4 posts tagged “scrapbook layout”

Cover In Progress

I continued to torture the glitter glue pen today, and forged ahead with the creation of the K & Company Mini Book. I have to say that after this experience, I am a big fan of the mini book, and let me tell you why.

First of all, I've always felt like paper scrapbooking limited my style. The alphabet sets were always slightly or extremely smaller than I would have liked, and having done a lot of digital scrapbooking, I am extremely spoiled by being able to resize letters to their proper HUGE status in my layouts. I strongly use what I call my Wonky Letters (TM) style, which consists of me taking gigantic letters, and aligning them on my layouts like a set of crooked teeth. "First letter tilts to the left, next letter tilts to the right, third letter tilts to the left and drops down an eigth of an inch...", etc. My Wonky Letters (TM) style works wonders in the mini book format. This was a pleasant surprise.

Creating a mini book has also forced me to do something that I've always been terrified to do. I have been stretched creatively, and forced to cut photographs with scissors. Cutting up my photographs was probably the number one barrier of entry between me and the wonderful world of scrapbooking, and definitely the reason I chose to dive into digital instead of paper scrapping. When you're creating a digital scrapbook, you simply crop, resize, and save the original version of your photo on a nice hard drive that gets back up nightly to an external back up drive. Cutting a photo? It's like asking me to cut the fingernails of a two day old baby. What if I screw up? Somebody might get seriously injured! I might chop off an arm, or a head!

I had to throw caution to the wind and cut those photos because they were too big to fit on the mini book format. I feel like I've been liberated! I even cut one of the pictures in HALF, and used it in the center of a two page layout. It was like walking on the moon!



Something that I have noticed about the mini book is that my pages are warping. I am not sure if it is the glue stick I'm using, or because the paper is thicker than normal, but the pages are buckling inside. It must be the glue stick. I'm using Scotch Scrapbooker's glue with 2 Way Applicator. Fancy, I know! I don't think I'll be able to do my normal "Three Days with Shakespeare" scrapbook pressing routine where I place the book underneath my college edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare for 3 days, in which anything under its crusing weight comes out flatter than a flapjack. I have a good many 3D elements in the book. But I'll give The Bard a shot, and see if it flattens up before I give it away on Friday.

Memorymakers

The September 2006 edition of Memory Makers Magazine was a dog ears delight. In fact, I didn't get past the Chatterbox ad inside the front cover without making my first dog ear.

Page 1- Chatterbox has introduced Chatterbox Fonts Volume 3: Fonts, Dingbats, & Doodles. The ad cleverly displays the fonts included on the CD, and I think this one is going to be a must have for my growing font collection.

There are a handful of nice handwritten journaling fonts, as well as a couple of nice fat title style fonts, with both grungy and elegant varieties. The doodles and dingbats included on the CD are creative and fresh, and I can see myself using them not only to embellish pages, but also to potentially create patterns for papers and tags for my personal stash of homemade digitals.

The ad says look for it in your favorite scrapbooking/craft store today, so I complied. As soon as I had finished the magazine, I drove to my local Michael's to try to find the collection. But of course they didn't have it. Neither did my Hobby Lobby. The craft stores in this town need to get with it, and PRONTO!

But never fear, that's why the Internet is here, right? Well, actually, I looked all over the Internet too, and could not find this CD volume in any online stores yet. Oh, Chatterbox, why do you tease us so? The collection is not even available on the Chatterbox site as far as I could tell.

The font CD is now available on the Chatterbox site: Click here to go to the product page.
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Page 13- Deja Views Plum, Blue, and Blue Raspberry and Chocolate Brown Fresh Print (R) grouping is an irresistable scrapbook layout color combination. I love it! They have complete instructions for creating this scrapbook page, and a list of all of the scrapbook materials you'll need on their Projects Page. 

She said it took her over 6 months to be able to even create scrapbook layouts again after the loss, and the page she created is just simple and precious. You'll just have to flip to page 18 to see it. So sweet. And again, I'm verklempt.

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Page 22: Dog earred to remind me to check out the Penelope's Potpourri scrapbook collection from s-e-i. The collection uses large tulips in combinations of hot pink, blues, and greens to create a very feminine and playful aesthetic.

I think this would be perfect for my niece's birthday party scrapbook.

I'm also on the hunt for a digital kit that has similar tones. So, if you know of one, please comment on this post! Or design one, pretty please.

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Page 26: Michelle Minken's layout honoring her parent's 35th wedding anniversary, and inspired by a vintage handkerchief is just lovely lovely. It is a great little article about finding inspiration in your immediate surroundings.

I think we should all challenge ourselves as artists to create beautiful surroundings that inspire us daily.

I think I have figured out what my New Year's Resolution is going to be this year!