Movement & Flow

A good idea to keep in mind when designing your digital scrapbooking page is the ease of reading the page. Our memories are important, and the movement of elements on the page can either add to the flow and enhance the reading or it can sabotage it. There are lots of ways to achieve a good flow: the use of arrows and wavy lines can help visual flow. Also, there are several ideas listed on this article about web design, but the same principles apply to a scrapbooking page. Chelle’s CT has a couple of example pages to show you in which they used a strong diagonal line to guide the eye from the lower left to the upper right of their pages.

First, Krista chose to capture her memories about a geocaching experience, and she used Chelle’s On the Trail for her page. There is a great deal of movement in the photos on the page, but the strong diagonal background mat leaves no doubt which way we should read the information. As we move from left to right, we won’t miss the box of journaling telling about their awesome adventure, and even though the words are perpendicular to the flow of the page, it doesn’t stop the movement. At the bottom of the story, our eyes seem to flow naturally to the final two photos on the page.

Kimberly used Teacher’s Pet to demonstrate movement and flow with her son’s first day of school photos from kindergarten and his senior year. She anchored the layout with the title in the bottom left corner and your eye moves upward to the older photo. The blue crayon also points the way. She used PSE’s check mark shape in the Custom Shape Tool (Shortcut U) to create her own clipping masks. The curved line meets the straight edge of the shape where it points towards her son’s bright future. The first day of school journal card and the Instalife cards tucked into the frame will be in the market on September 4th, 2014. ME and MY Shadows Shadow Styles made this template-less page come together in a snap by using the different options for stitches, large and small flowers, buttons, strings, and heavy embellishments.