Are you in the Halloween spirit yet? As I have mentioned before I love this time of year and our house in in full Halloween spirit. Yes I am one of those people who you probably think is a bit crazy… Well you may be correct, but it is just so fun and there is so much cool festive things out there to tempt me when I go out shopping.
Well I am going to share with you another Halloween layout I designed. I decided to try something a little different. Normally when I scrapbook I have my photos in hand. Lately I have been running into road blocks when I am trying to put my layout together. The most common issue is when I have found a cool layout for inspiration but I can’t make my 4×6 photos work. I love using the CTMH How to Patterns, sketches online, and magazines for inspiration. Generally the way I go about scrapbooking is I select the photos I wish to scrapbook and star them in Photoshop (I use this to edit and organize my photos). I will then edit them fixing red eyes, cropping, lightening or adjusting color if needed. I will then have them printed mostly in 4×6 but occasionally 5×7 and 8×10.
I had an idea in mind for a layout and found a sketch from PageMaps which would work well. The layout incorporated some odd sized photos (5.5×4, 2.75×4 etc). I have never been opposed to using photos in other sizes but it is hard to get them out of a 4×6 photo. So this time I thought I would use Studio J using the No Limits layout to size my photographs. I uploaded the edited photos into Studio J. I confirmed my photos would work in the dimensions that were shown in the layout. I cut some scrap white paper to act as place holders for my photos so I could get busy designing my layout.
This process worked really well – see for your self:
I used Laughing Lola paper pack and had one sheet of Bazzill cardstock which I used in conjunction with the Laughing Lola purple, Lagoon, Laughing Lola gold, Gypsy, white and black cardstock. All the creatures were cut using my Silhouette. I then used Washi tape and the Washi Wonder stamp set as accents. I was able to get the journaling done and now all I need to do is drop the photos in when they arrive.
Stay tuned for a couple more layouts done this way. Until then happy crafting!
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