. you get when a layout isnt coming together. I started this quite sometime ago and wasnt even sure I was going to post it. I created this just for me at a time I was going through some creative frustration and that happens to all of us, especially if youre anal like me. But we also know that this too shall pass and we come out of it even more creative at the end. Thats the goal anyway.

ArtPlay Palette ArtLifeArtPlayPaletteArtLife
ArtsyStains No. 3ArtsyStainsNo.3
ArtPlay Palette Scientist BrushSetArtPlayPaletteScientistBrushSet
Create WordART No. 2CreateWordARTNo.2
ArtsyPaint No. 8ArtsyPaintNo.8
ArtPlay Palette ScienceArtPlayPaletteScience
Different Strokes No. 2 (Retired)
ArtPlay Palette Chatter (Brush)ArtPlayPaletteChatter
UrbanThreadz No. 8UrbanThreadzNo.8
UrbanThreadz No. 10UrbanThreadzNo.10
UrbanThreadz No. 11UrbanThreadzNo.11
ButtonThreadz No. 2ButtonThreadzNo.2
ArtsyStains No. 2ArtsyStainsNo.2
Label Me SaneLabelMeSane
Photo: Mine
Font: Hellena Script

Process Notes: Since this has an insane amount of supplies and room is short, I will make this fast. This is kind of a digital throw it up and see what sticks kind of thing. Very free form craziness. The majority of the layout is APP Art Life starting with artsy paper 1. I brought in the mask from the palette sans the stroke frame.

Making my photo b/w and clipping it to the mask and using the gradient tool and colors from the palette to color my photo. I duplicated the photo and using Threshold, I clipped it down to the previous layers. Adding a color overlay to the threshold photo and blending. I also blended the gradient layer.

With the exception of the word art, elements and title, everything else is brush work using colors from the page and blending away. Its freeing opening a page without any preconceived notions and just letting it happen as it may. Like I said, craziness.