Theory Thursday – Hybrid Tips – Part 2
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Hi Kate here, bringing you part two of hybrid tips from some of our forum members.
Today we have some great tips from tgmousechick:
1) Paint, chalk, and ink, although messy, are a hybrid’s best friend. Many times you are printing and fitting to size, and inevitably you’re going to have edges that don’t match perfectly, and an irregular trim, or what have you. Paint and ink are wonderful for masking these imperfections. Sanding covered chipboard with very fine grit sandpaper (or a nail file) can fix edges as well.
2) Utilize the flexibility of digital resizing. I’ve been printing paper in its full 12″x12″ 300dpi format, and it occurred to me that I’m really limiting myself. Part of the beauty of expending my options with digital papers is that I can resize to any size I want. If it’s a very large pattern I’m using on a small project, the impact of the large pattern can be lost. Resizing closer to the size of the project allows you to enjoy the full work of the designer, only on a smaller scale. (The foam cube is a good example of that- i did the original layouts in 12×12, but printed 3.5″x3.5″)
3) Hybrid is a meeting in the middle of techniques (digital and paper), and there are infinite degrees along the continuum. Taking baby steps are OK! If you’re completely digital looking to branch out- simply start with a printed digital page. Start simple by adding an extra piece of ribbon, or a flower, or a line of glitter glue. Repeat digital elements on the scraps that you would normally trim off, trim them manually, and mount over the same element in the layout to pop it. Hybrid is more about expanding creative expression than saving time. For digital, it involves printing and cutting. For paper, it involves doing digital layout and printing.
Great tips huh? Here are a few of her hybrid projects from the gallery:
Go leave her some love.. there’s more awesome projects in her gallery too, I had trouble picking just two to showcase here!
Thanks so much for sharing your tips with us tgmousechick – and now that you are part of the Hybrid Creative Team here at ScrapMatters, I can’t wait to see what else you are going to wow us with!!
