Hair. It’s the source of many joys and tribulations. When it’s good, it’s wonderful. But when it’s a bad hair day (or year…or decade) it can be the source of much stress.
I thought the topic of “hair” might be a good one for our next heritage (or maybe hair-i-tage!) challenge. I put out a call to design a page for the blog for this challenge and Mollie (readstoomuch) designed the perfect page! Her layout about her 60s flip brought back so many memories. And I think you’ll agree she was absolutely adorable! Thanks, Mollie, for providing this wonderful example of a hair-i-tage layout for this challenge!

Supplies: 
Alana Solids Paper Pack – Michelle Martin
Autumn Lines Elements (brads) – Anna Aspnes
Catch a Rainbow Paper Pack – Katie Pertiet
Clustered Layered Template No. 09 – Katie Pertiet
Gone Fishin Paper Pack – Jesse Edwards
Orange Orange Paper Pack – Katie Pertiet
Patterned Flowers: Green – Jesse Edwards
Yuletide Felt Alphabet Collection – Pattie Knox
Font used is Problem Secretary Normal

For my layout, I used one of my daughter’s hair styles from the 80s. She was determined to get a perm and it turned out not to be the best look for her thick hair. Her brothers teased her unmercifully about her “Sphinx hair” and I’m sure you can see why!

Supplies:
By Katie Pertiet:
Classic Curled Photo Frames No. 01
Little Bits Alphabet
Notebook Journalers
Negative Sleeves No 03-coming soon
By Mindy Terasawa:
Cheeky Time Plus Pack

By Lynn Grieveson:
Silly Billy Alphabet

By Anna Aspnes:
Stitched By Anna Borders White No. 01

By Pattie Knox:
Brad Bonanza No. 01: Digital Fasteners

We’d love to see your layouts about hair styles—both good and bad—in the Heritage Gallery. As a matter of fact, we might even “flip” over them!

Phew the weeks are spinning past and there have been some AWESOME typography layout hitting the galleries lately.

The inspiration this week is Typography heavy, but you can interpret it in your own special way.

{As some of the Creative Team Members did. }

The inspiration piece :

I loved Elena’s take on it. Her very graphically designed, clean lined layout
with some awesome mouth-watering food images is certainly eye-candy.

Credits :
Anna Aspnes:
Hipster Plumes No. 16 BrushSet
Stitched by Anna White No. 01
Lynn Grieveson:
Kohi Kit
Michelle Martin:
Carissa Solids Paper Pack
Katie Pertiet:
Classic Cardstock Hoops ** coming soon **

 

Mel created layout with a REAL great message and some grungy
typography which was fantastically inspirational.

 

 

Credits :
Navy MonoBlendz Paperie
MonoBlendz Oceana Paperie
Stitched by Anna Baby Blue No. 01
Worn Page Edges
Painted squares No. 01– altered, coming soon
Ingrid solids – coming soon

 

 

Janet used her arty ability to create a masterpiece once again.
Her daughters sure have some awesome layouts about them.

 

Credits :
Crazy Beautiful Brushes
Cashmere Solids Paper Pack
Plumeria Mini Kit
Stamped Stitches No. 07 Brushes and Stamps
Messy Stamped Alphabet No. 03 Brushes and Stamps
Messy Stamped Numbers and Extras Brushes and Stamps
Assorted Tapes No. 03
Coming soon:
Stitched By Anna Bitz
Ingrid Brushes

 

And lastly my very literal interpretation.

 

Credits :
The Story of Today Overlays
Pine Valley Paper Pack

 

So there we have it for this week. from me.  We hope you are enjoying the
typography challenges and we look forward to seeing your inspired
layouts in the JUST MY TYPE gallery.

Have fun.
SAM

Congratulations to Denise Gormish. Her layout Snow Story has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on How to change the thumbnail size in the Layers Panel.

Join us for the March Photo Challenge.

This month’s challenge is to photograph texture. Texture can be present in the image you capture or added in post processing. If you have a macro lens, this challenge can be even more fun! No macro lens? Try filling the frame using a long focal length.

If you choose to add your texture in post processing there are many items in the DesignerDigitals store to help you. Lynn Grieveson’s Photo Textures give you several options.  Katie Pertiet’s Stamped Blocks Brushes and Stamps is another option. You can also clip your photo to a paper and play with blending modes as well.

Enter one photo with the tag, DesignerDigitalsMarch, in our DesignerDigitals POTD group at flickr. Your photo needs to be taken in the month of March and posted by midnight EST March 31, 2010.

The winner will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to B&H Photography and be featured on the DesignerDigitals blog.

Happy Shooting!