I’m not one for…

I know that one of the popular things these days in scrapbooking…digital scrapbooking specifically…is to cut out the subject and place them in a layout of random elements.  Now I’m not one of these people.  IMHO I think it takes the context away from what happened in the photo.  I know it is fun to play around with Photoshop and put heads on different bodies and the like…but when I’m scrapbooking I tend to like to “keep it real”.  What I mean is I don’t like to doctor photos in such a way that I take the subject out of whatever photo they were in thus taking them out of the context of the environment in which the photo was taken.  Call me a realist.

However…I can be corrected from time to time.  And even tho I say as a rule I don’t like to do this…it seems that the last two layouts…I did the very thing I don’t like to do…that and use bright colors in the paper…which I also don’t tend to do.  Or create them.  But that’s a whole OTHER subject.  So even tho these aren’t typical layouts that I tend to do…I think they work.  I’m referring to yesterday’s layout of Laney in her dance outfit and this one…

Paper, Winter Wonder II, Lovely, Marvelous; elements Floral Overlays, Journal Spots, Amore, Beetles Bugs & Butterflies, various elements, paper and photo mask coming soon all Jen Maddocks Designs