Comments on: Using scrapbook page sketches

By: Christine Rickert

Christine Rickert — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:53:17 +0000

WOW TAMI…Thanks so much. This is perfect and I loved the way you told it using the analogy of coloring with a friend as a child…Remember how much fun that was?!!and soothing. Guess that was the precursor for our scraptime with friends now….
Will try this now. Printing it so I can keep this for a reference.

By: Tami

Tami — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:41:41 +0000

Heather,
I’d just combine the areas to fit a larger photo. For instance the bottom left corner of the sketch shows two areas for photos a 2.5 x 4.5 and a 1.5 x 4.5. If I needed/wanted to put a larger photo there I could combine the spaces into one area. Estimating there is about a 1/4″ space between spaces I would then have a space that’s 4.25 x 4.5 (I only need to add in the space that was between the photos as I’d still want the 1/4″ above it)

Another example is this sketch by Katrina Kennedy http://www.debbiehodge.com/gisforum/index.php?showtopic=3405
You could easily merge the middle spot that has two spaces into another large block. Then you could place three photos of the same size in a row.

One trick when merging spaces is to mat photos.. so if you merge spaces and it gives you a 6 x 8 space to put a photo, you can mat a 5×7 photo to place there. By matting the photo you don’t have to reconfigure the rest of the layout’s measurements :)

By: Heather Crawford

Heather Crawford — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:17:13 +0000

How do you merge two or more spaces?

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:37:14 +0000

Tami, that was said so perfectly. I especially liked that you said we could use the sketch without feeling we had to make it something different or create it differently. I love using the structure of a good sketch and then making my own creative page with different embellishments.