Heidi here with a review of a Saturday special … shadows. There are so many different directions I could go, but today I am going to show you how to change the color of your shadow.
O.k., onto the lesson. Have you ever had an item that you added a shadow to, but it just doesn’t look right? Sometimes, having a black shadow isn’t natural. Look around you right now. Are the items casting shadows black? Maybe they are a soft shade of gray. Maybe the are reflecting the color of the item as the shadow. Keep this mind as you go to shadow today’s layout.

However you add your shadow, go ahead and add it to your paper/element/etc. Now, I want you to double click on the “fx” on your layer you shadowed.

It should bring up a box like this:

Make sure you that the “drop shadow” box is highlighted in blue like the #2 shows. If that is not highlighted, you will not see the screen above. Next, I want you to click in the black box circled in #3. It should bring up a new box that looks like this:

Notice that your cursor can now choose a new color if you place it over your layout. Next, I want you to click on your paper. You color box will change to the color of the paper and this is o.k. Now you want to start moving down on the color box. I usually go to the gray side of my color. Watch how the shadow color changes on your element. Does it now look a little softer and more natural? Keep playing with it until you get a shadow that looks like it would if it were sitting in front of you right now. Or, if you have Jennifer’s style, you can keep the color where it is and just move the sliders as shown by the #4 until you get a color you are happy with.

For my layout above, I had white paper under my pics/elements. With Jennifer’s shadows, she has a brown color for the shadow which give a nice warm natural shadow. But for this particular layout, I wanted my shadow a little more on the “cool” side, so I changed the shadow color. I did not, however, change the shadow color of the white paper resting on the bottom brown paper. It was the perfect color for that paper.

Click the color box and you come up with this box where you can edit what color you want your shadow to be:

Basically you go to Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow and you get this screen where you are able to edit you color, depth, etc.

Here is a new layout I created using the same technique:

Please note that this was using CS4. I am not familiar with Elements, but I was told by Denise, who is the :queen: that the dialog boxes look different, but the concept still works.

Make sure to check out the challenge in the forum for more inspriation from our amazing CT! Happy Saturday!

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Special! I’ve got a really easy tutorial on how to make shape or element look embossed on your layout. I’m sure there are several ways to do this, but I find this one to be easiest for me. I’ve done this in PhotoShop CS5, but it should be pretty similar in PSE.

Step One:
First choose a paper (solid ones work best) and either a shape or element. I’m using a solid paper and bubble outline element from Jennifer Labre’s Squeaky Clean. Just drag the element, or draw the shape, anywhere on your paper. Once I get the element on my page I usually zoom in to 100% to get a better view.

Step Two:
We’re going to fill our element/shape. Go to Edit>Fill and a dialogue box should open up.

Step Three:
In the dialogue box you want to choose the color black, mode: normal, opacity: 100% and most important – check the box that says preserve transparency. This will keep the black from flooding your whole page.

Step Four:
Now that your shape is filled in black you’re going to change the blending mode on your layer to difference. To do this click on the scroll box above your layers that says normal and go down and pick difference. This is going to make your shape disappear temporarily, but don’t worry.

Step Five:
Now double click the layer of your shape to open up the layer style dialogue box. Click on Bevel and Emboss. Make sure you don’t just click the check box, but the actual words so we can make a few adjustments in the settings.

Step Six:
This next part is not an exact science. It depends on your shape, it’s size and the look you want. So play with the settings until you get the look you want. I usually go with a subtle look, choosing lower settings. I also always change the color of the highlights and shading to match the color of my paper. You can see where I’ve done that here.

Step Seven:
Finish choosing your settings and then click okay. And that’s it! You’re all done!

And some fabulous inspiration from the CT

From Ophelia using Pieces of Fall paper pack/elements, elements from Indian Summer, Bracketed Templates and Spiromania all by Plum Dumpling Designs.

From Heidi using He’s My Valentine and Cut It Out Snowflakes by Plum Dumpling Designs and Quickie Calendar 2011 by Krisi’s Kreations.

