unique and quirky scrapbooking and crafting
I was making a layout as part of my Trip to Michigan album and I had these pictures of our stop in Frankenmuth. It is a town rich in its German heritage and also known as “Little Bavaria.” Many of the buildings have the beautiful Bavarian gingerbread detail on the trim. So naturally I [...]
I was nearing the end of a stack of pictures as I chronicled my trip to Michigan to visit a dear friend when I made this “Up North” page. I had already used the super cute journaling sticker on another layout in the album but I still had the negative on the sticker sheet. So [...]
Altering your kits just a bit to fit your needs based on the photos you’re trying to scrapbook can really make for some fast layouts. This is a kit I did at CKC in Louisville, Kentucky during February of 2009 in a Basic Grey class. Then I went to visit my sister that Spring and [...]
I filled up these pages with photos of buildings at the University of Virginia but then I found myself with two dilemmas – the need for some journaling space and how to evenly display those photos. The pages themselves were quite dark because I used the school colors (or as close as I could get) [...]
The two pages on this layout were never really meant to go together…before they met me. Ha! I had some wonderful photos of the gardens at the Biltmore but I was piecing together pages because I was at a friend’s house and I was using papers I’d stuck in my bag. I was not going [...]
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 considered drawing on your layouts? Even if you’re not an artist with a pen or paintbrush, you can create a very special embellishment. Using a wide-tip white journaling pen, I drew the flourishes on this “delicious tradition” layout. I would have liked to use a really great white rub-on but I didn’t [...]
Using neon colors can be intimidating. How do you find a nice balance on your layout? The pop of color from neon colors is dramatic and can be overbearing. So how do you complement the neons with other colors? On this “free spirit” layout I used the bright green as a color block, the bright [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever had a piece of scrap paper that would be perfect for your layout but it’s just a little bit too small? There is no need to set it aside and keep looking for another suitable color block. You might be able to make the too small one work. On this “seriously silly” [...]