I love layouts with lots of photos.
I am betting by now my blog readers know that about me, huh? ;)
I also love telling a story through pictures that span a time frame. The month in review style layouts I have created and that I am finishing creating for last year do just that. They show me my month in a glance. One of the things that is so nice about this is that I failed a little with a couple of months last year for Project 365 but these review style pages help fill in those gaps and give a nice overall look at our life.
I have shared quite a few of these month in review style layouts but I feel that part of this From Start to Finish series should show what I am currently working on/am interested in scrapping in addition to sharing the layout creation process every week.
I had tons of photos for November. A big family vacation and a birthday will do that. I included many vacation photos even though I will likely use those photos in other ways later on (I do a lot of digital style books for Disney Vacations). There isn't any rule on not being able to use a certain photo more than once. Besides, these are small square photos, intended for overall impact. There are memories here that require even more journaling and I will get to those on individual scrapbook layouts.
There are 48 - 1 1/4" square photos on this page.
I have been getting a lot of questions on how I create these collages so I quickly wanted to address that here:
I use Photoshop CS4.
I am not using any templates or anything like that but rather creating my own collage based on the page design I am going for.
I resize all my photos individually (and make any necessary corrections, i.e. red eye, etc.) and then drag them to a new document. In this case an 8.5 x 11 document (because that is the size of paper I am using).
I have not been including these steps in the From Start to Finish series because I am not all that PS savvy. Anything I know is from trial and error. I can do a few basics but that is really about it. Tech-savvy is not me. There are people out there who are genius with PS and photo-editing and I would encourage you to watch tutorials from them, rather than myself. :)
I printed the journaling directly on one of the background papers that had a very faint background so that my journaling showed up well printed on it. I did print directly on a 12" sheet of paper. In my word processing program, I set the page dimensions to 12 x12 with a 1" left and right margin, leaving me with 10" of print space. Ten inches was exactly the length of my photo strips.
Once printed, I trimmed the cardstock down to fit my design.
The title is a combination of a couple of designs from the Silhouette American Store (both designs by Loni Stevens).
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I used both Making Memories and Prima resin flowers to decorate the title/journaling strip. I used glossy accents to glue them in place so they wouldn't fall off.
I love how the October Afternoon Thrift Shop stickers have the same vintage feel as the MME Stella & Rose stickers. They coordinate perfectly.
Ribbon tabs add a touch of softness to a layout dominated with photos/paper/resin flowers. I sewed on buttons with baker's twine to secure the ribbon tabs in place.
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OTHER SUPPLIES
Papertrey Ink Fine Linen Saddle Stitch Ribbon
For additional ideas on creating months in review style layouts here is a list of other layouts I created.
2010 Month in Review Layouts
Have a great day!
