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Pumpkin Patch 12 Photo Scrapbook Layout

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Here is the scrapbook page I promised to show you with pictures of our outing to the pumpkin patch. I have also included a video to walk you through some of the elements of the page and give you some other information about the layout. You may watch it here, or read a brief description below the video.

I decided to make create this page digitally, because I had more pictures than time to scrap them onto several pages. So I decided to go ahead and use a lot of them on a single layout. That’s one of the benefits of using digital images, you can resize them as needed!

 

Since I was going to use several photos on the page I decided I would start with a layered template that used a lot of pictures. I wasn’t sure how many I would end up with but I figured it would quite a few, so I found a layout I liked that already included 9 pictures. I have a set of layered templates from DigitalScrapper.com that are great! In fact there are 12×12 pages as well as 8 1/2 x 11 layered templates! They are called Scrap It Now, so you may want to check them out. They are grouped into sets depending on how many photos you want to use, so it makes it easy to find one to use.  (I receive no compensation for mentioning this product!)

Okay, I’ll stop here and admit I should have decided on how many pictures I was going to use before I selected the template, but I didn’t! I had to add 2 more frames, plus you’ll see I actually used one my photos as the top of the background! It seemed perfect for the overall theme of the page, and really was going to be too small if I used it in one of the frames.

There are so many pictures on the page that I didn’t want to use too many other embellishments on the page because I felt it would become too busy. After the page is printed, I’ll hand write names near the pictures or add any other small journaling very close to the edges of the photos.

If you have any questions be sure to let me know! Come back tomorrow to see a great way to get a double page layout (paper) ready for Halloween and get your pictures on it right away!

May Layout A Day – Day 7

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Today’s layout was suppose to be done within 30 minutes.  I saw one of my Quick Pages that had come with a digital kit, and decided to use it for the layout inspiration.  I had to do it from scratch because it needed rotated and rearranged.  But I thought it would be pretty quick, because I knew most of what I needed to select!  All I wanted to use was one picture and a conversation between my 5 year old granddaughter and her aunt, my oldest daughter.  Things were going well and I was finished.  I have been doing so many pages and hadn’t restarted my computer in who knows when, and it hung up when I was trying to downsize the file so it would work well on the web.  I finally decided to just restart my computer.

When I tried to open my page, it was only the first layer – a plain white background I had saved with the file name!  Well, there went my 30 minutes down the drain!  At least I knew what to do to complete again quickly!  I must add, it must have already been having problems the last time I had saved it.  Oh well!  I still have another memory saved!

Digital Kit: Rule My World by Irene Alexeeva.

A Happy Place

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Where is a place you have many happy memories of?  We often hear something about going to our “happy place” and here is one of mine:

Digi kit: Ever After by Krystal Hartley

Journaling reads:  Daddy built my playhouse when I was very young and it was originally furnished with a little cupboard, stove, table and chairs.  I even remember the tablecloth and napkins Mother made.  When we moved to the country, the playhouse was brought along!  This little house holds untold hours of make believe, and every time I remember playing in it or see a picture, it brings a smile and fond memories. Here is Kloe playing in it.  She is our third generation to enjoy the magic of my playhouse!

Do you have a favorite place from your past or the present?  Create a page, don’t for the journaling, and share it!

Tell Your Untold Stories

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If you are a scrapbooker, you are probably documenting special moments of your family and friends.  How often are you including your own story in those pages?  Probably not as often as you should!

YOUR story is important — the good and the bad, happy and sad.  It’s all about your life.  There is so much I wish I knew about other people in my family from previous generations. Just a glimpse into their lives would be interesting.  If you are fortunate enough to have some family heritage pictures, do you know who the people are in the pictures, or any little stories about them?  In the end, it’s the stories and the pictures that are important.

Made with digi kit Waiting for the Sun by Stephanie Ogren

If you run across a picture that has a little bit of a back story, why not get that down on paper with the picture?  It doesn’t matter if the pictures are perfect.  An imperfect picture is better than no picture if that’s all you have!

Here is a page I made from the first day’s prompt for the LayOutaDay challenge that tells about our wedding cake.  It’s not a photographer’s shot of the cake, it’s a picture of the cake while still on the kitchen table.  I had been taking cake decorating lessons during the year before we got married, and a special wedding cake class.  From making all the icing for my classes, I had ended up burning up the motors in both my mom’s hand mixer, as well as my future mother-in-laws!  By the time it was time to make the wedding cake, I had to use my grandmother’s stand mixer.

I had never seen or heard of anything other than white wedding cake, but I wanted our to taste good and I decided to make it a spice cake.  Not sure if there are any superstitions about the flavor of your wedding cake, but it seems to be good luck, as we have been married now for 35 years!

What pictures do you have that remind you of an untold story?

Does Size Matter for Scrapbook Pages?

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Have you ever sat down to scrapbook with your pictures at hand and just had a big blank page staring back at you, not saying anything?  It just lies there in silence!  It gives you no guidance or direction, and just waits for you to get to started with pictures, journaling and embellishments.  You keep moving things around, but you just can’t bring yourself to commit those items to the page by actually using adhesive — that is such a permanent commitment!  Oh how too familiar this is to many scrapbookers.

The first time I worked on an 8×8 album was a liberating feeling.  It took so little time to complete an entire album!  When we made some little 6×6 albums, they were just a breeze.  There just wasn’t enough space to worry about putting so many things on a page.  It was just quick and simple.

When I ran across the concept of progressive scrapbook pages, it just made so much sense!  If you aren’t familiar with the concept, here it is. You start with a small size, say 6×6 and use that as your page to complete.  Then you lay that on an 8.5×11 page and complete that.  Finally, you lay it on a 12×12 page and finish it off!  By breaking up the space with the different sizes, you have automatically created quite a bit of balance and variety to your page.

Even doing the reverse can be helpful!  Lay out your 12×12 then place a piece of 8.5×11 on next, and then a 6×6  It can break up enough space to give you an idea of something you’d like to do!

Here is a basic page I’ve done to give you the idea.  The finished size is 12×12, but you can see where the 8.5×11 patterned paper is, and the 6×6 that is layered on top of that!