Q: What is the most challenging part of scrapping to you?<\/strong> Q: What do you do in real life?<\/strong> Q: If you could only use 2 elements on a layout what would they be?<\/strong> Q: What is your favorite color scheme to work with?<\/strong> Here are Christine’s 3 Favorite Layouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n He Said She Said: Project 365 Week 19:<\/strong><\/a> Stolen:<\/strong><\/a> Featured Scrapper Challenge for your January 2009 Portfolio: Here is a layout from me, Stephanie, featuring the kit Villiage Market by Scrapkitchen Designs<\/a>. I was inspired by Christine’s big, bold titles feauting different alphas. I also found inspiration in her whimsical journaling and layouts.<\/p>\n Here’s Aly’s layout inspired by Christine’s BIG titles and bold paper. She used Frostbite by Julie Billingsly<\/a>:<\/p>\n Here is Teresa’s using Santas Bake Shoppe by Julie Billingsly and Misty Cato<\/a>:<\/p>\n![\"CNewman\"](\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CNewman.jpg\" "\\"CNewman\\"")
My name is Christine Newman. I’ve been digi-scrapping since April 2006 and I’m known in the digi-forums as “supertwinkle”.\u00a0 I had a copy of Photoshop Elements 4.0 and I had an idea to make scrapbook pages digitally.\u00a0 I thought, “Surely someone has done this before…”, so I googled around and found a wealth of information!\u00a0 It really opened up my eyes to the possibilities of what can be done digitally.\u00a0 Nowadays I scrap using Photoshop CS3.\u00a0 I use a small Canon PowerShot SD850 IS to shoot most of my photos.\u00a0 I take this camera everywhere in my purse to capture everyday moments.\u00a0 I believe the best camera is the one you have with you!\u00a0 I did Project 365 in 2009 and could not have done it without my little Canon.\u00a0 I process my photos mainly in Adobe Lightroom 2.0.\u00a0 I have a workflow that I have tweaked, and it really suits me.\u00a0 I do process some photos in Photoshop sometimes, using various actions.\u00a0 I love digital scrapbooking because looking back on my memories with the people I love make me so happy and thankful! It\u2019s also such a great artistic outlet for me, combining my favorite hobbies of photography, scrapbooking, computers, internet, and writing.\u00a0 I also keep a blog (www.listgirl.com<\/a>) and updated it every day in 2009 with my P365 photos.\u00a0 I also love to read, knit, make cards, and make homemade all-natural soap.<\/p>\n
\nI think the most challenging part is to tell the story.\u00a0 In 2008 I created over 270 pages and very few of them had journaling on them.\u00a0 I decided to change that in 2009.\u00a0 I ended up with only around 115 pages in 2009, but I really tried to make sure I journal on most pages and tell the story.\u00a0 The pages with journaling on them mean so much more to me in the long run.\u00a0 They’re the ones that I go back to and read.<\/p>\n
\nI work as a financial analyst at a high-tech company.\u00a0 I do annual budgets, capital acquisitions, purchasing, and financial forecasting.\u00a0 Plus a lot of smaller tasks that falls to me because nobody else does them, LOL.<\/p>\n
\nOh, that one is a toughie.\u00a0 I don’t consistently use anything except for paper.\u00a0 I can do anything with paper really.\u00a0 So if I have to answer this, I would say staples and alphas.<\/p>\n
\nI tend towards the blues and greens.\u00a0 But I love color in general and I’m not afraid to use it!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.myscrapbookart.com\/gallery\/data\/500\/20091111_Dare155_HeSaidSheSaid_600.jpg\" "\\"He")
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\n<\/strong>– I like this one because it’s one of my recent layouts that I tried a lot of different things on it and it looks cool.\u00a0 It came together nicely to convey a comic-book style look that I was after.\u00a0 Plus it recollects something that’s cute and meaningful for me and my husband.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.myscrapbookart.com\/gallery\/data\/500\/20090525_Week19_600.jpg\")
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\nI came up with this while scrapping weekly pages for Project 365.\u00a0 All my pages started to look the same and I just wanted to be more freestyle and original with it.\u00a0 I had a few months of “artistic” and “painty” period and this exhibits that side of me.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.myscrapbookart.com\/gallery\/data\/500\/20090910_Stolen_600.jpg\")
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\nThis isn’t my normal style, but I really love the simplicity of it.\u00a0 It’s got my favorite colors on it, plus one of my favorite photos of us.<\/p>\n![\"blogbonus-cnewman\"](\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogbonus-cnewman.jpg\" "\\"blogbonus-cnewman\\"")
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\n<\/strong>Christine (aka supertwinkle<\/a>) has font and title work that is absolutely superb! Using her gallery as inspiration, create a page of your own where the title or font work really shines!
\nHere are some examples from our Babes:
\nTracy\u00a0“love{s} how she puts words everywhere all over her layouts.” Here is her layout using Santa Season by Melissa Bennett<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i45.tinypic.com\/25hilbm.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v389\/scrapaly\/CT%20Layouts\/A%20SUGARBABE%20ALBUM\/WEB-Boarder-Featured-Scrapp.jpg\")
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