Hi there Creators,
yes you heard it right I'm actually doing some scrapbooking, in theory the "easy" way. And if I didn't have 175 photos to get through of my holiday/Stampin' Up! conference trip to the USA then I might consider doing the pages the way they suggest!
Having said that once I got the hang of it, I did quite enjoy doing this Kit: Exploring Nature Scrapbooking Kit.
My top tips with doing this are.....
- cut all the cardstock and label each piece (even if it's with a sticky note rather than pencil)
- lay out your base sheets and add all the pieces needed for each page to it (then when you come to create the page you have all the bits you need ready and waiting)
- Lay out 2 pages at once (next to each other so you can check the pattern and lines go across at the same level (of course if you use the calculations in the kit instructions they should match anyway!)
- sort out photos you'd like to use on the pages, if you need to add more than they suggest decide which ones you want on each page and work out how you plan to cut them down to fit in!
- Make sure you start off with enough adhesive! I was using Stampin' Seal, (and you can get refills to save your purse! Stampin' Seal refill) perfect for this project, but did run out of my first roll, it uses a LOT! who knew scrapbooking was so "adhesive intensive"?!
Now, rhetorical question, would you like to see how mine turned out?......
As you can see I squeezed way more photos into mine🤣 the kit say 13 photos (but I notice they display it with 17!), however, I'm proud to announce I got 24 in😃🤣
This is what they were meant to look like
Umm, I'm happy with mine, that's the main thing, I really liked having the framework to go with, that someone else has worked out the basics so all I needed to do really was work out where I actually wanted to put my photos, even if I did get a little carried away with my last pages and even used the DSP the other way up - it was my favourite piece of DSP, and they had it gray side up!! sacrilege🤣
If you missed the video on how I went about this, here it is (very much a trial fact-finding mission) but I will definitely order more, the next one on my radar is Beach Time Scrapbooking Kit, as it'll go well with the Palm Trees in some more of my US photos
Do come back and join me next Saturday, where we'll be heading back to cardmaking techniques
(or will we?..... TBD)
God Bless love
Heather xox
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