Feb 2019 Blog Calendar

Feb 5 (due Fri 2/1): Stacia TUT/blog post SCHEDULED
Feb 12 (due Fri 2/8):Karen blog post SCHEDULED
Feb 15 (Challenge should be in forum 1/22): Rikki blog challenge
Feb 19 (due Fri 2/15): Geraldine Hybrid SCHEDULED
Feb 26 (due Fri 2/22): Jenn - Pretty Pages GSO

Thinking Outside the Square

Many years ago, I was a fully committed paper scrapper – and for the last 2 years of the wonderful messy world of paper, glue and ink, I converted to being an A4 scrapper. I found it quicker and easier to store and display finished pages. Once I came to the Dark Side (according to my paper scrapping friends anyway!) I went back to the more traditional 12x12.
Lately I have noticed more and more people going A4 – of course our own wonderfully talented scrappers Ga L and Marilyn both excel in making the most beautiful artistic rectangular pages!

Notice in the following examples - both by Ga_L, she is still following the rule of thirds, one vertically and one horizontally - as always, the eye is drawn to the focus of the pages. I also love her mastery of shadows to make the pages look 3 dimensional.






Now you may ask, what about using traditional 12x12 templates? Too easy  - Using Good Times - February’s BYOC templates from Mirjam, I simply excluded some layers, moved others to more suit the format and enlarged the photo mat a little. It allows you to add your own touch to a page, making it stand out a little from the pack!

The Original template set

I then superimposed my A4 layer onto the template and placed it where it took advantage of the design the most.


Lastly I took out the layers that didn’t suit the format, rearranged the other layers for a tighter grouping and went from there.


Eventually ending up with this – focussing on a photo of our neighbours beautiful blue-eyed cat.

Marilyn also adapted these templates -


It is also wonderful for using your special photos and adding a magazine feel to your page. This works well with travel photos. A large photo with a quote or word art and just a couple of carefully chosen highlight elements is all you need. For that clean and professional look, less is better! It looks like it should be simple but believe me – excluding elements is hard! This is certainly not a perfect example as I too am new to this game but it is a technique that I will come back to.




Give it a go, always fun to expand your horizons!

Great post Karen!

I'm late !!!!
I didn' see the date. sorry.
I'm going to my hybrid blog spot today

Last year, in January, I presentd you my digital project life album.
You could find the blog spot here : http://pinkreptiledesigns.blogspot.com/2018/01/getting-started-with-project-life-by.html

2018 is finished, so I printed my digital Project life album to have a printed book. I like to have a printed book, it's like a book of live on one year.
It will make great memories for my children when they grow up.

Some photos of my printed book :









I decided to begin another project life for 2019. I changed my format after several years with the same.
I was inspired by the MOc challenge and the notebook format.

Each page of my new project life is built as a notebook.
I used template from Scrapping with Liz.

Some examples for January :

Week n°1 :

I used Good times|papers and Good times|elements. The background is a paper from Naturelle|papers (My favorite paper pack)

Week n°2 :

I used Just like dad|papers and Just like dad|elements. I keep the same background paper to maintain harmony throughout my album.

I can't wait to see my complete project life album for 2019

Your 2018 PL book came out so lovely!!! Hooray for finishing it!

And I totally love your notebook style layout for the 2019 book! Beautiful post!

Thank Jenn !

Wow Géraldine!!!!

Thank Mirjam