Basketball Scrapbook Layout

Basketball Scrapbook Layout – Digital – Eight Photos

Now this particular layout is very special to me.  This was one of my first tries at digital scrapbooking and more important – the paste into or grouping feature in photoshop 7.0.

My son (at age 8 or 9) drew the basketball – which I then scanned and enhanced for the photo.

Granted, this page would be a lot less “busy” had I created it today…but I love how I was able to use the sections within the basketball as frames for the scrapbook photos.

Scrapbook Layout – One Photo Many People

One photo – many people – scrapbook page layout. (digital)

Believe it or not, this layout was quite tough to do.  Mostly because there were so many vibrant colors to choose from and I didn’t want to take away from the page by choosing the wrong background papers or elements.  This is why the scrapbook papers have very subtle patterns to them (thank you Designer Digitals). And the embellishments (flowers and cord) (again, by Designer Digitals) were also subtle.

In the end I was very pleased with how this scrapbook page layout turned out.  It was really fun to do.

Floral Scrapbook Layout Idea

Scrapbook Layout – One small photo – One Big Focal Point

This has to be one of my all time favorite scrapbook pages.  Everything on it was designed from scratch by me (cijaye) during the early days of digital scrapbooking.  I started out with a drawing I made of the flower.  I created the background layer, then I decided to play with the flower as a primary focal point on the page.  At that time I didn’t really expect to be able to get a photo onto the page.  Though it was important.

I played with the idea of placing tiny photo’s into all of the petals and then I got very overwhelmed by how busy that would look.

So, I elected to cutout the center of the flower and using the “paste into” feature in photoshop 7.0 I resized the photo of choice to just the right size.

I still adore this one.  Even to this day!

Fairy Princess Scrapbook Layout

Girl Scrapbook Layout – One Photo – Fairy Princess Frame

Again, this is one of my earlier scrapbook layouts.  I was really into the “draw your own elements” and “paste into them” features of digital scrapbooking.  I believe for this particular layout I had do do some erasing around the edges of the photo in order to get it to ONLY display in a portion of the frame.

In the end…I was REALLY impressed with myself.  Having no official graphic design training whatso ever…I thought this was pretty advanced.

Today this type of technique is easy for me.  It’s just a matter of working with the photoshop layers in the absolute most creative way possible.

Scrapbook Layout for a Blurry Photo

Scrapbook Layout – One Blurry Photo – Great Digital Elements (Thank you designer digitals)

This layout was a lot of fun for me.  I used a lot of elements from designer digitals on this one.  I did a bit of resizing and a bit of retouching – but the goal was to be able to use this really blurry photo in a way that made it NOT MATTER that it was blurry.

Thanx to the great designs at designer digitals I was able to find some great elements to breath a new life into this scrapbook page layout.

Scrapbook Layout – 3 Photos

Digital Scrapbook Layout for Girls – Using 3 Photos.

Again, this is one of my early attempts at digital scrapbooking.

My daughter drew the sunshine (at age 5 or 6) – inspired by the basketball page layout I did with my son’s basketball drawing and she asked me to find a way to create a page with her drawing as the focal point.

I could have gone bigger with it – now that I reflect back – but I still managed to produce a pretty cool layout that I really enjoyed.

All other elements on page were designed by myself (font excluded of course).

Black Background Scrapbook Layout

Digital Scrapbook Layout – Black Background – One Photo

Again, more fantastic page elements and design from designer digitals made this page possible. The caption, the swirls, the blue and white flowered background as well as the amazing orange flowers were all from them.

But what got me going on this page – was that I loved the caption! That’s where my true inspiration came from. I knew I had to have the perfect photo for it as well since my daughter is just so incredibly animated.  She loves taking photo’s and doesn’t care what she looks like in them.  It makes it really easy to make a lot of pages around her.

Anyhow…the photo itself was originally taken as my daughter was laying down on my hardwood floors in the kitchen.  I used the magnetic lasso in photoshop 7.0 to crop away the wood floor and then I added this insane sunset photo I took.  It certainly allowed me to stay true to the caption.

Scrapbooking More Than One Child

How To Scrapbook For More Than One Child
By: Anna Hart

Scrapbooking can be a delightful way to corral those family photos and memories into an exciting book. Scrapbooking can be relaxing for you as you do it, and a pleasure as you share it.

Books and articles on scrapbooking for 1 child abound, but suppose you have more than 1 child. Suppose you have 7 children. Then you need a book or article on how to scrapbook for more than 1 child.

You Have Scrapbooking Options

Those who want to scrapbook for more than 1 child have several exciting options.

1. Make a full-blown scrapbook for each. If you have many photos and memories to preserve, this allows the most space for each child. Your scrapbooking will require more time and money, but will be a labor of love.

The book’s theme will focus on that one child. Place his or her photo and name on the front, and theme every scrapbooking page to that child’s life.

