Better 2gether

It's Monday and you know what that means! Time for this week's challenge at ScrapTiffany. This week the challenge was to create a layout using scraps from your stash. We all have them don't we? Well, I pulled out some of mine and this is what I put together. I used photos of my daughter and my future son-in-law (yes, I know that makes me sound old, but I'm really not!). I pulled colors from the photos and just went with it. I had more than enough scraps to do what I needed to do!

Here are my paper scraps I started with.....
Then I wanted some one of my papers to be a large shape. I wanted a large scallop and a large heart but I didn't have anything like that so I just made my own! I do this a lot when I need a certain size of a shape. Now I don't have a Cricut (not yet anyway....hint) so I do it the hard way!
I start in Photoshop Elements and open a blank file, find my shape in using the shape tool, resize it to make it as large as I want, then simply print on cardstock. Then I cut out the shape and use it as a template. I know it's the oldschool way but it works for me! I have quite a few different templates that I have done this way and I save them to use again and again!

And on this layout, I wanted to use a large "2" in the title. Of course, I couldn't find anything in my stash that was large enough, so again, I just made my own! Using the same steps as above, I printed out a "2" as big as I wanted it, cut it out, traced it onto my green polka-dot scrap paper and there is my large "2"!
(The fact that I printed it out in green has nothing to do with anything other than that was the color selection in the Photoshop palette at the time I printed it!)

I was very pleased with the way it turned out!

Don't forget to go check out ScrapTiffany and take a look at the other designers pages. They all look fantastic! And remember, you can get in on the fun! Just create your page and send it to Tiffany. Not only will your layout be posted on her blog, but you'll be entered in a drawing! The winner for this month will get to be a Guest Designer for the month of October! So come on.....I'd love to see one of my follower and scrapping friends join in the fun!