• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.  ~Judy Garland
• Love is the only game in which two people can play and both can win. ~Eva Gabor

Wordart by Amy Kingsford

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• Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.  ~Elvis Presley
• Do all things with love. ~Og Mandino
• Gravitation s not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
• Love conquers all. ~Virgil
• Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. ~Anonymous
• All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.  ~The Beatles
• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Making a winter page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts.

Hallmark Images of Winter   |   Winter Sayings and Phrases   |   Fonts for Winter Pages

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 sayings, and fonts well-suited for the subject. 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. Click here for more themes.

Hallmark Images of Winter

Source: images from iClipart; background paper from ArtPlay Palette Santa's Elf by Anna Aspnes

• Sled
• Snowflakes
• Skates
• Shovel
• Scarf
• Snowman
• Mittens
• Cocoa
• Skis

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.

Winter Sayings and Phrases

These are phrases commonly used in the winter. Use them to make titles or embellishments or, again, to spur your ideas. They are shown rendered in fonts that work well on winter pages – the name of each font is below the phrase and links to the fonts are in the next section.

• Baby, it’s cold outside
• Brrrr
• Frosty
• Jack Frost
• Let it snow
• Snow day
• Snowed in
• The Eskimo way
• The snow is so delightful
• Walking in a winter wonderland
• When it snows, ain’t it thrillin’

Fonts for Winter Pages

These fonts would be great for winter titles or embellishments–or to emphasize selected words in the journaling.

• Frosty
• Harrington
• Let It Snow
• Hultog Snowdrift
• 2 Peas Blocks Winter
• Mark

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Parties come in many flavors: big, small, birthday, holiday, theme, family, friend, community, planned, for a reason or just because.

Making party layouts that convey the spirit of the party, as well as who was there and what went on is immensely rewarding. You get a chance to relive the event, to think back over what really stood out, and to provide family and friends with a tangible remembrance of the event.

With any event for which you have a substantial number of photos, the challenge is to convey what went on without overwhelming and crowding the page. Here are three approaches for organizing photos in order to get lots of them onto two-page spreads.

1. Organize photos logically

One way to bring order to a page with many photos is to organize the shots into logically related groups–which may all go on one page or on several pages. Try these approaches:

• group photos by category within an event. Separate out portraits of the people, activities that went on, food, decorations, and whatever makes sense for your event.
• group photos by different activities within the event: On a trip to the beach, activities in that one outing could include: castle building, wave surfing, and sunning. At a neighborhood picnic, activities could include: tending the grill, games, mingling. At a birthday party, consider grouping by: party games, cake time, gift opening.
• group photos by time/stage. When scrapbooking Easter, you could group by: • coloring Easter eggs, the egg hunt, and dinner. For a wedding, you could group by: rehearsal dinner, getting dressed, the wedding, the party. Again, each subgroup could go onto its own page or it could fill its own area of a page.

The photos on this birthday page are in three logical groupings:

• One framed photo of the birthday party girl and her family is the page focal point.
• The photos running along the bottom of the spread are of the hostess with various friends who attended her party.
• A block of 4 photos on the right side of the spread show the entertainment, toasts, and birthday cake presentation.

2. Organize photos practically

Any time you can organize photos by common size or cropping potential (height, width, or total overall size), you can quickly get order on a page with many photos.

• photos of same height can be organized in a row
• photos of same width can be organized in a column
• photo of same size can make a block

There are 3 practical photo groupings on “Party:”

• Two focal point photos are the same size and double matted on the left side of the spread.
• A series of 3 photos all trimmed to the same width are arranged in column.
• Six same-sized photos are arranged in a block that fills the right side of the layout.

Make groupings clear

You can establish that photos are related to each other logically with your design choices.

Location. Group related photos together in an obviously separate section of the page. In today’s layout there are 3 distinct sections or areas.

Common matting. Place related photos onto a shared mat. Another alternative is to free hand-draw or print a frame around the group.

Margins and gutters.Use common margins, same-sized gutters, and/or abutting edges to signal that photos are grouped together.

Size: As discussed in the previous section, cropping to same height, width, or • overall size can unite a group of photos.

Now it’s time to pull out photos from a party you’ve photographed and make logical and practical groupings that will enable you to pack them onto the page and still keep the story of the event clear.

Want more ideas for scrapbooking events with analysis and creativity? Click here to check out the Events issue of Masterful Scrapbook Design today.

 

 

 

 

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• In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want. -Irish toast
  
• One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs

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• The merry year is born / Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. -Hartley Coleridge
• Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  -Benjamin Franklin
• New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.  -Charles Lamb 
• Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.  -Emily Miller
• We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce
• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. -George William Curtis
• Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately. -Charles M. Sheldon
• Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  -Hal Borland 
• Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year, everybody. -Phyllis McGinley
• The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.  -G.K. Chesterton 
• It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. -William Thomas
• Of all sound of all bells, the most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. -Charles Lamb

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by Amy Kingsford

The time is upon us to take special recognition of those things in our lives for which we are grateful.  I personally have so much to be thankful for, and I am especially thankful to be celebrating my son’s first Thanksgiving holiday this year.  Below are a collection of quotations and a printable to aid you in scrapbooking what you’re most thankful for this year.  Enjoy!

