Be a Photo Time Traveler

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As we continue to discuss ways to get more scrapbooking done, let’s talk about:

Step 2:  Be a Photo Time Traveler

Free yourself from chronological scrapping!  In other words, you don’t have to scrap your photos in chronological order, year to year, or even month to month. You can take photos from last summer’s picnic and make a layout today, then make a layout of your grandparents wedding tomorrow, and then maybe the next day create a layout of the birthday party yesterday.  You get the idea.  Jump from time period to time period.

I’m sure you are no different than anyone else, and you have a few pictures that each time you come across them, they bring a smile to your face!  Or you may have a favorite event that you would really like to put on a page or two.  So do it!  Don’t feel like you didn’t get to that segment of time yet!  You have permission to take those photos, no matter what date they were taken, and make a page or two, or three.  Trust me, it is rewarding to get those treasured photos or moments put on a page!  If anybody tries to stop you, tell them I said it was okay!

Check back for Step 3: Does Size Matter – for Your Scrapbook?

What picture brings a smile to your face every time you see it?  When are you going to put that memory on a page?

 

Help, I Have Too Many Photos and I Can’t Get Started!

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Do you feel like you have so many pictures that you’ll never get it done?  Do you need some guidance?  How about just moral support?  Over the next few days we are going to discuss how to move forward and have time to get some memories documented.

Step 1:  Be realistic and don’t beat yourself up over all the pictures you want to scrap, but haven’t.  It doesn’t really matter whether your stacks of pictures are of years gone by or just from last month.  The fact is, you probably have more pictures than you’ll ever scrap, and that’s okay!

Don’t look at a mountain of photos and think you are going to have to get them all into albums.  Think of those pictures as your supply.  Just because they are there doesn’t mean you are going to use all of them.  They are your source.  Just like going to the grocery store doesn’t mean you bring one of every item home for dinner; having all those pictures doesn’t mean each one will make it into a layout.  For example, in this age of digital photography, we are taking more and more photos, and often feeling more behind than when we had to have film developed!  You may have 50+ pictures of a child’s birthday that are all “wonderful,” but even if you did one page with the best photo, or even two or three, you’d have that special event captured on a page!   So don’t let your quantity of pictures overwhelm you from the beginning!

Watch for Step 2 in this series, “Be a Photo Time Traveler.”

No Tricks, Only Treats Today!

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I’m sorry you missed this offer!  Stay tuned for other free offers!

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I’ve had so many people tell me that the buttons and bows on the digi page I did looked like a lot of work!  Guess what — it was!  I decided to gift you a copy of my layout!  All you have to do is sign-up in the box at the right, and press the orange button.  You’ll be taken to the page where you can download a set of the pages.

You’ll have a chance to select:

  • a set for My Digital Studio 2 (MDS2)
  • simple PNG file
  •  or even a set of layered PSD files.

How’s that for a ScrapAhead™?   Enjoy!

Here was what the finished pages looked like.   Add your own titles, text and photos and you have your own pages!   If you are not seeing the signup box, please click here:

 

Halloween Scrapbook Double Layout, Buttons & Bows, Take 2

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This Halloween page uses the same layout on the left page that I showed you in yesterday’s post.  However this layout was done so each of the grandkids could have copies.  Having to have pages for more than one person of the same events is another great reason to do a digital layout!  Thought I would show you a double page layout so you could see the finished layout.

You can see that this actually covers two different years. By the time I got to the page on the right, I had decided the little black bows reminded me of bats, so I just added them onto the page with that intent.  Also, the white button is a “moon.”

Just take it a layout at a time!  Have you run across some favorite pictures from years ago that you want to get on pages?  

Halloween 3-Photo Scrapbook Layout with Buttons and Bows

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Do you ever feel like you are behind in scrapbooking your pictures?   Don’t feel like everything has to be put into layouts based on a day-by-day, chronological order!

I ran across these cute pictures of our Princess 2 (granddaughter) and thought they would be so cute in a page all together.   Because of all the buttons and bows, it would have been quite heavy and bulky using real product, so this is a digital page.

With all the open space in the layout, you can easily get by with adding the different patterns of paper behind the photo mats.  In this case, the circles help pull together the design with the round buttons of the border.

Notice how some of the buttons are overlapping a bit and the shadows on the buttons are individually adjusted so that they appear more like they are overlapping each other.

The little black bows remind me of little bats – which was a happy accident!

What kind of happy accidents have you had in scrapbooking a layout?

This layout was done with Stampin’Up! My Digital Studio, (MDS).  I receive no compensation for mentioning it.