Have scrapbooks replaced your diary? Rejoice…don\u2019t feel guilty.<\/p>\n
My parents bought me a hard-covered journal for Christmas when I was seven-years-old. I journaled almost everyday from that time until I was eighteen. With adulthood I outgrew the desire to keep it up. I no longer write in a journal or diary on a daily basis. I scrapbook. Scrapbooks probably paint a better picture of our lives than a journal, anyway. But what about all those thoughts and feelings that we normally record in those private books? I try to scrapbook those as well.<\/p>\n
Below is a layout that I created for our team challenge to create a page about ourselves. I decided to do it as a heavy journaling layout with the sort of content I would have normally record in a diary. I even wrote the date in the bottom right corner, just like I always did in my old journals. While my thoughts on this layout are personal, I have chosen to share these thoughts in our family album so my children have a better sense of my inner self – my struggles, my joys.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n
Supplies: Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 3 – Simply Spring<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 3 – Simply Spring<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Journals 3<\/a>, Faint Whispers Page Pak<\/a>, Miracle of Birth Pak<\/a> (calendar stamp) Use a self-portrait layered over a textured paper to create a unique effect. Experiment with the Layers mode in Photoshop, using options such as Overlay, Soft Light and Multiply on multiple layers of the same image to create interesting blending techniques. I blended mine into the soft script background paper using the soft light layer blend mode.<\/p>\n
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