Fonts.
The Creating Garden theme on Two Peas this month is fonts. Something near and dear to me. Love those letter forms. Love words. Love layering and maniplating and playing. I also love the convergence of traditional and digital scrapbooking. What a wonderful marriage. That I could create the above collage in Photoshop, print it out, and attach it to a page which resulted in this layout:
Some other pages that tickled my fancy this month:
So many cool pages this month. Love seeing how the other girls play with type. It is easy to get bound up or in a rut when using fonts. Or feel intimidated with ALL the choices out there. I have tons of fonts loaded on my computer. I find myself reaching for many of the same ones over and over. The just do it for me: Garamond, Baskerville, Myriad, 2Peas Hot Chocolate, Jack Frost, AL Modern Type (love most of those Autumn Leaves Typewriter fonts).
One of the great things is that products abound featuring fonts. Rub ons, stickers, patterned paper, metal embellishments - all these can be layered and matched up to create some of the same effects as in Photoshop. I think the key is allowing youself to play. To experiment. And not being afraid that you will "mess up." Remember, this is all about creating & having fun right?
There's no way to mess up when you're creating and having fun. There's nothing to fear.
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i LOOOOOOVE fonts!! Love the new garden, too!
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LOVED that layout...and I've always loved how text and text elements are such an integral part of your pages. The garden rocked! :)
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your layout is amazing..sorry to be a pest..but WHERE IS YOUR HANDWRITTING FONT???? i am waiting and waiting...lol!
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I am so not into fonts when it comes to my layouts but your layout does look awesome! and you do make them look intriguing... I enjoyed your layouts in this months Garden, love your hand journaling. :)
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I love the advice!! I have to admit, I have NEVER mixed fonts. I am a matchy matchy kind of girl. After seeing these layouts, hopefully I will be able to create out of my comfort zone. =0)
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Totally loved that layout! The Garden this month was awesome, such a great example of different styles. Fell in love with several pages! I love the way you play and create with Fonts, but I've never experimented much myself. I'm thinking I need to change that...loving the cool things you can do in Photoshop, just need to play more. Do you have a good book that you can recommend on the program, one that explains how to do a lot of that kind of stuff? I have the Photoshop CS program.
Enjoying all your recent posts, Ali---you have such an amazing take on life, creativity, etc... Your rummage sale find was pretty cool. I need to start checking out those garage sales more often, lots of good stuff to be found. Just never seems to be enough time for all the things I want to do....
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Not so much a lover of fonts here. But you knew that. I look at those page you did and just stare in awe. There were a ton of cool things in the garden this month!
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I was so thrilled to see new layouts from you in the Garden today! My fav is the one with the groovy orange MOD paper. It rocks! Keep on keeping on. :)
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i bow to you...i thought the keynote presentation was as scrumptious as you got, oh digital queen, but this is frickin' fabulous! Ali YOU ROCK...'nough said!
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stunning layout! i am still learning how to layer and all that cool stuff. fonts rool!
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Gorgeous layout! Loved the garden this month too.
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man ali...you're so good. it's inspiring...
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Ahhhh...fonts! I can be brave with anything involving fonts! I don't quite feel comfortable with the layering in PhotoShop, but I'm getting there. Needed a little push to go beyond the normal photo manipulation right not - thanks for the inspiration!
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Your 'play' reaps fantastic results. Love the way you combine fonts.
The garden is inspiring this month. I love fonts. A girl can never have enough fonts.
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Beautimous!! Lovin' it Ali!!
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love it!
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Wow that is one cool page. Love the look of this. So wonderful. I love adding text on pictures. It is such a blast. Love your work!
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i loooooveeee designing with words and fonts. when browsing through the gallery and garden, i'm drawn to pages with these elements incorporated in the design. patterned papers and embellishments come and go in the scrapbooking world... but words are aLwayS in sTyle in my book :)..... love your wOrk Ali!
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Love that layout!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
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Love this, Ali! You and Rhonna are the queens of text and photos! The garden this month was incredible!
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This is just beautiful! Such feeling, such depth. Your work is so amazing!
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Font junkie checking in! I have to use some sort of text (besides my journaling) on my layouts.
WOW, WOW, WOW! That PS composite print is way too cool!
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Hey there! How you going you good thing! I'm loving your blog and appreciating it alot! I'm facinated to find that we have alot of the same tastes in music! I love Johnny Cash and Janice Joplin....I'm wondering if you have ever heard of Loretta Lynn?
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Each time I see something new you've done it's cooler than cool! I'm clearly going to have to ditch my job-share and play with Photoshop much more! Thanks for the inspiration
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