Template Challenge #169 (5/18-6/3)

[Kristen]

This week I have a template from Michelle Batton of Mellow Butterfly to share!
Here's the template:


Here's the Rules:

1. The layout must be Disney related or from a nearby park.
2. Please post your layout in the Template Challenge gallery and in the appropriate forum thread.
3. Please post your layout in this thread along with a link to the appropriate forum thread.
4. Have fun scrapping!!

Here's my layout:


Page files were included -thank you Charlene!

[tukogirl]

What an awesome template! I can't wait to play with this, thanks!!

[Kristen]

Hope you enjoy working with it! I got sick, and am so sorry I was a little late

[jr4mni]

I love your layout! I can't wait to get working on this template. Looks like its going to be a lot of fun to work with!

[knittymama]

I don't understand how this works. How do I use a template? I am really new to digital scrapbooking, so I don't get this. Do I use the actual template or do I just look at it for reference while making a page?

[afirmbeliever]

Originally Posted by knittymama

I don't understand how this works. How do I use a template? I am really new to digital scrapbooking, so I don't get this. Do I use the actual template or do I just look at it for reference while making a page?

You download the template (most file types are included, so you shouldn't have a problem fitting it to your design software).

Open the template in your design software. Then begin replacing the objects (pictures, elements, Title) with your own items. If there is a flower and you want to put a button, go ahead. Usually there isn't a problem with changing the template to make it your own (that's part of the fun). The rules will usually tell you. Some of us turn or flip the template. Some remove or add some elements (flowers, buttons, ribbons).

Using templates really makes scrapping fast and easy. Kind of like fill in the blanks. Some come with shadows, some don't.

In the end, you want the template to recognizable, but let it be yours.

(Scraplifting-which mousescrappers has a challenge for) is when you look at a layout and "lift" it. You can be inspired by the colors, theme, layout, etc. Got take a look at that thread, also in challenges. Look at some older ones and see what people have done. Also look at older template challenges and you'll see what people have done with them as well.

Any more questions, don't be afraid to ask.

[Bimpsona2]

Ariel is my favourite princess so this layout has inspired me to get cracking on my Oct 2012 trip scrapbook this weekend. Thanks for the challenge.... I'll let you know how I get on. xx

[Kristen]

Originally Posted by knittymama

I don't understand how this works. How do I use a template? I am really new to digital scrapbooking, so I don't get this. Do I use the actual template or do I just look at it for reference while making a page?

I think Kelly covered it pretty well Here's another tutorial that might be helpful, too: http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...ead.php?t=4575

Remember - no one was born digiscrapping. We've all been at that newbie stage - so feel free to ask questions

[ScrappyCoyote]

Thank you for the template!!

I have very fond memories of the Beast!! First time I met him... I broke into tears (still cry every time I see him, too!). He hugged me. As I walked away.. still crying... I felt a paw upon my shoulder.. but I didn't shudder.. oh no! I turned.. and he handed me a little handful of purple flowers.. which are dried and in a scrapbook pocket to this day.

When I met Belle later.. I told her how Beast had given me flowers. She shook her head and said.. I keep telling him NOT to pick those flowers, too! A fond memory I shall never, ever, ever forget.

[NancyAnn]

Thank You Afirmbeliever and Kristen for the explanation and the Tut. I just did the TC #168 and thought I was suppose to make it look about the same as the template. I then found that it wasn't set in stone. But I liked the Template so well it looked good anyway. I just hope I can figure out how not to get all these jagged edges. All you girls here at Mouse Scrappers do such Fabulous Creations you are leaving me Breathless. And just look at that Ariel and Beast how much more Beauty will we see~My Eyeballs are Poppin' out of my head. Everyone here is so Wonderful. Looking forward to TC #168 and I hope it's lookin' forward to me~LOL~God Bless You All.