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June's Sketch

Each month, the Design Team puts out a sketch and the members at Scrapbook-Bytes create an original, creative layout following the design of that sketch. At the end of the month, the Design Team votes for three winners to be featured here! This month's sketch belongs to Design Team Member April Anderton.

The competition was steep and votes were extremely close! All the participants did a fantastic job and we'd like to give all of you a huge pat on the back!!! Thank you to all who submitted a layout!

The winners will receive a voucher to use at our new online store worth the price of an EZine! Congratulations!

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Title of Layout: Fire Girl
Your Name: Alisa Jackson
SBB Screen Name: alisatj
Program Used: Photoshop CS
Fonts Used: 2peas gift on 'FIRE' and Zachary on the rest Techniques and Credits: Since the photos were so busy and colorful I decided to stick with a single color scheme for the layout. I placed the word 'fire' in different positions on the white block to imitate a transparency look. I put a vellum texture on the background. I also had so many photos I wanted to use that I placed two small shots on the strip across the bottom of the sketch. The journaling reads:

Annie enjoyed her time at the fire station’s open house. She got to explore the fire engines, wear a fire hat, and eat free snacks! What more could a fire girl ask for?

Title of Layout: Upside Down
Your Name: Cherie Mask
SBB Screen Name: chezshee
Program Used: PS 7 Fonts Used: times and times again, malermeister, elegant
Techniques and Credits: Photos altered with desaturation and color balance filters. Applied texture, and color overlays to photos and velum.
Brushes on background from Lilith. Cotton twill tape border from Ronna at SBB. Nail elements by me. Title from a song by Daniel Taylor. And of course the cool sketch from April Anderton.

Title of Layout: You are my Sunshine
Your Name: Dawn
SBB Screen Name: HuniBuni
Program Used: photoimpact 7
Fonts Used: Cathy
Techniques and Credits: for this one, we'd love in depth info on how you made certain elements or designs on your page (if unsure, refer to the Byte Ideas section in the newsletter for example

I created my own flower background and fabric textured then used the burn tool and a trasparent overlay to give it a more worn look.
I also created the flower paper and large flower element with the same techniques.

Other papers and Ribbon are from Gina's sunny disposition set color changed to yellow and burned and torn on the edges.

Old slide is Alison F.

Title of Layout: The Geese At Lions Lake
Your Name: Tracey Lee SBB
Screen Name: mommymonster
Program Used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Fonts Used: Mailbomb, Hemingway, and 1942 Report
Techniques and Credits: I wanted the background to look 'drybrushed', so I chose some grungy brushes (all from Truly-Sarah.com) and then, using the sketch as a guide, I 'stamped' the background using various brushes, until I was happy with the way that each block looked. Once I added the pictures, i roughed up the edges by 'stamping' the same brushes around the edges. I chose a grungy font, Mailbomb, for the title, and accented it with a script font, Hemingway. I used a grungy typewriter font (1942 Report) for the journaling.