Deb asked recently about how to color coordinate your scrapbook page. We’ve spoken a little about choosing colors before (Use the search box on the right column to find posts, and check out Choosing Color Schemes.)
However, since those articles were written, online color matching has moved on at a great pace. I noticed recently that Scrapbook.com have an online photo match and color wheel you can use -and you don’t have to sign up to use it!
Now that may well be old news to you, but have you tried it? I’ve only just found it and thought it was great, so I’m writing this in case, like me, you didn’t know about it. There is also a video to show you how to use it – and it’s very easy. The links above or below will take you there.
For the photo match option, upload your photograph (the video shows you how) and the system will select a color scheme and suggest products that match.
The other thing I thought clever was that I could give a product and it would show coordinating supplies from their lists. So if I was looking for things that worked together, or to go with something I already had, it could suggest a match. Obviously Scrapbook.com want to sell things, but it’s like this is their equivalent of a friendly, helpful member of staff at a local scrapbook store.
So if you are wondering how to color coordinate your scrapbook page, or are just looking for another product to match something you already have and need a little something else to set it off, then try scrap by color at Scrapbook.com. Have fun scrapping!
Spring is officially here now, although you wouldn’t know it yet! We’re updating and spring cleaning our website and as you may have noticed it’s taking longer than we said. It always seems to be the same. I set out to do something that should only take a couple of minutes and two hours later I finally finish. Or it should only take a couple of days, and three weeks later I’m still at it! Is it just me, or do you find that too?
We did a fair bit of tidying up as we want you to have a good experience when you visit our site. We found a lot of dead links that we either removed or updated, and we even found a post where half was missing (don’t know why!), so corrected that too. If you find anything we missed or that does not seem right, we would really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can correct it. Please use the contact form and include the title of the post as well as the problem. Including the URL will help, too, but is not essential. Thanks.
One new thing we will be offering is a downloadable file for our sketches. So if you are a digital scrapbooker look out for that shortly.
Thank you for your patience and your help as we spring clean the website.
Another sample layout with sketch 33
The background paper was created in photoshop and I chose to add my journaling to the space on the right side this time.
I’ve used the large space with a large photo as the background and five smaller sunset images grouped on the right.
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This is a sample layout with sketch 14 published almost two years ago. It’s a sample of how to use the same sketch design for both pages of a two-page spread. This will work with some but not necessarily all sketches.
Photographs are of Tlaquepaque, a craft village in Sedona, Arizona, that Isabella visited on a trip to the USA. She made the layout using the photos and text only in photo-editing software, but the look would transfer very easily to plain cardstock and white ink.
The small image here looks a bit dark, but the bronzes glow nonetheless. I love them!
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We have 5 journaling prompts for you today. How would you continue the following phrases?
- You look so …
- I wish we’d …
- I loved how you …
- It seems such a long time ago that …
- You were just (months/years) old when …
If any of these resonate with you, use them on your next layout.
Everything we read is not necessarily relevant at the time, however, pop back later and see if these or one of our other journaling prompts is what you need next time round. Thanks for looking.
This multi-photo layout uses our recently published scrapbooking sketch 33.
We visited our niece just after Christmas and her daughters (aged 6, 4 and 15 months) had a whale of a time putting on a ’show’ for us: dancing, singing and telling stories. We had a lovely time with them, and were reminded how difficult it can be to have a conversation with young children around 
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by Genie on February 15, 2010
in Sketches
We have a new scrapbooking sketch again this month, along with some tips and suggestions on how to use it.
First off, we have a large white border … keep as is, journal in it, or use your favourite patterned paper, plain or patterned cardstock.
Next, we have a large ragged-edged area … fill it with a photograph, or distress the edge of patterned paper or cardstock. There are some interesting cardstocks around with contrasting core, but even ‘normal’ white core looks interesting and can be coloured with inks or chalks, if you don’t have any specialty card on hand.
Ignore the ragged or distressed edges if you prefer not to damage your cardstock or photographs, or prefer a ‘tidier’ result.
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This baby scrapbook layout uses our sketch #32 and some very cute little characters from Erica Hite’s Bouncing Baby Girl scrapbook collection from ScrapGirls.
I loved this story from Isabella: She received an email from her daughter a few months back with a photo of her grand daughter lying across her cot, and the excited exclamation, “I didn’t put her down that way!”
A couple of hours later more photographs arrived showing her grand daughter had turned right round and was lying with her head at the bottom of the cot. The first indication that Emily Joy was on the move – when no one is looking, of course!
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by Genie on January 15, 2010
in Supplies
I made our family calendars this year using Melissa Renfro’s perpetual calendar, a digital layout template from ScrapGirls.
I found it very easy to use with a large selection of layout plans, some fun little images denoting birthdays, anniversaries and holidays, and ready to use grids for each month. I just had to select the photographs I wanted to use and drop them into the templates, then make sure I chose the correct monthly grid and it was ready!
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by Genie on January 13, 2010
in Sketches
Here is the new scrapbooking sketch idea from ScrapbookingGems.com.
A scrapbooking sketch, or scrapbooking template, is an idea to use to get you started on a new layout. Sometimes we just can’t think what to do and it can be a spur to our creativity.
We try to help with suggestions on how to use the sketch and we turn the sketch around for you to save you hurting your neck as you try to imagine what it will look like upside down, turned 90 degrees or flipped over or back to front. (Don’t get concerned when you see the results of these actions as we’ve simply used the editor to do this and not made new layouts for each, so you’ll see the title upside down and back to front, too!)
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