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Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Wedding Pages

Debbie Hodge — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:07:51 +0000

This series provides “starter” lists for making scrapbook pages on a particular subject. Each post includes a list of hallmark images and motifs associated with the theme as well as phrases and fonts that would well for titles or embellishments. Use these “starters” to jumpstart your creative process and come up with layout ideas.

Maybe one of these images or phrases will be perfect for your page. If not, it could spur thoughts of a story you want to tell or a photo you want to feature. It could be the source of a color scheme or just a way to get your creative juices flowing.

It’s all about the QUICKSTART — check it out and see where it takes you.

hallmark images/motifs of weddings

Rings
Cake
Doves
Bride and groom
Chandelier
Gown
Flowers
Hearts
Champagne glasses

Look for these images in your paper stash, your stamps, brushes or rubons. Or find a digital product or clip art or magazine photo you could transfer. The idea is to get the process started. These images came from iCLIPART.com (affiliate link) where I have a subscription that lets me download as many high resolution images as I want for a year.

phrases associated with weddings

Here are some phrases commonly used when it comes to talking about weddings. Use them to make titles or embellishments or, again, to spur your ideas. I’ve shown a few of them rendered in fonts that would work well on pages – the name of each font is in black and white below the phrase – links to the fonts are in the next section.

With this ring
True love
Cut the cake
I do
Kiss the bride
Just married
Black tie
Wedded bliss
To have and to hold
Cherish
Happily ever after

fonts

Here are a few fonts you might like to use on wedding pages (these are all used in the phrase examples above). While most of them aren’t great for rendering a block of journaling, you could them for titles, embellishments or to emphasize selected words in the journaling.

layouts

And, finally, here are a few wedding layouts to add one more bit of inspiration for your gardening pages.

June Bride by Doris Sander

Walk Beside Me by Doris Sander

Golden Moment by Doris Sander

An Ocean Vow by Eric Erickson. Eric says, “This page is all about an August wedding on the beach. The bride sent blue invitations made with scrapbooking flowers – which I used for as the groundwork for the page’s design.”

The Procession by Eric Erickson. Eric says, “My friend was married in a garden so including flowers on this page was a no-brainer. I used the swoop of pictures from the lower right-hand corner to the upper left-hand corner to mimic the motion of the procession and lead your eyes all over the layout.”

Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Gardening Pages

Debbie Hodge — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:08:43 +0000

It’s all about the QUICKSTART — check it out and see where it takes you.

hallmark images/motifs of gardening

flowers, foliage, produce, fruits, vegetables
tools: trowel, shovel, watering can, shears, gloves, stakes, plow, hoe
seed packets
garden ball, bird bath, trellis, shed, bird house
straw hat
calendar, sun, thermometer
birds, butterflies, insects

phrases associated with gardening

Here are some phrases commonly used around gardening. Use them to make titles or embellishments or, again, to spur your ideas. I’ve shown a few of them rendered in fonts that would work well on a gardening pages – the name of each font is in black and white below the phrase – links to the fonts are in the next section.

everything is rosy
bring on the sun
busy as a bee
cream of the crop
cultivate
dig it
dirt rich
farm fresh
fat of the land
flower power
fresh as a daisy
garden goddess
God’s green earth
green thumb
growing season
harvest time
heirloom tomato
home-grown
ladybug love
life’s a garden
little sprout
make hay while the sun shines
master gardener
nurture
smell the roses
peace, love, garden
stake it up

fonts

Here are a few fonts you might like to use on gardening pages (these are all used in the phrase examples above). While most of them aren’t great for rendering a block of journaling, you could them for titles, embellishments or to emphasize selected words in the journaling.

layouts

And, finally, here are a few garden layouts to add one more bit of inspiration for your gardening pages.

Photo-op by Doris Sander for JBS Mercantile is all about enjoying the garden. Love how her son is taking in the flower with his eyes, his nose, and even his skin!

& Veggies by Debbie Hodge for DesignerDigitals shows my mom with her (always-impressive) vegetable garden. I embellished with a seed packet, an old clipping with a watering can, and glittery vines.

In the Yard by Amy LeJeune for DesignerDigitals is a collection of the plants in Amy’s garden and what they were looking like in spring. She used butterflies and flowers for embellishing.

