Scrapbooking Made Simple

This is a question that was emailed to me at: cheapscrapbookingideas@yahoo.com by one of my readers: "How do you scrap another person’s photo’s? This is something that some of us occasionally choose to do and it seems to be a bit challenging for me at the moment. I want to do it but am not as inspired as when it is my own kids." It's a great question because we often as scrappers do presents for other people and we want the finished product to be the best we can possibly do. So to achieve this I suggest if you can talk to the people about their photos this will help alot! Also during this process take some notes. Try to get a feel for not only the journalling element such as: "This was John's 1st Birthday" but how they felt. You may not use the emotions in the journalling but they can really help you to evoke that mood using colours and embellishments. For instance an event that was filled with excitement and wonder would benefit from splashes of vibrant ...

I recently did these layouts of my kids. As you can see I've used multiple photos . I think this is a great way to save on your scrapbooking . Let's face it if I did one layout per photo I'd use alot more supplies than I have here. I love to use multiple photos whenever I can. I really only do a single photo per layout when I'm wanting to produce something of the same artistic value as the layouts featured in the magazines. I also tend to resize alot of the pictures on a common theme and print them on one single photo . (See example) I then cut these out later, and use them on my layouts. This is especially useful if you're scrapping an event such as a wedding or birthday party. This montage of photo's is from my son's birthday and was printed on a standard 5' x 7' photo. This evening I found a great blog which shows lots of examples of multiple photo layouts . So if you're wanting to try this technique, or just looking for new inspiration ...