Suggestions please

[Hippy]

My friend has a granddaughter who's into gymnastics and wants me to scrap two pictures of her that were taken on a phone during the competition that she won. They aren't great photos so whatever I do needs to be a bit arty and slightly out of focus but my creative mojo has gone on holiday so I would be over the moon if anybody can suggest a kit, layout or other for me?

thank you xx
:-D

 

[petey111]

Check Anna's layouts...her team comes up with amazing artsy layouts that work well with that kind of photo. And I'm pretty sure she has a gymnastics stamp set. I'll look.

 

[petey111]

Ok. Anna hasn't got a gymnast brush set...but she has several sports word art sets.
Sports wordART no. 1

Sports wordART no. 2
Sports wordART no. 3

And you could use these silhouettes from Crafty Button:


And I found a layout that has some blending in it that could give you an idea of how to do it:

 

[VickiStegall]

nice job, Sara!

 

[cellomom]

(thanks, Sara!!!)

 

[timounette]

The best thing is to play with the several blending modes...

 

[faerywings]

I had this same issue a few years ago when my daughter was in Gymnastics. I did a lot of blended photos for that.
The sketch technique might be another good idea.
How to make a photo part drawing, part photo?
And the new silhouettes that Sara showed might be an awesome touch.

Have fun.

 

[petey111]

I used to be a gymnast you know. You'd never be able to tell it now. LOL

 

[Hippy]

Many thanks girls for the suggestions and links. I shall have another attempt tonight when it's a bit cooler. This heat fries my brain. x

 

[taxed4ever]

I did this one a loongggg time ago, but they were not great photos either, extracting the pictures seemed to help!

 

[ptabbert]

I look forward to all of the comments on this thread. I have a lot of "not so great" photos from whe our daughter competed.

 

[Hippy]

I managed to get the original pictures and they're still not good but at least they are photos of photos. I had a play with blending last night and tried the part picture part line drawing but that didn't work well. Not enough edges for elements to find I don't think. Love the images you have posted though so off for another play. I'll keep you posted with a finished pic.

 

[faerywings]

I tried to look for the pages I did of my DD as more examples, but can't find them. If i can, I;ll post back. But I hope that you have lots of fun playing with them in the meantime. And keep in mind too- its not about the quality of the photos, but the memory behind them

 

[petey111]

I'd love to see it when you are done!

 

[Hippy]

Hi all, this is what I finally came up with. I used mostly Anna's Sky's the limit Art Palette and her 'achieve' wordart.

Thank you for the inspiration and suggestions.

https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=290724&title=emily&cat=500

 

[petey111]

Oh that looks perfect! Great job!

 

[Hippy]

Oh that looks perfect! Great job!

Thank you xx

 

[faerywings]

wow!!!! That came out superb!!!!