Korean Heritage Layouts

I raided my husband's old photo album recently and dug up a number of photos from his childhood in South Korea to scrap! Here are a few of them!


Club Scrap: Sparkle 12/07 - Brown Metallic; The Written Word 11/05 - Stenci;, Autumn Splendor 10/04 - Medium Brown, Dark Brown; To You With Love 2/04 - Halos Snap; Hearth and Home 10/03 - Door Print; Fibers;
Ranger: Adirondack Dye Ink Pad - Ginger; Ink Applicator Tool;

This layout actually opens up to show LOTS of room for hidden journaling or additional photos behind the barn doors! The photo is of my husband at his grandparent's tobacco farm where he was raised. When I finish scrapping all of his childhood photos this will be the cover page and he's got to fill the inside with memories!



Club Scrap: Generations 4/08 Digital Kit - Paper03, Paper12, Exp01, Exp03, Trans25, Trans33;
Font: UnGungseo;

One Korean tradition is that on a child's 1st birthday, all children are dressed in traditional Korean clothing and have their photos taken. This photo is from my husband's first birthday! I also made use of two of the brand new DigiExpansion elements that Club Scrap is now creating for each new kit!

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The next five layouts are digital layouts, all using the Classic half of the Centennial Kit, to see more, especially from the casual half, please click here! The digital kit is still available to order through me and, even though Club Scrap is sold out on the full original kits, I have a few that are still available for purchase or for a workshop! If you decide to ALSB the papers, you will get 26 gorgeous 12x12 layouts and have enough left over for an 8.5x11 layout or a few cards, plus embellishments and a large collage stamp for even more!

Also, I used some of the digital transparencies as a stencil to create a more stippled and antiqued appearance. To do so, apply a transparency, or even text, onto a new layer, then select the area that the image takes up and in another new layer, use the paintbrush tool to fill the image in. Choose a soft or stippled brush, or really any that you prefer, and you'll get a great effect! Then simply hide or delete the layer with the original transparency to let the background show through your stenciled work!


Club Scrap: Centennial 2007 Digital Kit - ALSB #21, Tran08;

Another Korean tradition is to celebrate your child's 100th day! (Or round things off and celebrate at their 3rd month birthday.) In the past, infant mortality rates were higher and keeping visitors away for the first 100 days of a child's life was a very smart move that Korean families made. After the 100 days had passed, if your child was healthy it was likely that the baby would survive and, instead of having a baby shower before the child was born or a pile of visitors at the hospital, it was time to celebrate! Not only do you invite everyone to visit and feed them tons of traditional foods, but it's also time for some portraits! Traditionally, boys would be nude and girls would be dressed in traditional Korean clothing, but Jay's parents went for a little modesty here... And I think my husband might not forgive me if I posted his nude baby photos on my blog!


Club Scrap: Centennial 2007 Digital Kit - ALSB #15, Tran01;

This is another photo at the family farm, on a visit from Jay's parents. Like many Korean families of the time, Jay was raised as a young child by his grandparents while his parents sought a way to move to the United States. For part of this time, his mother lived in Hawaii while serving with the Red Cross and his father worked for Korean Air.


Club Scrap: Centennial 2007 Digital Kit - ALSB #23, Tran01, Xtra41;


Club Scrap: Centennial 2007 Digital Kit - ALSB #17, Tran03, Tran24;


Club Scrap: Centennial 2007 Digital Kit - ALSB #24; Farmer's Market 10/06 Digital Kit - Tran RemChild;

These photos are of a traditional Korean drum performance and then a shot with one of the drums!

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Here are a few previously posted layouts that deal with the family's Korean heritage... Please, click on each to go to the blog post with larger images and descriptions!

Digital Hybrids and Flash Cards

Still working on kicking the winter colds/flus and my blood pressure drops which come whenever I catch a bug :( But I did manage a few new things :)

The newest is a hybrid of Digital Scrapbooking and actual papers... a simple little jewelry holder for some pieces that I made as gifts! I've put earrings, pendants, and rings in them so far!

Tricia Morris had posted a sample jewelry holder on ClubScrapChat.com and it inspired me to make these new holders with the popout hanger section! I had been using mini gift bags from my Sizzix machine up until now, but I had a few new pendants which were too long for the bags and decided it was time to mix things up a bit!

I used the Serengeti 11/07 CS Digital Kit to create the simple holders (with my contact info on the back as the jewelry designer). The inside is made simply by taking the Yellow print and using the magic wand to select all of the yellow for deletion, then using Enhance >> Adjust Color >> Color Variations in PSE to remove a little green from the piece (since it is printed on the actual greenish-yellow paper I wanted the original background to show through and for the colors to be less distorted). I used the same Color Variations on the outside cover to remove some blue and green (it will make the lion charm appear reddish on your screen but will print truer to the original color on top of your Light Teal paper).

I simply used my X-Acto knife and ruler to cut horizontal lines for the pop out bars and used my bone folder to score vertically at the ends of each pop out section... The Score-It tool did the main folds at the center quite nicely! I also added a little color using Direct To Paper inking with Ranger's Distress Inks in Peeled Paint and Broken China on all of the edges and on the inside of the Light Teal paper wherever it would be visible! These were some very quick and simple holders!

I also wanted to share a few of the Korean language flash cards that I've begun for my kids! When I am ready to print a large batch they'll be printed on photo paper with the edges inked and matted on cardstock... possibly even laminated, I haven't decided!









