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.

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.

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.

Scrapbook Layout – One Photo

One Photo Layout – Paper Scrapbooking

This was my absolute FIRST scrapbook page done with paper.  I had to do it.  This was one of my favorite photos of all time.  It reminded me of a television commercial that would leave a warm and fuzzy feeling in your heart.  Don’t know why.  Anyhow…reflecting back I would have spent a little more time making sure that everything was properly placed (not crooked) on the page.  I probably would have scanned the photo and made it much larger as well.

On this page, I tore handmade fibre paper (the red and gold on top and bottom) and I bent wire to spell out the word cousins.  I also printed the journaling onto a manilla folder.  This page took a LONG time as I wasn’t very happy with a LOT of it as I was building it out.  I had ZERO direction on it – other than the fact that I loved the photo.

What I do love most however is the fantastic colors I chose.  The green, red and gold with hinds of orange are just FANTASTIC!  Hopefully this one inspires you in some way.

Grandaughter Scrapbook Page

One photo scrapbook layout – paper – grandmother and granddaughter.

Something I find very humorous about this page is that when I created it I was so incredibly pleased with the outcome that I went on paper scrapbooking hiatus for quite a while.  I was very afraid to break the mold. LOL.

As you might be able to tell I am fanatical about bring colors in my scrapbook pages.  And I think that’s what makes this page so powerful – especially when paired with a black and white photo.

Anyhow…for this page I used rubber stamps from StampinUp! This includes the stamped CHERISH text on the top left which I watercolered and glossy accented.  This also includes the pretty flowers on the right of the photo – which I also watercolored and added clear glitter to.

Beneath the photo are 3 white mini-brads which I love!  I think they add that special something.

Finally, I topped the page off with a few additional elements (stickers, silk flowers, clips and ribbon) and viola – a simple but very elegant masterpiece was created.

Die Cut Machines – A Public Review

There is no doubt that die-cutting is really cool. Especially considering it can now be done at home with a desktop machine that costs anywhere from $50.00 – $500.00+.

Before die cutting was ONLY exclusive to print shops. And it was expensive! I know because I used to work at one. The dies alone would cost anywhere from $100 – $2000 to make as they needed to be hand crafted more often than not. AND they were almost always exclusive to the buyer of that die. Therefore that buyer needed to know that it was worth his / her companies interest to take that route before even doing so.

Granted some dies were available to everyone – but more or less this is an expensive trade. Not any longer.

At least not for scrapbookers. So today instead of Scrapbooking Directions putting its opinion out there on Die Cutters, we want to ask the public for theirs.

We want YOUR feedback if you have a die machine. Esp. if you have many die cut machines.

We want to know why you chose the machine you did. Your opion (comments) will help others make the decision for themselves.  It’s not a low cost invesment so it’s one that many scrapbookers would REALLY appreciate honest feedback on.

So please leave your comments.

Tell us which die cutting machine you have and why you chose it? Was it price, was it the library of dies, was it the ability to work with OTHER dies (being a universal die cutter), does it emboss also? Is it one of the only die cutters that can work with heavy duty double sided adhesives without wearing down the machine? [These are all of the reasons we chose the cuttlebug diecutter].

But what’s your story.

Please share.

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