Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014 - (Page 142)

Let's play with color Fire and ice ! Blue, red, orange... it may seem difficult to pull all these together in one scrap layout. It's nothing of the sort if the layouts, with this surprising marriage of hot and cold colors, created by our team, are anything to go by ! proposed by Marie-Christine Meersseman Magnificent combos ! On these pages it is the background which is the key to everything. It is the same in painting, where a white background does not let you correctly judge the links between colors, whereas a colored, neutral mainly blue or brown, more or less light in tone, will bring out the hot or cold colors, according to the general atmosphere which the painter wishes to convey. Botticelli is a past master in the art of producing his paintings with a uniform bluish sky in the background. This pure blue in the sky of the Primavera (Spring), painted in 1483, allowed him to slide in his favorite décor - a very dark forest of pine trees for contrast. In this setting, he aligned three colors - red, white and black- and orangey embellishments in the latter. It is another blue sky which welcomes Venus in the Birth of Venus of 1485 and a development of soft colors with just what is needed of blond and orange to draw our eye to the iridescence of the shell and the body complexion of the goddess, curiously surrounded by a discreet black line which shapes her body, giving it a hint of the modelling of a statue while she is going near the river bank. 142 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - LET'S TALK LAYOUTS MARCH 2014 ISSUE 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Ideas
One layout, three options - It's your choice
Back to basics - Rediscover brads
Volume on our layouts - 3D effects and superimpositions
Honors go to the square - DT challenge
Anti-crisis scrapbooking - Time for toys
Mail Art - Make your talent travel
Discoveries
Meet the artists - Nina, Stephanie and Nina
It's trendy - Geo tags
Scraptherapy - Layouts which soothe the mind
Our furry friends - in the spotlight
Meet the artists - Our new European recruits Valérie, Julie and Elena
We have tried out for you
Rendez-vous
Are you a begginner - Then this page is for you !
Rendez-vous - on the blogosphere
Meet us on the net
Readers' Idea Gallery - Life in blue - Back from holidays
Tale of a Sketch #1 - An effective page setting
Tale of a Sketch #2 - A geometric layout
Winter File
Winter is a promise
Zoom on the snowflake - A seasonal motif
A winter with - energising colors
It's on trend - Wood on our layouts
Scrapping in escape mode - Journey to Canada and the Arctic
A mini-album with labels
Color File
Let's tame color - Second part
Different color combinations
Life in Yellow - The emotional power of color
Let's play with color - Fire and ice
Techniques
Focus on the ombre effect - Decoration, fashion and scrapbooking
Finnabair's secrets - Meet designer Anna Dabrowska and learn her techniques
A background page in 9 steps - #1: Masking and cropping
A background page in 9 steps - #2: Gently splodging
A background page in 9 steps - #3: Texture and transparency effect

Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014