Scrapbooking Challenge January 2013--WINNER

[jfugina]

Love it! What a clever take on the doilies!

[Debbie J]

Fantastic!! Love using stencils for doilies!! Great job!

[Paula]

Great job!! Using one photo isnot your usual style is it?? Love the bling and the chipboard!!

[mpizzazz]

Great job!! Using one photo isnot your usual style is it?? Love the bling and the chipboard!!

Thanks for all the comments!

Paula, I really struggle with one photo layouts, but now and then I do one especially if....I only have one photo and want to scrap it! I've been scrapping so little lately, I'm not sure what my usual style is!
I think I am more playful/free with a one photo layout than with a regular layout.
What does everyone else think? Do you approach a one photo layout differently than a multi photo layout?

[bethrich]

Sue, that is just gorgeous!

Marianne, I love how you got beyond the literal sketch and went with the spirit of it.

I think the single photo is a different process for me than multiple photos. With more than one photo it's about fitting them on the LO and creating a focal point. With just one, the focus becomes how to best showcase it.

[jfugina]

I struggle with single photo layouts too. And I really love the look of a lot of the single photo layouts I see posted with a cluster of flowers or bling, and maybe one other paper item sticking out behind the photo - very much like our sketch. But I find that it's very easy for those one photo layouts to go way overboard though, and if I look at a layout and don't immediately see the photo, then I'm not going to like that layout.

The only time I'll do a one photo layout is if that's all I've got to work with, which is rare. I usually have at least 5, and I'm getting better about paring that down to two or three. But it's still tough for me. I want to use lots of photos.

[troublesmom]

Marianne that is a wonderful photo and great take on the sketch. I also love how you used the chipboard (I still have tons of it). Using only one photo on a layout is always a challenge when you have tons of photos

[pbp908]

Right now I'm struggling because I have no photos. I love the way you substituted the masks for the doilies - especially since I'm just not a doily person. And lots of points for using the chipboard!

[pamcook]

Julie - when I do layouts of my photos, I rarely need a one photo layout. I have used a one photo layout to scrap two vertical photos in place of a single horizontal photo and vise-versa. Sometimes three photos.

I tend to interpret designs too literally - trying to step out of that box a little bit at a time.

[ChristyB]

awesome Marianne!

[jfugina]

[quote="pamcook"I tend to interpret designs too literally - trying to step out of that box a little bit at a time.[/quote]

That's exactly my problem. But we've had this discussion before - interpretation is just not part of my nature. I was never one of those "color outside the lines" kind of kids, and at my age, there's not much point in fighting it. But I do need to make a point to remember your photo double-up advice. Many of the designs that call for a single photo could easily have that 4x6 photo bumped to 5x7, and then split into two 3.5x5 photos, and the layout would look just as fabulous. Thanks for that!

[nancine]

these are some great pages! Good inspiration.
I have my "supplies" to make one of these packed for this weekend.

Tomorrow at 2 pm I'll be down at the Hilton Airport Hotel (15 minutes from my house) for the Diva Crop My friend Connie and I are going - and turns out Lucy and her sisters will be there too! Should be a nice long weekend of crafty fun - everything included, even meals. So I don't have to go anywhere or think to hard. Just our daily short hike over to Starbucks for a treat!

[pamcook]

Sounds like fun - give Lucy a hug from me.

[jfugina]

Sounds like fun - give Lucy a hug from me.

ditto!

[troublesmom]

Have fun for sure.