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Well, maybe you need a few digital scrapbooking pages about love, too, but surely THAT is all you need. Right? Pages about loved ones and about things we love are so much fun to make, aren’t they? Chelle’s Creative team members have a few new pages they’ve shared with us all about the objects of their affections.

First, Karen used a template by Scrapping with Liz and Chelle’s Chocolate Lovers to declare her love. Loving him more than chocolate is HUGE. 

Helen chose to make her page about the things her daughter loves. I love her list of ten things, and I really love that playing with Mommy made her list. So sweet! She used Summer Lovin and CU Frayed Masks.

Finally, Heather used Lovin’ from the Oven and the coordinating journal cards to make this yummy page about baking cookies with her little one. I’m sure mommy and daughter both loved this activity.  

So, maybe all you need is love, chocolate, and cookies along with some digital scrapbooking for good measure.

There are lots of ways to use frames on your digital scrapbooking layouts. Chelle’s CT members have shared a few pages to show you what they like to do. Let’s start with a one photo layout with a stacked frame choice. Jennifer did this to draw attention to her focal point, and it looks fabulous. I love the way she filled the paper frames with the same photo and stacked them one on top of the other. She used See Clearly Now and the coordinating alpha. 

Next, Krista made a couple of pages for us. She used Chelle’s Movie Night for her pages, and instead of filling the frames with photos, she stacked the frames on top of a couple of her pictures to draw attention to them. It’s a great technique and very easy to do since the photo doesn’t need to fill the frame but just hang out underneath it.

Finally, Lisa has used a plethora of framing ideas on her page. She has angled frames to attract attention much like Krista’s, mats that frame/outline points of interest, word art tag outlines to frame text, and she has used frames and elements to create scenes. She used Down On the Farm to create her adorable page.

Happy New Year! Are you busy scrapping your holiday memories from 2014? I am trying to catch up on all my digital scrapbooking projects from the previous year. Thankfully, Chelle’s Creations has just the products I need, and she has some amazingly talented CT members who help me know how to get my pages looking realistic when printed. Today, Helen and Karen have given me some tips to share with you on how they make clusters to look pleasing to the eye.

Helen says, “I always shadow down and right, but when I have an element sitting on top of another element I will double shadow. I copy the element then shadow down and right, and next I paste the element so I now have 2 (one on top of the other). I will then shadow up and right and turn down the opacity. I do this as I feel that if I was putting real life objects on top of each other it wouldn’t be flat to the page.”

Here is her example of only shadowing down and right. Look closely at the red flower and the stack of books in the cluster on the bottom right.

Now look at the same cluster in the following image in which Helen has added her opposite shadow technique.

Isn’t that a huge improvement? And it’s not much effort for a big payoff in realism. Here’s her full layout for you to enjoy. By the way, she has used Chelle’s Creations Teacher’s Pet.

Karen describes her cluster like this: ” When I first started digi scrapping, clustering was what I struggled with the most. I still struggle with it at times, moving and adding elements all around until it pleases my eye. What helped me at first was using templates (which I still use 99.9% of the time). They helped me with where to place clusters. And from there, I tend to keep my clusters simple. I like the rule of three, which I used in this layout. I used three flowers in the cluster, varying in size for balance and used leaves underneath to fill it out.” She began her layout with a Scrapping with Liz template and used Chelle’s Creations Good Night Teddy kit and Instalife cards for the content.

Here’s a closer look at the kits Helen and Karen used.  The images are linked to the items in the store.

Here’s hoping we can all catch up on our memory keeping!

Hi Chelle’s Creations fans! Today we’re talking about a method for arranging items on your digital scrapbooking page called visual triangle placement. Simply put, it means placing your photos, or clusters, or combinations of such in a large triangle so the reader’s eye follows your three main points around the page. It can help to either draw your eye to the one large focal spot, or it can help you to see the page as a whole and not miss a single detail. Let me show you a couple of examples.

First, Heather has used a combination of elements from Roller Coasters & Cotton Candy to form her triangle. From her journal box on the top left to the large photo on the right to the title cluster on the bottom, she has the reader’s attention captured in a flow of the story of her memory of taking her children to the carnival. She didn’t have many pictures that day, so she used her one large photo, a large title piece (you can find that word art here), and her words to create a digital scrapbooking page that will elicit fond memories from her family each time they look at it. And isn’t that what we want? 

Krista used a slightly different technique for her visual triangle. The large photo on the page tells the obvious story, but it is anchored on the page perfectly by the clusters of beach elements from Chelle’s At the Beach kit, all placed at the corners of her visual triangle. This technique draws your eye to that focal point photo. Just a few simple touches were all that was needed to complete the story: the date, a few bits of word art, and the title art.

If you would like a closer look at the kits used for this blog post, check these out. The images are linked to the store.