You will use family photos, of course, to show the place the child held in family activities. But you will want pages that focus solely on that child: baby “firsts”; first year of school; favorite hobbies; favorite toys; dreams; birthdays; awards; graduation; etc. If a photo shows two of the children together, focus your journaling on that one child’s part in the photo. How did the world look from his eyes or her eyes? Our memories are always, I have found, as seen through our eyes. Do mention the second child, but spotlight the first.

As each child becomes able, he or she can help add new pages to his or her scrapbook. Scrapbooking can be a time of bonding and love that will long be remembered.

When they leave home as young adults, they can take their individual scrapbooks with them. As they mature, they will come to realize what it meant in time, effort, and cost for you to provide these treasured scrapbooking memories.

2. Make a mini scrapbook for each. If you have fewer photos, want to be more selective, or simply have very little time for scrapbooking, a mini scrapbook will still provide individual, tangible memories that can be carried into adult life.

Select just one theme for each double-page spread, with one or two photos on each. Tie the photos together with your theme, mounting them on the same color of torn paper or using identical frames.

Mini scrapbooking will not allow for as many family or sibling photos, but remember that this is a book about one child. When you make a mini scrapbook for each child, you can rest assured that each will get full attention. There will be no “left-out” feelings.

A mini scrapbook can be no larger than 6” x 6”. Or it can be half the size of a standard letter: 5.5” x 8.5”. You can read details about how to make your own mini scrapbooks in my article entitled, “How to do Mini Scrapbooks”.

Digital mini scrapbooks would be interesting for children, since they live in a computerized world. Digital mini scrapbooks can be less expensive to make, and people who are comfortable with one of the computer graphics programs, such as “Adobe PhotoShop”, will be able to apply interesting effects that are not possible with conventional scrapbooking.

3. Make a family scrapbook for each. A third way to scrapbook for more than one child is to make a family scrapbook for each. Less attention will be paid to individual children, in such a book, and focus placed on the entire family unit.

Your scrapbooking theme is your entire family, including every family member. Place the family name on the cover, and a nice family photo, if you wish. On the title page, write a note about the family as a whole.

Scrapbooking a single volume of memories will call for both family memories and individual memories. Theme your pages to focus on high lights of family life. Begin with Dad and Mom – the wedding, especially. You will still have a scrapbooking page for each child’s birth, but there will probably be insufficient space for every “first” of every child. Try to include true highlights of each child’s life. Include amusing times as well as those that were less pleasant. Include school events; sports; musical interests; birthdays; awards, graduations, and family pets.

You may still want to include your children’s scrapbooking efforts as they become old enough to take part in the process. Scrapbooking family memories will give opportunity to discuss those memories, and solidify them in each one’s mind.

When each child leaves home, for college attendance, to marry, etc., make a copy of the book as it is at that time, and present it as a going-away gift. Office supply stores or copy centers can copy each page in color on heavy paper or cardstock, and bind them with s durable spiral binding. Covers can be copied in color or black and white on cover stock.

Your scrapbooking gifts will vary for each child, according to when they leave home, but personal family memories of their time at home will be preserved.

4. Make a Perpetual Digital Scrapbook. If you want to scrapbook for more than 1 child with the least time involvement, you may want to consider a perpetual digital scrapbook.

Digital scrapbooking may contain hundreds, or even thousands, of pages, and yet take up no more space than a small computer CD. Digital scrapbooks allow you to add pages, even when the family is grown and dispersed.

Digital scrapbooks need never be printed. You can include individual pages of every child’s “firsts” as well as all of your family photos. Throughout life, you can continue to make pages. As each is completed, simply attach it to e-mail and send it to every family member. They can add each page to their scrapbooking CD, and continue the family album.

TIP: A digital scrapbook on a CD in a bank safe deposit box is the safest way to store your family memories. Your digital scrapbook will be safe from fire, floods, and other disasters.

Article Source: http://www.articlerich.com

© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of her articles about scrapbooking at www.scrapbooking-for-fun.com. Anna is posting new articles every week on that site, each one dealing with a scrapbooking topic. If you decide to solve the problem of how to scrapbook for more than 1 child by doing a www.scrapbooking-for-fun.com/digital-scrapbooking/how-to-make-your-own-digital-mini-scrapbook-16/”>digital mini scrapbook as suggested above, you won’t want to miss her article on the subject.

How to go from LAME to FAME with your Scrapbooks.

It is true…when you first start scrapbooking you are just getting your feet wet.  You don’t know what you are doing other than trying to give your photo’s a new purpose or enhance their memories.

Really that’s what scrapbooking was all about in its earliest days.  In fact…if you look back historically – a scrapbook was merely a collection of photographs and memoires. 