Gratitude Quotations

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks”.  ~Unknown

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ~Epictetus

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  ~Albert Einstein

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”  ~William Arthur Ward

“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.”  ~Unknown

“The thing I’m most thankful for right now is an elastic waistband.” ~Unknown

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”  ~Melody Beattie

“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.” ~Irving Berlin

Gratitude Wordart  

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Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Amy Kingsford is a happy wife and blessed mother from Northern Utah.  She teaches at Masterful Scrapbook Design, Creative Passion Classes and also shares ideas, inspiration and instruction on creative approaches to modern scrapbooking and papercrafting at her site AmyKingsford.com

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by Amy Kingsford

Fall is my favorite time of year–the crunching of leaves under my feet, the smell of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies baking and the beautiful scenery that stretches across the mountain side.  Below are Autumn-inspired quotations and free printable word art to help you scrapbook the season!

Autumn Quotations

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the country slowly changes from their summer cottons into its winter wools.” ~Henry Beston

“October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came – The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.” ~George Cooper

“Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.” ~Edwin Teale

“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” ~Unknown

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” ~Emily Bronte

“Autumn the year’s last and loveliest smile.”  ~William Cullen Bryant 

“Thoughts of love like falling leaves, swirling through the autumn breeze.” ~Unknown

“Oh Autumn how I have missed you.  Cool nights, sunny days, school starts and summer fades.” ~Caroline Glen

Autumn Wordart

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Amy Kingsford is a happy wife and blessed mother from Northern Utah.  She teaches at Masterful Scrapbook Design, Creative Passion Classes and also shares ideas, inspiration and instruction on creative approaches to modern scrapbooking and papercrafting at her site AmyKingsford.com

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scrapbooking travel photos

Chronicling your travels on scrapbook pages allows you to relive the trip even when you’re back home.

Photos, memorabilia, facts and journaling impressions are all part of making scrapbook pages that capture the trip.

While some travels are best looked at chronologically when you are making scrapbook pages, others benefit from a “subject” approach. Consider the following types of travels:

1. Scrapbooking the “weekend getaway”

A weekend getaway can be as much about the company as the destination. It might be a short trip to hang out with friends, find some romance, see an exhibit, or just take a break from your typical weekend routines. With fewer photos from fewer activities (than you’d have with bigger trips), the scrapbooking of weekend getaways can focus on impressions, stories, companions, and moments.

layout from a weekend in Boston

Try this: find a strong opening photo and a strong closing photo. Put each of them on their own scrapbook pages and then make several pages for the middle that show the key stories/moments on this short getaway. Get the stories written down as soon as you can, in a diary or on a blog, if you’re not scrapbooking the pages immediately.

2. Scrapbooking the “road trip”

More about scrapbooking road trips.

A “road-trip” type vacation is not necessarily a literal trip in a car on a road or highway. The “road-trip” vacation is one that takes you to a series of what may be quite different locales over the course of one trip. The road-trip is a story that’s well-suited to being told in chronological order (more or less).

Try this: Use the Travel Page Planner to start detailing the different stops on the trip. After you’ve listed them all, go back through and think about whether they all really need to be included. Think, also, about whether there are some stories that merit their own pages and how best to get the pages and stories in order.

Traveling from LA to Vegas with cousins

3. Scrapbooking a trip that’s about “being there”

More about scrapbooking “being-there” vacations.

Some trips take you to one locale. There’s limited sightseeing on this type of vacation, and it’s more about enjoying place, people, and activities. Examples of this kind of vacation include:

• visiting family
• staying at a lakehouse/beachhouse
• going camping
• the ski slopes

Try this: It’s often more efficient and makes a better presentation when “Being There” trips are by categories or logical groupings. These groupings (which translate into pages) might be:

• the people
• the place
• the spots at the place
• the constants
• the hightlights
• the activities

The things that make a trip to my parents' home so lovely.

4. Scrapbooking a vacation when you go “on tour”

More about scrapbooking the “on-tour” vacation.

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 scrapbooking.

Try this: Make two lists: one of the trip chronology and one of the aspects/subjects you want to feature. Use a chronological flow with the featured aspects inserted where they flow best.

Photos from one outing on an Alaskan cruise.

5. Scrapbooking the Themed Vacation

More about scrapbooking trips to “themed” destinations.

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.