Of Norma’s Garden by Merrilee Larsen for Designer Digitals, Merr says, “We are very fortunate to have wonderful friends living next door at the lake. One of Norma’s hobbies is gardening. It’s a casual garden with many little vintage touches placed amongst the flowers.” Merr featured these touches and embellished with birds, vines, and blossoms.

Scrapbooking events: the “anatomy” of an event

Debbie Hodge — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:14:23 +0000

by Debbie Hodge

Are you like me when it comes to scrapbooking events? Do you take a large number of photos of celebrations, holidays, parties, and other big events? I think a reason for this is because one event can have so many aspects. Understanding those aspects–or what I call the event’s anatomy–will enable you to:

1) take photos,

2) gather memorabilia, and

3) record stories

SO THAT your pages present the event in a way that captures it in its entirety

What is the next big event going on in your life? A wedding? Family Reunion? Annual Summer Bash? Birthday party? Vacation? Consider these event pieces (or limbs, or maybe organs) and challenge yourself to incorporate many or even all of them into your album or series of pages.

the anatomy of an event

1) event preparations

When you scrapbook event preparations, you honor the efforts that go into entertaining others and you leave a great record for yourself and for future generations—and often the event preparations are as important as the event itself.

Be sure and take photos of preparations that have to do with food, favors, invitations, costumes, table —whatever it is you’re busy with before the event. Include memorabilia like grocery receipts, shopping lists, the guest list, and invitations.

Making the matzo balls before our Passover Seder is a many things: a lot of work, a challenge, a tradition. These photos capture the process, the ingredients, and even Isaac grimacing over his messy hands (and knowing Isaac as my family does, we understand that his willingness to get messy means this is really important).

When the boys were younger, we spent several weeks preparing and crafting for their birthday parties. I’m so glad I took photos back then, because, as they’ve gotten older and I’ve gotten other interests—we no longer make this kind of effort. For Joshua’s 7th birthday, we made foam swords, armor, a castle, and decorated goblets. While we’ve all lost interest in this kind of sustained effort, back then we LOVED it and I’m so glad to have this record.

This page might fall into preparations OR the moments/stories category below. It’s a page for me—that captures those minutes right before guests arrive and when they first arrive. When the stresses of getting ready are falling away and we are getting reacquainted with friends.

2) event decorations

Including decorations on your events page can serve many purposes, including: signaling the event subject; adding interesting context; conveying the era of the event; recording the personal style of the event-giver; and just showing “how we do it at our house”

My mom goes all out at Christmas, putting up SEVERAL trees. This page shows all of her trees during the Christmas of “ought-four.” Sometimes just a bit of the decorations will suffice. On “Kid’s Table,” I included shots of the centerpiece and favors on the plates. It reminds all of us of how it was and the little efforts we put into our entertaining.

Putting on a Seder is a big thing for me (I think partly because I’m not Jewish and am never sure if I’m doing things right). What those who’ve never prepared for a Seder might not know is that the setting of the table takes a good bit of preparation and care. I don’t get a photo of the Seder table every year, but I’m happy to have one every few years. It reminds me of the dishes I used, the flowers the boys arranged, and the Haggadahs from Neil’s uncle that we still use.

3) the people at the event

When looking at photos from an event several years in the past, seeing the people and and how they looked is often one of the first things we marvel over. “Look at my hair!” “I remember that shirt.” “Boy, he’s really grown up since then!” Take some time to make sure you include all –or as many as possible—of the participants in your photos and on your page.

The only Easter we’ve ever been with family was this one—when my brother and his family came to New Hampshire and shared their own brand of over-the-top Easter celebrating with us. It was definitely a special weekend. These photos show each of the kids alone and then a group shot of all of them.

This “Life Celebration” was the party our friend Joe chose years before his death in lieu of a funeral. I made every effort to take photos of all the people in attendance. This design let me pack in lots of portraits—most of them candid.

4) event activities

For many events, activities are what it’s all about. Selecting and grouping activities photos logically goes a long way toward really telling the story of your event on the page. Each grouping may get its own page (as on the next three layouts below) or it may get its own section on the page as on “Durham Day.”

Cooking is a major activity at many holidays, and this page captures the cooks in action AND the food on a recent Thanksgiving.

Ah, the table! Actually, what I should say is: Ah, the table that my mother sets! :) So much good eating and good times happen around this table. Here I’ve collected several photos over several years from celebrations with my family.

While some activities happen every time a holiday rolls around, it’s still fun to capture them. As my boys get older, their approach to playing driedel (and their enthusiasm for it) changes. Here’s a year when the stakes were very high: chocolate coins!

