Gallery Standouts

Hello everyone! It’s a scorcher here in south Germany today – I sure hope you are more comfortable than I am!

I enjoyed todays browse time through the galleries and I hope you enjoy my picks!

School by Amymom24

The colours jump out at me in this one! I love it! It’s refreshing and funky! I really enjoy the numbering in relation to the journaling:) Clever and fun! Just love it!

Boy Wonder by rima

Love the simplicity of this! I really love the colors here for a boy theme. The papers go so well together blocked out like this and the photo of this little guy is priceless. Awesome!

Week 18 page 1 & 2 by neeceebee

I am loving the PL spread! Love the simplicity and photo treatments – the minimalistic look works so good with these black and white photo pics. Great documenting and love that ‘hey’ journal card :)

Coffee Break by Jopka

Love this orange brushy stuff on the white background. The vertical journaling brings everything together so nicely! Great photo too!

It’s in the simplicity by misslovescraps

What a lovely, beautiful layout! I love the colors here – so warm and shabby with funky color pops of teal green and orange. This photo is perfect and love the sepia – it works so well here. Gorgeous!

Hello you by Tronesia

Love this paper inspired layout! Love the repetitive photographs – she is adorable! The colors are lovely against the white honeycomb paper. Beautiful!

Hi everyone!

This is Beth, a.k.a. kewl_jive, bringing you today’s gallery standouts. To those who celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, hope you all had a great day with your loved ones. We had lunch buffet at The Westin Hotel Tokyo and we enjoyed the good food. My kids prepared breakfast, cards and some crafts for their Papa and he was so happy. It was a beautiful memory for us. Have a great week ahead.

My top six layouts for today

Love of my life by Zeee
I always love clean and crisp designs. I remember I have layouts with lots of white space and monochromatic designs. I miss doing that. This layout is simply gorgeous with great pics and love the perspective plus the short journaling says it all. So sweet!

Note To Self by renee82
This is what scrapbook is all about. Documenting your wonderful journey, congrats! Love the kit she used. The background paper is gorgeous as the photo. The quote is just perfect and the journaling is just wonderful. Keep it up! I admire people who are passionate about losing weight as I have lost track and stop walking with my husband. Great work!

Things I Have Learned as a Mom by d2vasquez
Amazing photo-less layout especially since it says all about Moms. I just have to agree with what she said here and I can totally relate although sometimes I get to expect more from my kids. This is just a great reminder to all the Moms. Great work on the page, love the lil flower on the Mom’s alpha. The stitches around and all the flowers she added here are just perfect. So fabulously done!

Love this by HanaZana
Awesome freestyle! I always admire how she plays with the elements and papers. The b&w photo is perfect for this page, love the shadows too and the scribbles alpha is so beautiful!

Herm by Dutch_Diva
Beautiful blocking and I love the color combinations here. The brush work is such a great addition to the page. Great pic, love the view as it screams summer and makes me want to stay in that paradise. Love the amount of elements she used here and the quote too. Ohhh how I wish I could go somewhere this summer.

Spring is Beautiful by cizzy
What a beautiful photo!! Love the photo treatment and lighting and how she blended it on the page and added these beautiful elements and bubbles. The flow of the page is just amazing. Stunning creation.

Thanks for taking a peek at the layouts I’ve picked. If you have time, it would be wonderful to stop by and give them some love in the galleries.

Have a nice day/night!

Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a great weekend and a lovely Father’s Day! Here are my picks from the galleries today, I hope you enjoy them!

Our hero by y_baros

I thought I’d start with this lovely Dad inspired page seeing as it’s Father’s Day! Super set of fun photos here and wonderful use of colour – this kit could have been made for the photos!

Choose to Shine by digikiwichick

And here’s another example of superb colour use, this time to create a fresh, sun-filled page. Great use of all the gradient cards, frames and clusters to make this beautiful, girlie layout!

Best Dad Ever @ Beach by Skippyherron

I was really drawn to the nautical feel of this page with all the neutrals, the spots and stripes and that fun anchor paper! The little arrows with the sentiments add such a great touch of fun to the page, super composition too!

Flights of Fancy by casbury

This just jumped out of the gallery at me! Super blending and brush work here, I find this so uplifting. If you click through to the original in the gallery you can read about casbury’s process in creating this page.

Bubble Time by Marnel

I have a bit of a soft spot for bubble photos and pages, especially ones as fun as this! Super use of the circular cut out shapes in the foreground paper and all the other circular elements to echo the bubble theme!

London by Monique1971

I hope to admit to a slight bias here, seeing as I was born in London and grew up in the home counties but this was another page that caught my eye in the gallery and called, “Pick me!”. I really like the contrast between the reds in the photos and the greens and blues of the background and the blending work here is fabulous – the more I look, the more details I find!

Hey you all! Jeanine here with the Saturday yummies! With fathersday ahead of us I thought to start of with ‘a kind of’ fathersday PLpage.

PL week 24 by mrphoto What a sweet PL page this is. I love all the pictures of the kids and isn’t the one with the daughter kissing dad adorable and see the little son splashing into the puddle! The green, orange and blue work so well together on this page, they contribute to a happy feel. I love the little notes the daughter wrote to dad. Great PL week!!

Colors by sbpoet as a colorlover I could not ignore this one. Wow, the colors jumped right into my face! You should read the little poem on the site this page was posted on, it’s sbpoets selfmade poem! You have me, with all the ‘messyness’, all the brushes and stamps and colors. Just adorable!!

‘Magination Birds by LeeAndra another very sweet page about the imaginairy feathered friends of the little girl. The rainbow title is just perfect for rare moments like these.The little stars add to the imaginairy feel of this moment, like it’s a moment in a fairy tale. Beautiful!!

