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Baby Layout Tips
What to do with all of those photos we take of our babies? What about a "Year in the Life" layout where each page is a different month? It uses up lots of photos and can be decorated with the names of the months in cut out letters. Tip from A Lifetime of Memories
Creative Lettering
You can use busy backgrounds from pictures you have cropped by cutting out letters for your topper. If you have lots of snow pictures, cut out the letters for the title from extra photos or from what you have cropped.
For an extensive and well-done tutorial on lettering, be sure to visit Creative Lettering at Scrapping by Alaine. You will get all sorts of tips on hand lettering. The more you practice, the more confident you will feel on doing your own lettering and the more valuable your scrapbook.
Mount colored letter stickers on scraps and cut a square around the letter using fancy edge scissors. Arrange and mount them on a page.
Trace or print big, fat letters on patterned paper to make words out of the fancy paper and mount on plain colored acid-free paper.
When trying to add variety to your lettering, separate letters or words with dots, hearts, or stars. Try using a different color for each letter. Try all lowercase. Try writing tall and thin. Try writing short and wide. Write on a curve above photos or use as a headline.
Instead of drawing pencil lines directly on your page to do your lettering, draw dark lines on plain or ruled paper with a black, bullet-tipped pen. Then, using a light box, position the lined paper under your page, and place both on the light box. You can see the darkened lines through the paper and follow them to do your letters.
You can add appropriate stickers to larger letter stickers to make headings.
This tip is from A Lifetime of Memories. Visit their site for more hints and tricks.
Basic Crop Tip
When getting ready to go to a crop, make the most out of your time by planning your pages the day of or the day before.
Gather your pictures you want in each layout and then pick cardstock colors, printed paper, embellishments or whatever else you need to complete that page, clip it together and move on to the next. Make sure you plan enough to keep you busy the whole time so you don’t run out of pages. I usually bring about 20 pages to try to complete at a 10 hour crop. You’ll find you will get more done and not have to pack as much stuff!
Submitted by Cheri
Page Layout Tips
If you are having problems trying to come up with new page layouts and don’t want to spend the money on expensive scrapbook idea books, dig out your magazines.
You will find tons of layout ideas by just looking through magazines such as Women’s Day, Family Circle, etc. The articles they write have a title, pictures and of course journaling, this is a great and inexpensive way to get new ideas!!
Submitted by Cheri
Heritage Tip
Working on a Heritage page or album? To give a more aged look, take a piece of vellum and burn the edges and use this to journal on.
This gives a great antique look just be sure to brush the burnt pieces of the paper off so they don’t smear your page.
Submitted by Cheri
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