{"id":925,"date":"2009-04-07T20:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2009-04-07T20:08:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:08:38","slug":"scrapbooking-those-cute-little-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/scrapbooking-those-cute-little-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrapbooking those cute little smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-926\" title=\"Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP Scrapbook Page\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rebekah-jensen-smiley.jpg\" alt=\"Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP Scrapbook Page\" width=\"448\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rebekah-jensen-smiley.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rebekah-jensen-smiley-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rebekah-jensen-smiley-435x227.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>I had some time to sit down and be creative today.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 The good days are the days I get to create!\u00a0 Unfortunately some days are a little easier than others.\u00a0 It took me a while to get this page to my satisfaction but I like the final result.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to see in this picture, but the cushion on my sons seat is a tan and brown plaid.\u00a0 Because of that, I pulled the white and brown plaid paper from the Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP to use on this page.\u00a0 The strip at the top and the box in the lower right-hand corner use this DSP.<\/p>\n<p>The large scallop circle you see was made on the Big Shot with the Scallop Circle Die and then I used the Crop-A-Dile to punch holes in each of\u00a0the scallops.\u00a0 The Stampin&#8217; Up! Scallop Circle Punch was used to make the scallops in the lower left corner.\u00a0 Those scallops have jumbo eyelets in the center of them.<\/p>\n<p>Scrapbooking is so much fun.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to take pictures and find a way to put them together that is appealing to the eyes.\u00a0 Sometimes I think I have my own style with scrapbooking but that&#8217;s a good thing.\u00a0 If every page or every book looked the same then scrapbooking would be pointless, we might as well just stick the pictures in a regular picture book.\u00a0 Scrapbooking is supposed to highlight the pictures and bring them together in a fun way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not the world&#8217;s authority on scrapbooking but I thought I&#8217;d take a couple minutes to give a few pointers for making good scrapbook pages, or at least a few things for you to think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colors &#8211; try to pull colors from your pictures to use in the scrapbook page (of course that&#8217;s assuming you have the pictures picked before creating the page.)<\/li>\n<li>It is okay to occasionally cut off body parts when you&#8217;re croping!\u00a0 You do not always need to see a persons whole body!!\u00a0 If we see a shoulder we&#8217;ll just naturally know there&#8217;s an arm attached &#8211; we don&#8217;t have to see it to assume it.<\/li>\n<li>Are there any elements in your pictures that you can bring into the page design?\u00a0 For example, in the page above I pulled the tan\/brown plaid and used DSP with a similar design in the page.\u00a0 This works to pull everything together.<\/li>\n<li>Put the focus on the pictures.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to have lots of cutesy things on our pages, however, don&#8217;t overdue.\u00a0 You really don&#8217;t want someone to look at your page and focus so much on the cutesy decorations that they suddenly notice a picture of junior and wonder why you&#8217;d throw it into the page.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>One last thing to think on for now, use a digital camera.\u00a0 With a digital camera you&#8217;re free to take lots of pictures and then you can decide which you will use and which to print.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope these tips have been of some help.\u00a0 Are there other things you&#8217;d like to have my opinion about (I won&#8217;t say &#8220;that you&#8217;d like to know about&#8221; because really I&#8217;m not an expert, just giving my opinion)?\u00a0 Were these helpful?\u00a0 Leave me a comment and let me know how I can help you the most!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some time to sit down and be creative today.\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 The good days are the days I get to create!\u00a0 Unfortunately some days are a little easier than others.\u00a0 It took me a while to get this page to my satisfaction but I like the final result. It&#8217;s hard to see in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-scrapbooking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}