Now and then | Maria La Chica | Sketch

Hello everyone and welcome once again to UK Scrap Addicts!  Maria here with you today, sharing a layout that was not easy...  Sometimes even the most seasoned scrapper struggles, so this one was one those layouts that started as one thing and ended as something completely different!

For this layout I wanted to use Susan's double page sketch, however, I had this idea in my head to make it work as a single page layout.  So with a certain degree of "artistic license", I have interpreted it a bit and I think in the end you can still see where I got the inspiration from.  In fact, I think my second layout is actually more similar to the sketch than my first layout was!

That is the beauty of sketches.  You can do pretty much anything with them.  They are a great starting point and you can follow them as loosely or closely as you want!

So here is my finished layout and the sketch it was based on:

So let me tell you a story. I don't believe in ghosts or supernatural beings, however, I believe there was some sort of entity preventing me from creating this layout. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. First, my cut file didn't cut well (my fault, I know), then I managed to stick some paper all crooked, and finally, I just wasn't happy at all with how it was looking... So I decided to start all over, but the problems didn't stop there! I accidentally put glue on top of one of my photos, and when I went to reprint it, my printer had run out of black ink! So the photo is not looking great, I will have to reprint it in the future... Oh, and I also had problems with the editing of the video! As I said, maybe it wasn't meant to be.

Anyway... I still managed to pull the layout through, I think :)

A few more closeups of my layout:

And here is my video. I hope you don't laugh too much at my struggles (I won't blame you if you do, I laugh at myself too!) and really wish you are inspired to create with this sketch!

Read you soon!

Pics, Pics & More Pics | Scrapbook Bex | Multiple Photos

Hey Scrappers!!  Scrapbook Bex here today to share with you my layout for the theme of multiple photos.

For this challenge I decided to use two photos very slightly trimmed down from 6x4".

I have gotten out of the habit of using multiple photos on layouts as the trend has seemed to be on single photo pages. It was nice to revisit this process.

I wanted to show that multi photo pages don't have to mean lots of smaller photos, that larger photos in a more regular print size work just as well.

I hope you'll visit our YouTube channel to see a process video showing how this layout came together.

Until next time,

Scrapbook Bex

One Crazy Bunch | Jackie Ashton | Multiple Photos

Hi, Jackie here for my first blog post for this site.  The theme this month was to use multiple photographs on a single layout, and I knew just which ones I was going to use.

I recently went on a craft retreat with some of my crafting friends, and to start our fun weekend off, we met for lunch and some shopping and of course we had to take a couple of silly selfies or two, and which as you can see from the photographs was hilarious, but we ended up with these fun photographs which just had to be scrapped.

I used Simple Stories - Emoji Love collection, which was just perfect for these fun selfies.

The collection is a fun and very easy to adapt for all types of photographs and has a large selection of chipboard, word stickers and phrases that captured the fun in the photographs.

I made the photo strip by printing the photos size 2 inch by 1.5 inches, which I printed on my Selphy, printing 4 on a 6x4 photo print.  Then I cut them into 4 and struck them onto white cardstock to represent a photo strip.  These I then layered on several strips of patterned papers.

The main photograph is printed as a 4x4 square and layered on a piece of patterned paper, which I then 3D mounted before adding it to the right-hand side of the background paper.

I added some of the chipboard phases to the top and bottom of the photo-strip, as well as some word and phrases stickers.

To add some more detail and texture, I machined stitched over the title, which not only held the letters in place but it just added an extra detail to the page.

I finished the layout by adding some enamel dots and flair badges that I had in the stash.

I hope you get some inspiration from my layout on adding multiple photographs to your scrapbooking pages.

Week 9 I Sarah Toward I Multi-Photo Layout

Hi there.

I'm super excited to be here with you today to share my take on a Multi-Photo layout.  To be fair I've got it easy as I'm a Pocket Page scrapper which by nature is all about multi photos.  But I want to share with you how I squeeze in as many photos as possible, only using one page protector.

One way I include more photos is to do photo collages.  I usually do these using the PicFrame app on my iPhone and use my Canon Selphy to print them out.  You can see that I've used photo collages for four of the photos on my Week 9 pocket page layout.  However one of the days this week was a particularly busy one and I took far too many photographs and couldn't choose just one to use.

Step in my Photo Fuse Tool, and two 4x6" photo collages. 

The Fuse tool allows you to adhere a clear photo sleeve to your page protector and enables you to insert more photos onto your layout.  

The extra pocket has enabled me to fit two extra photo collages in and I have been able to use more photos from a very photo heavy day without missing any out.

Of course if you haven't got a Fuse Tool and sleeves you could always attach a photo with a bit of washi-tape on the top edge acting as a hinge. 

For my Week 9 pocket page layout I used papers from the Crate Paper, Chasing Dreams collection, some puffy stickers from Paperchase, alpha stickers from Hobby Craft and created some extra embellishments on my Silhouette Portrait.  Anything else has been dug out of my stash.

Pocket Page scrapping really is my favourite way of memory keeping.  I hope that I have given you some ideas for including even more photos in your Pocket Pages.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and checking out my first Creative Team post.  Please keep coming back to see what this wonderful UK scrap team are up to.

Hugs

Sarah xoxo

Pamper & Plan I Michelle Mills I Multiple Photo Layout

Hello my lovelies, where do I start?  First of all, I am so excited to be here and part of this team, I have only been scrapbooking for a year or so and I wish that UK Scrap Addicts had been around when I started.

For this months layout, Multiple Photos, I used some pictures from a recent event that I hosted which I wanted to document and a recent Studio Calico kit.  My focal point was that lovely emerald green which appears on the main backing paper and that I highlighted by framing the photos with. 

