Sometimes (okay, always) it seems like I take 10 photos when 1 would do! I do love my digital camera but it has left me with more photos than I know what to do with and I love them all, and that means I want to scrap them all!
Problem is, I am a sloooooow scrapper and sometimes I just want to get a lot of photos on one page to capture maybe the essence of a day out or a family event (Christmas is going to be a very good example) and have found a very quick, simple and effective formula for this.
The main rules I stick to are using a grid system, keeping the columns or rows of photos the same width, using minimal embellishments and only simple titles and, where possible, keeping the scale of the photos similar. If you stick to a least a couple of these then your photos will stand out and not just become a big jumble of images.
This page captures my garden for me this year (it was a BIG thing actually to have non-weed flowers growing in my garden!!) and although it took no time at all to piece together it really captures what I wanted to remember.
I have so many photos of our day trips to Kew, and I know I will never have the time to scrap all of them, so it is really nice to be able to capture some of my feelings quickly and effectively whilst the memories are still fresh. Here I also used one big photo in the strip across the middle but still managed to get 8 photos on the page.
This page captures the first year of my little boy's life, I love being able to see the whole year, although very simplified, on one page. I think I might try to do something similar for Christmas Day for each hour of the day we are awake! It will be fun to see a photo of the early calm with all the presents still intact under the tree, to the midday chaos of all the cooking and present unwrapping, to everyone taking a nap in front of the telly in the evening!
I hope you have been inspired to put together some of these simple pages, and I wish you all a very Happy Christmas indeed!
Charlotte x
These are fabulous, Charlotte - thank you for the inspiration! xxx
Posted by: Joanna | December 23, 2007 at 02:09 PM
Oh Charlotte hun, these LOs are lovely!!! Will be using them as inspiration when I scrap my Christmas photos :)
Posted by: caz | December 23, 2007 at 08:08 PM