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When it comes time to do your annual Halloween layout….remember the jack-o-lanterns. This layout from Halloween 2011 is of my sister’s kiddos and she had sent a pic of their carved pumpkins that year. I cropped the photo of the pumpkins and used it almost as more of an embellishment than a photo. You [...]
I created this beautiful canvas project in a local CTMH girls’ night out hosted by my friend Gina. Then I took it home and created this wonderful shadow box with memorabilia from my honeymoon. This is hanging in my home and is a great reminder of the fabulous time we had. It was so easy [...]
Did you ever consider allowing your photos to escape their mats? It can be a fun way of allowing a cool background paper to show through while still anchoring your photos. On this “DS!” layout, I used a black color block as a mat beneath the two photos. But as I worked on the [...]
Here a flap, there a flap, everywhere a flap or pocket! There are pictures everywhere on this layout. I was making a layout featuring more of the photos of my Michigan trip album and these photos all are buildings downtown and I wanted them all on here. My dilemma came in getting them all [...]
When you don’t have the perfect embellishments to complement your photos, then look for creative ways to place the embellishments you do have. Many paper packs come with coordinating stickers that you can use to create a common theme within an album and you can add or edit images as you deem necessary. Sometimes [...]
The great race to find eggs and fill baskets was on and I snapped photos as fast as I could. In this “egg frenzy” layout I used a basic of photo cropping to create a cohesive look across the design. The photo on the far left is cropped to match the diamond pattern in the [...]
I had a bunch of photos of my nephew riding his bike for me and showing off. That was fun to watch! Anyway, when it came time to scrapbook the fun, I was working with a lot of photos on one subject. So I cropped them and started piecing them together on this layout. [...]
I have found a simple and fast way to make a great photo stand out – Extreme cropping! Well I don’t know if it’s an official term or not, but I consider cutting into your photo to cut out a person quite extreme. On this “sugar baby” layout, I cropped one picture of my nephew [...]
Have you ever gotten a piece of really loud paper? It sounds funny, but I think we’ve all seen paper patterns that really jumped off the page at us. Sometimes it can be difficult to calm those “loud” papers down. Conversely, it can be equally as difficult to liven up calm pictures. Some of the [...]
Sometimes there is no ideal way to crop your pictures without creating odd shapes. On this “egg-cellent” layout I found that cropping the unwanted parts of the pictures away left an odd shape. So I created a layout to fit around the modified photos. I decided to accentuate the odd shape by matting the photos [...]