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20080627 Friday June 27, 2008

Flickr Friday

A taste of summer

This week's Flickr Friday inspiration comes from Flickr user *Peanut -- also known as Lauren. Her photostream is filled with beautiful images but she still considers herself a beginner -- which makes her photos even more interesting to view each day. Definitely someone to check out for inspiration with beautiful colours and compositions even when working with objects in and around the home.

This week you're on your own as we'd love to see how you take inspiration from this picture. Send us your pages inspired by this lovely photo for a chance to appear in a future issue of Scrapbook Inspirations!

Here's one layout we were excited to receive in response to a Flickr Friday post -- reader Amanda Jones was inspired to break out her butterfly punch after last Friday's photograph!

Amanda's layout

So what will inspire you this weekend -- the colours, the strawberry subjects, the placement to the left of the photoframe? Can't wait to see!


Morag Cutts' journaling cards from July issue of ScrapBook inspirations

If you want to make your own speedy scrapbook as Morag Cutts showed in the July issue of ScrapBook inspirations you can download blank journaling cards to get you started.

Morag has created 10 colour cards which you can print out at 4x6in - perfect for traditional photo albums.

Arrow
Celebrate 1
Celebrate 2
Holiday
Journaling card 1
Journaling card 2
Journaling card 3
Journaling card 4
Journaling card 5
Journaling card 6

Don't forget to drop us a line and let us know how you used the cards. Or maybe you've been inspired to create your own? You can email us at scrapbookinspirations@futurenet.co.uk.

You can see Morag's album, layouts and memorabilia book that she created to record a holiday to America in the July issue of ScrapBook inspirations, on sale now!


Claire Malvern's envelope templates from July issue of ScrapBook inspirations

In the July issue of ScrapBook inspirations Claire Malvern shared her ideas for decorative envelopes to send to family and friends.

If you'd like to have a go at making your own you can download three envelope templates:

Envelope 1 (square)
Envelope 2 (rectangle)
Envelope 3 (slip)

The templates are all A4 so you can either print them out onto cardstock, or print onto paper and use as a template to make envelopes from 12x12in sheets. We'd love to see how you use them, so email us at scrapbookinspirations@futurenet.co.uk and show us your decorated envelopes.

Make sure you check out the full article in the July issue - on sale now!


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20080623 Monday June 23, 2008

July issue of ScrapBook inspirations on sale 26th June!

The July issue (42) of ScrapBook inspirations goes on sale Thursday, 26th June

In this issue you'll find...
* Our scrap spaces go through the keyhole with the Design Team
* Everyday photography be inspired to photograph your life and home
* A good post day make someone's day by sending them a decorated envelope!
* Hybrid scrapbooking everything you need to know to get started
* Your designs a reader gallery of action layouts and pages with creative text or titles
* And drumroll please... the launch of Best of British Scrapbooking 2008!


20080620 Friday June 20, 2008

Flickr Friday

Metamorphosis

This week's Flickr inspiration comes from Fiona Watson -- or Wild Goose Chase on Flickr. Her photostream is filled with beautiful still life works, carefully constructed from a variety of bits and pieces that she brings together just perfectly. Fiona is also a talented portrait artist -- you can see more of her work here.

I love this photo, which she calls Metamorphosis. I thought the underlying clean lines, the high contrast of the colours and the silhouetted shapes would make it easy to translate into a scrapbook page. But not so much:

notes from a walk through westminster

I tried cutting butterflies and birds but had no luck with them looking delicate like Fiona's, so went for a scrapbook staple in the scallop punches. This isn't a composition I would normally create and I'm not sure that it's totally finished, but that's the point of Flickr Fridays: to bring an element of inspiration to try something new. You never know...it may grow on me.

But now you have the chance to show me up and create a masterpiece using Fiona's photo as a point of inspiration. Be sure to send us your Flickr Friday pages -- yours could be featured on the pages of Scrapbook Inspirations.

Have a fabulously scrappy weekend!


20080613 Friday June 13, 2008

Flickr Friday

Shoes by Amanda

Something new for Fridays on the blog: Flickr Photo Inspiration! Every Flickr Friday, we'll pick a photo to inspire your scrapbooking over the weekend. Use it as inspiration for your own photography by trying a new angle, different lighting or emulate the pose and scenery...or use it to inspire a layout, taking influence from the colours and design elements you see within its 4x6 glory.

