Scrapbook Page -- Layout Plan Done Digital

I'm getting read for a FUNshop -- basically a rubber stamping "workshop," but who wants to work at a rubber stamping party? It's supposed to be fun, so let's call it that. :-)

A number of the people who have been invited scrapbook already. I wanted to put together a scrapbook page to demonstrate at the party so they can see how easy it is to add rubber stamping to a scrapbook.

So, instead of drawing out ideas on grid paper, I decided to play with some of our recent photos (my husband and I shoot lots of digital photos) and layout ideas in one of my graphics arts programs.

The idea is an 8"x8" sheet of cardstock with two coordinating 4"x4" squares placed in opposite corners. Three photos are then cropped to approximately 3 1/2" square. The fourth box is left for journaling. I personally believe in handwriting as much of the journaling as possible on a page -- even those pages that feature our nature photography. Since I was working on the idea on the computer, I put in the text as a computer font, but when I make the page in real space, not just cyber-space, I would then hand write those thoughts.

"Where is the rubber stamping?" you may wonder. There is an "A" in the center of the page. This font that I have on my computer just happens to have the capital letter "A" that matches a rubber stamp in TheAngelCompany(tm) set called More Abundance. While I probably won't make this particular scrapbook page at the FUNshop, I am going to try to find another set of three pictures that I can use that will enable me to use that "A" as the first letter of the journaling. I really like the look of it there. (Actually, this letter A does not exactly match the one on the "More Abundance" (T-2775, $19.95) set -- it is, however, similar enough to give me an idea of how it will look on a scrapbook page. Like I said, I really do like the look of it there.)

One last thought, it is easy to add a shadow when working on a fully digital scrapbook page (but I'm just too darn cheap to make my pages this way because I don't want to spend the money on all that expensive ink and photo paper to print it out). So, why did I add a shadow to a layout plan for a page to be made out of cardstock and printed photos?

There is an easy way to add shadows to stamped images and to scrapbook pages. Really, there is. By using a very light gray brush tip marker, that is acid free and solvent free (so that it doesn't damage the photos on the page or in the rest of the album through migration of chemicals), a shadow can be drawn in wherever you want one. There is a very good marker for this use in the Fall 2007 Catalogue and Idea Book from TheAngelCompany(tm). Contact me, any time, for more information.