“Durham Day” collects photos from thoughout the day at an annual community celebration. I’ve photographed peole getting their food, firemen and town councilors cooking, the entertainment, friends, landscapes, and candids. The result is an overview of the activities on one two-page spread.

5) event moments & stories

Within events, there are important moments that deserve to be highlighted. For example, I always scrap the Lee Fair, but on the year that my son won a trophy in the tractor pull, I did an additional page that told about this win and his reaction. Other stories to capture may have to do with actual “on-stage” conversations and occurrences OR with what you’re thinking in your mind as the event progresses.

This page tells the story of a tradition—a tradition my kids have of hiding their gifts to Neil and me in the piano bench. This is also a tradition of us making sure we never lift the lid on that bench until AFTER the holiday.

Here’s the extra page from our Lee Fair celebration of 2006 – it documents Isaac’s reaction to having (finally) won a trophy in the pedal tractor pull.

This page tells the story of my musings about entertaining and includes a conversation I had in the midst of hosting a party–a conversation that helped me put my anxieties to rest.

6) when the event is over

I find it REALLY hard to get this kind of after-the-event shot, since it’s usually late and we’re tired and there’s cleaning to do. Try, though, to capture the sense of what goes on after an event.

Oh, Dishes! I treasure this layout of me and our messy kitchen after a Passover. Why? Hmmmmm. Maybe because it’s evidence of how much effort I expend on this holiday and, thus, of my love for my family.

So . . . what event are you scrapbooking next? And can you see yourself including several of these parts of an event’s anatomy?

The Get It Scrapped Project #7: Scrapbooking Collections

TamiTaylor — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:58:51 +0000

by Tami Taylor

This is the 7th installment of a project in which Tami embarks upon a year-long quest (inspired by the Julie/Julia Project) to use the Get It Scrapped! book and website to get scrapbooking done). Tami Taylor is a busy mom, teacher at Get It Scrapped! and the owner of Scrap This Kit! This month Tami’s focus is on Chapter 4 of Get It Scrapped: Get Collections Scrapped.

I would say that scrapbooking collections of photos is my favorite thing to do, but I imagine someone going back through posts I’ve made here or in the forums to find every time I’ve said something is my favorite. I guess I should stop saying it and stick with the fact that sharing anything is my favorite. I love this venue of art. Scrapbooking allows us to share a part of a person or subject that is intimate to us, or to convey to the viewer that we too know something about the subject that they know.

This is why I love collections. I love sharing some intricate detail about a person that the viewer doesn’t know.

Journaling: Amanda taught Zach this funny face when he wasn't even two. I didn't realize how much he makes it until I was sorting photos one day.

The layout above was a pleasant bonus to organizing my photos back in January at the onset of this project. As I reorganized my digital photos and learned more about tagging photos in Photo Shop Elements, I was able to pull up all photos of Zach. This face immediately stood out. Now I see so many collections in my photos. This month I challenge you to take some time and go through your photos and find your collections. Look for:

Family Traits. Do certain family members share the same eyes, nose or hands?
Similar expressions. Does everyone give the same scowl or cheeky smile?
Similar physical attributes. Do you have pictures of people sleeping, sitting or standing in the same position?
Fashion. Does everyone make their own fashion statement? Are there shared favorites or perhaps hand-me-downs each child was stuck wearing?
Landscapes. Do you have several pictures of the same little cabin you vacation in every summer?
Milestones. Do you have a picture of everyone’s first steps or everyone’s high school graduation?
Collections. Do you have a collection of photos of your collections? Purses, decor, coins, et. al?
Time. Do you have photos from each year of a person’s life or a period of their life?
Repetition. Does a certain activity get photographed repeatedly, whether it’s a holiday or dad snoozing in a chair?
Love & hugs. Do you have a collection pictures of people together? Husband and wife, brothers, best friends?

Once you start thinking in terms of collections you’ll start seeing them more and more in your photos. Even now as I write this I am thinking of that last one and a collection of photos I have of my eldest son who went through a period where to get a photograph taken he would put his arm around the nearest person. It is definitely in my pile of collections and this month I will Get It Scrapped!

When you’ve found your collections come share them or the layouts you create with them in the forums or in the gallery.

