This has been such a fun challenge! Do you know how hard it is to choose just ONE winner? Seriously, I wanted to pick five!
There are some amazing ideas there in the gallery and several people created multiple layouts because the challenge was so much fun! So, I guess we should get on with announcing our winner…drumroll please….and the winner is:
SimplyHx with this gorgeous layout:
First off, I have to say this photo is amazing! Second off, the little splash of color that is used in this layout to compliment the selective coloring is brilliant! This whole thing is eye candy, if you ask me! Such beautiful selective coloring and such an awesome page!
SimplyHx, in the next few days, you will receive a little note in your inbox at the Digital Scrapper forum from us with your $10 gift certificate code. You can use it in the Scrapper’s Guide Shop towards Photoshop & Photoshop Elements Tutorials, Digital Scrapbooking Kits, or Scrapbook Templates!
Thanks so much for entering our Selective Coloring Challenge!
If you haven’t checked out our latest challenge — the Favorite Food Challenge — please do so and join the fun and enter for a chance to win!
If you’re new to digital scrapbooking and want to know how to get started, check out our self-paced class, Learn Digital Scrapbooking, Let’s Scrap! Class taught by Adobe’s Official Scrapbooking Expert, Linda Sattgast! Know the basics already? Check out our Easy Page Design Class (next start date coming in 5-6 weeks) to kick your design skills up a notch! To see a spotlight on a student who took this class with her before and after pages, check this out: Spotlight on Kathy.
Happy Scrapping, everyone! Have a great weekend!
~Andrea
13 Responses
SimplyHx
Oh wow!! There were so many wonderful and inspiring LOs in the gallery. Thank you so much for choosing mine, I feel honoured! I’m also well excited with the gift… thank you sooo much, I look forward to browsing the store for goodies! Yay!!
Thank you, everyone, for the lovely comments and the congrats. I had an absolute blast taking part in this challenge… I almost couldn’t stop myself from dreaming about selective colouring, LOL!!
Thanks again!
🙂 Hx
Martha Robinson
I know it was a tough choice, but this is jaw-droppingly gorgeous! Congrats on a lovely win!
arpeddle
Beautiful Layout, perfect choice! Congrats!
Stefanie
This was my favorite!
norah
this is stunning, congrats simplyhx – i agree totally winning material
Vivian
What a beautiful page. I agree. This is ultimate eye candy.
Eileen Henderson
Love this Scrap picture!! I love anything Black and White…and the little splashes of color are in perfect spots! Beautiful!
Patty
Gorgeous!
Barbara
I absolutely agree–this one is a winner! I would love it if SimplyFx could share the recipe on how this layout was put together.
SimplyHx
That’s so sweet of you, thank you. Ok, I’ll see what I can tell you about the process I went through!
Firstly, I was inspired by Barb’s awesome ‘The Bees Knees’ LO. I also drew a lot of inspiration from all I’ve learned since joining DS – Linda has taught me well! And the premier tutorials are just fab! Plus, I used some gorgeous scrap papers and other goodies!
The flourish stamp came attached to the frame (freebie by Katie Pertiet)… I just erased the butterflies and recoloured the flourish using hue/sat to match the yummy green b/g paper. I then selected the white frame and copied it to a new layer above so I could custom shadow it (taught in Linda’s Easy Page Design Class) without shadowing the attached flourish too.
I used a hue/sat adjustment layer over the photo and brushed over in black to reveal the green of the dragonfly.
The dragonfly brush (extracted from a photo of mine) was made following the ‘Textured Overlays’ tutorial by Susie Roberts in April Premier and colourised using hue/sat.
For the clipping mask I stamped the rectangle mask (from the ‘Fancy Photo Mask’ tutorial by Linda Sattgast in May Premier) on a layer under the photo a number of times and in different directions, creating a varied opacity.
I took the lyrics from a favourite song of mine by Fleetwood Mac entitled… Dragonfly!
Um, I think that’s about it. Hope that’s what you were after!
🙂 Hx
Fox57
Congratulations! I love this one. Heck, I loved them all. 🙂
ctraun
Yep!! I am lovin’ it!!!
Barbara
Oh, I loved this layout!!! Great choice!