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'clean' layout with lots of good pictures

25 years ago

I like this scrap-book concept, but most of the pages I've seen have as much or more "fluff" than pictures. I have TONS of pictures from a very good 35mm camera. My scrapbook would be a thousand pages if I spead out the images the way most people seem to do in their scrapbooks.

Does anyone have any suggestions/links for layouts with more PICTURES and fewer stickers/borders/fillers??

Thanks!

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Comments (6)

Chrisssy
25 years ago
I'm interested in that too- I take a lot of pictures. Besides that, unless it is a GREAT picture, I want more than one picture per page!

I have seen a few good layouts on dmarie, but you really have to sort through everything else first!

Here is a link that might be useful: dmarie
Rebecca
25 years ago
I can appreciate all of your comments. I have seen many pages filled with more embellishments and less pics. I scrapbook with more pics and less embellishments. I usually average 3-4 pics or more on a page. It can be done and it looks really nice as well. It is a matter of personal taste. I pick background paper that will compliment the pics, matte them if I like and then place them on a page. I do make sure there is room for journaling because I think that is also as important.

Not many people post layouts with more than 2 pics on a page because I think that is what most people expect. I do my books how I like and don't worry about what is the "norm".

I hope this helps. I always try to remember that the focus are the pictures and not get too caught up in decorations.

Rebecca
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Michelle
Original Author
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Well, I guess we'll just have to share our "Spartan" pages with each other! Up to this point, most of my pages are simply pictures. But I would like to do more journaling and just spice them up a bit.
Karen
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I love the creative pages that can be seen on the web. When I look at them, I think how much time the person must have spent on them. I am working on a project that has a deadline and I don't have much time to embellish. I am combining two journals (DH and daughter's)together with photos from a boat trip they took last summer. I discovered that I can fullfill my creative need and get the job done by creating a border on the outside edge of a two page spread, and place up to 6-7 photos, depending on whether you crop them or not. This pulls the pages together. Some pages have Their journal entries and 1-3 photos. I came up with this idea by looking at layouts. Check out a few layouts and see what jumps out at you.
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There is a book called "Simple Scrapbooks" that addresses that need. It's fairly new and I think would help. I didn't look at it very carefully when I was looking through it because I was looking at lettering rather ideas books at the time, but I remember there was more emphasis on the pics than the decorations. The goal is to get more pages done in a shorter time and the style is much more simple. HTH. Happy scrappin'!
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Ok- I don't know why I am having trouble posting. There is a club on yahoo called Scrapbooking for Adults. It has a lot of clean non cutesy layouts. I tried to post the link, but it keeps sending me to disney! I guess you can search for it!
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