| By :
Michel Maling
When you scrapbook, remember that you can keep some of your layouts simple and clean. Every now and again a simple and uncluttered layout in your album can be very effective. Every now and then it can be quite effective to have a simple, not too busy design that lets your photographs do the talking, instead of all the embellishments taking up all your focal attention. One of my most effective layouts was one I created in about fifteen minutes. I had some beautiful photographs of a close friend standing in front of a body of water. There were three photo's with her looking out over the lake from different angles. The reflections from the lake came out on the photograph bright blue in color and it was almost as if she were standing by a large swimming pool. I had been dying to scrapbook these for actually ages, but wasn't quite sure how I could show them off to their full advantage. Luckily the photos all had the same blue from the water as a background color, and her costume was in a darker blue, which made choosing my background paper a breeze.. First I found some plain turquoise paper to use as a background, which brought out the colors in the photographs to perfection. Once I had planned my layout, I put my photographs directly onto the turquoise paper without matting them first. I put them quite close together and they took up most of the centre of my layout, leaving a lot of blue showing around the edges of the page. I then took the color red, as it brought out the color of the towel that she was holding and cut out letters from red cardboard for my title. The letters were cut out at quite a big size so they really stood out on the page and some of them overlapped the photo's. My embellishments consisted of two simple circles cut out in in different shades of blue in different sizes and I attached them with a blue brad and a had a short piece of red ribbon sticking out at the top of each circle. The page looked stunning and it was so quick and easy to put together. Amost everyone who pages through my album comments how beautiful that particular page looks.
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