Scrapper November 2007.

Designer's notes: I saw a photograph someone took of their shadows quite a while ago and always wanted to take one of our family. So one gorgeous fall day, I finally got my family out there to do it. We've only been a family of five for a little over a year, and I love that this photo just shows how many of us there are and our relative sizes and that I didn't have to worry about any of the other details like whether everyone was smiling. As far as the layout, I kept it simple and clean. I used a lot of visual triangles with the buttons, rub-ons and orange striped ribbon to direct the eye to the photo. I also wanted to use the 4x6 transparency in a different way than putting it over a photo, so I used it as a place to house part of the title and the tag. I also could not find a large enough chipboard or sticker "F" for the title in my stash, so I came up with the idea to use the ribbon to make it.

About the designer

I am a wife of 11+ years and other than teaching a few fitness classes each week, I stay home with my 3 kids, Hannah (7), Justin (5), and Owen (18 months). Before having kids, I was an environmental engineer, and the methodical thought process I have from that transfers over into my scrapbooking with layouts that have pretty clean lines, although I am always trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and challenge myself to not be so linear.

I have always loved taking photographs, but I didn't start scrapbooking until I was pregnant with my first child. At first I didn't really think I was creative enough for scrapbooking, but I kept at it and started looking at magazines and increasing my skill and developing my own style. Over the years, it has definitely developed into a passion, and in the past two years, I have really stepped things up. The main reason for that is joining a scrapbook kit club. Getting a brand new kit each month with all kinds of goodies that coordinated really motivated me to get some pages done. I also became a part of the online community where I found tons of inspiration, motivation and encouragement. I also started doing the online crops and found I was actually getting a lot of layouts done, where before that, I hardly ever scrapped at home.

My goal for the coming year is to challenge myself to get more layouts done than I ever have in a year and to also continue to submit for publication and join design team contests. While those things are not my main goals, I feel that in doing them, I push myself to do the best work that I can. The most important part, though, is seeing how much joy my husband and kids get out of looking at our scrapbooks. My 7-year old daughter already loves to scrapbook and does such an awesome job at her young age, and my 5-year old son also loves scrapbooking but really has picked up on photography. If I can pass those things onto them, then that will be the biggest reward.

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