Ok Scrapbookers, True Confession here. I'm a bit tired of that old Die Cuts With a View Stack. I still like it, but I'm thinking its about time to put it away for a while until it feels new to me again. But before I do, I'm committed to completing the 24 layouts. This is #21 and I used the yellow-green paper as a base cardstock page, the weight of the paper is very nice, it is cardstock weight so you can use it for a solid base for your page. What has been exiting me lately is the concept of "full bleed" so the photo strip in this layout is full bleed - meaning going to the edge of the page - or at least that's how I'm defining this concept for my scrapbooking purposes and play.
So I think a strip of photos that show a series is a great way to accomplish full bleed, my more favorite is a huge photo on 2/3 of the page or on one page of a 2 page layout. In order to get the huge photo, since I prefer to send my prints out to printing at home, I'll have to do a bit of pre-planning to accomplish this. This morning I did picked two photos from yesterday - I took these after we got home from the mall. She is seriously proud of the hat and the suspenders btw & I picked out that shirt but it was the only thing I picked out that she liked.
Let me say we almost never go to the mall - like its been years - so it was a nice little happy experience for me and my daugther. She had a rough day with her friends at school and it reminded me of that Taylor Swift song "The Best Day" (which my daughter and I love) and the song lyrics tell the story of how when she was young and kids were mean, her mom would drive her to another town and they'd go window shopping and she'd forget all about those mean kids. So the mall trip was an intentional memory / quality time kind of experience that I wanted to create and it was awesome.
So I'm planing to print up these two photos for the purpose of some full bleed layouts.
Later, when we got home, I inadvertently hurt my daughter's feelings - I was thinking about this when I was listening to Nancy Nally & Noell Hyman's Paperclipping Roundtable podcast, you can listen to it for free by clicking here - This week's show is about school scrapbooking.
I left this comment over at Paperclipping:
On the topic of whether your kids will care about your scrapbooks:
My experience with this: I recently inadvertently offended / hurt the feeling of each of my kids: {1. I was talking to my sister about my son and saying oh he's always on the computer lately..., I was talking while my kids were swimming in the pool and I didn't think they could even hear me and I wasn't saying anything offensive but my son made a bee line out of the pool and came over soaking wet and told me not to tell people how he was! 2. Last night after taking my daughter for some retail therapy - something we don't normally do but she was thrilled about - when we got home we watched the Simpsons and Lisa & Marge were shopping & Lisa didn't like anything Marge was picking out - and I said - oh that's just like us at the mall! } Maybe my kids are just a bit dramatic, but the thing I noticed both times is that they don't like for me to make sweeping statements about how they are. Maybe its an age thing. I hope so.
My concern: My scrapbooks are full of layouts where I make sweeping statements about how they are, what they are like, etc. I seriously hope that someday they will LIKE them and not be offended by them! I know I've inadvertently offended members of my extended family with scrapbook layouts, not because I wrote anything negative, but because they didn't like the way they looked in a photo or because I put it on my blog (I've stopped that btw). I betcha I'm not the only one who does this sort of thing.
Show Topic Idea: (maybe?) How not to inadvertently offend people with well meaning scrapbooking. and/or The effect of your scrapbooking on your own life and that of your family & friends. - Maybe Stephanie Medley Rath would have some insightful things to say about this.
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