Try this: Begin with your “stack” of photos (prints or digitals). Select the keepers AND select the photos that are spectacular and that should be featured. Use the page planner to start defining the pages your photos demand of you. Once you’ve made a first pass at this, you might need to cut the planner up and play with order and arrangement of pages.

“Scrapbooking Travel & Vacation” is a self-paced class presenting five strategies for choosing colors, developing color schemes, including memorabilia, and writing journaling based upon the kind of travel you’re scrapbooking:

• Weekend Getaway
• On Tour
• Being There
• Road Trip
• Themed Destinations

31 page sketches with layered templates for Photoshop are included with this class – ready for immediate download. You also get the printable Scrapbook Your Travel Page Planner.

 

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by Debbie Hodge

“I want to go home to the dull old town, with the shaded street, and the open square, and the hill, and the flats, and the house I love, and the paths I know — I want to go home.” — Paul Kester

This page is framed as a letter to my nieces who are now living in the place where I grew up. It's not really to them, though. It's to myself and it's about the feelings I have seeing them come out of the same landscape that I did.

place shapes character

The places we come from, the places we’ve traveled through, and the places we long to visit  all inform who we are. How many of you have had the very longing described in the opening quote here? When you experience this kind of longing for a place, the place itself takes on associations and triggers feelings.

Writers and filmmakers understand this connection between place and character, often creating a story setting with such power it becomes a character itself. Think of 1920s Long Island in The Great Gatsby. Its geography and society inform the characters’ actions–both those who’ve lived there all their lives and the newcomer Gatsby.

When I want to plumb my own thoughts on the places in my life, past and present, I often turn to the poem “First Year” by Irish poet Eavan Boland that begins:

It was in our first home–
our damp, upstairs, one-year eyrie–
above a tree-lined area
nearer the city.

That first stanza can carry me immediately to a “garden” apartment in Silver Springs, MD (my first adult home away from my parents) and from there I’m recalling the furniture, the deck, the view of the parking lot below it, and even the stories. The ending to this poem drives home this poet’s belief in the impact place has on character (and even the relationships that a character is capable of).

Where is the soul of a marriage?
Because I am writing this
not to recall our lives,
but to imagine them,
I will say it is
in the first gifts of place:
the steep inclines
and country silences
of your boyhood,
the orange-faced narcissi
and the whole length of the
Blackwater
strengthening our embrace.

Many of my favorite scrapbook pages are those I’ve created as my own nod to the places in my early years. Here are several ideas for scrapbooking your childhood places and getting at the “essence” of those locations.

scrapbook your childhood home

“Been There” (above) and “What You Know First” (below) are both about my childhood home–a topic I scrapbook again and again. On “What You Know First” I used photos from over the last several years. My journaling tells a brief history of my family’s history with this home as well as what it means to me today.

“Been There” by Debbie Hodge

scrapbook your childhood community

Celeste Smith included photos of four spots in her childhood community on “Scotia, New York.” Her journaling adds details of each that recall her activities at these locations. Notice that her journaled details are a combination of facts (The library was a “rabbit warren of old rooms”) and what the place meant to her (“The library opened up a world of books to me”). When you combine these two aspects of a place you create a strong evocation of it even for those of use who have never been there.

“Scotia, New York” by Celeste Smith

scrapbook the “now” of a childhood place

My parents still live in my childhood home so I get to spend time there several times a year. I truly love being there, and with “Its Charm” I photographed and wrote about the aspects of it that charm me. Do you spend time at a childhood place? How is it for you? Does it still charm? Do you have different feelings? Scrapbook them with your own photos or photos found online.

“Its Charm” by Debbie Hodge

highlight one element that represents a childhood place for you

The “Hydrangeas” on Amy Mallory’s page were an aspect of visiting her grandparents’ home that she treasured. On this page Amy writes about her  history with his location, using the hydrangeas as a recurring element in her story as it moves through the years. Is there a story about a place you want to tell and is there some element of that place that you could thread through the story?

“Hydrangeas” by Amy Mallory

scrapbook a place you loved to visit in your childhood

When your family piled in the car on a Sunday afternoon where did you go? Whose homes did you visit frequently? What images and memories have stayed with you?Celeste Smith scrapbooked the charms of her grandparents’ back yard on “Take Note.” Notice she’s got just one photo – of a family gathering in the yard. It’s through her journaling of physical details and remembered activities that the essence of this place is revealed.

“Take Note” by Celeste Smith

What are your childhood places?

Take a minute right now to jot down page ideas this article inspired. Have you already scrapbooked your childhood places? Link us up in the comments. Do you feel newly inspired to scrapbook a childhood place? Tell us your plans and come back and link your layouts.

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by Debbie Hodge

How you get your pages scrapbooked is influenced by their content. At Get It Scrapped we’ve written about the challenges and opportunities for a variety of page types including: events, everyday life, travel, yourself, and leaving a record.

