Now that you’re working on some scrapbook layouts you’ll want to think about titles & journaling. This will likely lead you to exploring fonts & alphabets. Step #9: Fonts & Alphabets To some this might seem a bit redundant. Fonts, alphabets…aren’t they the same. Well, not exactly. In the world of scrapbooking these two things have always been different. For those of you who may not understand I’ll explain. Simply put, fonts are what we use in a word processing…
So, by now you’ve surely been doing some shopping. Or perhaps you already had a “stash” of digital supplies. Now I’m going to give you what I believe is the most crucial tip for either digital or traditional (paper) scrapbooking… Step #8: Staying Organized If you’re a beginner…now is the time to come up with a good organization plan. Trust me, doing it sooner rather than later is going to make it so much easier. This was one lesson I…
I’ve talked a lot about color in the last two Tuesday posts (re-coloring elements & re-coloring paper). But one of the most challenging parts of scrapbooking is selecting and using papers that coordinate well with your photos and make some kind of impact. When you start a layout, how do you choose the colors you will be using? Do you look for the overall color of the photos? Do you look for accents in the photos? Do you just choose…
There probably is at least one area of your life where you wish you could have a “do-over”. Maybe you have already planned and completed a do-over and are pretty happy about what transpired. I often hear comments like, “ I wish I would have…” or “If I could do it again, I would definitely…” Sure, most people have some thoughts on what they would like to take another serious stab at. How about you? What would you do over…
As a self-professed, recovering paper-aholic (sort of) I have to admit I never seem to have enough paper. And if you could see all the “real” paper I have from my pre-digital phase you’d gasp…and loudly. I use the excuse that so much of what I have is left over from my old business. But truth be told that’s all it is…just an excuse! I thought perhaps things would change when I went digital. And they did…but in the wrong…