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Scrapbook Focus and Balance From "Scrapbooking" episode SCB-430

Projects by Lora Dobrolowski.

Lora talks about single and double focus, focus on photos, and balance on a layout using design layouts.

Single Focus Page

This simple layout using muted colors in the background allows the brighter yellow mat to draw the focus to the photo.

Materials:

Memories Made Easy Santa Fe colors
burnt orange card stock
Modular Squares or burgundy and mustard yellow card stock
beautiful adhesive photograph
sticker

1. Use your burnt orange card stock as your background paper.

2. Adhere the 5-3/4" x 11-3/4" modular (or cut burgundy card stock) along the left edge of orange background.

3. Adhere the 5-3/4" x 5-3/4" modular (or cut yellow card stock) centered on the background.

4. Adhere the 3-3/4" x 3-3/4" modular (or cut burgundy card stock) centered in the yellow square.

5. Center a 3-1/4" x 3-1/4" photo in the burgundy square.

6. Place a sticker below your photo to the right side of the yellow square.

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Double Focus Page

This layout focuses on the photograph and also the yellow tag. The yellow on either side of the photo moves your eye toward the photograph. The wording along the bottom of the page leads your eye to the light yellow tag with the contrasting black type.

Materials:

Memories Made Easy Santa Fe colors
burgundy card stock
Modular Squares or burnt orange, burgundy and mustard yellow card stock
tag
vellum
envelope tags
beautiful adhesive photograph
sticker

1. Use the burgundy card stock as your background paper.

2. Adhere the 2-3/4" x 11-3/4" yellow modular (or cut yellow card stock) along the bottom edge of burgundy background.

3. Adhere the 2-3/4" x 11-3/4" orange modular (or cut orange card stock) above yellow strip.

4. Adhere the 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" yellow modular (or cut yellow card stock) vertically to the left edge of background paper.

5. Adhere the 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" yellow modular (or cut yellow card stock) vertically to the right edge of background paper.

6. Adhere the 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" orange modular (or cut orange card stock) vertically between the yellow modulars.

7. Adhere the 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" burgundy modular (or cut burgundy card stock) horizontally centered between the orange and yellow strips (to the right of page).

8. Place the layered yellow tag inside of the burgundy modular.

9. Place vellum envelope tags centered in the yellow modulars.

10. Place the photo in the orange modular.

11. Journal along the bottom of the page, inside yellow tag and on the vellum envelope tags.

Focus on Photograph Page

This simple layout using dark colors in the background allows the focus to be on the large photo.

Materials:

Memories Made Easy: Everwood colors
plum purple card stock
Modular Squares or navy and black card stock
layered tag
Ransom son sticker
adhesive
large photograph

1. Use the purple card stock as your background paper.

2. Adhere the 5-3/4" x 11-3/4" modular (or cut black card stock) vertically, approximately 1-1/2" from left edge of purple background.

3. Adhere the 2-3/4" x 11-3/4" modular (or cut navy card stock) horizontally approximately 1-inch from bottom edge of purple background.

4. Place the photograph centered vertically and slightly to the right.

5. Place son sticker onto layered tag and place in upper left corner of page.

Balance Page

The deep blue card stock in this layout balances off the left and right sides of the page.

Materials:

Memories Made Easy: South Beach colors
light blue card stock
Modular Squares or deep blue and lime green card stock
layered tag
Ransom sticker
beautiful adhesive photograph

1. Use the light blue card stock as your background paper.

2. Round the edges and adhere the 2-3/4" x 11-3/4" deep blue modular (or cut blue card stock) along the right edge of background paper.

3. Adhere the 2-3/4" x 11-3/4" green modular (or cut green card stock) 1/2-inch to the left of your blue strip.

4. Round the edges and adhere your 5-3/4" x 5-3/4" deep blue modular (or cut blue card stock) 3/4 inch from top and left side of background paper.

5. Round the edges and adhere the 2-3/4" x 5-3/4" deep blue modular (or cut blue card stock) 3/4 inch from bottom and left side of background paper.

6. Round the edges and adhere your photo 3/4 inch from top and left side of the deep blue 5-3/4" x 5-3/4" square.

7. Place the light blue layered tag over top of the 2-3/4" x 5-3/4" deep blue modular.

8. Journal with the ransom note stickers or hand journal on layered tag and along deep blue strip.

Balance in a Spread

All items in these pages have a coordinating item on the other page of the spread. These items balance each other.

Materials:

Memories Made Easy: South Beach colors
deep blue card stock
Modular Squares or
vellum pocket
adhesive
scissors
photograph

1. Use the two deep blue card stock sheets as your background papers.

2. Adhere a 5-3/4" x 11-3/4" light blue modular (or cut blue card stock) 2 inches up from bottom of both background papers.

3. Adhere a 2-1/4" x 5-3/4" piece of pale blue card stock above light blue strip.

4. Mat your three 4" x 6" photos with 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" black card stock. Two photos should be vertical and one should be horizontal.

5. Adhere one photo vertically to the bottom left corner of your page with the pale blue box. Adhere another photo horizontally next to the first.

6. Adhere final photo vertically to the other spread 1-1/2" from top and -3/4" for right side of page.

7. Cut a 1" x 2-1/2" and a 1" x 2" strip of pale blue. Tear one end off.

8. Adhere below photo from step 6.

9. Place vellum tag to the left of the photo from step 6.

10. Journal on pale blue papers.

GUESTS :

Lora Dobrowolski
Colorbok
Dexter, MI
Phone: 734-426-5300
Website: www.colorbok.com