Scrapbooking Themes Quickstart: Birthday Pages

Debbie Hodge — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:09:19 +0000

by Debbie Hodge

This is a new series that provides “starter” lists for making scrapbook pages on a particular subject. Each post will include a list of hallmark images and motifs associated with the theme as well as phrases and sayings, fonts and some “do-it-yourself” embellishment ideas. Use these “starters” to jumpstart your creative process and come up with layout ideas.

It’s all about the QUICKSTART — check it out and see where it takes you.

hallmark images/motifs of birthdays

cake
gifts
balloons
candles
streamers
banners/pennants
clowns
ice cream
party hats

phrases associated with birthdays

Here are some phrases commonly used around birthday time. Use them to make titles or embellishments or, again, to spur your ideas. I’ve shown them rendered in fonts that would work well on a birthday page – the name of each font is in black and white below the phrase – links to the fonts are in the next section.

celebrate
party time
surprise
make a wish
happy birthday
you are 1 (or 2 or 50 or . . .)
blow out the candles

fonts

Here are a few fonts you might like to use on birthday pages (these are all used in the phrase examples above). While most of them aren’t great for rendering a block of journaling, you could them for titles, embellishments or to emphasize selected words in the journaling.

Century Schoolbook (included with Windows OS)
Claritty
Desdamona
Fontdinerdotcom Sparkley
Honey Script
Gigi (included with Windows OS)
Lily UPC (included with Windows OS)
Quiggley Wiggly

do it yourself

Take a look at some of the hallmark images and think about how you might make your own embellishments from standard supplies in your stash.

You could make a bunch of balloons from buttons, punched circles, tags, and epoxies. For the strings, add stitching, rubons, or drawn strings. This bundle is made with digital products from Designer Digitals (Button Brights, Stitched by Anna Pink No1 by Anna Aspnes; Janine Kit by Michelle Martin).

A series of trimmed triangles makes a great pennant banner. This one uses Wonderific Solids, Wonderific Paper Pack by Jesse Edwards; DIY Party Pennants, Little Enamel Alpha by Pattie Knox all from Designer Digitals.

A stack of wrapped packages can be easily made with paper and ribbon scraps–paper or digital. These packages are made with Get Happy Paper Pack by Jesse Edwards, My Wonderful Adventure and Photo Wraps No 11 by Katie Pertiet all from Designer Digitals.

There you have it! Quick ideas for scrapbooking birthday pages. Let me know what they inspired you to do. (and look for ensuing posts like this on summer themes like gardening, weddings, and more!)

Summer Quotations and Word Art for Scrapbook Pages

Debbie Hodge — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:39:01 +0000

Here are some quotations about summer for your scrapbook pages, cards and projects. Maybe they’ll even give you new ideas for how you approach your summer pages. In addition to the quotes, I’ve also rendered a few of the quotes as printable word art.

Download pdf for printing – page 1 in color and page 2 in black and white

Download zipped png for including on your digital scrapbook pages

In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. -Jane Austen
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -Henry James
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. –Russell Baker
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland
Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne. -Barry Cornwall
Summer makes a silence after spring. -Vita Sackville-West
It will not always be summer: build barns. -Hesiod
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. -Wallace Stevens
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. –James Dent
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. -Elizabeth Lawrence

Scrapbooking Travel: when you’re “On Tour”

Debbie Hodge — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:06:20 +0000

by Debbie Hodge

In Travel & Vacations, I described 5 kinds of trips/vacations. Each of these types of travel have their own “story arc” that can help you figure out what pages to include. Here I show you how to approach scrapbooking the kind of vacation that takes you “on tour.”

The “On Tour” travel experience is one in which many of the details are decided ahead of time–and, in fact, taken care of for you–so that you can relax as well as experience new sights and experiences.

There are many ways to go “on tour” from taking a cruise to going on guided hike and camping adventure. You might take a bus tour through Europe or go on safari in Africa.

The photos you take while on tour will include those of the sights you visit as well of those of the aspects of the tour experience (i.e., lodging, people, routines). A combination approach that mixes chronological telling of the trip with select subject pages would work well for this kind of travel.

