Monday, May 12, 2014

Sharing a layout - documenting the past part 1 "Wedding Day"

This week's podcast is all about documenting the past. As such, I thought it'd be a good idea to make a few pages using my heritage photos. While I don't have a lot of experience working with old pics, I'm pretty happy with the results. Check my blog this week because I'll be sharing at least 4 different layouts using pics from the past.

I started by choosing the papers I wanted to use with a group of 3 pics from my parents' wedding. I layered those together, mixing patterns that made me happy and picked up the colors in the photos. That was the easy part.

Next, I played around with arranging my pics on the layout. As you can see, I tried several options.





In the end, I went with my first inclination, the three photos across the middle of the page, slightly overlapping one another. Ironic, right? Once, I knew where the pics would go, the rest of the layout came together pretty quickly.

I included some wedding themed chipboard accents that I'd had a long time. I wrote my journaling.

I added a chipboard title and a few colored vellum accents too. Look at that tiny bit of washi tape on the right. I've finally joined in on the washi trend apparently. I'm only like 3 years behind the times. Lol!

Here's a closer look at the journaling and some of the chipboard accents.

And here's the finished project - I love it, even with the not-so-great photos and the not-so-happy ending to their story. It's still part of my family, my story, and I'm glad that I've told it.
I'm excited to put this page in my album. Still trying to decide if I'll have a heritage album of some sort or if I'll just mix it all together. Any opinions or suggestions about that?

15 comments:

  1. I love it!!!!! I'm glad you shared it today after we talked about it so much on the podcast!

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    1. Girl, I've got 4 projects to share this week. Go, me! Hahaha!

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  2. Lucky you to have such wonderful pictures!! TFS your process :-)

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    1. There were some bad spots on the pics that I hid with the overlapping and the embellishments. I could've spent some time trying to restore them and having them reprinted, but I just didn't want to take the time. I have a scan of them, so I can always play with them in the future. For now, I just wanted to make a page already, know what I mean?

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  3. I like the arrangement you chose for the photos. Great job!

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    1. Thanks, Madeline. Once I figured out where to put the darn photos, everything else was easy. I prob should've scraplifted, but I was feeling the groove and just playing around with my ideas this time. I'm glad you like what I ended up doing.

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  4. The page turned out great! I always find three pictures are a bit of a challenge to place, yours worked out beautifully.

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    1. I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggles with that, Leslie. Do you have a tried and true arrangement you like best for 3 pics or do you just play around with it like I did? Thanks for the compliment. :)

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  5. Great layout! I will have to listen to the podcast.

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    1. I think you'll like the podcast a lot this week. It was one of those topics that was super easy for us to discuss because we had so many ideas and plans; I think those topics always have a better flow than the ones that don't come so easily. Hope you enjoy it, Linda!

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  6. Love scrapping older photos! Is that your handwriting or a font? It's gorgeous!!!!

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    1. That's my handwriting, Kat. Thanks for saying it's gorgeous - it's just my everyday writing style. I just like the homespun feel of handwritten journaling and it takes me way less time to write than it would to print what I have to say. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing by handwriting so much, but your compliment reminds me it is just part of my signature look.

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  7. Great job with the heritage photos. Beautiful handwriting!

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