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.  Geocaching_

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. 2014_08_FirstDaySchool_zps4cf09db3

Are you moving yet? It’s good for the body, soul, and digital scrapbooking page.

by_Cheryl

Perfect Pairs: Backyard & Indian Summer | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hello Friends!

This month we challenged our team to do a digital scrapbooking layout using two of our favorite kits: In the Backyard & Indian Summer.  Let me show you the coordinating pieces. Just click on each image for more details.

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Here’s a layout by Lisa. The purple butterfly sure works well with her daughter’s costume.

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Here’s Melissa’s: Love how her little cheeks match the pinkish shades.

Melissa

Have a great day!

by-Sari

9.1 Video Tutorial: Laying it Out There – 3D Curled Frames

Don’t we all want our digital scrapbooking pages to look as realistic as 3D as possible? I know that really enjoy getting my pages to look as if you could reach out and feel the different layers. Chelle’s Creations video tutorial shows you how to use one of her products, Curled Frames, either by themselves or with a template.

Chelle shared several fabulous templates with you during the video tutorial and here are a few more from her talented creative team for a little more inspiration.

Roxana (roxanamdm) layers the frames across the page in one big cluster. I love that these frames give you the ability to create a stunning layout the fits your pictures perfectly. For this layout Roxana used Lucky Me, Lucky Me {alpha}, Curled Frames, and Mark My Words.

Using Boho Summer, Boho Summer {alpha}, and Curled Frames, Mel (KSCroppyChick) created this stunner. I love all the flowers on the page and just adore the silhouette photo she took.

Here is a page I created by replacing the photo slots with the curled frames on a template. I used Zoo Crew {safari}, Zoo Crew {Animal Prints}, Curled Frames and a template by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs.

Do you want to create you own layouts using these realistic looking frames? You can pick them up in her store.

I (Sagediva2) look forward to see the ways you arrange these frames on your layouts.