Into Alaska is the opening/cover page for the series from an Alaskan Cruise my husband went on with his brother. I used photos of the two of them from one of their outings. This uses sketch 4-D.

use a combination of chronological pages and subject pages

Pull out your photos and begin to group them by whether they are a part of the sights you visited (those will go in order as visited) or whether they’re a part of the travel experience (these will go on subject pages).

possible subject pages

the means of transportation
the accommodations (see “Cruise to Alaska” on page 6 for an example)
the itinerary – stops
menus, room number, formal photos
the people
breathtaking sights along the road/water — views from your room, train, deck

My husband did not collect memorabilia while on his cruise, but I was able to go to the cruise line’s web site and use the information and pictures there to create some artifacts of the trip. I was able to find their itinerary which I printed on notebook paper (and which I used to put the album together in chronological order). They had a great suite on the ship which they told me a bit about and I was able to find the floor plan for suites on their particular ship which I’ve resized to fit in a photo spot in the middle column on the right. One other picture from the website that I included on this page is a map of their voyage, also resized and placed in the photo strip at top left.

your chronology

As you are grouping your photos, take a look at the volume you have for each sight and begin using the Page Planner to slot them for pages. Decide what your chronology “units” will be. For example you could organize things by day (Day 1, Day 2, etc …) or you could organize by stop/outing/sight, of which there might be more than one in a day.

Don’t forget to tell the stories of memorable occurrences that happened along the way.

These two pages will sit opposite one another in the album. Each is from an outing during the cruise. Both are based on sketch 4-B. In “Misty Fiords” the focal photo proportions are changed. In “Glacier” sketch 4-B was turned 90 degrees and the two narrow columns reversed.

“Ketchikan” and “Glacier” are layouts in this series from two quite different locales. “Ketchikan” is one of the wetter and warmer locales in Alaska so on the foreground, I used a darker green to accompany the environment of pine trees. For “Glacier,” though, on the foreground, I used a paler green and an “icy” blue patterned paper with a snowflake motif.

The Get It Scrapped Project #6: Scrapbooking Everyday Life

Debbie Hodge — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:10:11 +0000

by Tami Taylor

This is the 6th installment of a project in which Tami embarks upon a year-long quest (inspired by the Julie/Julia Project) to use the Get It Scrapped! book and website to get some scrapbooking done). Tami Taylor is a busy mom, teacher at Get It Scrapped! and the owner of Scrap This Kit! This month Tami’s focus is on Chapter 3 of Get It Scrapped: Get Everyday Life Scrapped.

Project 365 · POTD (Photo of the Day) · 12 on the 12^th· A Week in the Life · 30 Days of Photos

There are a lot of fun ideas to get you taking photos of your everyday life. The problem is, it means more of those “around-the-house, hanging-out-with-friends, recording-the-garden’s-progress” photos. Aren’t those fun to scrap? If you are me you’re shaking your head no.

By and large they are my favorite type of photos. In my opinion they best capture my life and the life of my family. We go to events, we take vacations, we celebrate holidays, but in everyday life we just live. These photos express our personalities, our quirks. They expose us.

Check out this exposing layout of Debbie’s dresser. When I look at layouts like this, I imagine the response it will invoke. I see Debbie and her family looking through layouts 20 years from now and stopping when they see this. I imagine the stories her kids and husband will relate about specific items that were found on the dresser. At the very least, they will all have a good laugh at the fact the dresser still looks the same.

Everyone somewhat remembers vacations or events that took place. These are bigger moments, they are out of the routine of life. The routine things in life, the smaller stories are harder to remember. It’s the dresser that stands the chance of being forgotten. That’s why it’s important not only to take those photos regularly, but to document them. A photo a day is just a photo a day. If you don’t know the story, it’s not worth a 1000 words regardless of what Confucius says.

How do we get a simple photo of everyday life onto a scrapbook layout creatively and more importantly, meaningfully? Though the chapter is teeming with ideas and inspiration, I’ll just share my three favorite points in this chapter and how I used them in this layout (which I scrapped with Debbie’s April 2nd Sketch Bundle).

Journaling reads: Keagan has no problem expressing his emotions. He likes to make sure everyone knows when he’s sad, mad, or otherwise. Normally when he’s told no, he drops his shoulders and mopes away (of course looking back to make sure his audience is still watching) This time I told him ‘don’t walk away like that” So he stood there; shoulders dropped, pouty face and still looking around to make sure people were aware he was not happy about the answer.