Chel made this super cute layout using Cat’s Meow by our guest this month, Viva Artistry and a One Singular Sensation Template by Band Geek Designs

And Kayla made this super cute LO using Spooky Templates by True Blue Studio, Spring Into Easter by Jady Day Studio & Messy Masks by Inspirations from Day

The fine print:
- You have until the end of October to complete a LO and upload it to the Saturday Special Gallery and copy it to this thread.
- Using a product within the first week of its release earns you an extra point!
- You don’t have to use ScrapMatters products, but we love when you do!

Hello everyone,

It’s Kayla aka keepscrappin here today with the first Saturday Special of October.  I’m an admitted template junkie – just take a look at my hard drive.  There’s a whole section of just templates.   And even more that I want in the Template section of the ScrapMatters Store.  Although I love using templates, I don’t want every layout to look the same, so my solution is to use the same templates in new ways to get more looks from them.

My favorite and easiest way to get a new look is to take my templates for a spin.  Spin them left or right, flip them vertical or horizontal.  The idea is to spin them to get another look.

One of the things I love about spinning templates is that I can use a template that was originally made for portrait photos for landscape photos simply by spinning the template 90 degrees.

Here’s what I mean.  Let’s take the Simply Stated v.1 Template set by geniaBeana scraps for a spin.

I use PSE 7, but you should be able to spin or flip your templates with most photo editing programs.

First open your desired template and make a copy of it and close the original so you don’t MESS it up!  lol

Then you will work with the copy of your template.  Spinning a template is really easy just go to the menu bar and select Image | rotate | and then from the top section of that popout menu select which way you want to spin or flip it as shown in this image.

As you will notice from the screen shot the items above the line affect the whole image.  The items below the line in the middle section affect only the selected layers in your layers pallet.

Here are some variations on the template named gb_simplystatedv1_2

Here’s my layout.

I spun a template 90 degrees left from Be Inspired – Kim R. – Templates set by WM [Squared] Designs

And here’s some awesome inspiration from the SM Creative Team

Jan (QuiltyMom) Used the NEW today – October Mix-a-Kit components from True Blue Studio Spooky Templates; Template #2.  Spooky Templates and MAK items from Dream Big Designs: Haunted House Elements, Haunted House Papers, Haunted House Graffiti and Haunted House Alpha.

Wendy (Neverland Scraps) flipped WM[squared] Designs Fun and Funky v.1 and Jady Day Studios & Kay Miller’s A Girl’s Life kit

Opehlia (navaja) Flipped a template horizontally from True Blue Studio’s Autumn Bliss templates,
and used Jady Day Studio’s In for the Ride and Band Geek Designs’ Flag Tags.

Heidi (scrappurple) Flipped a WM[squared] temp Be Inspired Mel v.2

Tamara (tsmspt) Horizontally flipped the first template in this big pack Queen-of-scrap-2010-template-bundle

and used Dude a ScrapMatters Design Team Collab to make this awesome layout

Liz (mommy22girls)  Flipped one of these:

and used Jady Day Studio and Meghan Mullens’ Explore Exhibits kit to get this cool layout.

**** The challenge for today is to SPIN or FLIP a template for your layout.
And for fun tell us if you spun, flipped, or did both to your template to make your layout and if you used a NEW RELEASE for the extra point.

psssst – Don’t worry, we won’t tell your hubby, that now that you know how to spin templates you have 4 times as many templates at your disposal.  So keep collecting those templates and take em for a spin. lol

Challenge reminders:
-You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Saturday Special gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post to get the extra point. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!

-You have until the end of October 2011 to complete this challenge to earn MOS points.

-Remember no double dipping…your layout must be unique to this challenge.

-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM product beginning July 8, 2011.

