Dude! Layer Up!

Dude! With fall coming you'll need to layer up to keep warm in the cooler weather. Dude! That goes for scrapbooking, too.

I mean, scrapbooking is all about layering stuff in sensible ways. But sometimes you need to throw in something that just doesn't make sense.



When you have something big, like this brochure pic from Bryce Canyon, you need to keep the whole things for photo integrity. But you don't need to have a totally unobstructed shot. Though layering the medallion and ranger pic on it doesn't make a lot so photographic sense, the colors and spacing works to preserve the memories over the photos.

Dude! Keep those memories warm!

Dude! The Sky's the Limit!

Dude! Unless you're doing pages from a hunting trip to Montana, you don't need to use a lot of space on pix of the big sky. Dude! When you limit the sky, the sky's the limit!

This is especially true when the day is overcast or when you're dealing with skyline pix. If you cut out the sky you can create your own background or you can layer things in more interesting ways.



In this page I cut the sky out of two pix and the brochure. Think of how bad this page would have been with all that extra white and tan taking up the whole page.

Dude! Less is more!

Dude! Make it a Holiday!

Dude! You can add an invisible element to your scrapbook that only you will know. Tie when you make your page to something in it!

I know how things can stack up and how you can get way behind in keeping up with the scraps. A holiday or an event can help you get things done and give you another story to tell when your showing off your stuff.

There's nothing all too special about the page below.



Except that I made it while watching President Obama's inauguration. Could you make your Lincoln Memorial page on Presidents Day? Or dude! you could do the opposite like making your beach pages during a blizzard.

It never hurts to add an extra layer of memories to your book.

Dude! It's like compounding interest in your memory bank!