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The Saturday Special

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

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Hi Everyone.

Denise here to bring you my first Saturday Special, and I am so excited.

Today we are going to focus on titles, and not just any old titles, but fun and clever titles.

Your challenge this week is to scrap a layout, about anything you want, but it must include a title (in an alpha, a font, a combination, whatever you want), and your title has to be clever.

Now, what do I mean by clever?

Well, everyone’s definition is going to be different, but mine is a play on words, a twist on a well known phrase, or just something that looks like it might mean one thing, but in the context of your layout, means something else.

Here’s my example:

Sometimes, when you love a child, it can stink. LOL!

And here is what the fabulous design and creative team came up with:

This is from Lina (ldrag2004):

This is from Brittney (Britt-ish Designs):

And this one is from Stacey (shutch):

So, there it is.

You have until Midnight Friday, August 29 to post in the Saturday Special gallery, and link back to the forum here, so I will know you are playing along.

If you get stuck and you just can’t think of a title, don’t worry. Just leave a little message in the forum and we will put our heads together to come up with something great!

Everyone who participates will receive this AWESOME paper pack from DigiKeepsakes by Monica .

I look forward to seeing your creations.

Hugs!

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What’s in a title?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I don’t know about you guys, but I have the hardest time titling my pages (and even my kits now!). I can sit four hours fiddling with different titles, fonts and alphas or anything to put on my page. There have even been a few times that I just gave up and didn’t title a page (bad Daysh!). I even get lazy now and just call my sister up and make her come up with titles for me. So today (a little late….) I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about titling your pages and ideas for coming up with title ideas.

My first suggestion is to look at the theme of your page. Are there any individual words that come to mind? Any adjectives that seem to be perfect. There is this site that has a HUGE list of adjectives that are perfect for titles: http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/adjectives.htm They are even alphabetized to help you search through them if you are looking for a particular word that starts with an ‘a’ for example.
For example there is this page. We were at the wild animal park and the word “wild” just seemed very fitting.

or this one:

My next suggestion to you would be to do as Lina suggested in her last Words for Wednesday Challenge- find a song title or lyrics to a song that would work. Music is so powerful and so are the words (usually…

These lyrics ended up being so perfect for this page, and I was so excited how well they fit and how little efford I had to put into finding a title.

My last suggestion is to find a quote. This site www.thinkexist.com is the perfect place to find TONZ of quotes- any theme you could be looking for. You just type in a search word and it brings up loads of different quotes from different people! It’s so wonderful.

or this one:

Hopefully this has helped a little bit and will help you as you all try to title your pages.