I think it was a WOYWW post where I explained that I was trying to do some advance planning for scrapbook layouts. A five minute gap here and there means that I can at least try to match a photo to a piece of paper. On the whole, this approach has worked. The small amounts of time and effort totally paid off. I'd been too tied up on Friday to even think about Saturday's Artful Angels Crop, and so I had to get up early to pack. It was so easy, because I didn't have to spend ages finding pages and photos and sketches....the part that takes the longest.
I don't plan further than paper and photo, although I take my tablet with some screen shot Layout ideas. Titles and embellishments are decided as I'm gluing stuff down; if I went as far as choosing the title and embellies in the planning stages, it would not only take twice as long....and I might as well stay at home !
We were talking about our scrapbooking formats. I cant remember the last time I did a double page Layout - even a page with more than one photo on it these days seems unusual to me. So formulaic! Lisa Jane had me agreeing with her over paper choices, she referred to herself as a 'B side girl'. I couldnt agree more - I so often buy a sheet because I like the 'back' more. 'Specially if its got lines and margins!
I did more than three Layouts (incidentally all on the B sides), but I won't bore you with the others just now. It's enough that you can read the smug in my tone of writing. I've spent a good hour today ordering more photos, and this time I've gone to the trouble of sizing some of them so I can actually move away from one photo per page. It might make me more interesting at the next crop. I'm also going on with this five minutes here and there to plan pages, as it's worked so well. That might me unbearably smug at the next crop. Lawks, won't I be a pleasure to sit next to!
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I try and get LOs together so I just have to stick everything down.
Can I ask where you get your photos printed and also do you find it cheaper than printing your own?
Hope you had a good start to the week. Sue
Congratulations on your productivity - your planning process is obviously working. Great LOs.
Toni xx
Well done Julia. Good work. Barbxx
great layouts, well done on being so productive! I need to get a crack on, 2 cards required by Wednesday...
awesome layouts! I am scrapbooking more recently also...loads of fun but mine are coming in the form of kits of late. I lack the ability to make anything original...mojo went walkabout with the last med changes. Looking forward to more.
Those few minutes here and there are just what you need. I should know, shouldn't I? Sometimes life gets in the way of art and scrapbooking, so those few minutes we can devote to something that becomes pleasurable in the end, turns out some marvelous pages.
I don't buy scrapbook paper, but what little I have has been given to me. The double sided paper seems like such a waste, unless I can find a way to use both sides. I'm glad you were able to use your "B" side to your advantage, and didn't leave the paper until the spirit moved you to use the "A" side. These are all lovely, and I would sit next to you ANY DAY, whether others think you interesting or not. After all, I KNOW you are!
I think 5 minutes here and there is a great way to do it. In a way that is what I do . I even lay the photos out on a page and look at them off and on a couple of days till inspiration hits me! Your lay outs are awesome!
Julia, Thanks for the info on Photobox. Sue
Great layouts, Julia! I haven't done scrapbooking for ages, but when I did, I sometimes dressed my kid in colours to match certain papers and took photos from certain angles to match my sketches! How is that for planning, LOL! I haven't given up scrapbooking forever though, just taking a break. Hope to be back tomorrow for WOYWW! Take care xx
I'm not a scrapbook person and I'm not into photos but I think it is great that other people are... WHEN THEY COMPLETE STUFF! You have it all, why keep it in a box? So kudos to you for doing it even if you have to steal a few minutes here and there. I think one or two photos a page is good, otherwise why not just do a collage? That way you get room to write a little bit about what the photo is about and what was happening that day. I think those memories are worth a lot!
I shall look forward to chatting more with you this week and seeing how the process is working for you :-) My thoughts are - if you enjoy it, THAT's the main thing.
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