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Julie's Article
Julie Kramer
Julie Kramer
In the Beginning
Since I’ve switched for 35mm to digital photography, my piles and boxes of pictures have decreased. This is for 2 reasons. Number 1 is that I no longer have to develop pictures that I don’t want because I can edit before ordering. Number 2 is, I haven’t been printing all my digital pictures and I’ve been storing them on DVD’s.

Both my kids have scrapbooks that are dedicated to their favorite things. When I went to get caught up on these scrapbooks is where I ran into a problem. The pictures that I needed were stored on DVD’s and I had to do some searching and reorganizing to find what I needed. Although I thought I was organized, I realized I needed a better system for labeling and storing my digital photos. Here are a few suggestions to help.
  1. Do not rename your photos. Leave them as the image number from when the photo was taken. This will keep all your photos in the order that they were taken.
  2. Create a file for each month of the year. Sample: 2006 – 4. Then within this file download pictures by the date that they were taken and label accordingly. Sample: 2006_4_15. Using a numerical system keeps everything in order.
  3. Keep a journal with the dates and description of the events.
  4. Upload your photos to an online photo service. There are many sites out there that allow free storage and reasonable rates for printing. Storing online gives you another sense of security for saving your digital pictures.
  5. Be sure to back-up and save your photos to CD or DVD often. This will help assure that you will have them for generations.
I wish I would have started storing my photos this way IN THE BEGINNING. From now on when I need to find that special picture, I will be much more organized and will find it much easier than searching as I had to do in the past.

Julie
Project 1: Prairie's Title Page
Supplies:
  • Born to Shop Cardable by Meg Abreu
  • Bazzil cardstock, orange
  • Cardstock white, hot pink
  • Offray ribbon, 3/8” Dippy Dot Trq-Grn Grosgrain
  • Embroidery Floss, hot pink
  • Spiral clips, orange, by Creative Impressions
  • Eyelet, orange by Creative Impressions
  • Pop Dots by All Night Media
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste to a workspace, I use Microsoft Word, BGD Paper01. Size to fill the page and print onto white cardstock. Do the same with BGD Paper02.
  2. Trim the BGD Paper01 to 3 ¼” x 6”. Create 2 pieces like this. Adhere to the layout at the bottom of the orange cardstock to create a border running the whole width of the layout.
  3. Trim the BGD Paper02 to 4” x 8 ½”. Adhere to the left side of the layout along the edge.
  4. Adhere a length of the grosgrain ribbon across the top of the bottom border.
  5. Whipstitch the edge of the side border using hot pink embroidery floss.
  6. Copy and paste the Striped, Dotted, and Blue Flip Flops to a workspace. Size to 2 ½” tall. Copy and paste the purple flower and size to 1 ½”, create 4 flowers. Copy and paste Card 03 Inside and size to 4” x 6”. Insert a text box in the center and add the word “Favorite” in turquoise using Cotillion Font. (Format text box to eliminate the border line.) Copy and paste Card 05 Inside and size to 1 ¼” x 1 ¾”. Rotate to vertical and create 6. Insert a text box into the center of each one and type single letters in orange using Storybook font to spell “THINGS”. (Format text box to eliminate the border line.) Print onto white cardstock and cut out all elements. Cut 2 of the Flip Flops to create squares.
  7. Mat the square Flip Flops onto hot pink cardstock and adhere onto the turquoise side border. Attach a spiral clip to each square.
  8. Using Pop Dots adhere on purple flower on top of another and secure with an orange eyelet in the center. Arrange and adhere the flowers at the top of the orange section of the layout.
  9. Adhere the “Favorite” title under the flowers and place a cut out pair of Flip Flops over lapping at the bottom of the title.
  10. Adhere the “THINGS” title across the bottom border of the layout.
Project 1
Project 2: Ballet University
Supplies:
  • Walk in the Garden Creatable by Tina Wenke
  • Bazzil cardstock, pale pink, ivory, light tan
  • Gingham ribbon, pink and ivory, source unknown
  • Book plate, pink, source unknown
  • Paper punch, hole and rectangle
  • Chalk, pink
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste to a workspace, I use Microsoft Word, Spring, Summer and Autumn Ballerinas. Size to approximately 2” wide so they all look the same size.
  2. Create a 4” x 4” text box. Copy and paste the Summer graphic and size to 3 ½” wide and place within the text box. Add desired text to create a title or journaling square. Be sure to leave about ¾” at the top to thread with ribbon.