Hi everyone! Welcome to this week’s Saturday Special. Have you ever had a picture that you wished was black & white? Maybe you have the perfect kit for your picture but the colors just don’t seem to work together. Or maybe you are looking for the elegant look that black & white pictures give. There are many ways that you can convert your color picture to black & white. One of the most common ways to convert it is to change the color mode to grayscale under the image menu. This tends to leave your picture fairly bland though. Today I’m going to show you a way to convert your picture without losing the contrast and making you picture look flat. (The screenshots and directions are in Photoshop Elements 5.0.) First open up the picture that you want to convert to black & white. Duplicate the picture by right clicking on the thumbnail in the Photo Bin and selecting Duplicate. This is so you are not working on the original and accidently save over top of it. Press D to set your foreground and background to the default black and white. Make sure that the black is in the top box. If it isn’t press X to switch them. Now go to the top of the Layers Palette and choose Levels from the Adjustment Layers menu. When the box pops up don’t change anything on it right now, just click ok. This will add a layer to your Layers palette named Levels 1. Go back to the Layers Adjustment menu and this time chose Gradient Map. Check to make sure the Gradient map is set on black to white. If it is not click on the arrow next to the gradient map and choose the correct gradient from the popup menu. Click ok. This will give you a layer in the Layers Palette named Gradient Map 1. Just going this far will already give you a better black & white picture, but we are not done yet. In the Layers palette, double-click on the Levels thumbnail in the Levels 1 layer. This will popup the Levels box. From here we are going to edit the individual colors, starting with red. So go ahead and choose the Red channel from the drop down menu. Grab the black (shadow) arrow under the Input Levels and slide it right. This will increase the shadows in the red channel. [IMG]http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm313/p_a_sandbulte/red.jpg[/IMG] When you think you are satisfied with this edit, go back up to the drop down menu and choose the Green channel. On this one we are going to slide the white (highlights) arrow to the left. Again when you are satisfied with this edit, go back up to the drop down menu. This time we are going to work in the Blue channel. Go ahead and move the highlights arrow to the quite a bit to the left. Move the shadows arrow just a little bit to the right. Not every picture you convert will have the same settings, play around with the sliders a bit until you get the effect you are looking for. When you are happy with how your picture looks go ahead and click OK. One last step and then we are done. Go to the Layers palette, click on More. From that menu choose Flatten Image. This will flatten the adjustment layers into your picture. You can also use ctrl+Shift+E to do this. Check out the pictures side by side. The one on the left I just used the grayscale mode to convert the picture. Look how much of a difference there is in the one on the right. Here is my page with my new black & white picture using LDrag’s Blessings of Life and Stolen Moments & Rosy Posy’s Here and Now. Check out these great pages by the ScrapMatters’ CT. Kayla made this cute page using WM Squared’s Inspired by Fran templates and Full of Joy and Add-on by Band Geek Designs. Here is a sweet one by Chel. This one by Ophelia uses Jennifer Labre’s Full of Life and True Blue Studio’s Summer Garden Templates. Here is one from Tamara using Amy Stoffel’s Make a Move. Challenge reminders: -For the month of September you will receive two points for posting in this thread & in the Saturday Special gallery. You can receive an additional two points for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points! -You have until the end of September to complete this challenge for September MOS points or wait to post in October for October MOS points! -Remember no double dipping… layout must be unique to this challenge. -You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM product beginning July 8, 2011.

I LOVE scallop edges! I use them on almost every page I do. There are many great templates out there with amazing scallop edges but I thought I would show you a simple way to make your own anytime you wish. The cool thing about this technique is you can create it while you are scrapping, it isn’t something you have to do before you start, which I love because sometimes I get into creating a layout and just need a little extra something that a scallop edge can really bring to a layout to make it POP!

Here is an example of a page I am creating and have decided to add a scalloped edge too:

First, I add a new layer where I would like to scalloped edge to be. Next, I need to select a hard-edged round brush. Next, select the brush tool and then you can adjust the shape, size, and spacing. Here are the settings I chose: Hard Round Brush Size 350 and 95% spacing:

The spacing setting is important, because that is what will give you the scallop shape instead of a straight line. You might want to test this out once or twice before finding the settings you like most.

Make sure that your new layer that you just created is selected in the layers pallet. It doesn’t matter what color you use because you are just creating a clipping mask and will be covering it up with paper.

Hold your shift key, click and drag to the bottom of the page or where you would like to scallop edge to start and stop. Holding the shirt key will automatically create a straight line. Here is the scalloped edge I created:

Now select your paper and clip it to your new scalloped edge mask.

