What secrets hide in the ruins?

Looks like you are limbering up for Halloween? Great composition.

Rita

It was a dark and stormy night.

Very nice Lillias. 

Oh gosh Jacki that’s quite a question...for which I don’t have a simple answer I’m afraid. Sometimes I start with an image and then look to build the page round that particular image, sometimes I will start with a background and then look for images that might fit in with that. Another way is to find a quote or a verse of a song etc; and then look for a way of depicting that on the page.

I very seldom begin knowing what I’m looking for.

Some pages come together quite quickly others can take days as they evolve. There is no particular logic or secret to it.
You may have noticed that I do like to use effects or masks or both on images. Frames too with added clusters. It’s all in the eye of the beholder I guess.

That done I turned to my folders of scrapbooking kits (gathered over the years) to see if I could find some items with which to complete a page. I thought the girl in the image had a kind of brooding thoughtful look and when I found ‘Night of the Ravens’ by Rosie and saw the word art ‘what secrets hide in the ruins’ it sparked something in the imagination and I got to work. There was a sketch of the ruined building in the kit and the other items are all from the same kit so it was a case of putting it together to make some sort of story appear in the page.

I have to say right up front here that I am very much indebted to the designers who create the digital scrapbooking kits that folks like myself use. Without them...my artsy/scrapping world would be almost non-existent.

All I can say is experiment, experiment, experiment. Look at what others do for inspiration. Throw stuff on the page and play around with it, you may be amazed at what you can do.

You are welcome Jacki. Re-creating your paper scrapbook pages into digital sounds like a fun plan. Would love to see what you would feel comfortable sharing with us.