Scrapbooking Traditional Or Digital?
Embellishments: How much is too much?
Photo Storage: Custom File Systems
September 2014 $5.99 U.S.A./$8.00 Canada
Table of Contents
Featured Articles
Christmas Pages: How to get holiday pages done in minutes
Traditional vs. Digital: How to choose the format for you
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Page 38 Scrapbooking Tools: So many choices are available
Embellishments: How much is too much?
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Editorial Page
Don’t leave your memories in a box.
Hello Readers, Welcome to Scrapbook Magazine! We have many exciting articles and ideas planned for the coming months. But before we get to the fun stuff, let me introduce myself. I come for a family of twelve children. That’s right twelve! I am third to the youngest or tenth to the oldest, depends on which way you want to look at it. In any case, when I was growing up we didn’t take a lot of photos. Mostly special occasions: Christmas, Easter, birthdays, things like that. And then there was the ever wonderful yearly school pictures. Seriously, would it have killed the them to make sure we looked decent? Hair was always crazy, collars all wacky. Those pictures are endless entertainment to my own children.
With the advancements of technology everyone has a camera on their ever present phones. As cool as it is to take instant photos, printing those photos and placing them in an album with some journaling for everyone to remember is something that is lost in todays fast paced world.
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Let them live with your family.
Our family loves to pull out the photo albums when the family gathers for holidays. The stories, the laugther, the strengthening of family ties. Nothing like it. Lori
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Embellishments: How much is too much? If you scrapbook with others one of the first things you notice is the difference in design preferences among scrapbookers. I have scrapbooked with so many different levels of ability, talent and taste. I have one sister that takes everything three to four steps farther than I would go. Glitter, wire and bejeweled beyond what the eye wants to look at. I have another sister who loves the bright and bold colors and shapes. It hurts my eyes to look at her pages. It is like looking at a bright colorful children’s book. I have a friend whose pages look so beautiful that you wonder how long it took her to do. The amount of time she spends planning out every detail makes you wonder how she will get any album done. And then there is me, I like pages with Example of a paper that has a busy print. Photos get lost on the page.
“Just remember that the photos are what you want to highlight, because in the end that is what people really want to see.” some print matted with solid colors. I feel that sometimes the printed papers around photos distract you from looking at the photos and looking at the background instead. I like to “see” the photo, then read the journaling, and then look at the surrounding elements. My sisters have come to think that when they ask me if I like a page they have scrapped if I say, “Do you like it?” they think that I don’t like it. The truth is that it isn’t if I like it or not, that doesn’t matter; it’s their books it’s up to them what and how much they put on a page. I can help make suggestions, but in the end they are the ones who will be living with their books and it’s their personalities and taste that will show through. And one of the crazy things about scrapbooking is that your taste changes over time. I look back at books that I did when my eldest daughter was in kindergarten (when scrapbooking as a big industry was just beginning) and it hurts my eyes to look at it. I want to rip it apart
Example of a page that uses print paper but breaks it up with a solid colors and just a couple of flower elements. You see the beautiful baby not the background.
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and start again, but I have too many photos to go through to go back and redesign books that are already completed. For me, one of the things I try to keep in mind while designing pages is to keep the main focus on the photos. It is so easy to get lost in the “goodies,” the stickers, flowers, material, thread, string, metal elements, wire, jewels, etc. that you lose focus of the photos. I tend to make my photos the main object on my pages and enhance them with one maybe two other eye-catching elements. Also, I do journal the pages. With the passing of time some of the details may get fuzzy to the memory, at the bare minimum I journal names, dates and the event. If there is a story that goes with the photo I try to get it down on paper. So in the end, only you can decide how much embellishment is too much or too little for your personal taste. Just remember that the photos are what you want to highlight, because in the end that is what people really want to see.
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