Guest designing at Lasting Memories

I was so excited to be invited for a guest designer stint at Lasting Memories this month.  This fun challenge blog focuses on LAYOUTS ONLY - which is a fabulous motivator for me.  I have no end of photographs to scrap and albums to complete.  The wonderful design team has a wide range of styles, and the blog also regularly features participant creations - so there is almost daily inspiration

My first layout share is for Alpha Wars - what a great name for a challenge!!  The challenge is to use two or more fonts/styles of alphabet - shouldn't be a problem for most scrappers, I'm sure. 



My tips for making this technique work:
* Make sure it fits the layout style - this is a fun layout with a mix of products and "bits and pieces" so the mixed alphabets don't look out of place. 
* Alter the letters - paint, mist, doodle, ink or whatever - to coordinate better
* Keep it simple - for more traditional layouts or classic style, use no more than two fonts, and don't mix fonts in the same word.

Materials:
Echo Park Victoria Gardens - Picket Fence patterned paper
Fancy Pants Designs Lilac House - Needlepoint patterned paper
Carolee's Creations AdornIt - Lowercase White foam alphabets
Carolee's Creations AdornIt - Uppercase Green foam alphabets
Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type alphabet stickers
Cosmo Cricket Ready-Set-Chipboard alphabet letter
EK Success Retro Flower - Medium punch
Prima E-Line - Chelsea flowers
Luminarte Twinkling H2O - Mystic Blue