Friday, June 15, 2007

Have you read your copy of Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine cover to cover? What did you think about it? Head over to http://www.scrapbookdimensions.com/ and join our FORUM. We'd love to hear your feedback on our magazine. Suggestions, ideas and so forth will always be considered and reviewed. We appreciate our loyal readers and their love of hybrid scrapbooking!




Has the hybrid bug bit you yet? If not, you are missing out. Hybrid scrapbooking turns the emerging field of Digital Scrapbooking into a TOOL for every scrapbooker out there. From simple photo manipulation to Extreme graphic designs like photo montages, etc. can all be achieved with the variety of photo editing software out there.



CHALLENGE # 4


PHOTOS


Pictures are one of the most important pieces in our scrapbook pages. This challenge I'd like to see different ways in which you have incorporated digital techniques into hybrid layouts. Maybe you've created a photo montage or you've done photo tinting. Perhaps you've printed your picture on your background paper... each time you use your photo, try to think of a creative way to mix it up in your page.



Send me a link (kristi (at) scrapbookdimensions.com) or post a comment here and I"ll come by and check it out.








Last post I told you about some really cool photo organizers that I purchased from Costco. I have finally put them to use. I was able to put about 1 apple box (Tupperware tub) worth of pictures in one of them (they hold over 2000 pictures!) I also included the negatives in with the pictures and labeled each section with the month, year, etc.

This picture shows you what the main compartment looks like filled. The plastic holders come with the kit, you have to fold them together... it's easy to do. My 4 year old helped me put them together. She actually thought it was fun! hah. So I let her. I did have to help her bend them a little but once I'd prepped each one she could assemble it.




The back compartment is shallow but has an envelope that will hold larger images like 12x12's etc.



My only complaint is that those awful over sized pictures (11x14's etc) don't' fit in it. Not that I really "want" to hold onto them but I just don't' want to ditch them until I've scrapped that time frame. I have a plastic folder I purchased a few years ago to hold paintings, posters, etc that I can keep them in, so it's all good.

For the Retail of about $27, these containers are great. I now have almost all my pictures in chronological order. Wow!

I've been on this transparency kick with my scrapbooks lately. I love them. You can do so much with a transparency LOL. If you use them, send me an email :) I'd love to see how you create with them!

Until the next post! Keep up the good work and Tell a friend about Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine http://www.scrapbookdimensions.com/

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