Of Pinks and Fairy Tales

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Scrapping Fairy Tales Design Quest - Week 2 FREEBIE

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In the Philippines, November 1 (All Saint's Day) is celebrated as a national holiday. On November 1, we make our annual pilgrimage to the cemeteries to visit our dearly departed. This is a very big holiday here, and for most people, wherever in the country/world they are, they make an effort to come home on November 1 for this annual visit. Though this should have been more appropriate for November 2 (All Soul's Day), we have always celebrated this tradition on November 1.

Since November 1 is approaching, I decided to use this as my theme for this week's challenge. My elements are inspired by our traditions to bring flowers, light candles, and offer prayers on this day. Though in my elements.. I don't have a candle. It was taking me too long to make one and I was so afraid of missing the deadline so I skipped it.

Anyway, we were given 2 monotonous palettes to choose from. After picking our palette, we were supposed to add a color "pop". This is my palette:

I will have to admit that I must have gone through 4 or 5 palette changes until I managed to make enough elements for this challenge using this palette (so yeah, now I have a lot of extra elements in different colors, haha). I even went so far as to take out our dusty DSLR to take photos to make elements (some of which actually did end up in the kit, yey!!).

And here is my kit for this week:

I also received some feedback after the kit had been quality checked. I learned a lot from that feedback! I'm so glad I joined this challenge if only for that. For one, it was the first time I heard about "gamut" and after a little research, I now know what "gamut" is and how to correct "out of gamut" issues. YEY!! :D

Here is the link to the gallery where you can find my download link. You can also check out the contributions of the other challenge participants while you're there.

Enjoy! :)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lil Lovebug

Elements from Lil Lovebug kit by Love Ewe Designs

I was looking for photos for this challenge over at Gingerscraps and I saw this and thought it was perfect for the kit because Andrea's dress has a little lady bug on it. And then I realized she has a lot of photos wearing this dress. And then I realized that it was because she didn't have a lot of dresses then. And then I realized she still doesn't have a lot of dresses now. I guess we are just not dress people. We are more the jeans-and-tshirt type... or at least I am, and I control the purchases in this family ;)

The only time she had quite a few dresses was the time I was learning how to sew. Maybe it is time to start sewing again.

This layout is for Gingerscraps' Mini Kit Challenge for October.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Mediterranean Meander by Studio4 Designworks

Something I didn't get to announce last week but I joined the Creative Team for Studio4 Designworks! I was so excited about it because I've been familiar with Darlene's work at theStudio and her kits are really pretty.

Anyway, for my first assignment for Studio4 Designworks:

Studio4 Designworks: This kit highlights "Nature" in general. Growing up, I was surrounded by nature with a little creek down at the end of our street. We'd pack a lunch and go for all day hike or bike rides. Throw in a little Mediterranean flare and I've created this kit that you can scrap your magic with. Purples, Greens and Browns all add to the feel of the Mediterranean or just plain outdoors in general. It contains 57 elements and 18 papers - all created in high resolution - 300 dpi format. Be sure to check out the Add-On Papers that co-ordinate so well with this kit. Shadows are for preview purposes only. S4Hire, S4O & Personal Use.

There are other derivatives available for this kit. Get the bundle, which includes the kit and the derivatives, to get big savings!