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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
-Liz
Week 42: Pumpkinfest, Fall Festival....
-Liz
2015 Week 41: It'sFall & Some Extra Pages!
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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
I wasn't sure about using a fall-colored kit for my weekly page (since my photos aren't all fall-themed), but I think it worked really nicely with the photos I had. Plus when I flip through my finished album I'll instantly know these photos must be from October. Don't you just love the fall colors?
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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
Here's the journaling I have on my page.
A few pictures of our co-op corn maze trip & some sightseeing photos.
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| My Life Templates 11 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
- Nana and Grandpa Ralph came for a visit this week. We took them to Wayah Bald and up the Highlands Road to see all the waterfalls.
- We took a trip to the corn maze with our co-op group.
- Ashlyn had her last Volleyball game.
- Matthew climbed to the top of the rope in gymnastics and drew some awesome pics!
- We got the final inspection on our house! (no pics)
Before y'all leave I'll share another 2 pages I scrapped this week. This is for my mom's 2016 Calendar page. Only 2 more pages to go and I'll be able to print her calendar. This has been the best project and hopefully a great gift. I can't wait to see what it looks like printed out.
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| 2016 Calendar Template 10 by Scrapping with Liz Everyday Life October by Juno Designs |
And here's one more for Matthew's album. My scrapping has been pretty limited lately since we are trying to finish our house and move in. Every spare minute has been spent working on that, but sometimes you just have to take a break and scrap a fun page. That's what this was.
-Liz
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| Big Photo Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz Starting Fresh by Red Ivy Designs |
-Liz
2015 Week 40: All Over the Place
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
- We celebrated Katie’s b-day at the Factory.
- Kyla got to ride with Grandpa to the rock quarry to get rock for our driveway.
- We may have a new kitten already living at the new house.
- The kitchen is coming together.
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
- How did this happen? All 5 kids just happened to be sitting together & I snapped this picture.
- Playing at the new park while Ashlyn is at her piano lessons.
- At the Library. Can't wait to get home to read the new book she picked out.
- Being goofy at Lowe's....we've been here way too much this week.
-Liz
Week 39: A Shower, Gymnastics, Sickness & More
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
I'm just going to share the journaling from each page for today's blog post. It tells the story anyway.
Left Page: Josh putting in some special woodwork on the new house. Emmie holding Daisy. What we found when we came home from a date.
Right Page: This week was filled to the brim. I hosted a baby shower for my sister. We had open gym at gymnastics. We had a stomach bug. And all of this along with our regular school work, speech and AV therapies, and working on the new house.
A little note about the pics above.
Top left: Lydia always puts our hands together while we are sitting in church. It makes her so happy.
Middle: Matthew after speech therapy. He gets to play with the trains afterward, it makes him happy.
Top right: Ashlyn getting the littles brkfst after I was up all night with Kyla. Having a teenager has its perks.
What a week. I'm excited to see what next week will hold. Hopefully no illness!
-Liz
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
A little note about the pics above.
Top left: Lydia always puts our hands together while we are sitting in church. It makes her so happy.
Middle: Matthew after speech therapy. He gets to play with the trains afterward, it makes him happy.
Top right: Ashlyn getting the littles brkfst after I was up all night with Kyla. Having a teenager has its perks.
What a week. I'm excited to see what next week will hold. Hopefully no illness!
-Liz
ALL CAPS
Hi, it's Tiffany here, and I have an inspirational technique post for you. It's all about titles.
Liz is one of my favorite scrappers. Her pages are embellished but clean. She picks kits that complement her photos. And one of the things I've noticed lately is that she often uses all capital letters in her titles - both in her pages and in her templates.
Using all caps does not come naturally to me, which is why I noticed the trend in her templates. I asked Liz if she uses any guidelines for her title work. She admitted that she doesn't put much conscious thought into it but goes with what looks the most pleasing. However, we both looked through her templates and found some patterns, and I think they are great guidelines for title work.
Capital letters have straight lines and line up easily. They work well with page designs that also have strong lines. Here are two examples from Recyclables 40. Both pages have strong angled lines and the titles line up with the arrows.
Lowercase letters have a lot of curve and flow. They work well with page designs that have a lot of curves, or are more playful and clustered. Here are two examples from Recyclables 28. When I looked through all of Liz's templates, I noticed that in templates with strong circular elements, she almost always uses lowercase titles.
