My husband loves to hunt and ice fish - and he's pretty darn good at it! I love that he takes tons of pictures while pursuing his passion, which gives me plenty of awesome photos to scrapbook.
These photos were taken on a fishing trip to Lake Champlain. Jim headed out on the ice with his cousin and nephew for the day. He caught a 24" pike and 31", 8lb. trout.
Scrapbooking Tips:
Because there was so much white in the photos, I decided to take a step out of my comfort zone and use pattern paper instead of white card stock for the base pages. I had a pad of winter papers that all coordinated beautifully, and I started fussy cutting snowflakes to use on this layout. My original plan was to layer snowflakes instead of the hexagons, but it made the pages look too busy. After playing with a few other ideas, I settled on using my Silhouette to die cut hexagons with cut out snowflakes. By having a solid color cardstock as a backdrop, the snowflakes stood out and created a better accent to my photos.
To give my title some special treatment, I downloaded an icicle looking font. Although you don't see it in this photo, I added Stickles glitter glue on top of the die cut letters to give it some sparkle. I also added a sparkly epoxy dot to the middle of the snowflakes to add even more shine!
I would say that 90% of the time, I use sketches to scrapbook. It saves me so much time to have a starting point. Before I started using sketches, I would stare at a blank sheet of 12x12 paper and not have a clue on how to get started. It was so frustrating to me to waste my (limited) time pushing the photos around on my page. I used an Allison Davis sketch that had a design for 6 full size photos which not only saved me time with arranging my photos, but I saved even more time by not having to trim down my photos.
I loved this sketch so much I used it to create a layout from our trip to Washington DC. Our first stop of the vacation was to Arlington National Cemetary to witness the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. I had seen it once before, but it was Jim and the kids' first time seeing it. It is an impressive and sobering sight. I chose photos just of this ritual to keep the focus on what we were observing.
Once again, I used hexagons to accent this layout, but changed the snowflakes to stars to give the feel of an American flag. I did not add any journaling to this layout because the topic is self-explanatory, and I will have other layouts from Arlington in the album recording the date and our thoughts about visiting.
The only element that I wasn't totally pleased with is the title. In this photo it is hard to read because it blends into the navy-blue hexagons. The perfectionist in me wanted to pull it up and redo it, but I would have had to replace all the hexagons, and I decided that it was "good enough." Up close, you do see it a little better, and I try to remind myself that "perfection is the enemy of progress." I would never get through my stack of photos if I wanted every page to be perfect!
When I find a sketch I really like, I will make multiple layouts from it. I followed the sketch pretty closely for the layouts I have shown here, and that is not always the case. I can take a sketch and use only one or two elements from it, and the finished product looks nothing like the original sketch. Even though my layouts produced using the same sketch can look drastically different, I try never to use the same sketch for layouts that will end up in the same album together.
Supplies Used:
Ice Fishing Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Pattern Paper- Recollections Base Pages - Bazzill Cardstock
Solid Cardstock - The Stamps of Life Solid Cardstock - The Stamps of Life
Epoxy Dots - Doodlebug Designs Silhouette Cut Files:
Silhouette Cut Files: Title - Sharpie Pen Font - Design ID 299019
Title - Wintercicles Font Design ID 238546 Star - Design ID 367615
Snowflakes - Design ID 158779 Hexagons - Design ID 353621
Hexagons - Design ID 353621
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