Sunday, January 8, 2012

Painted Out

  About a year or so ago, I would have never considered painting on a scrapbook page. Paint has become  a staple product in my arsenal of tools. I was glad to have it when I pulled out some Halloween photos from a carnival we had taken my son to. I always struggle with photographing him at carnivals. There are just so many people around. It seems like strangers always get into the shots. When I do come around to scrapping pages from events like these, I often find myself trying to come up with ways to hide the unwanted people in the background. Sometimes I use embellishments. Other times, journaling on strips of paper does the trick. For this page, I chose to use paint.
Frosted Designs Sketch #31
Basic Grey papers
DMC floss, white acrylic paint
Glimmer mist in black magic and tiger lily
K and company border stickers
Prima black ribbon
Cosmor Cricket tiny type alphas
glossy accents
 Marcella K large black alphas

 I just started the photography class at big Picture. So maybe the next time I take my son to a carnival, I will know some tricks to take better photos in crowds. Meanwhile, I have photos of the less than perfect nature from past years. I guess it's a good thing that I like paint!

3 comments:

  1. What a great use of paint, I hadn't thought to use it to hide unwanted people in photos, very creative! The stitched flourishes look wonderful. Thanks so much for playing along with Sketch Along Tuesdays!

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  2. That is an awesome use of paint! I do photo clusters to get rid of unwanted background too. Just place the next photo over the offending subject.

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  3. Oh WOW, what a great trick to hide unknown/unwanted background people!!! Lot your stitching and you did a wonderful job with our sketch!!! Thanks for joining us over at Frosted Designs/Sketch Along Tuesday!! Hugs!!

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