Distinctive is the word that comes to mind when you see the layouts in gallery of this months DSP Member Spotlight:
Chris
Her user name is
caraffle, her real name is Chris, but many DSP members affectionately call her Raffie.
Chris describes her scrapping style as “functional” and explains that she scraps “to get events into the family books reguardless of style. Most people say they can tell a LO is mine before they open a thumbnail. I use many extractions, OOB (Out Of Bounds) and lots of blending.”
She says her children and family are her inspiration, but that she is constantly trying to improve her techniques, a source of inspiration in its own right.
Chris describes herself as a very traditional woman, wife and mother. “I decided to stay home and give up my career as it would not have allowed me to be as involved with my children as I had wanted to be. I have been married to a wonderful man for 17 years and am beginning a new career as a new photograoher. To explain who I am I must first mention my favorite title, MOM. Yes, three teenage daughter don't always make my heart sing but most of the time I burst with pride and admiration for my girls.”
Congratulations Chris. Thank you for being our member spotlight. Be inspired by Chris’s
Gallery and read more about her
HERE and take part in the Scraplift the Spotlight challenge for May.
SHARE THE INSPIRATION
SCRAPLIFT THE SPOTLIGHT CHALLENGE:
Choose one of those fantastic layouts and "lift" it! Copy it, giving her credit, and add your own photos, kit of your choice, journaling. Make it your own but inspired by her!!
Post a link to your scraplift layout in this thread and you could be a random winner of a DSP store coupon!!
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What is SCRAPLIFTING?
A scraplift is basically the act of copying ideas and designs from another persons layout to use in your own pages. Designs or ideas can be copied in whole or in part - You can take the whole thing, or just some aspects of the layout, and use it to make your own.
You may not copy the persons layout picture, erase portions and submit it as a scraplift. The idea is not to erase bits of another persons layout, but to use it for inspiration - like a sketch. You create a layout using the original as a guide - using a kit (either the same one they used or a different one) and your photos and journaling.
Etiquette:
In your description, give credit to the person and layout you scraplifted.
You cannot use a direct scraplift for a competition - why? Because if you both entered the same competition it would be obvious that the layout was a copy - and the judges my penalise you both - very unfair to the original artist.
When can you call it your own? When you have changed it SUBSTANTIALLY - I am not just talking about different photos and kit, I am talking about changing over one third of a layout - so it does not look like the original.
Scraplift the May Spotlight: caraffle
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