monday muse: collages

3/12/2012

The only way I will keep myself blogging regularly (for the two people who read this) is to have a theme for certain days. I'm thinking Monday Muse for inspiration on layouts, Trendy Tuesday for information on scrapbooking/design trends, Tutorial Thursday for tutorials, and Friday Freebie for free things (mine or others'). I won't do each every week, but it will help me organize what I want to share with y'all.

This week's Monday Muse is more design-y than cutesy, but I like both styles. Sometimes I get sick of the cutsey scrapbooking and want to try something new. I was inspired by these two images that I found last week.

Business cards as seen on oh, hello friend.

Nordstrom catalog

I miss doing collages. In the past, when I cut out people from images on photoshop, I usually spent a painstakingly L-O-N-G time cutting them out exactly. That's why I loved the chunky, imperfect cutout of the girls on the cover of the Nordstrom catalog (click on the image to make it bigger so you can see this). It is really easy to do with the polygonal lasso tool. The really nice part about doing a collage digitally is that if I cut out something wrong, I could undo and try again. Here is what I came up with combining the two styles. Something is still off about it, but I can't pinpoint what (I'm thinking the middle photo). It's like abstract art; everyone looks at abstract art and thinks their 5-year-old could do it, but when you actually sit down to do something abstract, it is incredibly hard. Everything has to have meaning and purpose. Even a font, paint spatter, and a placement of a photo. Don't let this scare you from trying it out! It was very fun to create. Email me your layout if you decide to try to copy this inspiration. Find the credits for the individual pieces and fonts below the picture.

Credits: Purse photos came from Nordstrom catalog from March '12; Fonts: Edwardian Script, Geneva, Chunk Five; All else was mine

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