Choosing the right colors!

Using the right color to mat is very important!  I used red for this page because the first thing I wanted your eye to be drawn to is Sarah.  She is wearing red in three of these pictures.  Having red in each of the four corners pulls the eye right to the center item that is red.  I used triangles behind the three corners, then used a red square for my journaling in the upper corner.  I wrote on the red with a milky gel roler which shows upwell on dark paper.

When I first started cropping I made this page.  As I learned more about cropping and page layouts I decided I really didn't like this page.  I tried to make an abbreviation of an entire year on one page by dividing the page using just a pretty line and by overlapping pictures in each section.  Each of these sections could easily make a page even with only one or two pictures.  Some fun stickers, die cuts, and plenty of journaling can fill in a page nicely.

 Memory Makers Magazine

This is one of the premier scrapbooking magazines.  Every issue has a new theme, with pages sent in by real people. New techniques and products are featured every time.  These idea pages are also themed, and a call does go out periodically for type x y or z pages. Of special interest are the ads (to show the latest and greatest), the local events page, and the yearly index of pages. It also includes an area for children and teens who scrap .

Scrapbooking with Memory Makers