Add your drop shadows and you are done. EASY!!!

You can also use different brushes to create different shaped masks. Play around with it and have fun!!

Here is my finished layout using September Mix-a-Kit:

and here is what our outstanding creative team rocked out using this tutorial:

Ophelia using geniaBeana Scraps’ School Rules and LDrag Designs’ All Scribbly Alpha:

Heidi using the new MAK:

Wendy using WM[Squared] Rock Star: The Extras, Rock Star: The Wordart Bits, Rock Star: The Papers and Rock Star: The Alphas

Heidi using My Favorite Valentine, Creatively Inspired Templates Vol. 1, Cut It Out: Carefree Dates, Fair Are the Meadows, Swirl and Twirl, July Birthday: Paint Accents by Andilynn Designs and i scream by Plum Dumpling Designs:

Melissa using Dandelion Dream: Alpha By Dream Big Designs,Dandelion Dream: Elements By Dream Big Designs,Dandelion Dream: Graffiti By Dream Big Designs,Denim & Daisies: Papers By Jennifer Labre,Denim & Daisies: Elements By Jennifer Labre,Purple Dream: Templates By True Blue Studios

Simona using Blessings of Life by LDrag Designs, So Scribbly Alpha by LDrag Designs

Come join us in the forum….can’t wait to see your creation!

Happy Saturday to you all! Becca, aka becca372 here. Whew, I’ve been busy this week with all my back-to-school prep (I teach Kindergarten)! I know many of you have had children go back to school recently, and we’re almost ready to go back here in Michigan. Today, though, I have a lesson just for you!

I love to blend papers for backgrounds, because I L.O.V.E. patterned papers, but sometimes they can overwhelm a page, so I like to subtle them up…and then the reverse can be true-sometimes I love a solid background, but it just needs a little more texture to work for my layout…so, there are a couple of ways to do it-and a step-by-step with screen shots will follow, but the basic process is to layer your papers, and then change the blending mode and/or opacity, OR use a layer mask (if you’ve got them) or an eraser to create the effect you want.

So, here’s how to do it! Here I’ve selected a yellow paper from Jady Day and Kay Miller’s new collab, A Girl’s Life. There is a GREAT yellow paper with white polka dots in the kit, but I didn’t want quite that much yellow for my background. I opened this solid yellow… 

and then I layered this great polka dot paper over it (I’ve moved it over, here, so you can see my layers)

And now I’m going to play with my blending modes….click the little tab above your layers palette that usually reads “normal” and you get lots of other choices to play with. I tried several but settled on Overlay. I then changed the opacity to 72%…just play with yours until you like it! You can also create multiple layers, at multiple blending modes, to create a look you like…

Now, at this point you can either be done and move on with your layout from here, OR you can do a bit more… In the PSCS versions of photoshop, and in PSE9, you can apply a layer mask to your paper layers-put one over your top layer (click the icon under your layers palette that looks like a rectangle with a circle inside), and then select a brush (I used a large, soft brush, and also reduced the opacity of my brush so that the edges of my masking were soft and subtle), and make sure your color selector thingy is set to white (the trick with layer masks is this–white erases, black brings it back–I always remember “white out” and “back in black”, LOL). Anyway, then just erase away what you want. If you DON’T have layer masks as an option, you can TOTALLY do this with your eraser tool (you can reduce the opacity on it, too!), it’s just a little harder to fix if you do something you don’t like!

So, yeah, on my papers, I’ve used that large, soft brush to erase some of the top paper, letting more yellow bleed through. This space is where I will be putting my photo and elements, just giving another layer of oomph to my page.

And here’s my final layout, using Jady Day Studio’s new collab with Kay Miller, It’s A Girl’s Life

If you are really struggling with the layer masking or the erasing, you can always take the short-cut of using a pre-made mask, which many designers have available (there are quite a few in different packs/kits in our shop!) and use those to clip your papers to!

