Out of Focus: Viji

I loved this challenge! Orignal idea was to do a lift off layout, Sid throwing Anurag into the air. So Sid was just clicking some test pics to see if they were out of focus or not! I was just posing for fun :-) Later saw these photos, and came up with Charlie's Angels. I love this movie from 2000 starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu! Just a fun layout! I cut out the title on pazzles. The idea was to make the layout look like the poster. Hope I succeeded!

Out of Focus: Jen

With this page, the pictures seem to tell the story. Even though the two pics were a little blurry the pics still seem to capture the motion of the ride and the expressions on my dd and dh’s faces. My conclusion, my daughter and husband had so much fun on this ride!!

Out of Focus: Tammy

Can you see where my out of focus picture is??  I used it as a base, sort of a journal card, for the title "Play Ball". I thought that would be a fun way to use this picture that I probably otherwise wouldn't have even used :)  I used Bella Blvd. paper and some buttons from my stash, and my Tim Holtz tiny attacher.  TFL, Tammy

Out of Focus: Groovy Deb♥

When I sat down to create a list of challenges for myself and the other Groovy Chicks I started thinking about how often good photo moments are lost. When my daughters are on stage acting (Kristen) or dancing (Katelyn) so often the pictures do not come out well. The movement can easily be changed by badjusting the camera, but what if you forget to set it? Also, the lights are a constant problem. I don't want to forego taking pictures during their events so if it turns out bad I am scrapping it anyway! Here is an example of just what I mean. Katelyn was looking too cute in her dance competition clothes, but her arms were so out of focus. I painted on the page with water color pencils and let the picture do the talking. What does it say? To me it said this is one moving girl...to her mom at least ;) Love you Kate!!!
Mom♥ aka Deb♥

Out of Focus: Michelle

When I was given this challenge. I had another group of pictures in mind...They were actually taken by my daughter. BUT when I was working on my Fawn Hollow Farms page from last months, Scrappy Style. I found this picture. It was the only one I had of my husband finally relaxed and doing something he loves, fishing. BUT he hardly ever gets to do go! If I am right this is the last time he went fishing for himself and the peace of it. Yup, been about 5 years...The last fishing trip involved a little boy who hooked his hat and knocked his sunglasses into the stream!

I wanted to use this stamp set I had that I have yet to use. So, green cardstock and a few scraps were all I needed. Stamped the images directly on the cardstock. On some scrap cream I stamped the clouds & rocks. I also did a technique called second generation stamping. All you do is ink up your stamp, stamp it once and then stamp again. The second image is lighter due to having less ink, but they blend beautifully. I did the same for the cattails, directly on the cardstock. Then I fussy cut the rocks and clouds, pop dot up two of the darker clouds and placed the second generation cloud behind to show distance.
Try it and see what you can create!
Michelle

Out of Focus: Sheena

What a fun challenge this was! I know I have taken many out of focus pictures over the years, most of them ending up in the trash. Sometimes we need to think outside the normal to find a cool way to use them. The picture I used on this layout was blurry on purpose, my son had so much fun running for me as I tried to get the shot I wanted. I had an idea in mind and I was hoping to get a shot that would match my idea. It took a few attempts but I am happy with the resulting picture. Before you hit the delete button on your next blurry shot, think if there is a different story it could tell.