The story behind the story – In my journaling I made sure to include how Keagan normally walks off and looks back to make sure people are watching him pout. I wanted to include this story behind the story so when his wife looks at this layout she’ll know it isn’t an isolated incident.
While it’s fresh – Face it, we scrapbookers are always going to have a backlog of layouts to-do. If you have the time, get the everyday photos done while they are fresh. Event photos are often accompanied by facts of the events and timelines of activities. These things can be scrapbooked later. Remembering this moment and scrapbooking it while it was fresh was fun. I smiled the entire time thinking about how funny Keagan was the other day just standing there waiting for someone to acknowledge he was pouting. And how much I laughed that for the first time in hours he picked that moment to
actually mind what his Mom said.
Taking it for granted – What I’m about to say has been said a thousand times. It’s been paraphrased through this entire article. You cannot take these everyday moments for granted. I have five children, and if the experience of parenting five children has taught me anything it’s that every human being is unique. My kids are so different from each other, in their reactions, emotions and talents. Keagan is the only one that takes his pouting so seriously. If I don’t capture these nuances of life with Keagan who will? These things that are a regular occurrence can easily be forgotten entirely. Or more likely when I’m 80, I’ll forget which child used to have this flair for the dramatic.

This month let’s spend some time using some of those photos from our photo a day projects and capture our everyday life. I’m not saying every one, but some of those photos deserve to have their story told. When you get a layout done share it in our gallery and come share your ideas or frustrations in our forums.

Scrapbooking Travel: Theme Parks, Themed Destinations

Debbie Hodge — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:22:25 +0000

by Debbie Hodge

The “themed” vacation is one that takes you into a created world where you are doing more than viewing, where you’re entering into and experiencing a manufactured reality. You may have gone on a Disney vacation, visited a historic settlement where you’re re-enacting the way things were done in the past, travelled to Santa’s Village, or many other variations on the themed destination.

The photos from a themed vacation can cover a lot of territory, and they don’t usually require a chronological telling. Aspects of a large theme/amusement park may include: characters, rides, performances, events, posed portraits, sights and more.

Your job is to define the pages within the series, find logical groupings of those pages, and organize them in a way that gives the series a flow that makes sense and conveys the experience. A good place to start is by going through your “stack” (print or digital) of photos and selecting the keepers and grouping them by subject and then, within subject, by page. See How to Select Events Photos for Scrapbooking. Use the Travel Page Planner to start defining pages and how they’ll sit in the series in relationship to one another.

Theme parks frequently offer photos of your group in setting you couldn’t easily photograph yourself. The enlargement I purchased from our visit to StoryLand was a photo I wanted to scrap on its own and use as an introduction into the series.

Flow and rhythm

With a series of pages that aren’t chronologically placed, the key to making the story accessible and understandable to your viewers is to consciously plan your flow and the rhythms within it. Think about the shape of a poem and then the stanzas within the poem and then the structure and/or rhythm of sentences within the stanzas. All of these provide a structure that helps you understand what’s in the poem and anticipate and better access the upcoming words.

For your series of pages from the themed vacation, you need:

a way to unite ALL of the pages (repetitions)
a way to unite related pages (other repetitions) AND a way to set groupings off from one another (contrasts)
an ordering that makes sense

What does all this mean practically?

Get contrast between groupings with any or all of:

different color strategies/schemes/approaches
an introductory/break page for groupings
differing series lengths (i.e., use one or two pagers that go together in between several pages that go together)
design (for example, use a blocked design for one kind of grouping and pages with only one photo and lots of white space for another type of page)
product (i.e., how you render your titles or embellish pages)

Plan to incorporate particular repetitions WITHIN a grouping AND other repetitions ACROSS the whole series using any or all of:

color
design
photo treatments
product (titles, embellishments, patterned papers)

While in California, we visited California Adventure and Disneyland. I used a bundle of coordinated sketches/templates for all of these pages. I’ll incorporate contrast between the pages from the two parks with different color schemes. The Disney pages will use a complementary color scheme of blue and orange. The California Adventure pages will also use a complementary color scheme, but one of green and red-violet. I’ll use a third color scheme and a design with more white space for the pages from the hotel and dinners and other activities that overlapped the two parks.

Scrapbooking past times: online resources for jogging your memory

Debbie Hodge — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:33:40 +0000

by Debbie Hodge

spurring your memory for scrapbooking past times

Are you ready to scrapbook your younger years, but unable to remember specific details? Maybe you’re working on “all about me” pages or a “book of me” and just trying to get scrapbook page subject ideas by remembering incidents. The first few lessons in our Scrapbook Your Story series have lots of prompts for you to scrapbook where you come from and your younger years. But what if you can’t remember enough to get those pages scrapbooked?