“Moments” pages are the ones that hold the photos, insights, and messages to others that compel you.

You’ll put your “stunners”  (those over-the-top photos that might not have a particular accompanying story) as well as the thoughts and ideas you come back to again and again on these pages.

Here are 4 angles or approaches to scrapbooking “moments.”

1. scrapbook a “here and now” slice of life

Here Jana Morton captured several shots of her son swinging on monkey bars. She used several photos of this moment to capture the spirit of him RIGHT NOW when he is out playing.

Jana says, “When I’m selecting photos for a page, I put a lot of thought into the mood I want the page to convey and I select photos accordingly. If I have a photo I love but it doesn’t fit the mood, I leave it out and use it on another random page. I wanted “Monkey Business” to be playful and happy. Some of the images are cropped close-up and others are farther away. I cropped them in various ways so that the viewer could see the details of his facial expressions as well as how my little monkey looked hanging from the tree.

Monkey Business by Jana Morton

2. scrapbook a “portrait” or character study

Make a scrapbook page that creates a portrait–in photo, mood, motif, color and words–of just who your subject is.

A successful portrait page conveys more than how your subject looks. Your journaling provides the opportunity for elaborating in words. Color, styling, and motif can contribute to the page’s mood, and, thus, the viewer’s perception of your subject when they see this portrait.

Tami Taylor used a series of journaling strips on this portrait of her son Zach and each holds a different bit of information of Zach at the moment. The bold colors and wide scalloped strips evoke an energetic mood.

Tami says, "This is one of my favorite photos of my son Zach. He had just played in a kiddie pool outside and Dad was wrapping him with a towel. I remember thinking how little he was and wishing he'd stay that way. I wanted to capture the memory of how small he was; so I had Dad put his hands on Zach's shoulders to show the difference in size between Dad's hands and Zach, I also got closer and took the photo looking down to enhance the perspective of him being smaller."

This Boy by Tami Taylor

3. scrapbook a relationship

When you’ve got a photo of subjects interacting in a telling way, get it on the page and write down your perception of their relationship at this moment in their lives.

So much of what we appreciate in life comes out of personal relationships. Because relationships constantly evolve as the people in them grow and change, take the time to record just how you’re understanding a relationship in the moments you’ve photographed.

“This Moment” is a page from my oldest son’s 14th birthday. I did make additional pages that are “birthday-ish” but I also want to make this page that shows my husband and son looking at one another as my husband talked to him about the gift he was giving him was not only about pleasing my son– it was about my husband’s desire to spend quality time with my son as they learned together how to take care of and shoot guns.

. To scrapbook this relationship, I zoomed in on the faces of my subjects and I slowed down the journaling--telling of a brief moment in slower detail.

This Moment by Debbie Hodge

4. scrapbook a message

There are things we perceive and think about our loved ones that they would appreciate knowing both now and in the future. This kind of page is the perfect place for recording those messages.

Even if you think you’ve already told your subject something, go ahead and get it on the page. They’ll hear you in a new and different way when it’s thought-out, written down, and there to be reconsidered on future days.

“Shine On” shows a photo of my youngest son and husband a few days after major surgery my husband went through. The journaling begins with simple language and concrete details that make proclamations of love more impactful.

So, yes, of course I love my family, but when put in the context of health problems and next to a photo of a sunlit but tender time it resonates even more when I say it. What's more I don't just say that I love my family, I write about the situation sharing concrete details building up to the message.

“Shine On” by Debbie Hodge

Now it’s time for you to think about the photos or feelings that compel you and make a moment page.

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by Tami Taylor

Howdy do! April was a busy month with lots of holidays to celebrate.  In our home we usually celebrate Easter, but this year we decided to forgo the candy and tooth decay for a modest gift for each of the boys and dinner with family.

My five-year-old has been asking for a scooter for about six months, I finally broke down and got him one.  At the same time, my oldest son turned 16 and got his braces off!  I love how they both had the same level of excitement for completely different things.

Are you ready to scrapbook April?  Here you go!

Click here for the pdf version.

Click here for the psd version.

And now I am moving on to May. My goal for May is to RELAX.  I have a huge trip across country in a car full of male family members to go visit family back in Michigan.  I hope at the end of this month my May layout has a ton of photos of my feet propped up and books I’ve read, and perhaps one of me napping!  Enjoy your May and I’ll ‘see’ you next month!  While you are enjoying your May, the last month before the summer craze begins, remember to take photos and keep track of your memories.

Click here to download the pdf: May by the Numbers.

Just want the favorites card?  Here you go!

Tami Taylor writes for Get It Scrapped!, teaches at Masterful Scrapbook Design and runs the new site for creative classes Creative Passion. She is the mom of a big family. Her favorite escapes are trying new recipes, scrapbooking, and all things TV and cinema. To learn more about Tami check out her blog, The Taylor Life.

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