They weren’t placed on the page in just the right place to give the paper behind it some glory.  They weren’t covered on the corners or all around the edges to make them look cooler. They were simply images placed on a page along with some newspaper clippings or ticket stubs or pennants etc.

It was a collection of stuff with no rhyme or reason – but collected and keepsaked nonetheless.

 

Now if YOUR early scrapbooks feel that way too…like mine did… (okay this one is a LITTLE better than some of my beginning ones – but it’s still not a page I would call GREAT today)…you would want to redesign them OR know how to do BETTER than this next time.  Right?  Who doesn’t want to improve their work.  All artists go through transitions and WANT to make changes to their skills as time progresses…so I am going to help you do that.  Here’s what you need to do in order of progression.

 

From LAME to FAME in 5 Simple Steps!

1. Discover the amazing gift of Scrapbook Page Layouts!  Even if you don’t intend to do EVERYTHING as done in a layout you like – having a layout design in mind can make everything come together in ways you may have never imagined previously.  It also speeds up the process of completing a scrapbook page by leaps and bounds.

 

2. Learn how / when / where to use those pretty patterned papers you see everywhere.    For the life of me (as a beginner) I could not figure out how to use them properly.  As a full background page they took up the spotlight in all of the wrong ways…yet – when I cut them I felt like I was ruining them altogether.  NOW however…just the right pattern in just the right places is all I need.   Usually it’s a thin strip across the page or a matt behind a photo.  Sometimes is a square or circle placed around other squares or circles.  Occasional my patterned papers are other unique shapes (punched or diecut) – and they are simply used like embellishments.  The best trick however is to cut the original shapes / designs OUT of the patterned paper and adhering them to cardstock and 3D pop dots to make them stand out from the page.

 

3. Explore embellishments BEYOND the sticker and button isles!  Go to the hardware sections of EVERY STORE that has one.  Shopping with your DIY Fixer Upper Husband will finally take on a PURPOSE for you!  It’s amazing what you can do with widgets, fasteners, hinges, hooks and clasps.  You can even visit the local fabric stores now and buy up their bagfuls of buttons, ribbons and cut offs.  You can even add zippers and straps, cords and tape.  The sky is now your limit…litterally. (You just have to find a place to organize it all)  You can stretch beyond the normal imagination now and become an adventurer with your scrapbook pages.  Embellishing will definitely take on new meaning for you!

 

4. Allow BORDERS to take on a new meaning!  Not every page or photo needs a border; but if there is a call for it…don’t just FRAME it; that’s simply too basic.  Run a row of stitches with your hand or a sewing machine; pierce a row of holes; distress with paint or ink; scratch with sand paper, scissors or even needles; create a mosiac with beads, tiles, paper pieces etc.  Go beyond the ordinary!  As you are going though…don’t forget that not all borders are 4 sided!  You can border anywhere from 1-4 sides … or even border your shapes (like circles, flowers, photo corners and such).  Also remember that your borders don’t need to start or finish on the image / shape being bordered.  Try starting a few centimeters or even INCHES before – and then add some staples, buttons or flowers half way before your shape starts.  Don’t be afraid to place those embellishments halfway through the shape either.  AND furthermore…if you can avoid the straight and perfect lines that one would normally expect from a border…you will do yourself a favor. 

 

5. See Imperfections as Opportunities!  So what if your photo isn’t perfectly square.  So what if it’s not squared in the matt either.  So what if your flower has a curled up or chopped up petal.  SO WHAT?  Use those imperfections as opportunities.  Add something else to the imperfect spaces or edges.  Cover them up or even EMPHASIZE them.  Make them appear INTENTIONAL!  You will love the fact that you don’t have to do them over!  You will love the fact that you can be FREE and avoid CONFINEMENT and perfection if you want to!  You can be a rebel and it’s okay!

 

Lets start there!  I am sure that give you a TON to think about.  But I hope you are now newly inspired to be MORE!  Be better.  You can now take your scrapbook pages to the next level! 

And have fun with it!

Digital Background Freebie

Calling All Scrapbookers!….

ScrapbookingDirections.com has a NEW LAYOUT CHALLENGE for you!

We are pretty certain this challenge is UNLIKE ANY OTHER SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT CHALLENGE ONLINE!! PLUS along with the challenge, you get 2 FREE Digital Background Papers to help you along with the design!

All you have to do is

1. visit this page: http://scrapbookingdirections.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-45
2. Preview the instructions….
3. Register to become a member of the gallery
4. Copy and paste the free digital page URLs (right click them when open and save them to your desktop or documents folder where you will find them again)
5. Create YOUR Layout (based on the Layout Challenge) (as I did)
6. Then POST your layout to the same album!

And that’s it.  Your visitors and other members to the gallery will then be able to rate your layouts and comment on them.

And IF we get enough entries, we may spice up the offering of freebies (or prizes) on the next one.

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