Today’s post will also be in the line for beginners of digital scrapbooking and people who are thinking about getting started.
Last month we used a digital template to create a layout. Now we want to take inspiration from the January sketch by Misty Murphy.
Check here to see, what our awesome design team did with it using paper and glue and all the goof stuff.
It is not that different to use a sketch as inspiration for paper or for digi scrapping!
Unlike digital templates, we don’t have any premade frames, photo spots and the like today. Just the Inspiration of the page idea, so let’s get started!
I decided to stay with the Christmas theme, so I searched my digi stash for some Christmas tree ornaments. I found these from nbk Design I wanted to use for some time now. So this page starts with a product choice and I go from there.
After searching through past years Christmas pictures I finally remembered a project I wanted to do when I got some old photo albums from my family. And this is just perfect with those Ornaments! I am so glad I remembered!
So I dug out my mother’s old photo albums and choose some of the oldest Christmas pictures I found in there to start my project. She must have been about seven years old in the first one from 1968. It is so funny, I looked so much like her at that age.
After throwing some baubles on the page, the next step is inserting the pictures. I choose one photo of the old album page to go with the idea of the sketch with its vertical photo spots but I needed more than two pictures total to cover the years I wanted to. In general I deal with the suggested number of photos in a sketch very flexibly so this guideline wouldn’t limit my creative process.
Now I need a background paper! We will see if it will last ’til the end, but I need something to work with here. This is the nice thing about digi scrapping you can change everything and anything at any point in your process!
And at least the vertical picture needs some kind of frame. Otherwise it looks kind of lost on the page. I chose a vintage photo frame by Lynn Grieveson.
The smaller photos already have a real photo frame but these don’t look that good on the digi page and don’t really match the frame of the bigger photo now. So I decided for the vintage frames for all of the pictures.
I love these vintage frames by Lynn Grieveson, they are so versatile and fit most of my pages. Definitely my go to-frames!
Now it’s time to arrange the pictures and the ornaments. I liked to stay quite close to the sketch with those ornaments.
I want to look the baubles more like they were hanging but just sitting on the page. So I cut the little hangers from the free floating ones and replaced them with a piece of thread from a tag.
I found my new hanger in this awesome collection of date tags by Kim Jensen. This kit offers so many variations and possible combinations! And a lot of different fasteners come with it, too.
Now some fine tuning. I added a simple drop shadow from the fx menu to the vertical photo.
If you want a simple drop shadow on multiple photos you can just copy it. It makes sense to have the same adjusments because the light would be the same on all photos on the page.
Now the title! I new from the beginning what the title should be, it was part of the project idea. I have loved the “Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens since my childhood. So what better title for my and my Mum’s Christmas past? And looking at these places in the pictures brings a lot of mixed feelings and memories. So the ‘ghost’ part of the title also fits quite well. And I adjusted the photos a little bit to fit the title in. Well, I always and up with an angle in my photo placement… 😉
It needed some time ’til I found a matching font, I chose “Fredericka the Great” by Tart Workshop (Public domain, GPL, OFL).
I tried some more background papers and decided to keep that first one from The Quiet Life by Lynn Grieveson. I adjusted the colour a little to give it a bit of a warmer feel.
So, what about some final touches? I didn’t want a ton of decoration and elements on this page but of course there are some highlights needed! I chose some mixed media elements from this awesome kit by Just Jaimee and Studio Basic to add to the edges and behind the photos.
So here is my final page!
I hope I could give you a little impression of my digi scrapping process and some ideas if you are thinking about the digi fun or just started with it.
I am very happy that this sketch inspired me to start my past Christmas project and I hope to add some pages to it during the upcoming “LayOut A Day”-Challenge in February here at ScrapHappy !