You are the best wrapper in town

Another topic I wanted to scrapbook for some time. As there was a story which I could tell through each photo I decided to try the small journaling prompts typing them on the computer.

This layout took me ages to do. Firstly I could not get my head around how to place the photos, journaling and titles onto one page. Then when I had figured out how I wanted to “anchor” my photos to the page it took me a while to be happy with the size and arrangement.

I took a photo of the layout once I was happy and before I disassembled so that I had a picture of the “finished” layout. That and using a pencil to mark corners of paper definitely helped in creating it again. I did not think however of which layer was the first layer etc and stick them down in accordance which did cause a few problems.

Then of course my new love of experimenting with sewing had me trying out sewing around the edges of the strips of paper instead of inking them. It did work and gave texture to the layout – I considered it my “embellishment”. But because I did this story on a single layout the majority of  my hard work of stitching got covered up.

After I had done the page I had to ask myself “Why did you not do this as a double layout?” I had engrained in myself that I was a single layout scrapbooker that the thought of doing a double page layout did not even enter my head. This is a shame as the end result to me looks too clinical/report/display like and to my eye looks too cramped.

 Lessons Learnt

1. You can do double layouts, especially when you have many photos with journaling too.
2. Stitching is a good thing and does add texture and interest to a layout but sometimes it can be an over kill.
3. A long statement title which connects to the photos is good as it relates to the photos and tells the story without the person having to then read all of the journaling attached to it.