Uppercase Letters are thick and bold. They work well when you want a title to stand out or provide a strong textual element to your page. Here are two examples from Recyclables 41. In both templates, the title work plays a strong visual role in the design and is the first element that draws my eye.
Lowercase letters, with their thinner size, will not compete with your photos. They can work well with large photo designs or pages with several blocked photos. Here are two examples from Keepin' It Real Double Templates.
These guidelines for using uppercase and lowercase titles are not hard and fast rules that you always have to follow. I think they give us some ideas about how titles work with the rest of a page. Sometimes we want our titles to be bold and stand out. Sometimes we will want our titles to take a lesser role so the photos are the star. And of course, if you are working with alphas instead of fonts, you might be limited in what is available.
I want to leave you with some eye candy - that is, some of Liz's pages using uppercase and lowercase titles. First, here is a page with several blocked photos, which definitely are the focus of the page. The lowercase title stands out in the corner with its contrasting colorwork, but it doesn't distract from the photos.
The following page uses an Artsy Journal template. Those designs are usually very playful and random, but this particular one has several photos in rows on the right-hand side. The photos make for strong lines, and the all caps title work emphasizes those lines.
Here is a page with a bold wavy line across the page, and the lowercase title work nicely flows along that curved edge.
This page uses a bold uppercase title which quickly, and efficiently, tells you the topic of the page.
Keep these ideas in mind the next time you want to build a title that works well with your page design. Happy scrapping!
Liz is one of my favorite scrappers. Her pages are embellished but clean. She picks kits that complement her photos. And one of the things I've noticed lately is that she often uses all capital letters in her titles - both in her pages and in her templates.
Using all caps does not come naturally to me, which is why I noticed the trend in her templates. I asked Liz if she uses any guidelines for her title work. She admitted that she doesn't put much conscious thought into it but goes with what looks the most pleasing. However, we both looked through her templates and found some patterns, and I think they are great guidelines for title work.
Capital letters have straight lines and line up easily. They work well with page designs that also have strong lines. Here are two examples from Recyclables 40. Both pages have strong angled lines and the titles line up with the arrows.
Lowercase letters have a lot of curve and flow. They work well with page designs that have a lot of curves, or are more playful and clustered. Here are two examples from Recyclables 28. When I looked through all of Liz's templates, I noticed that in templates with strong circular elements, she almost always uses lowercase titles.
Uppercase Letters are thick and bold. They work well when you want a title to stand out or provide a strong textual element to your page. Here are two examples from Recyclables 41. In both templates, the title work plays a strong visual role in the design and is the first element that draws my eye.
Lowercase letters, with their thinner size, will not compete with your photos. They can work well with large photo designs or pages with several blocked photos. Here are two examples from Keepin' It Real Double Templates.
These guidelines for using uppercase and lowercase titles are not hard and fast rules that you always have to follow. I think they give us some ideas about how titles work with the rest of a page. Sometimes we want our titles to be bold and stand out. Sometimes we will want our titles to take a lesser role so the photos are the star. And of course, if you are working with alphas instead of fonts, you might be limited in what is available.
I want to leave you with some eye candy - that is, some of Liz's pages using uppercase and lowercase titles. First, here is a page with several blocked photos, which definitely are the focus of the page. The lowercase title stands out in the corner with its contrasting colorwork, but it doesn't distract from the photos.
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| Simple Journal Card Inspired Templates 1 by Scrapping with Liz Chinese Takeout by mle Card |
The following page uses an Artsy Journal template. Those designs are usually very playful and random, but this particular one has several photos in rows on the right-hand side. The photos make for strong lines, and the all caps title work emphasizes those lines.
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| Artsy Journal Templates 4 by Scrapping with Liz Merry and Bright by Bella Gypsy |
Here is a page with a bold wavy line across the page, and the lowercase title work nicely flows along that curved edge.
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| Wavy Templates 1 by Scrapping with Liz Storytime by Kristin Aagard |
This page uses a bold uppercase title which quickly, and efficiently, tells you the topic of the page.
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| Recyclables 27 by Scrapping with Liz All Organic by Sugary Fancy Designs |
Keep these ideas in mind the next time you want to build a title that works well with your page design. Happy scrapping!
2015 Week 38: Pretty Normal
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
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| Everyday Life September '15 by Juno Designs My Life Templates 10 by Scrapping with Liz |
-Liz
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