Scrapbooking as an art form has been embraced and advanced by a diverse group of dedicated people whose work is now well-known. A few you may enjoy looking up include Heidi Swapp<\/a>, who offers a range of design collections, tools and videos to inspire scrapbook makers. One of her proprietary tools is a foil applicator called the “MINC<\/a>.” Whether you assemble your scrapbooks online or sitting at a crafts table, chances are good that your project will involve some printing. You may want to invest in your own inkjet printer, although the quality of printers varies widely. If you plan to print high-quality photos, it’s smart to check reviews of inkjet printers<\/a> from a reputable reviewer before purchasing. If you don’t want to be in charge of your own photo printing, you can get professional-quality results by uploading your digital image files to Shutterfly or Forever.<\/p> If you simply want prints of your photos mailed to you, Shutterfly is ready for your order. The company’s photobooks<\/a> offer dozens of standard layout templates as well as various custom options. You can even lay out your digital scrapbook pages and have Shutterfly produce the entire physical book and as many copies as you’d like. This site advertises its photo printing services specifically as a memory-keeping service. Like Shutterfly, Forever lets you edit and store photos on its site. In addition, Forever offers special scrapbooking features, including themed page templates, backgrounds and graphic embellishments. The company’s special scrapbooking software, Artisan 5<\/a>, is available for PCs with 64-bit Windows operating systems<\/a>. When you embark on the beautiful process of designing a scrapbook page, you’re assembling visual cues that will emphasize a certain aesthetic and emotional tone. You’re making a collage, choosing the images, colors, textures and words that will express and preserve an important era or event in someone’s life. Do you want vibrancy and excitement, all sharp edges, stars and brilliant colors? Or, do you desire a mood of vintage wistfulness with sepia tones, as if you were turning back the clock to a golden past? Here are 10 examples of inspiring scrapbook design to get your creative juices flowing:<\/p> Paper and digital scrapbooking require different tools, of course, but many designers use a blend of both media types to achieve the greatest range of materials. Unless you have a box of already-printed photos that you’re planning to mount in your scrapbook, you’ll probably need to use a photo storage and printing service such as the aforementioned Shutterfly or Forever. These services can also help you make copies of old printed photos, even if you don’t have the negatives. You can download a template for scrapbooking layouts<\/a> or simply make a sketch from an inspiring online example. Scrapbook.com<\/a> offers thousands of layout examples you can follow, and Pinterest<\/a> lets you view the basic underlying structure of hundreds of professional designer layouts. From there, the sky’s the limit. Photos are always at the heart of a scrapbook, tugging at your memories and unifying all other mementos and design elements. For visual interest in your scrapbook, designers recommend that you select various views of your subject matter. For example, if you’re creating a baby album, you might include closeups of the baby’s hands and feet as well as classic portrait shots. Photoshop’s sophisticated functions are virtually limitless, and designers have established certain “actions,” or patterns, that you can purchase and plug into your version. Creative Market offers an extensive selection of these time-saving photo actions<\/a>, each developed to create a certain aesthetic. For examples, you can adjust wedding photos with a suite of Vintage Wedding Photo Actions<\/a> or create a fun summertime look for your kids’ photos by adding a Bubbles Photoshop Overlay<\/a>.<\/p> Diversity, contrast, and ornaments are all important aspects to consider when selecting fonts for your scrapbooking layouts. You can find great font families to design with right here:<\/p> If you spend some time browsing scrapbook blogs, designs and tools online, you’ll find that this art form has developed a true depth and sophistication. Creative Market designers share some of their inspirational insights in articles such as “20 Signs You Might be a Designer”<\/a> and “Lessons in Creativity from Mark Twain.”<\/a> Many busy designers post heartwarming and informative blogs, showing their work and talking about how they develop original scrapbook ideas. Take a stroll through Gallery Standouts<\/a> for some of today’s most cutting-edge approaches, or click into the blog of an up-and-coming young designer like Heather Ulmer<\/a>. <\/p><\/p> As the tradition of scrapbooking meets the digital age, the creative opportunities available for preserving memories have become nearly unlimited. Now, you can make use of electronic imagery and online storage to create and share scrapbooks in paper or digital form. Digital scrapbooking allows you to share your beautiful memories with any number of people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-40083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-inspiration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nAnother source of scrapbook inspiration is Becky Higgins<\/a>. Her Project Life<\/a> offers a modular system “for getting your photos off your phone and computer, out of boxes, and into albums.”
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\nFinally, check out the work of Teresa Collins<\/a>. Teresa teaches workshops and seminars all over the world on the art of preserving memories beautifully, and her website features many papers, stickers and other items with which to build physical scrapbooks. Teresa states, “I constantly strive to ‘design’ my surroundings and memories so that they will never be forgotten.”
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<\/p><\/span>Printing Your Scrapbooks<\/span><\/h2>
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<\/p><\/span>How to Design a Scrapbooking Page<\/span><\/h2>
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<\/p><\/span>Tools You’ll Love for Scrapbooking<\/span><\/h2>
\nIf, like many people, you’re starting with digital photos, you’ll need a photo editing program such as Adobe Creative Cloud<\/a>, which offers Photoshop as well as its simpler sibling, Adobe Elements. If you don’t plan to do extensive photo editing, you can tweak and crop your photos using free tools at one of the photo printing services or use a free online tool such as Pixlr<\/a>. Other physical tools<\/a> you’ll need include acid-free adhesive, craft knives and scissors for paper trimming, and some type of album cover.<\/p><\/span>Popular Scrapbooking Page Layouts<\/span><\/h2>
\nTo bring your scrapbook layout ideas to life, you can download frames<\/a> and patterned digital papers<\/a>, as well as stylish fonts, graphic clip art, textured paper and other elements. The magical thing about these digital artworks is that you can either use them online or print them out to use in your real-life paper creation. Using your photo editing software, you can also change colors to your liking before you print them out.<\/p><\/span>Tips for Preparing Photos for Your Scrapbook<\/span><\/h2>
\nEven though services like Shutterfly, Forever, and many other cloud-based storage services will store digital copies of your photos indefinitely, it’s important to think of your scrapbooks as physical keepsakes. The paper you choose for your album should be archival-quality and acid free, and any adhesive you use should be approved for long-term use with photos. Some scrapbookers prefer to use archival polyester photo sleeves or photo corners rather than adhesive for their photos.
\nTo prepare digital photos<\/a> for inclusion in your scrapbook, use photo editing software to crop out or blur distracting items in the background. You can also use image layers (a very useful tool in Photoshop) to collage a number of photos into one single image. Basic photo editing software lets you brighten and adjust the color saturation of an image, as well as change the contrast and eliminate the “red eye” effect. That’s only the beginning, however; image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop has filters and enhancement tools that can change the entire appearance of a photo.<\/p><\/span>Photo Actions<\/span><\/h3>
<\/span>Scrapbooking Fonts<\/span><\/h2>
<\/span>More Links<\/span><\/h2>
\nOnce you start to preserve your memories through the complex and thrilling medium of scrapbooking, you may discover that you’re captivated by its magnetic pull. If you find yourself developing your very own fonts, backgrounds, clip art or vectors (design elements), you’ll likely be eager to share them with other scrapbook makers. Creative Market offers a marketplace for the content you produce, providing you with powerful, instant access to over 2 million potential customers. Learn more about opening a Creative Market shop<\/a> today.<\/p>
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