I must admit that for multi-photo layouts I usually pop them in a pocket page layout but this was so much fun that I will definitely try it again.  I love to use mixed media, so to break up the white space and inject a bit of that lush green I used a stamp pad and some bubble wrap to create a pattern on the 12x12 cardstock before placing my designer papers. Then, by cutting up the journaling cards from the same kit as the papers, I balanced the top and bottom layers out.

You can watch the process video HERE!

Crazy Hair | Sheena Rowlands | Multiple photos

Hi there x  I'm Sheena & I'm thrilled to be sharing with you today my first post on the UK Scrap Addicts blog featuring multiple photographs.

Honestly when I scrapbook I tend to use 1 or 2 photos on a page, max. So to use multiple photos I chose to print them smaller as not to overpower the layout, using the 4 up option on my Canon Selphy printer. I chose photos which together tell a story I thought was worth recording  These 4 photos were all adhered to white cardstock to give them a photo strip appearance.

Why do I even Bother!!

When I create, my first focus is usually the photographs then I'm guided by the colours as to what ranges and papers I choose. I've used mainly Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes papers across her ranges in this design.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to design and cut my title out of the cardstock. Then I gave my white cardstock a mini mixed media treatment with a little texture paste and light pink watercolour paint first, before finding patterned papers to layer behind my title and photograph.

I created 2 main clusters of embellishments either end of the photo strip adding curved and circular elements  to add to the feeling of the wind blowing my hair. I also added sewing thread to these groups to echo the messy hair feel.

My title was completed with letter stickers & a stamped word before adding a little journalling to finish the page off.

Many thanks for stopping by.

Sheena x

Sights Of Winchester | Sarah (Lottie Loves Paper) | Multiple Photos

Hello everyone!

It's Sarah here today with my first blog post for UK Scrap Addicts and there's a process video over on YouTube as well. I hope you are enjoying the posts and videos from the UKSA Creative Team.

As I am sure you know by now, our theme this month is "Multiple Photos" so I got busy printing off some photos on my Canon Selphy. I had loads of photos taken on a weekend away in Winchester so a layout with multiple photos was perfect for getting some of them into my album.

I used the new Simple Stories collection, "Say Cheese 3" and picked out a 12 x 12 paper with an arrows design, from an older Simple Stories collection to use for my background.

Using a few papers from the 6" x 8" Say Cheese 3 paper pad I layered up patterned papers to create a mat for my four photos to lay on and added some of the gorgeous camera washi tape to "anchor" the photos. The two middle photos are raised up on foam to give added dimension to my layout.

When I'm scrapping with more than two photos I often slightly overlap the edges as I find it easier on the eye - it's almost as if we see multiple photos as one large photo rather than separate photos.

I kept my embellishments quite simple as the papers are busy patterns, just adding some clear stickers to each of the photos and using a few stickers and buttons to create three areas of embellishment.

The day I made this layout I had just purchased a really cute, little camera die, so I quickly put it to use, and added it to one of the embellishment clusters.

You can see how the whole layout came together in a process video over on YouTube

Thanks for visiting today!

Castell Caerfilli | Susan | multiple photos

 

Good morning and welcome to my first post as a proud member of the UK Scrap Addicts design team. When I saw our topic for this month my first thought was, ‘Oh no!’ because I almost always scrap with one photo, or two at the most. I think the trick with using lots of photos is to arrange the page so it doesn’t look crowded – I really don’t want the ‘get all my photos on, come hell or high water, look’! So I rapidly put myself back into my comfort zone and drew a sketch!

Sometimes my sketches are literally a quick doodle on a scrap of paper – how you do it isn’t important – as long as it gets you past that paper shuffling stage it’s done its job

 


I adore these papers from the Fancy Pants, Golden Days
collection available at UK store, Hey Little Magpie. All the matching bits and bobs make the page hang together so well.

The gold alphas I have used are cheapies from Hobbycraft. They are very pretty but the sticky back does peel off so I keep them in place with wet glue.

That’s it from me; come back tomorrow for another DT post – you won’t regret your visit.

Happy Scrapping

Blogger @ Me & Mine, http://miniowner.blogspot.co.uk/

We are Family | Kirsteen | Multiple Photos

Hello, it's Kirsteen here with my first UK Scrap Addicts blog post. Today I'm sharing a quick home decor project with you using multiple photos.

I set out to create a home decor project for my Mother-in-law including photos of her six Grandchildren.

Inspired by Beth's Totes Aborbs layout I decided to create two 12x12 layouts with three photos on each page. I selected six photos, cropped and converted them to black and white (the top left photo is far too dark - lesson learned - make sure your photos don't need to be lightened before printing). I ordered six 4x4 prints from Truprint last and they arrived in two days.

I placed three boys on one page and three girls on the other. They are arranged by age in a clockwise order as well.

After much faffing with a steel rule, I was happy with the placement of the photos. I might have just been unlucky but my 4x4 prints from Truprint weren't quite 4x4 more 4x {just a little bit smaller than} 4 which made placing them on the page a little tricky.

I added two 4x4 cards from a Simple Stories Family Sn@p Pack (I trimmed them down to match the slightly wonky photo sizes) and some of the die cut pieces from the Sn@p Pack using foam pads. I picked up the Sn@p Pack in my local TK Maxx for a bargain £2.99. I purposely didn't add too many embellishments as I wanted the photos to be the main focus. I layed some of the die cut pieces to give a little depth and a little embellishment in three clusters across the two pages.

I framed the pages in two white Ribba Frames from Ikea (they are £9 each). This is the trickiest part, anyone who has tried to frame a 12x12 layout in one of these frames will feel my pain.

I hope you've enjoyed my quick home decor project today, thanks for stopping by.