Style Guide: Freestyle

Welcome to yet another style article. This time we will guide you into a colorful style, where everything is permitted. We have thrown ourselves into freestyle.

What characterizes freestyle:

- White space
- Alternative products
- At times, strong colors
- Humor
- Different setup
- Intuition
- no thought of oxygen
- Fashion Embossed things
- Colourful
- Anything goes, but not everything needs a layout
- It is found in the word-free, bare leg

The next part of the text is written with help from an older article, written by Marie Nielsen.
Freestyle is a lot of colors, not so much journaling, creativity, play with materials, alternative recycled materials, lots of toppings and I could go on.
Freestyle is about to follow his intuition, use the materials you like and put it together as one wants. and like to spend a lot of colors. When I make a freestyle layout, I have seldom an idea of ​​how my layout is going to look. I might have a picture I would like to scrap, or else I have something new paper I would like to use or a story I will tell. I always start by gathering all the things, I'm going to be used on the layout, spread it on my desk. It may be I go for something that suits autumn, or just happy colors. To make it easier for you to do freestyle layouts, I will show and explain what materials and marks do not go completely wrong with. Once you have assembled the base, Then, just to let creativity flow and be inspired by materials and colors.

Now we will introduce you to a couple of nice layouts, made after freestyle tank. Neither Henrietta nor I (Heidi) are classic freestylers, but we have given it a try – and it is great to freestyle. Not to sound like a cliche, but try it!

Things and decorations, are good for a freestyle layout:

- Wrong
- Knapper
- Handwriting
- Alternative materials (bingo cards, old book pages, shelf paper, nodepapir, paper from packages of ornaments, chewing gum or other candy wrappers, postcard)
- Syning in hand and on machines, or just sewing
- Tickets
- Prints, hybrid scrap
- Maler tape og washi tape

- Tyl

- Tags

- Funny etsyfund

- Filt
- Dust
- Pailetter
- Tape
- Klipsemaskine
- Beads
- Kageservietter
- Small finds from recycling, etsy, parking
- Punches (hearts, banner, stars, Birds and Others)
- Badges
- Fog- and malersplats

Brands are good to freestyle with:
- Hambly (unfortunately close now)
- October Afternoon
- Studio Calico
- American Crafts
- Lily bee design
- Echo park
- Maya Road
- Some things My Minds Eye

This is all tags, who dares something. They dare to bang on the colors and create exciting designs. American Crafts is doing something nice letters and decorations.
In principle you can freestyle with all brands, because it's more a feeling than clear guidelines. But there are paper, there are more obvious than others.

The next layout is designed by Heidi Elkjaer

I get in a good mood, by looking at the colorful layouts. I love looking at the small details and discovering new things every time. I hope that this guide, will make it a little easier to get started in freestyle.

Also remember to read our other articles in Style Series.

2 thoughts on “Style Guide: Freestyle

  1. Ask Rosenkamp-Sejersen

    I think the same :-) Have never really given me engage in freestyle, but it has long been at the forefront of my next layouts, there's just been awhile while I get something done, but NOW I better pull myself together (before long…)

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