I’m a foodie and that spills over into my scrapbook page design too. It’s fun to scrap about food. What comes to mind first when thinking about page design is a recipe or documenting a celebration, which is a great topic because as the years pass, some of those memories fade, such as what did everyone eat, was there dessert, who had the biggest piece, etc. Photographing food is easy, no matter what type of camera you have. Take some pull-back shots including some of the background into the framing. These shots are wonderful for including details that might fade with time but the photo will remind you. Then take some close-ups, capturing details of the food. Here’s a page I created with a few snapshots of a food booth at the fair, of my husband buying his snacks. They were not great photos but I used masks and blended the photos to disguise the poor quality of the photos while expressing the intent of the page design and showing him at the window making his order. I love this page, for the memory, not the photo quality. So, in this instance, the page reminds me of that day, of my husband’s joy for the funnel cakes.
Here’s another page that has a photo with journaling explaining a typical BBQ menu before my low carb diet and what a typical BBQ menu is now.
Food is such an integral part of our lives and some of the topics you could discuss are:
- Where do you like to eat?
- What foods do you like or dislike?
- What foods do your kids like?
- Is a food you love but the rest of the family doesn’t?
- What do you discuss around the dinner table?
- Do you have a favorite comfort food?
- Where do you grocery shop? Do you make a list?
- Are there childhood memories evoked by food or recipe?
- What are your favorite types of potluck dishes, crockpot dishes, etc.
- What’s in your pantry?
- Do you have a signature dish that you often make?
With or without photos, create pages with these topics in mind. Answer them yourself or ask others to answer these questions.
Food photo ideas could include:
- Inside a market/grocery store.
- Start to finish photos of prep work to finished dish.
- Photos of ingredients/kitchenware/appliances.
- Photos of your grocery bags of food and scrap about what you will make.
- Take photos of magazines/books, printed recipes, etc.
- Photograph your food cooking and the finished dish.
- Photograph a restaurant or establishment that you frequent.
Think about what your favorites are, such as:
- Spices.
- Cookware.
- Books/magazines.
- Ingredients you like to cook with.
- New technique you have learned.
What are you food memories?
- As a child.
- As a parent.
- Potluck or buffet dishes.
- Holiday meals.
- Weekend vs weekday meals.
- Lazy day dishes.
- Snacks.
- Favorite treats/indulges.
- Foods you didn’t like.
- Recipes that failed.
- Recipes that were a crowd pleaser.
Don’t worry about which camera you use, what the lighting is like, etc; just snap some photos. You can make the story, the journaling, the focal point of your page and minimize the impact of the photos if the quality is poor or use blending/masking techniques. Either way, creating a page that evokes a memory and/or fact in relation to the food is the intent. Have fun with it.
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