The Repetitious Elements Challenge

November 14, 2008 | Filed Under Challenges, Give Aways, Layouts | 10 Comments 

Hello, all! I thought I’d step in and host a challenge this week! Are you ready to have some fun with elements? I hope so!

In studying some of the little details of that other (more skilled) scrappers do to make their layouts look so stunning, I noticed that a lot of them will rotate and even resize an element when they have more than one copy of it on their page. Take for example, the leaves on this lovely layout by Leslie:

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She used two leaves five different times here, but they don’t all look the same! That’s because she rotated and resized them so that they’d each look different! You can do this with little flowers or buttons—any element you want to use multiple times on your layout. I love to do this when I use lots and lots of flowers.

So, here’s your challenge this week: Make a layout (using some Sugarplum Goodies—and freebies are fine with me!) using three or more of the same element, but play with the size and angle of each item on your page. (In Photoshop, you can do this by using the Transform tool, which is CTRL+T.)

Then, once you’re done, just leave a link to your layout here on this post from now until Thursday, November 20th for a chance to win a $5.00 gift card to the Sugarplum Shop! The winner will be announced here on the blog next Friday. Best of luck to you!

And happy scrapping!