Dude! Size Matters!

Dude! The size of the elements you put on your page really matters!

Mixing some really big elements while at the same time cropping other things small helps focus on what's important.



The only reason this page exists is because Harry Truman was president. Having a giant presidential seal (clipped from the gift store bag) clarifies the questions of "What?" and "Why?" you made this page.

A small seal wouldn't have had the same kind of impact. Size really does matter in deciding what goes on the page.

Dude! Go big or go home!

Dude! You Had to BE There!

Dude! If you've taken pix of something cool from a lot of different angles, use that to make a page. Dude! That's all you need!



Anybody can get a postcard kind of pic. Nothing says "I was actually there" and reminds you of your time is to see pix you took from vantage points.

Dude! Break free from those standard boring posed shots that the girls need because of all the distraction the lace and buttons and bows and flowers bring. Prove you were there with bold shots and let them speak for themselves.

Dude! That's too Much!

Dude! There's that place you go all and you've got all those pix from so many different visits. Dude! I know that it's overwhelming and you don't know where to start.

One solution is to mix all the pix together and unify them only with a template cut.



Yes, it's a lot of different memories on one page. But you have a lot of different memories from that one place.

So, dude!, that's kind of the point. Since all those trips there get mushed together in your brain you can mush them together on your same scrapbook page, too. Stop trying to sort the pictures and start making the scrapbook page!

I mean, isn't the fact that you like the place enough to go there over and over one of the places most distinctive features? Let your page reflect it, too.

Dude!

Dude! Go to the Dark Side!

Dude! Only the girls make all their pages all sunshine and flower and rainbows. Dude! Use the dark side!

Blue on black as the only colors on a page???? Nothing to "lighten it up"???? No cheerful colors to evoke happy feelings????



Yes. Yes. And YES!

I mean, dude! this is a scrapbook page about a cave. Of course it was dark. Why wouldn't you want a dark-on-dark page for memories of being deep beneath the earth?

Dude! Let the Force be with You!