ValC. Designs

Free like a bird is my new collaboration with Brine design.
I think my life is bringing me to the BIRD related topic all the time. DH is a addicted bird photographer,  so it is a common topic at home. I am lucky to be able to use his pictures in my designs, and I think brds are such a wonderful embelishment that I could put birds in every kits.

This one is packed with birds, brushes from chris pictures, paper birds, bird houses …

and since I always scrap with my kit before release here is my layout with it, andbelieve me, it will me many more coming!!!

But maybe you would rather  to see the kit LOL

You can grab it, with a 20% off during the week end here

Today I have been at sea for some photo ID work.It was SO many birds that I was thinking of this kit… and at the end of the morning, I was so completely frozen tat I thought … maybe next kit will be called ” frozen photographer” …*grin* Ok, I know what is coming next ( but it won’t be in april)  analthough there are more birds… there is nowhere a frozen potographer .. lets get this idea to my list of “maybe I should do”

Have a great week end!

val

Easter vacation is always quite the same here … everything is closed, and I always forgot it… oh well.

Thee is one thing with is not closed though, and there is many things happening .. It is ZZS fun place.

Believe me, 3 games and 135$ of designers CG to grab … isn’t enough to go and check?

See you there

val

Hello here, Today we are going to “meet” Audrey (aka Snowdropz), Audrey join the team in early January 2012. and she has been creating master pieces since then.  I am so glad she accepted to join the ValC team, Thanks Audrey.

Shall we start and discover who is behind this ART?

Can you introduce  you in  10 words?
I’m Audrey and I’m a recent convert to digi scrapbooking!

Where do you live? What do you do?
I live in England and I work part-time in a school.

How did you start the digiscrap? Are you coming for the paper scrap, or did you lend in the digiworld directly?
I been a paper scrapper/card maker since 2004. Then in 2010, due to time constraint, I didn’t get to play with my paper stash. I decided to give digital scrapbooking a go as I do enjoy the creative process. That’s the exciting part. I tried to use Photoshop as I had it on my Mac but it was too daunting so I used Apple’s Pages instead to create my LOs. In fact, I even managed to complete a December Journal using Pages! Then in March 2011, I took an online course from Jessica Sprague to learn to use Photoshop and to digi scrap properly.  That was it! After the first lesson, everything clicked and Photoshop is now my best friend! I’m still learning along the way but I’m loving every minute of it. I don’t do traditional scrapping any more. Digi is so much fun!

What is your usual scrap time? What is your favourite scrap time in the day?
My favourite time to scrap is when my boys are in school. I have some peace in the house and it just me and my Mac! I also scrap when my boys are asleep too, sometimes into the wee hours of the morning! Yup, I’m an owl, I rather scrap than sleep!

Where the inspiration for an Layout come from? Kit’s  colours? Title,or you already have a picture in mind, or a topic, or an Layout you want to scraplift?
My inspiration comes from my desire to scrap! When I want to scrap, I will find something to scrap about, even is it’s an old photo or a photo that I’ve used before! Sometimes, a particular kit may inspire me or even a quote! But when the desire to scrap is there, I just do it regardless of a lack of theme or photo! I just find something to scrap about! LOL!

How many picture did you take in  july  2011? (don‘t count them one by one, ok? Just an estimate)
A lot! About a 1000 as it’s usually the last month of the school term so there’s a lot of photo opportunities there. Also, it marks the start of the summer vacation and that presents another round of photo opportunity! We tend to go overseas for our vacation so my camera is well used! Best month for photos!!!

Do you like scraplift? Why?
Not really. If I have to scraplift, I usually lift an element from it instead of the entire LO. I don’t like to copy someone’s page. I like to come out with my own design.

If you had to choose  1  kit which, for you, represent my design style, which one would it be?
It has to be Perfect Or Not. I just love the grunge, messy look in the kit. I also love the splash of colours in there.

If you had to empty my store but 2 products, which one would you keep why?

1. 100% Me. I love the word art in there. I’m a big user of word art and I had fun creating with that kit.

2. Painting Rainbows. The colours in that kit is amazing. It’s just so bright and cheerful.

Which are your 2 favourite Layout of yours? Why?

Friends Like Rainbow.  I scrapped my best friends and they are so dear to me and I wanted to make sure the LO reflect their characters… cheerful, bright and beautiful!

An art journal of Bruce Lee. This was done for a digi dare that Val was sponsoring. I just love the kit (Be Inspired Blackground) that I used for this particular art journal.

Which is your favourite Layout in my ValC designs Gallery? why?

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Bundle Perfect or not by ValC designs

I know it’s by Val but I simple love the bold colours that is used here. I love playing with colours and this simply rocks!

What  your digiscrap software?
Photoshop CS4

When it come to computer, we all have  tricks. What is you best trick, what‘s the thing you do (almost) all the time?
It has to be an action that I purchased for making the page suitable for web display! It has reduced my time considerably!

Audrey, I lovbed reading about you and I want ou to know I LOVE you creative style and Thanks YOU for being by my side!

xoxo

Val