What Matters Monday
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Happy Monday to you all! Mary (littlehiccup) here with today’s What Matters Monday post. I wanted to focus on order today…not order in the court or even order in your house…but rather layer order.
I used to paper scrap for about 15 years (gosh am I really that old?) and when I started digi-scrapping, I wanted my pages to look like they had been paper scrapped. This is why I am sometimes obsessed with layer order. I have to think about my LO as if I am cutting and pasting each element on the paper. Then I have to review my LO when I am finished – moving from the bottom layer up to make sure that each element is where it should be (a little OCD maybe…).
One of the areas where I am especially careful is when I am using text. I have to think if it would be possible or would I even attempt to write on a piece of ribbon or this flower, etc. Another example is when I combine text with an alpha, I have to make sure that the text would be able to be written on the alpha or I place it underneath. Sometimes I just have to add a paper strip to get the right look.
This being said, let’s hear a few hip, hip, hoorays for the wonders of digital and all of the neat tricks that we can accomplish! There are so many awesome typography effects and blended effects that we can create digitally that I would hate to be bogged down my paper scrapping rules. When I am designing a more graphic style LO, I don’t worry about these limitations. And that is just the beauty of it.
So maybe it does matter or maybe it doesn’t – you decide! Have a lovely day!
