Welcome to our Premier Top Picks announcement for June 2014. I’m excited to share with you the Top Picks from our June 2014 Premier gallery, but first let’s take a look at the kit and videos that inspired the beautiful scrapbook pages.
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Featured Premier Kit—June 2014
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Pixelated Pics Video Tutorial
by Barb Brookbank
Turn an ordinary and unremarkable photo into a beautiful work of art using the Pixelate filter, a Gradient Fill, and Blend Modes.
Credits: Cardstock – Blank Canvas by Susie Roberts, Classic Linens Summer by Susie Roberts, Me Personally by Amanda Taylor, ArtPlay Palette Family by Anna Aspnes, Winter Wonderland by Elise’s Pieces, Recollection by Joanne Brisebois
Font: Chopin Script 
Birthday Candle Video Tutorial
by Christina Rambo
Use a rectangle, a Gradient, a Bevel and a “pinch” of a filter to create a realistic birthday candle.
Credits: Celebrate by Julie Billingsley, Family Together by Lauren Grier, Julbilee by One Little Bird, Duty, Honor, Country by Danyale Designs
Font: Century Gothic
Paper Slimdown Video Tutorial
by Susie Roberts
Some kit designers make papers specifically for 12 x 12 inch layouts. I will show you some great techniques to slim some of these down to fit 8.5 x 11 inch pages.
Credits: Outdoor Dad by Brandy Murry, Photomasks Vol 2 by Susie Roberts, Grungy Bits Brushes by Susie Roberts, Perfect Harmony by Digilicious Designs, Everlasting Love by Studio Manu
Fonts: Adobe Caslon Pro, Rollerscript, Orator STD
Double Stacked Sketches Video Tutorial
by Jen White
Stack up sketchy filters to create the background of a graphic page design.
Credits: Inspired by Adryane at Oscraps
Fonts: Abril Fatface, Autumn, Carlotta, Century
June 2014 Premier Top Pick
June was a wonderful opportunity for our Premier members to celebrate fathers, grandfathers, and even great grandfathers! We loved this page by fullterr who created a beautiful tribute to her father, who at ninety-four, is still playing eighteen holes of golf. She used the Painted Wood tutorial by Lydia Tarbox to recreate the faded red walls of the family barn. Read what fullterr had to say about her page here.
It was a joy to browse the gallery and see how everyone interpreted the artistic techniques taught in Jen White’s Double Stacked Sketches and Barb Brookbank’s Pixelated Pics. And there were some great birthday candles and paper slimdowns. Thanks to all who participated in making our June 2014 Premier Gallery so memorable.
[ See fullterr’s page in the gallery. ]
More Great Pages
Congratulations to our other talented digi scrappers featured below (in alphabetical order). Click on each of the thumbnails to see the gallery pages for these great layouts and images.
Note on gallery pages: To help us make your pages look their best, it would be much appreciated if they could be saved at a size of 700 x 700 pixels, and as jpegs rather than gifs.
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4 Responses
Maggie [smith]
Congratulations fullter on an awesome page and such a great tribute to your dad.
Congratulations to all the others on such good pages.
Terri
Oh, my, gosh!! I was so shocked to see my layout chosen for Top Pick (I had to look again to make sure I was seeing it correctly). I see such awesome pages in the gallery!! Thank you so much for this special honor. At 94 my Dad is such an awesome inspiration!! There are so many beautiful pages, I don’t know how anyone can choose, but thank you!!
donna
Wow, these are all great layouts. Congratulations all.
I am going to remember the words fullterr used in her journaling. Close together or far apart you are always in my heart.
Barb
Congratulations fullterr, your page is a wonderful tribute to your Dad. He’s precious.
And congratulations to everyone on such inspirational layouts. They are all gorgeous.