Transparency Layouts

Transparent Tuesday!
Each month the TTT design team creates layouts, cards and other projects using TTT transparencies on them. They always do such a great job and it's great to see all the different ways that the transparencies can be used!! Here is what they created this month:

Here is what Jen and Carrie created:


Here is what Chrissy and Nathalie created:


Here is what Chrystal and Lindsey created:

August Ideas

by Lindsey Krauss.

Welcome to A-U-G-U-S-T!! I hate to think that summer's almost over, so let's think of more ways to celebrate in the last month of summer vacation, ok?

Layout themes
my summer vacation
water fun
fun in the sun
beach day
swimmin', pool time!
summer fruits and vegetables
did your garden grow?


August shapes
sunshines all around!
cute cupcakes and candies
fruits and vegetables everywhere!
water drops
circles
waves


Photography ideas
shots of garden-picking
water fun - get your underwater camera!
cover up - get shots under towels, the camera or the subject
upside down - the camera or the subject :)
get around the ponds, lakes and oceans, and snap away
back to school shopping - chronicle it!

Aug Kit LOs #1

It's Reveal Day!!!!!

It's time to reveal the kit work from all three August kits. We hope you like what the designers did this month!!

Aug kit #1 is full of fun and bright papers and embellishments. Take a look at what both Chrissy and Chrystal created with this kit.

Chrissy's LOs:


Chrystal's LOs:

Aug Kit #2 LOs

August kit#2 is packed with cool fun colors perfect for the beach, summer, amusement parks or whatever you fancy! Check out what Carrie and Lindsey did with this month's kit!

Carrie's LOs:



Lindseys LOs:

Aug Kit #3 LOs

August kit #3 is packed with so much color and summer fun. Take a look at what Nathalie and Jen did with this month's kit:

Jen's LOs:



Nathalie's LOs:

August Monthly Kit Contest!

All three August kits include some kind of numbers, Bingo cards in kit #1, chipboard numbers in kit #2 and patterned papers with numbers in kit #3 so, this month we would like to see numbers on your pages! You can make your page about anything you like but it has to have at least one number on it. And remember, you do not have to use the August kits to participate!

The main requirement is that you need to use a kit from Transparent Touches, any kit. Please refer to the rules post HERE for additional details.

Due date this month will be midnight PST August 31st. Winner will be determined by drawing.

You can enter as many times as you like. 2 page LOs count as one entry.

You can post your pages in this thread to share but in order to be in the contest you must post your pages in the TTT Gallery under the "August 09 Contest Work Gallery" .

Step-by-Step - Fitting a square peg into a round hole

This layout is all about quick and easy with two very basic shapes: circles and squares!

What you'll need:

• *2 pieces of cardstock (or solid patterned paper)
  *3 pieces of patterned paper
  *embellishments


• *pens


• *don't forget your TTT coaster!
  

And here's what you do!

1. Set aside cardstock as your background page. Cut three pieces of patterned paper into 6" squares and round edges.

2. Ink edges of patterned papers and arrange with photo on top. Do not adhere photo, but adhere papers in the middle only.

3. Remove photo. Cut a large circle from dark cardstock (mine was a scrap piece!) and layer over and under three patterned pieces.

4. Adhere photo, title and embellishments. Include lots of other circle- and square-shaped embellishments like a TTT coaser, buttons, rub-ons and tags. I even doodled circles and squares on the final layout.

Have fun mixing shapes on your next layout. Show us how creatively geometric you are on TTT's message board and User gallery!

Transparently yours, Lindsey

Summer Photo Ideas

So the sun is out and it's time to get those bright, fun, sunny PHOTOS! Here's just a few examples of fun things to capture in the upcoming months!

With Fourth of July right around the corner make sure to get a picture of the kids with a sparkler, their festive outfits, fireworks in the sky, the American Flag, fun desserts, etc.

Another fun idea is to have someone move their sparkler in a continuous circle while you take their picture. Set your shutter speed really low and stay really still or use a tripod and you will get a fun look like this:
Swimming shots are always a great addition to your scrapbook. Of course you need the typical shot of the kids jumping in the pool or floating around but some other fun ideas would be the look on their face after holding their breath under water, splashing each other, playing pool games, soaking wet kids, etc.
Also make sure catch a photo of that favorite summer food like watermelon, popsicles, icecream cones, trips to the zoo, days at the beach, sandcastles, places you visit, your favorite place to eat, those beautiful summer sunsets, yardwork, flowers, boating, etc!

It's Sketch Time

This month I thought why not make a sketch using up some of those 4x6 photos. I always seem to end up with 2 random photos from an event that I just love but have a hard time putting them together on a page. Here's a great new sketch to use up 2 of those 4x6's you have laying around!

The Sketch:


My Example: