Thursday THIEVERY!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

That’s right – we’re getting SNEAKY here at the Shabby Shoppe!

Beckie here, bringing you a brand new series called “Thursday Thievery!”…we’re going to select one unsuspecting scrapper and SCRAPLIFT (a.k.a “copy”) her layout!  Our mission is to continue to inspire your creativity – and learning to scraplift is a tremendous asset in any scrapper’s tool box!

We also thought it would be fun to showcase some of the CT members.  They’re the silent creative force working away behind the scenes with each product that comes out, and MAN are they good!  I had the honor of being the first host for Thursday Thievery, and I selected this gorgeous layout by Katrina (twentytinytoes)!

I just LOVE Katrina’s ability to put a bunch of stuff on a page and have it look perfectly imperfect – like  all those bits and pieces  just happened to land in a gorgeous arrangement themselves.  I can’t IMAGINE how many layers she has for each page, LOL!  But what I liked about this page in particular is that, while still being a beautiful collection of embellishments that make such a design statement – it looks SIMPLE enough that I thought even I could do it!

I also love Katrina’s shadows, the perfect font she used for the journaling – very dramatic like the colors of the Clementine kit.  And Katrina is a MASTER at effective use of white space!

Now is probably a good time for me to point out that I’m a TERRIBLE scraplifter, LOL!  I have such a hard time using templates and scraplifting, for some reason it’s stressful for me to see something so perfect and customized and imagine how I could do it differently.

So I started VERY basic in my attempt to replicate Katrina’s gorgeous layout – the layout design itself!  I rotated the design 90 degrees, used scallop borders instead of the decorative edge, and then added in the beautiful floral brush stamps.

I didn’t manage to replicate her use of incredibly detailed element placement, but I am REALLY happy with how mine came out.  It’s perfect for me and my album, and that’s what its all about!  I am pleased to report, however, that Shabby Princess and several of our Shabby Artists had GREAT success replicating Katrina’s layout design just beautifully, as you’ll see below!

If you haven’t seen Katrina’s work before, please be sure to see her gallery here…she has some incredibly beautiful and inspiring layouts in there!

And now to share with you all the INCREDIBLE layouts created by the team!  {Oh – and if you want to get to know any of the Shabby Artists better, or to see more of their work, check out this beautiful new team page created by Shabby Princess! }

and that wraps it up for me today! I’m going to sneak back out the way I came in… ;o)  Be sure to check back in two weeks when our latest THIEF will bring you new interpretations on another wonderful layout!

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