Scrapbook Saturday

Hi Bloggers.

Seeing as we're starting a New Year, I thought I would do something a little different and share a scrapbook page every Saturday. Scrapbooking can be a little scary when you first start but in my own opinion there really are no rules except that you should really try to use acid & lignin free papers and card.

If you approach it like you would do a card, think of the photo as your topper or stamped image and go from there. Start with 8 x 8 rather than 12 x 12 - it's far less daunting and more like the size of cards we make.

As far as journalling is concerned, if you really don't want your handwriting on a page, then type it up on your pc and print it out. If you have nothing to say about a photo, don't stress about it, just don't have any journalling on that page. Scrapbooking should be fun and I think a lot of us get hung up on what supposed to be on a page and so we get put off and don't think we can do it. Anything goes as far as I'm concerned.

With the layout - if you like how it looks then go with it!

Anyhow, here's a 12 x 12 page with my daughter, Kathryn, and her boyfriend, Jonny -

I've used Colorcore Cardstock. The paper is from the Couture Creations Sew Jo 12 x 12 Paper Pad. The corners are cut using Sue's Scandinavian Corner, Border & Tag Die Set. The border is cut using Couture Creations Simplicity Border Die Set. The Title is cut using Spellbinders Font One Upper Case and Lower Case Die Sets. The text at the bottom is stamped with Jet Black Archival using some stamp sets I've had forever.

See, not complicated at all!

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.