Melanie's Inspiration Point challenge.

Melanie is in charge of a challenge at ScrapMatters.com called Inspiration Point. Basically, she found a non scrapbooking picture from somewhere on the web, and the challenge is to create a LO inspired by that picture. It's pretty open to interpretation.. you can just use it to get colors for your LO, do a blended photo, whatever you want. I loved the look of this photo, though, and I wanted to use the idea of the grey side and greener sides somehow in a picture. I love how my LO eventually turned out.

Here is the inspiration picture. Doesn't it look so cool?

I found this picture to work with. It's from our trip to the Sequoias last summer when everyone was here on the weekend of Emilly's blessing.

I started a new document in PSE, put the picture in, and got out some brush strokes. Then I layered a B&W version of the picture over the brush strokes in the top right corner, and then a green tinted version of the picture over some more brush strokes in the bottom left corner. It's kind of subtle, but I love how it turned out! Can you see the difference?

I really love my finished LO, too! Everything for the whole LO came from different Erica Zane kits. I love her stuff. And I think the page is so pretty!! What do you think??

Desing Star at SM

Okay, so there's an awesome designer challenge over at ScrapMatters.com. They're looking for new designers, and this week the contestants are uploading mini kits based on THESE great colors:
I'm downloading like a crazy person right now.. all the mini kits are free, of course. They're all so great too! So, go to Scrap Matters, sign up for their site, and start downloading all these amazing freebies!!