Enjoy Life by Naadi Ohhhh, I LOVE this photo and the page Naadi made with it!! I love the B&W treatment and the one little red flower popping out between the papers. Also love the subtile stitch and totally love the different fonts used in the wordart. Gorgeous!!

Broncio by kyky although I can’t understand what is written, I’m completely in love with this page. Love the black and white with the colored picture and some brushes on the opposite side. It makes the page so much stronger and draws the attention to the funny picture of the son/grandson. Great page!!

Annalift by oldvwblues What a view oldvwblues created here. Love all the scribbles and the vintage and tranquile feel of the page. Great blending, wonderfully done!!

These are my choices for today! I hope you like them. If you visit the galleries, please leave the artists some love.  Have a lovely fathersday tomorrow if you celebrate it, see you next time!

Hello, everyone! Katherine here with Friday’s round of Standouts! I’ve been running the galleries since early this morning and after a painstaking selection process and resorting to eenie meenie mine-y moe (it REALLY is that hard to choose some times!) I have finally narrowed my choices to six! I hope you enjoy them!

My first choice for you this evening is this very soft and subtle beauty by faby33 titled Boats. I really love how clean the overall design is! The masking and blending is absolutely superb! And the processing on the image is so expertly done! A real beauty for sure!

I about fell over when I happened upon this BRILLIANT artwork titled the road i took by misslovescraps. This is so jaw-dropping CREATIVE it’s stinking ridiculous! REEEE! DIK! U! LUS! And truly, I don’t know if the journaling is a poem of sorts or the artist’s own journaling but, it  is truly the cherry on top of a splendid work of art!

Really love the “split” design in my next choice by Lynne-Marie titled Renewal. The color palette here is nothing short of delicious! The colors seriously work extremely well together! I LOVE all the brushwork with the butterflies and that scallop border is right. up. my. alley!

My next choice titled OLB Flight Plan #22 by purlz76 is wholly fabulous with its more traditional and masculine feel! Really love the clustered design and the layering and her shadowing is nothing short of phenomenal!

Up next is a really lovely tribute for a dear Father titled My Dad by cfile. And truly, I’m having difficulty with my words after reading her journaling! So heartfelt and heartwarming! Beautiful, beautiful tribute!

Rounding out my choices this evening is this drop dead GORR! JUSS! art journaling page titled What Holds me Back by captivated visions. REALLY love the color palette here with all the neutrals and black! All the messy artsy! The brush work is simply DIVINE! And the message . . . “it’s not Who you are that holds you back it’s who you Think you’re not” . . . perfect. perfect. perfect. A truly gorgeous piece of art!

Well, friends! That wraps up another week for me! Have a truly blessed weekend!

Happy Thursday folks and thanks for stopping by to check out today’s GSO picks! I found some really great layouts today and I’m excited to share them with you!

Soft Summer Breeze by MaryH

I heart this one! It is so soft and a refreshing summer color alternative I think! The photo treatments work so well with the papers and they are brilliant photos too!  Beautiful!

Broken & I can’t fix it by Dalis

I am a real sucker for brave individuals who can use scrapping as a therapy to let out their feelings in a graphical way. I think this layout is beautifully done and powerful with the journaling and mixed media type feel.

Cate & Hans by Dianesky

I just fell in love with this layout! Those captured smiles are perfect! Beautiful photos – great choice in elements and layering. The busyness of this layout is simply perfect!

Road trip by Asali

What a great great layout! I love the huge photo and the pic of the woman taking a picture through the mirror! How clever! I like the photo repetition in the layout as well. The arrows are fun and the word art is too. What isn’t there to love about this?

Barbie Fun! by DiamndPrincz

Yummy colors! Love the way the stripes are on the edges and the plain white background! The traditional style of this layout looks so awesome! Beautiful photos – paper choices, embellishments and journaling. It just looks good!

Without you by ChantalK

I love this clever layout – I love the triangle accents! The hanging chain towards the photo and overlapping the word art is very interesting! I simply like the out of the box thinking for this layout! Love it!

Good evening everyone!
Today is Valentine’s Day here in Brazil, just before St. Anthony’s Day (typically known as Marriage Day). Valentine’s Day as we know it isn’t celebrated in February here, as it falls to closely to the day-long events of Carnival, our most popular event. So I can feel the love in the air today! 21 years ago my Husband gave me the first gift of our life together and I must confess that I hated it…LOL
Well I lost myself in the galleries for ages today and here are my 6 final picks, I hope you all like them much as I do!

You now yet by violaine

I am sucker for large photos and this one is a superb example. The focus on this photo is so fantastic, love the blur effect and her use of only some colored brushes really keeps the focus on her amazing photo.

you + me by lingovise

All of the element choices and layering give this such a wonderful feel that complements the BW photos incredibly well and really makes them shine!

written word by AnneofAlamo

This is stunning. Love that this page is about the journaling. The composition and use of wordart is really well done. I love the textures, the colors and the heart that makes it so alive!P.S: Love to see her shine eyes behind all those sentences!

I want to feel by Ren

WOW this is stunning! What an eye-catching piece! Love everything here from the masking on that pic to the almost monochromatic color scheme that makes the photo shine!

best bud by jopke

I’m addicted to a doggy’s layout! LOVE the look of this! Isn’t Boris a super adorable dog?!Doesn’t it just grab you? The neutral colors, the blending, the words and  the pop of red are just perfect!

ENOUGH!!!! by  AngieY

I am definitely a fan of a good Art Journaling page and I must confess that this is my fav page of the day…Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE all the other pages, but this is the kind of page where I say to myself “OMG”!
Not all pages are happy, this one is so real and honest and my heart aches at this page. We can feel her anger, her frustration and her sadness… and join her, in the cry. Nothing like that should happen to any child, this girl’s family has lost part of its soul…