Yearly Archives: 2012

Zoom In For Photos | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hello Scrappers!
The single best piece of photography advice is “ZOOM IN”.  Either with your camera or with your feet.  Get in close. Capture the details.  Whether it’s your child swinging at the park or your first tulip blossoming, get up close. Together our eyes & brains are pretty smart.  If you see a photo of a child with the top of his head cropped off, you don’t believe he has a flat head, you’ll know you just can’t see it.  So ZOOM IN.  Zoom in on the head of one of the ducks at the pond.  Zoom in on the center of one of the flowers in your garden.

If you are scrapping with photos already taken the same concept applies. But instead we’ll call it “CROP IN”. Every photo doesn’t need to have your entire child in it.  A close up of his chubby little fingers trying to peel the foil off another chocolate Easter Egg will be more exciting. It will help tell your story.  A close up of her adorable chocolate covered face will show how much she’s enjoying her Easter goodies.

Next time you are taking photos, remember to zoom in.  And when you pull out some photos to scrap, look for opportunities to “crop in”. Here’s some examples from the creative team. Great Job ladies! Talk with your soon.

Carol

Stefanie

Erica

Erica used “Litabelle Designs Head Start #4” template with her LO.

4.18 Word Strips!

Have you noticed word strips in your scrapbooking kits?  Are you stuck on ideas on how to use them?  Chelle’s Creative team put together some awesome layouts to show how to use these fun little additions to a kit.

Jami has this fantastic page using the strips with her clusters, scattered around the page.

Jan’s page has fun words describing her event going down the side of the page.

Kairyn used the strips in her vacation page to describe the vacation

What ways can you find to use those word strips to spice up your pages!?  Be sure to check out Chelle’s kits to see all the fun word strips that you can add to your layout.

4.17 Perfect Pairs: Toadally Add-on and Gnome Sweet Gnome | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

A great way to make your digital scrapbooking stash seem even larger is to create pages with more than one kit.  Today we are looking at how you can combine Chelle’s Toadally Add-on and Gnome Sweet Gnome.  The creative team has been busy mixing the kits to create some gorgous pages.
I love how Kayla uses a large photo to showcase her beautiful flower garden.
What a cute little help Carol has to make sure her vegetables are growing.  I love the stitching used on this page.

I love the way Erica arranged the photos on the page. Just look at those silly glasses.

Do you own one of these kits?  If you do pick up the other so you can combine them together to stretch your own stash.  Head over Chelle’s store to check them out!  Here’s a better look at both kits.


Also be sure to check out the Gnome Sweet Gnome Add-on.  Chelle is the featured designer at DST this month.  Go check out the Toadally kit there.  Even more goodies to make you stash grow.