Scraplift Saturday – Telling the Story

One of the major differences between my paperscrapping friends’ layouts and a lot of the digital layouts I see is the use of multiple photos.  It seems that many more digiscrappers tend to use just one or two photos, or tightly cropped photos.

This layout caught my eye, not only for it’s dramatic coloring, but for how well it tells a story!  The mix of close-up, medium distance, and long shots really set the scene and showed some detail.

It reminded me that a large part of the reason we scrap is to tell stories, which we do with images and journaling.  But I need to be sure that I don’t leave out part of the image story!  Some suggestions for capturing the story in pictures:

• Get the long view – don’t forget to capture your surroundings. You want to remember the details of grandma’s kitchen, or the classroom, or wherever you are.
• Capture a variety of perspectives – even photos taken from behind can be very powerful.  A mix of views can tell different facets of the story – don’t forget a closeup of the half-eaten cake, or the bowling shoes on a bench – each of these adds a dimension to the story.
• Feature a photo- just because you’re using multiple photos doesn’t mean you can’t highlight that beautiful shot!  One of the big advantages of digiscrapping is we can resize our photos.  If you have a standout shot, make it larger than the others to show it off, but don’t leave out the supporting photos that add detail and texture to the story!

So if you’re a single-image scrapper, try a multiple photo page! There are great templates available – one of my favorite  multipic template designers is Yin  – check out her single and two-page templates on her blog Simply Yin!

Don’t forget to share your results in our gallery, we love to see what you’re up to!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday – Out of Bounds!

Today’s layout come from Roxy in our own gallery!  I loved this layout mostly because of her cool use of the out-of-bounds technique.  This is a photo that had it not been treated that way would not have been a great photo.  The hand is kind of out of focus and is obscuring his face.  But by wisely choosing to let the hand go OOB, it now grabs your attention and drags you into the moment!!

So today’s scraplift is to do a layout with an OOB photo.  Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve done one, maybe you’ve been wanting to learn the technique!   Either way, we have a tutorial here you can work through should you need it.

Can’t wait to see what you do, be sure to post in our gallery so we can leave you some love!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday: Seeing Double?

We got a little sidetracked yesterday with the credits conversation, but I didn’t want you all to miss this beautiful layout!  So here’s your Scraplift Saturday!

I’ve been looking for a layout that showed a good way to use the same photo more than once, and this oneby Janine Buckles at Scrap Girls popped up today!

I liked how she not only stacked the photo, but also used it clustered with word art!

There are any number of ways you can use a photo twice:

• Blend one into the background
• Make one black and white
• Crop one in tight and use the other cropped wide

How would you use the same photo more than once?  I’ve got a couple of ideas I hope to have time to try this week.  If you have a layout already done like that, post it in the gallery and link us up so we can be inspired by you too!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday – Color Blocking Updated!

I was out all day – first teaching a children’s quilting class, then taking my son to a barbershop concert – so I’m just squeaking this post in!

I was looking for a color-blocking style layout, because I was in the mood to do one, and this one just knocked my socks off!  It’s by Kelleanne at myscrapbookart.com. What a great chance to use all those cool papers you don’t know what to do with! And LOVE those shadows – this really has a great 3D kind of look.  (If you struggle with shadows, get our free Shadows Style Set download here.)

I hope you try something like this, I’d love to see what your take on this style is!  I’ll post a link to mine here when I get it done.

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

Scraplift Saturday – We’re LISTING!!

I’m at a crop today – teaching brand-newbies to digiscrap!!  We had a rockin’ class this morning, and now we’re all hanging out in the digi-corner scrapping away.  There are still 10 paper scrappers here for every one of us digi-girls – but won’t they be jealous when we pop our laptops into our tote bags and wander off – and  they’re still packing and hauling and hauling and packing!

Here’s what I’m working on – a “List” layout!  I thought this was adorable – I like the clusters of stuff peeking out top and bottom, the swirlies, and the list!  Maybe it will inspire you to scrap something different today too!

Click on the picture to go to the gallery to see the image larger, and leave some love while you’re there!

Don’t forget to post your work in our gallery, so we can be amazed at your talent!!

Happy Scrapping!
Jenn

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