BASKETBALL SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT
CHEATING?! Well, if I'd pretended that the guy in this photo WAS my stepson, now that WOULD have been cheating. For the purpose of this basketball layout, I wanted an action shot with no blurring. I have never taken an action shot without blurring, so that's my excuse. SILENCE IN COURT? If there's one place you can guarantee noise it's on a basketball court. I wanted to create 'noise' in this layout by laying bright colours on black. The page kit was great for this purpose. I have, however, discarded the packaging and have forgotten who makes it. I've searched on the web for the supplier, and haven't given up. I will add the supplier as soon as I trace them! 'ONE ON ONE' WITH A SKETCH TEMPLATE I put this basketball scrapbook layout together 'on the fly' - not really planning it at all. ('I know', I can hear you say!). These days I'm more likely to take a leaf out of Jen Gormley's excellent book '500 Scrapbooking Sketches' so I can have a clear idea of where the layout is headed. In fact if you scroll down to almost half way down this page you'll see a good example of how a simple line sketch can morph into a great looking layout. A BASKETBALL ENVIRONMENT Basketball is very often played on outdoor courts - surrounded by walls, usually with grafitti on. I tried to suggest this by placing my stick-ons on my black 'wall' in a haphazard fashion. If I was to do this again, I'd probably daub some grafitti on it of my own. (Clean and morally upstanding grafitti, of course To return from Basketball scrapbook layout to the Home Page
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