Scrap Skills: Using a Large & | Digital Scrapbooking Skills

I love browsing the web for the latest trends, don’t you? Lately, my mojo has taken a vacation, and I was looking for inspiration for digital scrapbooking tips and trends. I saw lots of uses of a giant ampersand on different marketing sites and scrapbooking sites, and Chelle’s talented creative team members have created some fantastic pages using a large “&.” I am really very inspired by them, and I know you will be, also.

Just look at Jan’s page. She has a page about those adorable towel animals the room steward left in her cabin on a recent cruise. Her steward also took care to tuck in her children’s stuffed animals and give them the star treatment every day. Her photos tell the story, and I love how she used the ampersand to join the two main words in her title! It makes me long to go on another cruise. By the way, she used Oh Snap! for her page.

Here’s a layout from Leslie. She had photos of her son Matthew & their dog Nittany and wanted to scrap this page. For her “AND” she filled the letter with color coordinating blue shades using the words, “Puppy Love,” which really made the contrast work. Her use of size in the font also pulled my eyes toward the “&” to see what she had done. Choosing to use Winter Thrills with colors that worked with her photo and the font from Gone Fishin ties in Nittany’s fur, really adds to the charm of this wonderful memory

Next, Jenn used the same idea using a large ampersand joining two words in her title. The two words are significant because the page is all about the money in the Great Piggy Bank Adventure. I’m sure this fun game is challenging her children to learn to save their nickels and dimes and invest them wisely. Appropriately, Jenn has used Money, Money and the Marker Alpha for this cute page.

Shanell added this layout about her husband flying her and the kids down to a family Christmas party in 2010. It was a last-minute and they told everyone to meet at the airport if they wanted a ride in an airplane. It took me a minute to find her “&”, but then I saw them, the fun random chevron paper behind the “Fathers. Her composition with the clusters and double row of stitches adds to the fun and excitement of a great day. She used About A Boy.

Liz created a page about her and her hubby and how they belong together. Love the “pink” list for her and “green” list for him. Love how that large “&” hooks the lists together. So simple, so elegant. I had to ask her what the font name was that she used. (Lavendaria) She used Chelle’s Love Grows Kit.

Finally, Lynett has two boys in her photo, and what better way to title a page than with their names joined by the large ampersand. They are certainly the main characters of the story, and it looks like they were having a blast checking out the shark tank. The shark in the photo and Chelle’s cute felt shark both look like they have their aim set for Tyler & Harrison. I hope they got out of the aquarium unscathed! Lynett used a lot of Chelle’s great kits for her page including Photo Stacks, Something Fishy and the Something Fishy Felties.