Digital Dashboard
Katey Green
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Welcome to Digi Dashboard. Here you can see some of the wonderful digital kits and offerings for this month by our own Scrapstreet Designers. This month we are interviewing Scrapstreet Star Contest Winner and Designer Janneke Smit. What set her on the design trail? Read on to find out
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How and why did you first start to scrap? I was introduced to scrapbooking by our babysitter not long after our son was born in 2001. She said I might like it. Like many other scrapbookers, I wanted to document and preserve the special moments in our son’s life. I bought my first idea book and I started scrapping making paper layouts.
What made you turn to digital scrapping? From
the very beginning I designed my layouts on my
computer, playing with photo sizes and color
combinations, scanning in papers and embellishments,
moving everything around until I found the perfect
design. I was familiar with some drawing and editing
programs and it was a small step to start designing
my own papers and embellishments. I downloaded some
free digital kits; studied how things were done and
one month later I had designed my first kit.
What set off the creative spark to design your own
kits? I think I just wondered whether I could
pull it off or not. I challenged myself to do it and
I could. In the mean time I was talking to an online
scrapbook store owner if she would be interested in
me designing kits for her and she was very
interested. That also helped me a lot to push myself
to figure things out and make it all work, for her
and for me.
Where do you find your inspiration comes from? I
am inspired by fabrics, art work and nature.
Sometimes color combinations inspire me or just the
photos I am working with.
What gives you satisfaction
with your design work (both creating kits and
layouts)? I am a perfectionist. In general it
takes anywhere between one and two weeks for me to
design a page. I do not work on it constantly, but
since I design on my computer I can open the files
whenever I can and/or feel inspired. When I finish a
page I am certain that I made the best page possible
for those photos since I put so much time, energy
and thought into it; changing things constantly
until I find the “yes, that’s it” feeling. When I
design kits I go for a certain feeling. I love it
when everything just falls into place, when all
papers and embellishments have that feeling I am
looking for and everything coordinates. I love to
have the “its’ perfect” feeling.
Does your design work alter
when creating layouts digitally rather than with
paper? Over the last few months my interest in
digital layouts has changed from "looking just like
a paper layout" to working with special effects on a
layout that you can only achieve digitally.
See Janneke’s Designs at the Scrapstreet store
here.
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