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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

How I Scrap "Less Than Perfect" Photos

In August, my son started middle school; I won't get sidetracked with emotion, I'm here to talk about photos. :) The start time for middle school is very early and I couldn't get my camera to cooperate with the bad lighting. After all, it was 6:45 a.m. and my brain wasn't functioning properly at that point. So I took less than perfect photos and converted them to black and white and suddenly those same bad photos looked pretty good!

I sat the photos aside waiting for some inspiration. As I started looking through my stash, I found Citrus Twist's September kit and knew it was a perfect match.
The Thickers from the kit were the first thing that caught my eye because of the color and stitching. It reminds me of stitching on backpacks. I also loved the scalloped circles cut from book paper. I folded them in half to mimic clouds and stapled them to the page with my Tiny Attacher. The title needed to pop, so I used a torn out piece of paper from an old book and used my Fiskars punch to create the notebook paper embellishment. I love the little CT arrow stamp, so I took two colors of Zing embossing powder (white and charcoal) and made a pattern to highlight the journaling.

Sometimes bad photos happen, but rather than tossing the memory aside, embrace it, scrap it, and be happy that it's documented.

8 comments:

  1. Great idea and layout!
    I do convert photos to black and white quite a bit if the colors are off or it's just not that great of a photo.
    Really makes a difference :)

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  2. Black and white photos are my friend. :) Wonderful layout! Love the color scheme and scalloped half circles!

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  3. Great way to turn it around and get it scrapped. It looks terrific.

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  4. I love all the colors you picked for the BW photos. Great job

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  5. Great layout, Sherry. I think any picture of my kids is "perfect", but I am not above a little tweaking of light and color. Around here it is me the photographer that is so imperfect. Love your idea of clouds from scallops!

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  6. Love that you chose to document these photos! I think the kit is perfect and also really like your idea for the clouds!

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  7. Sherry, I always get such good ideas from you! Thanks for the tips.

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