PatV's Blog

Smiles, Faces, Toes, Places

2012-09-27T19:16:00Z

Ok so this whole scrapbooking thing is alittle out of control. I just posted about making a card with a collage of landscape pics I took. And as I sit surrounded by projects, I realize just how many photos I really want to work with. I can now relate to the newspaper editor who only gets one headline photo.

So let me think 'outloud' and listen with words to your suggestions:

- the multi square background die cut, with photos as the squares, spaced 1/4 apart - 16 square. Loved this look with photos from a water camera in Hawaii.

- Photos cut with diecut machine as the alphabet headline. Positioning the palmtree as the "I" in Hawaii was alittle challenging. And I definitely had to restrain using photos instead of paper in the headlines. The page really pops and definitely gives me more space for photos.

- Two inch squares of photos as the border. framing the page. This one started out pretty good at the design stage but can't quite seem to find the right photos that blend into the background and form a good border.

When I look at older pages using only two photos, I can't help but wonder where the rest of those pictures got off to. I really enjoy seeing other scrappers using multiple photos.

Thanks now for your inputs.

Shutterfly and creating cards

2012-09-27T11:28:00Z

I'm loving the photo cards available on Shutterfly. Waited for a sale and just got $10 off so I could order a card with three pic collage of photos I have taken here in Illinois. I made it easy by placing my card project in the shopping cart so it was fast to apply this new sale. It's the first time I really played with the cardmaking feature on Shutterfly. And the collage cards get to be alot of fun. Wish I could order just one card at a time but their sales are worth the wait. Too bad I have already bought Christmas cards for this year - next year definitely, right? (And exactly how many "next years" can I get away with?

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Scoring Board

2012-01-02T21:16:00Z

I got the Martha Stewart Scoring Board for Christmas - thank you to my teenager who listened.

I haven't gotten to use it just yet - but I am ahead on getting decorations packed away.

1-1 on want to do vs need to do.

I'm looking for project ideas...

Slide Mounts = too many ufo's

2011-09-19T00:33:00Z

Every quilter knows UFO means "Unfinished Object". The idea that I could come close to finishing all of my scrapbooking projects boggles the mind. And not helping at all, is my re-discovery of dozens of old slides from my parents travels. So one by one with the help of a flashlight, I go through them. And clouds, plants, random hills all end up pulled from the mount and thrown away. So far, I've up to about 50 mounts.

Paint, chalk, paper, fiber, embossed, metallic covers??????

I already know I'll use just a few as borders for letters - probably in the Disney album. I can see some enlarged "faces" would look great in the opening. Making mini-albums would be cute, made those once for a retreat with my quilting bee.

Time to start surfing the web - I know have the feeling I will run out of slides before I run out of ideas. And since I would like to get them transferred to DVD's, guess I'll have a few next year as well.....

Scavenging old albums

2011-09-18T17:09:00Z

Is it considered "stealing" to make use of an unused, new album my college daughter had. It's more than 4 yrs old, never used. I've changed the cover inset photo and added pages. By the time she's home at Christmas, I'm hoping she won't recognize it. Next I have my sights on an album with her high school logo in the inset window, which she never even touched. It's bright red so I'm thinking it would be a great Christmas album, combining years of photos.

Now that I got this Trips and Travels album going, I'm in the mood to scavenge photos. With dozens of old, plastic sleeve albums full of photos we never see, I think it's time to promote those old vacation photos. I've already decided this coming Tuesday I will be at Archivers to make some 1/2 price copies of photos. I absolutely hate the idea of adding duplicate photos to the family. I'm thinking a 5x7 collage of multiple photos per trip - 30 yrs worth will take how long? This way I won't have to actually copy each photo, then crop.

I'd love to hear what everyone ele has done with old photos and old albums.

First Crop

2011-09-18T03:33:00Z

Spent 6 hrs at my first crop today. Got lots done. Didn't quite meet people like I thought I would. I've been going during the weekday and thought I would give Saturday a try. And discovered scrappers travel in pairs!! Kinda cute actually but being by myself made it kinda quiet at my table. So I'll stick to weekdays. But it was 6 hrs well spent, already thinking about the next trip.