Try a little look at the popular culture of your youth. Use the resources below to check out the music, books, consumer goods, and even television shows of the era you’re recalling.

Source: stock.xchng / mjw

general nostalgia websites

There are lots of “nostalgia” websites offering pictures and links to fads, consumer products, lifestyles, commercials, music, tv shows, movies, world events, toys, timelines, trivia and much more. Type “70s nostalgia” (insert your desired decade) into your search engine to find such sites. Here’s a sampling of these sites by decade.

InfoPlease – timelines by year or by decade
40s – Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe – war bonds for Christmas
50s - Lisa’s Nostalgia Cafe – color TV, car seat belts, first organ transplant
60s When We Were Kids – Berlin Wall, “Feminine Mystique,” Woodstock
70s In The 70s – Evel Knievel attempts to jump snake river canyon
80s Driko’s 80s Music & Nostalgia – Jordache Jeans and Wierd Al Yankovich
90s 90s 411 – Beanie Babies, Doc Martens, Ally McBeal

music

Source: AllCDCovers.com

You can also zero in on specific subjects that were important to you, like music. Limit yourself to browsing one of these sites for just a few minutes and then free-write for 10 to 20 minutes and see what kind of forgotten memories you’re able to recall.

WTIT tape radio: top 100 songs by decade beginning with the 60s
365 top-selling songs of the 20th century
SongLyrics.com
Album & CD covers

television

Check out the details on the television shows you watched with these sites.

CrazyAboutTV.com Find lists of television shows from the 40s through present day. Select decade from the column on the left, click on your chosen show, and you’ll see a list of the episodes.

TelevisionTunes.com Listen to television show theme songs to spur memories. (I checked out “All in the Family” and “Rhoda.”)

movies

Cant’ remember which movies you watched–or are you just looking for a little more detail? You can get a list of movies by decade at IMDB.com (scroll down and find the links in the right sidebar) and then follow the links for specific movies for more memory spurs.

consumer goods/advertisements

Source: AdClassix.com

A great source of information on consumer goods are print advertisements.

AdClassix.com has print ads for perfumes, cars, food, pharmacy, oil and gas, restaurants and more up through the very early 70s. I tracked down this ad for the car I learned to drive on: an AMC Hornet!

So where will you start? Tell me what detail you find that surprises you–that had perhaps been a bit buried in the recesses of your memory.

Get It Scrapped! » Page Types

Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Wedding Pages

hallmark images/motifs of weddings

phrases associated with weddings

fonts

Scrapbooking {Summer} Themes Quickstart: Gardening Pages

hallmark images/motifs of gardening

phrases associated with gardening

fonts

layouts

Photo-op by Doris Sander for JBS Mercantile is all about enjoying the garden. Love how her son is taking in the flower with his eyes, his nose, and even his skin!

Scrapbooking events: the “anatomy” of an event

the anatomy of an event

1) event preparations

2) event decorations

3) the people at the event

4) event activities

5) event moments & stories

6) when the event is over

The Get It Scrapped Project #7: Scrapbooking Collections

Scrapbooking Themes Quickstart: Birthday Pages

hallmark images/motifs of birthdays

phrases associated with birthdays

fonts

do it yourself

Summer Quotations and Word Art for Scrapbook Pages

Scrapbooking Travel: when you’re “On Tour”

use a combination of chronological pages and subject pages

possible subject pages

your chronology

The Get It Scrapped Project #6: Scrapbooking Everyday Life

Project 365 · POTD (Photo of the Day) · 12 on the 12th · A Week in the Life · 30 Days of Photos

Scrapbooking Travel: Theme Parks, Themed Destinations

Flow and rhythm

What does all this mean practically?

Scrapbooking past times: online resources for jogging your memory

spurring your memory for scrapbooking past times

Source: stock.xchng / mjw general nostalgia websites

music

television

movies

consumer goods/advertisements

A great source of information on consumer goods are print advertisements.

AdClassix.com has print ads for perfumes, cars, food, pharmacy, oil and gas, restaurants and more up through the very early 70s. I tracked down this ad for the car I learned to drive on: an AMC Hornet!

Project 365 · POTD (Photo of the Day) · 12 on the 12^th· A Week in the Life · 30 Days of Photos

Source: stock.xchng / mjw

general nostalgia websites