Digital - First Try!

I am experimenting with digital scrapbooking.  Just for fun, after a fun day with my puppy, Emmitt, I grabbed my iPad and created digital layouts.  

I tried two apps - the first is Project Life.  This was absolutely simple!  And I love it.  You drag and drop your pictures, and choose from a nice selection of designs.  Then choose journaling blocks, type a few words, and you are set!  This layout took 15 minutes.  I did purchase a group of extra layouts - so for 99 cents, I completed this page.  I think I could get used to the digital option!  Also, you can save the layout in the app and edit it again, at a later time.

Next, I used RhonnaCollage and RhonnaDesign.  It took me about 90 minutes to create the following page ... I tried multiple layouts and arrangements.  Now that I have experience with the app, my speed will improve.  I really like the flexibility I had in layering the photos and resizing them.  I did a lot of cropping in the app - but I think that comes at a cost - the photos are not as clear.  The next time I use Rhonna Collage, I’ll edit my pictures first - so that I do not need to crop in the app itself.  Also, once I improve at using this app, I think my options will be unlimited.

Two very different looks - and both will have a place in my future scrapbooks!

A little more vintage

Here are the last three layouts in this series .... time to print new photos!    I used map paper for the first layout.  The photos were both taken at the same home - but about 20 years apart.  Fun to see a few of the same people in front of the same living room window, sharing the joy of family!

I have seen this photo many times during my life - four women who are a part of me! I never met Theresa Hult-Larson but I am happy that I knew the others well.  The border on this page was made by a 1/2 in circle punch - cutting the circles in half.

The stamp for the first names was from Close to My Heart and the die cut letters are from Stampin’ Up.  Again, you can see that one of the photos was pasted into an album using red and black photo corners.  I must take after my grandmother in my love of placing photos in albums!

I use a lot of brads in my albums - partially for appearance but they primarily serve the function of keeping the photos in place.  I am always concerned about how long adhesives will last so brads are used to alleviate that fear :)

Merrill Scrapbook

Love pics of these kiddos!  Taken in the 20’s, they are great vintage photos, but they also tell me that kids are kids! Swimming, eating watermelon, or dressing up, we love to photograph the little ones. How lucky my family is, that my great grandparents took photos frequently.

Elements included a Fiskars border punch. The dies are from Stampin’ Up - Eastern Beauty and Sunburst.

More Vintage (times 4)

I adore the photo of my great grandparents dancing.  I think it was taken in the 1950s. Shortly before he passed away. Virginia was born in 1919 so the photo in the stroller would have been taken that same year. What a happy family! Leslie and Alice later had a son, Chet.

I added some embossing to this page. I love the dimension that it it adds to a scrapbook layout.  And staying with the simple vintage patterns, I used a stamp with a typewriter font. I think it was appropriate for these layouts.

The postcard is definitely vintage!  1914 - and that building still stands today.

In the corner of the following two photos, you can see some photo corners that were used in the original scrapbook. I was not able to remove the photos from that book so the pictures include the photo corners, they were red hearts. The coats are amazing,

I am making for copies of everything for this vintage scrapbook. Four family members will get copies.

Journaling still needs to be added to this page. There were some notes on the back of the photos that I will include in some journaling efforts.  It was a very plain page so I added a little bit of string and a few banners to help out.

This is my grandfather. He was born in 1914. I love this photo!

Pockets

Sometimes, it is fun to add a pocket to my scrapbookbook page..  It makes a small embellishment, but it is also like a fun little surprise when you get to that page.  I have used pockets for journaling and also for adding photos that might not fit on the page.

Grandparents

Staying simple, I love the photos of these two people!

I have added  quite a bit of journaling; I normally try to avoid that because I do not like my handwriting. But as I look through these older photos, I am so glad that I have the hand writing of great grandparents.