This week's photo is from talented Flickr member Amanda Keeys, an Australian photographer with a photostream filled with soft, beautiful images of children in adorable outfits. For more from Amanda, check out her Etsy shop, her blog and her Photoshop actions. All full of loveliness!

Here's our first take for Flickr Fridays -- can you spot the inspiration taken from the photo?

travelling fair

Now it's your turn: use Amanda's photo to inspire your creative efforts this weekend and let us see the results! You never know when your Flickr-Friday-Inspired project might grace the pages of Scrapbook Inspirations!


20080611 Wednesday June 11, 2008

Congratulations Rosemary

Following on from my last post about the People Imagery workshop, the winner of the Assistant is Rosemary! A very big congratulations from a fellow Rosemary, and also to the runners up, Dawn and Kerry. Such inspirational pictures and a little birdy tells me you're all ScrapBook inspirations peeps too, so it's fab to see what talented readers we have!


20080527 Tuesday May 27, 2008

Matching colours to photos

Inspired by Carina's Colour play post I've been tinkering with this online colour palette generator. You provide a link to an image online (I used my own that I keep on Flickr, but you could link to any image you like online) and the website analyses the colours in the image and spits out two palettes, one dull and one vibrant. It's designed for website building, but it's a fun tool for matching colours to photos for scrapbooking.

Below are my test photos with the palettes they generated - some are quite obvious, but others aren't what I expected.


20080523 Friday May 23, 2008

June issue of Scrapbook Inspirations on sale 28th May

The June issue (41) of ScrapBook inspirations goes on sale next Wednesday, 28th May

In this issue you'll find...
* Celebrate your men masses manly layouts in honour of Father's Day!
* Seaside photography creative ways to snap your holidays
* Your designs our most colourful reader gallery ever!
* Glitter galore easy ways to add sparkle and shine
* Get shirty mini book Shirley Toogood shares her ideas
* Make your stash work harder oodles of ways to use stickers on your layouts
All this, plus loads more!


20080522 Thursday May 22, 2008

Shirley Toogood's mini book, June issue of Scrapbook Inspirations

Did you see Shirley Toogood’s family history album in the June issue? She made the album to celebrate five generations of men in her family. The mini album is based on a simple accordion book, which Shirley adapted to suit her subjects. The whole book is shaped like a folded man’s shirt, and Shirley made pockets to hold journaling cards. If you want to make your own pocket mini book here’s what you need to do.

Supplies
* Two sheets of cardstock for basic book plus extra for the binding, journaling cards and decoration
* Paper trimmer or craft knife and cutting mat
* Patterned paper
* Sticky ribbon, buttons to embellish
* Leather cord for the binding
* Double-sided tape and glue stick or roll
* Ruler, scissors, pencil

1. Cut four pieces of cardstock each measuring 30x14.5cm. Score and fold each to make three 9.5x14.5cm sections, with an extra 1.5 cm piece at one end - this will act as a tab.

2. Cut the tops to make the shirt shape.

3. Stick the strips together, overlapping the tabs to create a long accordion.

4. To make the pockets stick double-sided tape along the bottom and two outside fold edges of two sections at intervals along the accordion.

5. Cut strips of cardstock to measure 12x3cm.

6. Sandwich one of the 12x3cm strips between the two sections when sticking them together, leaving the card sticking out 2cm like a handle.

7. This section will be used to bind the book together. Repeat this to make five pockets in total (Shirley didn’t make a pocket on the front or back covers). Punch two holes 5cm apart in the centres of the 12x3cm strips. Fold the book so the strips line up and tie cord or ribbon through the holes to bind.

8. The journaling cards slot into the pockets made in step four. To make, cut five pieces of cardstock (8x12cm). You can cut them down into shirt shapes if you like.

9. Add journaling or extra photos to each of the journaling cards. This is one of Shirley's finished cards. To make pull tabs for the journaling cards cut a slot as wide your sticky ribbon at the top of each card. Cut a strip of ribbon around 6cm long and thread it through the slot. Fold the ribbon up and back on itself to form a tab.

10. Decorate each of the pages - it's easier to do this when the book is unbound so you can lie it flat. Here's one of Shirley's finished pages:

Ta da! Here's Shirley's finished book. To read the full article and see more of Shirley's book make sure you get hold of the June issue of Scrapbook Inspirations, on sale 25th May.


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