Fun with Shadows

The Layout:
Scrap it with a Song blog has a challenge to make a layout based on the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover.  Since I already made this, I decided to enter it.

This layout is based on Sketch #49 from Sketchabilities.

Fun with Shadows Layout

Here is Karan Gerber's sketch:

The Background:
You may be wondering about the photos in the layout... Jenn and I were at the same scrapbook convention as documented in my last Sketchabilities post. When we were walking between the hotel and the convention center, I saw the striped shadows cast from a pergola. I thought it would make interesting photos if we interacted with it. I mimicked the record cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road. I asked Jenn to use her Meisner training to act like a damsel in distress on railroad tracks. Then she wanted to climb up the sidewalk like in a Monty Python skit. So that is the kind of thing we do when we have time between events.

Damsel in Distress

Abbey Road

The Details:

I usually like fun and bold colors on my layout, but in my mind I've been envisioning a black and white one with lots of doodling. The shadow photos matched a black and white color palate so this is the one I decided to try it on. First I antiqued all the photos so it became a soft sepia hue. I printed them twice in slightly different sizes and grouped them together since there is an original object and a shadow.

I looked around my paper collections and pulled out all the black and white papers and embellishments. It ended up looking too stark and too plain so I added some colorful chipboard circles mixed with transparent stickers. I raised up the first and last word of my title which is in a glittery silver and had my middle word in a solid black in the back to create a shadow effect.

Fun with Shadow title

I wanted white lettering on my journaling, so I printed just the background using black and chose white letters which didn't print on white paper, to further play with a shadowy look. 

Journaling strips

That was my attempt to be more artistic, but it is still based on silly photos, so I guess that is just the kind of scrapper I am.

Thanks for stopping by. Look at the fun things you can do with a shadow.

Take care,