Here are some more fantastic layouts to inspire you from our fab ScrapMatters team!
By Ophelia:

By Day:

and By Sarah:

and just in case you need a bit more inspiration, here are a couple more layouts from my gallery-in this first one, I used two similarly colored papers from Steph.Designs A La Campagne kit (1 craft paper, then a wonderfully textured paper) and used the soft light setting to get that extra texture I was needing.

And on this layout, I used a clipping mask (originally made for photos) to clip one of Erica Zane’s great papers onto my layout.

So, what do you think, a good how-to today? I hope you try it out!

Here are all the details for this challenge, please read carefully!

Challenge reminders:
-You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Saturday Special gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month (August) you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points! The same is true for those of you who scrap along with me in September!
- You have until the end of August to complete this challenge for August MOS points, and if you can’t get it done by then, you get the added bonus of having until the end of September to complete this challenge for September MOS points!!

-Remember no double dipping…your photo and/or layout must be unique to this challenge.

-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM products as of July 8, 2011.

Can’t wait to see what you create!

Hello everyone…. This is Cyndi, and I am hosting this next edition of your Saturday Special challenge.  Today we are going to try our hand at a Double Pager… but we’re not going to stop there.  We’ll follow it up by dividing the layout and displaying it in the gallery looking it’s very best!

Let me start by walking you through how I create my double pagers.  I’m using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

For me, it’s easiest to start with one big 12×24 canvas (or template).  You can turn on the Guide to show you the middle of the full layout, and help you not place any important faces or journaling right where the pages will divide.  If you’re using a template, hopefully your template designer already had this in mind with the creation of the template.  You can turn on the Guide feature if you want to be sure, or if you are in the habit of altering templates.

To add the guide, click View > Show Rulers to make the rulers appear.  Then, with the move tool on the left side ruler, click and drag your cursor onto the page.  You should be dragging a teal Guide line into position.  You can place this guide line anywhere on the page.  It’s an invisible line that will not show up on your actual page.  Click View > Show Guides to turn the guides off and on.  Let’s place the guide in the center of our 12×24 layout.

When I’m done scrapping my page, I flatten my image (some scrappers like to keep a layered version of their layout in their files.  For me, when I’m done, I’m done.  I flatten and move on.)  After flattening my full 12×24 layout, I open two separate 12×12 new documents.  I drag my flattened 12X24 into the first of the 12×12 documents so that only the left side is showing.  (This actually makes a copy of the image so that my 12×24 is still intact.)  I merge the layers and save to my Finished Layouts folder.  Then I repeat for the right side in the second of the new 12×12 documents.  Before closing these 12x 12 documents and after I’ve save the full size image, I reduce the images to 600×600 pixels and save for web.  I also make a 700-800 pixel wide version of my full 12×24 layout and “save for web” so that I can add the image to my credits (instructions to follow) and people can see what the two pages look like together.  Now I have 2 beautiful, high resolution images to print for my albums and 2 separate, clear, web images to display in the gallery.

Oh, and remember that 12×24 image we saved for web?  I upload that to an offsite photo hosting site (I use Photobucket) so that I can display the full layout in my credits.  This is what your link should look like in your credits…{IMG}http:// url of hosted photo{/IMG}  but change { to [ and } to ].

And to makes things even better…..   Jen Davey has created a double template just for us!  If you’re a little intimidated by double pagers, this might just be the help you need.

DOWNLOAD

So on with your challenge…  Your job is to create a double page layout, uploading each side individually into the gallery with your full layout preview in your credits.  Be sure to upload to the SATURDAY SPECIAL GALLERY and post back to this SATURDAY SPECIAL THREAD so I know you’re playing and you get your points!
Now check this fabulous Creative Team Inspiration

from Me

left side

right side

from Ophelia

left side

right side

from Kim

left side

right side

from Ami

left side

right side

from Kairyn

left side

right side

from Heidi

left side

right side

Okay!!! Now your turn!
Challenge reminders:
-You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Roadmap to Scrap gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month (August) you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!
- You have until the end of August to complete this challenge for August MOS points!
-Remember no double dipping…your photo and/or layout must be unique to this challenge.
-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM products as of July 8, 2011.

