Today I thought I would talk a little about my process when starting a scrapbook page. I like to start out by creating scrapbook page layouts, by this I mean a sort of template into which I can slot my photographs.
I have many ideas for scrapbook layouts, for example you could use the templates to create baby scrapbook pages with each square representing a month in the first year of your babies life. The template could have twelve sections and within each one you could add a photograph for the 1st month of your babies life, the 2nd month and so on until you have created a scrapbook page in a sort of calender format.
How about creating wedding scrapbook layouts around your big day, each part of the template could show a different part of your special day or a graduation day template. Once you have your template created you can use it many times over when you want to group your photographs together into a collage.
Photographs do not have to be around one subject you could choose a theme and group photos around that theme, today I wanted to do a Just for Fun page so I included photographs that I had altered using my photo editing software, because that is what I like to do for fun. I have included this link fot the Just for Fun Digital Scrapbook Page that I have created using this Digital Scrapbook Template if you want to take a look.
Templates are a great way to show off your photographs you don't even need to buy any scrapbooking supplies all you need is your scrapbooking software and some photographs.
When creating templates you can make them any size you like and use any shapes for your photos that you want, in this example I used a 8 x 10 size to make printing it out simple and rectangles for the shapes but you could do 12 x 12 layouts or 8 x8 and add photos into any shape that you choose.
Cheers
Groobers
Create It, DigiScrap It, It's All Good Fun - Cathyalader ~ G