I adored the animal stamps/transparencies from the Serengeti 11/07 Club Scrap Kits and really wanted to incorporate them into these cards with some zoo photos (yeah, I need to get a better zebra shot!). To do so, I used the paintbrush tool with a very soft brush to color a layer underneath the transparencies and erased most places where I went outside of the lines, maintaining a little bit of a transparent look to the finished pieces. I used the brush in the same colors to fill in the romanized version of each Korean word by making a text layer, simplifying the layer, selecting the area the layer took up, then opening a new layer and painting into my selection with the brush.

I also die cut the Korean font out of other papers from the kit and stretched and altered some of the transparency images to make frames or mattes for my photographs. On the Zebra card, I used the same transparency for the three accent squares and then stretched it for my photo frame, erasing the lines inside of the box.

On the lion card, I made ready use of the pattern making tips from the Serengeti 11/07 DigiRap. I also used the same Color Variations to alter the lion charm, and even used the burn technique from the Great Outdoors 10/07 DigiRap!

I know that they aren't too complicated... But I am planning to print them out at about the size of a license since I have the perfect laminating pouches for that size and also some playing card box kits from Club Scrap, way back to Wild Wild West 10/05!

Korean Layout: Ko-Chu-Neun Chag-A-Do Maep-Tta!

The title for the layout comes from the book Tigers, Frogs, and Rice Cakes: A Book of Korean Proverbs By Daniel D. Holt. Ko-chu-neun cha-ga-do maep-tta translates to "Though it is small, the pepper is hot." Basically, good things come in small packages! You can go to my Myspace Blog to see some other photos of events from that weekend's Korean/Chinese/Lunar New Year's festivities at the Peabody Essex Museum!

I created this digital layout using the Club Scrap Digital Kit 01/07 Fizz. I wanted to work in the blue from their outfits, so I altered the hue and saturation of the background paper. I also flipped and resized many elements, cut and pasted from the Patterned Dark Pink Cardstock in order to make a fully bordered matte, and added drop shadows and pepper frames. The font is Batang and made use of the Hangul Character Mapping on this site.

Happy New Year! (plus the winner for "What Inspires You")

It is time for me to name a winner in my "What Inspires You" Contest! I just used random.org to pick a random winner... and it is Audrey! Congratulations! I'll be sending you a little Club Scrap treat very soon!

Continuing to be inspired, I dug around in some magazines and took a few very fast digital shots of layouts that I liked from the advertisements and the magazine pages. Here is one ad-inspired layout, with photos from this weekend's Korean New Year's celebration!

I used this Emma Gardner Design, Llc ad as my inspiration for my digital layout.

The bags in the top image were all sewn by my children in a class with Keumjoo Ahn and JY Isabel Kim at the Peabody Essex Museum on February 18, 2006! They are called Gwi Ju Meoni, translated to Ear Pouch, because of the triangular ear-lobe shapes on both sides of the bag. The instructors had already made the dragonfly shaped knots, Mae Deup, for us!

We've already bought some fabric to make American Girl Doll sized pouches with coordinating outfits for the dolls and my girls! I'm not sure if this is a project that will have to wait until summer vacation though!

I used Club Scrap Digital 11/06 Interior Design Kit with Batang font. The text is by Keumjoo Ahn and translated by JY Isabel Kim.

Club Scrap Digital™ (CSD) Now Available in Smaller Monthly Kits!

Here's more proof that Club Scrap™ listens to their members! Some members wanted just the pre-made digital layouts, some wanted only the digital papers and embellishments, and others wanted the whole kit 'n' kaboodle! Well now, you have three choices for membership! And three choices for individual kit purchases! They've even re-released the previous CSD kits in the new smaller versions!

This layout was created using the Farmer's Market 10/06 CS DigiLayout #7 with the Zero & Zero Font. It is a very quick layout and a lovely design to work with!

These two layouts were created using a portion of the Interior Designs 11/06 DigiLayout #19, DigiGoodies Xtra #19 (laminate brads) and the font Script MT Bold. In the left hand layout I adjusted the Hue & Saturation to change the colors of the layout, enhancing the pattern in the paper through the color shifts! The smaller blue version uses the original color scheme, which just wasn't a match to this pair of photographs! Changing the colors of the papers and embellishments is always a wonderful option to exercise and you may also easily add as many of the DigiGoodies that you like to a premade DigiLayout! This time around, I simply added some digital brads, but other times I've gone hog wild with alterations and additions!

You can also always work from scratch! The Artist's Trading Card shown to the right is one example! It uses mostly the Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit along with the ribbon from the Farmer's Market 10/06 CSD Kit. I went to http://jacksonpollock.org to create the paint splattered background! (At that website, each move of your mouse will splatter digital paint all over your browser... click on your mouse to change colors!) I saved separate layers of the Pollock paint splatters and cut and pasted the textured CSD Paper into the shape of the splatters, added shadows, and adjusted the brightness to better fit my photograph! In "real life" I've matted a photographic print of the piece on actual papers from the kit and edged the photograph in Ranger's Black Soot Distress Ink!

The piece below made more use of a single printed paper and a coordinating transparency image from the same Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit. I copied the pattern within the foiled border image to create the page border and fill in the Transparency border images. I also used swatches of the paper, altering the Hue & Saturation to create the deeper shade of pink for my mats and finished the piece out with the Fabulous 50s font!





Made with Club Scrap Digital's Farmer's Market 10/06 Digital Kit. Club Scrap's ALSB Layout #11; "Zero & Zero" font; Digitally "chalked" edges from the Farmer's Market 10/06 DigiRap; Korean text translates to "girl" and "tiger";