It’s time for another edition of the Saturday Special. Are you a blocking junkie? I certainly am a fan of blocking! Do you ever wonder how to make a row of ellies perfectly line up on a page? Today I am going to show you how to align elements/papers on a page. Let’s get started.

This little trick saves loads of time when used for lining up the alphas in a title.

1. Place all of the elements on the page that you want to align.

2. Link all of the layers together in the layers palette. You can do this by highlighting at least one of the layers to be aligned, then clicking the link button on all of the other layers to be aligned.

3. Next click one of the align buttons from the tool bar. I generally use align bottom edge. This will line up the items that are linked.

There you have it. Perfectly aligned ellies! Note: It is sometimes necessary to unlink the layers to adjust for spacing.

Okay, now it is your turn to give this technique a try. Join us in the forum to play along! I can’t wait to see what you create. Go forth and align!!

Challenge reminders:

-You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Saturday Special Gallery. You will receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!

-You have until the end of August to complete this challenge to earn MOS points.

-Remember no double dipping…your photo and/or layout must be unique to this challenge.

-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM product beginning July 8, 2011.

Hello fellow scrappers,

Kayla aka keepscrappin here with today’s Saturday Special Challenge.  I love to have a title on all of my layouts; however, sometimes coming up with a new title for every layout can get hard.  I like my title to convey a message or reinforce the theme of my page, so when I’m stuck for a title one of the places I turn to for inspiration is word art.  Plus using a piece of word art for my title can be an easy and quick way to finish off my page.

So the challenge for today is to use word art for your title.  You can make your own word art or use a premade word art as is or combine it with a font, alpha, or embellishments.  The choice is yours – just have some fun and make your title really shine on your layout.

Many kits come with word art but if the kit you’re working with doesn’t have the perfect one for you, check out the special section for word art here in the ScrapMatters store.  Below are just a couple of the many word art packs available.

Here’s my layout using a word art (part recolored) from Little Princess Sighs Word Art by Graham Like the Cracker for the title and Fairytale from The Design Girl.

And here’s some inspiration from the Fabulous SM CT.

Becca used the Fresh Fun kit and Word Art from KimB for this understated beauty.

Ophelia used WM[Squared]‘s NEW Great Escape California for this Hollywood Blockbuster.

Kim used For the Love of Girls from Stolen Moments and Jady Day Studio for this sweet page.

Melissa used Mulberry Fields Family Word Art By KimB Designs and Lazy Days-E By Erica Zane for this cute family page.

Heather also used the NEW Great Escape: California Bundle from WM [Squared] for her star-studded page.

and Trista used the Fresh Fun kit and word art from KimB for her playful page.

Challenge reminders:
-You will receive one point for posting in the Saturday Special 8.6.11 forum thread & in the Saturday Special gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; [COLOR="Red"]please make a note of new products in your post[/COLOR]. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!

-You have until the end of August 2011 to complete this challenge to earn MOS points.

-Remember no double dipping…your layout must be unique to this challenge.

-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but remember your SM gallery must contain at least 50% SM product beginning July 8, 2011.

How often do we see a kit in the store and think, WOW, this kit has the perfect colors for certain photos you have don’t they don’t match the theme of the kit at all?!?

You would be surprised at all the different ways a kit can be used just by thinking a little outside of the box.

So many of the kits have several elements that can be used in a variety of ways. Themed…yes, but useful in so many other ways. So many times I see boys kits that are perfect colors of some pics I have of my daughter, or a summer kit that matches fall pictures I have. Use the colors of the kit to work to your advantage!

Here is an example of a layout I created using these very themed kits:

see how the colors match my photos perfectly, yet they clearly do not match the theme of the kits.

So remember, when you see a kit don’t let the name or theme scare you away. If you like it, challenge yourself to make it work for your pictures. You will love the creativity it takes and will probably love the page even more when you are done.

Here are some pages from our CT, using themed kits for their photos not the theme:

Ophelia:

Chel:

Kayla:

Cara:

Trista:

Amanda:

Come join the fun in The Saturday Special forum thread. Can’t wait to see what you created!!