  3. Copy and paste the BGD with Vine graphic. Size graphic to run the full length of the layout. Rotate graphic so that just the vine and about ½” of the pink background is on your workspace.
  4. Create a small text box to fit within the book plate and add a title.
  5. Print onto the ivory cardstock. Cut out the title and the book plate word trimming off the text box border line. Chalk the edge of the title in pink and mat onto light tan cardstock. Punch 2 holes at the top and thread with the gingham ribbon.
  6. Cut out the ballerinas into squares measuring 2 ½” wide. (The heights will vary according to the graphic.) Chalk edges in pink and mat onto light tan cardstock. With the rectangle punch, create holes at the top and bottom of each graphic to thread ribbon up one side and down the other. Thread the ribbon to create a loop at the top. Arrange and adhere down the left side to the layout onto the pale pink cardstock.
  7. Place the vine border across the bottom of the layout. Cut 1” from the left side of the border and place under the ballerina graphic on the left edge. Adhere the remainder of the vine border from the right side and tuck excess under the ballerina graphic.
  8. Mat photos and arrange along with the title block and book plate onto the layout and adhere.
Project 2
Project 3: Andy's Title Page
Supplies:
  • Summer at the Cabin Creatable by Debbie Crabtree
  • Once Upon A Forest pine tree paper by Provo Craft
  • Cardstock, tan, celery green
  • Vellum
  • Antique bronze brads by Stampin’ Up
  • Exacto Knife
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste the pine cone graphic to a workspace, I use Microsoft Word, and size to 3”. Create a text box for journaling or a title. Add journaling or title changing the font color to brown. Print onto vellum
  2. Cut out the text box and graphic.
  3. To create your layout, cut a length of green cardstock 3” wide and adhere to the bottom of the layout. Cut 2, ¼” strips of tan adhering one along the top edges of the green border and the other one 3” from the top of the layout.
  4. Create your title using computer fonts and then cut them out with an exacto knife. To create the name “Andy’s”, I used Storybook font. I used Rockwell Extra Bold for the word “BOOK”. Once you have your title size and you’re ready to print, select mirror image in the printing options. Print out onto the tan and the green cardstock using the tan as a shadow to the green.
  5. Adhere your title to the layout and attach the vellum elements using brads.
  6. Embellish with tan squares attached with brads.
Project 3
Project 4: Fishing Firefly
Supplies:
  • Summer Fishing Creatable by Beth Logan
  • Bazzil cardstock, sage green, light blue, pale yellow
  • White cardstock
  • Jewelry hemp by Beadery
  • Eyelets, bronze, by Making Memories
  • Offray, sage green ¼” grosgrain ribbon
  • Round wooden tags b Favorite Findings
  • Woodburning kit, optional
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste the BGD Lures and Flies to a work space, I use Microsoft Word. Size to fill the page and print onto white cardstock. Copy and paste the square Fish graphic and size to 1 ½”, print onto white cardstock.
  2. Trim a piece of the BGD to 4” x 10 ¼”. Adhere to the right side to the layout ¾” from the edge. Mat 2 photos with blue and adhere to this border. Attach a length of ribbon around the border and tie together with a piece of jewelry hemp.
  3. Mat another photo using blue and embellish by placing a 4” x 4” BGD square behind it with about 1” of it sticking out from the left side and a slight border at the bottom. Attach a length of ribbon around the side and tie with jewelry hemp. Mat the fish graphic with blue and attach centered over the ribbon. Adhere to the bottom left of the layout.
  4. Mat remaining photo with blue. To create the large yellow mat behind photo, cut an even border around 3 sides and a 1 ½” border for the left side. To add computer text, insert a text box the size of the desired mat into your workspace. Insert a smaller text box and place it along the left edge and add desired text. (Format text box to eliminate the border line.) Create a tag to add to the layout. Print onto the yellow cardstock.
  5. Place matted photo onto yellow mat. Burn desired title into the wooden tags and attach down the left edge of the mat. (Title can be added using stamps or writing with a pen.) Attach small blue squares to the top and bottom of the mat using eyelets. Thread ribbon through the eyelets and tie using the jewelry hemp. Adhere to layout.
  6. Create tag by adding a small blue square at the top attached with an eyelet. Thread with jewelry hemp and tie to the ribbon attached to the Lures and Flies border.
Project 4
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