When Michelle send me the titles of the songs I had to work with as a
guest designer this month at Scrapping the Music I looked at the title
but no bells were ringing…
Title of the movie where this song was from: “Almost Famous”…???
Still no bells…
So I clicked on the link to watch the youtube film and … Aaaaah…
how did I NOT remember the name of that movie… I LOVED that movie!!!
And then I listened to the song.
Are you kidding me? Elton John?
I “have something” with Elton… how awesome that this is the first song
to work with as a guest designer! I sure made a happy dance!
(Yes folks, I don’t do it much but I can dance!)
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The layout turned out just the way I wanted!
Here it is.
The layout looks rather simple but when I send it to STM, I got questions
about how I made this and yes, there was some extra work necessary
to come to this image… There are 5 different photo’s used for this layout!
The hand – that’s my hand. That’s an easy one.
I took a picture of my own hand and cut it out.
The tiny dancer is a free stock photo found on the Internet.
But now….
I had an image
of a highway
in my head
and I searched
the Internet
for free-to-use
photo’s of
highways
until I found
what I was
looking for.
This photo was
perfect for the
purpose I had
in mind.
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Next is a
photo of
a big billboard
on the side
of the road.
I digitally
cut the billboard
out (I used
Photoshop)
and copied
the cut out
image on the
former “basic”
photo.
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And this
is the poster
from the movie
“Almost Famous”
It has another
shape as the
billboard so
I scaled the
image of the
billboard until
this picture
fitted. Then
I rotated the
billboard a bit
so that it looks
natural standing
on the side
of the road.
I’d love to see what YOU do with this song so come on over to
Scrapping the Music and play along! And if you haven’t seen this movie yet,
hire the DVD! I promise you a good time ’cause it’s a happy movie.
Lots of music and fun and it totally has that “summer atmosphere” that
I am feeling right now. Sun. Flower power. Pink sunglasses. Blowing bubbles.
Woodstock. Good music… you get the picture?
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It’s still awfully hot in the Netherlands and I’m running (well, walking actually)
in and out of the garden experimenting with ink and water paint and salt…
you should see all the papers with salt laying to dry in the sun! I LOVE IT!
My computer needs to take a siesta – it’s almost the hottest time of day –
so I will leave him alone and go on with sprinkling salt on paper.
Have a wonderful weekend and keep your fingers crossed on Sunday…
Je t’embrasse!