Creating beauty from an over-exposed photo

Saturday Scraplift No. 152

I could not go past this stunning layout by Phylis (aka Whatnext, who has a gallery full of amazing art:

Phylis says she wanted to scrap this photo of her mother-in-law, but it was badly over-exposed. So she ran with that - inverting it to end up with this wonderful silhouette effect. I love her use of Anna’s Artplay brushes and the wonderful retro color combo. Fabulous font choice too!

Lots of inspiration here - from the silhouette effect (which you could maybe replace with an extracted photo or with a brush created from a photo as Cassie shows below), to the colours and the use of shapes to build the page. Did you notice the descending rectangles from the side of the page, and the sun hinted at with the circle and brushstrokes?

Here’s where it took Cassie, Mel and Pattie:

Credits: layout by Cassie, Custom Photo brushes tutorial by Cassie Jones, white paper, ArtPlay Palette mini-kit No.05 LoopdaLopp artstrokes No.02, Distressed Toolset No.03, Distressed Toolset No.05, Different Strokes No.04, Distressed Edge Overlays no.05 and Beauty Wordart No.01 by Anna Aspnes, Alandia Collection

Credits: layout by Melanie, Saffron Villa layered template(altered), Complete Stitched Alpha no.01, Dotted Korners n Edges brushes, and HeartLoopdaloop brushesby Anna Aspnes, rainbow from Forecast kitby Lynn Grieveson clipped to dots.

Credits: layout by Pattie, Worth Repeating Expressions No.01 by Katie Pertiet, ArtPlay Palette mini-kit No.05 and ArtPlay Palette mini-kit No.08 by Anna Aspnes.