Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014 - (Page 3)

Editor's note A new step for Histoires de Pages ! Ah...! If only Théophraste Renaudot had known the Internet! He who, in 1631, created the first French newspaper - La Gazette - largely focused on foreign news, which quickly became THE reference newspaper in the whole world! La Gazette disappeared in 1915, victim of the social changes entailed by World War I while other forms of press appeared... Winter life by Nina Ostermann « Our adorable little Jonna appreciates the arrival of winter and loves to play outside in the garden. This picture is one of my favorites: I was doing a series of photos while she was playing and when she realized she was being photographed, she began to smile this way ». To bring out the wooden imitation background , Nina matted it with white cardstock, then with a pink background. To reinforce this "framing" look she so much appreciates, she sewed the three layers and turned up the edges. All embellishments and journaling are grouped on the left side and at the bottom of the layout. The picture and title are prominently on the visual Z way to focalize the eye without it being distracted by all the little details. Materials : papers (Crate Paper, American Crafts), alphabets (American Crafts), stickers (Crate Paper), journaling strips (Pink Paislee), wooden embellishments (Studio Calico, Freckled Fawn), button, brad, pin and fancy pearl (Pebbles), bow and frame (Crate Paper), white acrylic paint, die (Silhouette Cameo), doily, sewing machine Nothing at all in common with the fantastic changes arisen since the appearance of the Internet, the Web, soon followed by social networks! It makes one dizzy to realize that people are like so many butterflies gathering nectar in all media, and going more and more instinctively to look for their information on the Net, because it is easily at hand! However, it is thanks to this fantastic transformation that Histoires de Pages Let's Talk layouts, today, can be read in Australia as well as in Canada, Mexico, the United States, Japan, all over Europe and everywhere in the world! Thank you for your welcome worldwide! It encourages us to persevere in bringing you an even more beautiful, richer magazine, quite a change of scenery, full of whim, poetry and enthusiasm. We have included enlarged layouts so that you can see the slightest detail in this new version of 180 pages, and videos, which are being shot right now, will be available with the next issue! Enjoy !!! Marie-Jeanne Grau Contributing Editor

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Ideas
One layout, three options - It's your choice
Back to basics - Rediscover brads
Volume on our layouts - 3D effects and superimpositions
Honors go to the square - DT challenge
Anti-crisis scrapbooking - Time for toys
Mail Art - Make your talent travel
Discoveries
Meet the artists - Nina, Stephanie and Nina
It's trendy - Geo tags
Scraptherapy - Layouts which soothe the mind
Our furry friends - in the spotlight
Meet the artists - Our new European recruits Valérie, Julie and Elena
We have tried out for you
Rendez-vous
Are you a begginner - Then this page is for you !
Rendez-vous - on the blogosphere
Meet us on the net
Readers' Idea Gallery - Life in blue - Back from holidays
Tale of a Sketch #1 - An effective page setting
Tale of a Sketch #2 - A geometric layout
Winter File
Winter is a promise
Zoom on the snowflake - A seasonal motif
A winter with - energising colors
It's on trend - Wood on our layouts
Scrapping in escape mode - Journey to Canada and the Arctic
A mini-album with labels
Color File
Let's tame color - Second part
Different color combinations
Life in Yellow - The emotional power of color
Let's play with color - Fire and ice
Techniques
Focus on the ombre effect - Decoration, fashion and scrapbooking
Finnabair's secrets - Meet designer Anna Dabrowska and learn her techniques
A background page in 9 steps - #1: Masking and cropping
A background page in 9 steps - #2: Gently splodging
A background page in 9 steps - #3: Texture and transparency effect

Let’s talk layouts - Issue #2 - March 2014