Photoless layouts

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  1. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    Have been struggling with not taking photos (health dictated that unfortunately) but I’ve got tons of things I want to scrap without photos. My question is how do you create photoless pages especially if you are mainly a scrapper who uses templates or scraplifts?
     
  2. cfile

    cfile My bags are packed for Platform 9 3/4

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    Use the template as a base and where there is a spot for a photo, perhaps change it up for a JC in place of the photo or even use that as a journaling spot :) Also check out the Art Journaling gallery to get some ideas....

    Also start with the journaling in a shape.. perhaps a rectangle, or circle and then after the journaling accent it with elements.

    Those are just a few of my ideas for you Jennifer @littlekiwi
     
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  3. cfile

    cfile My bags are packed for Platform 9 3/4

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    @littlekiwi another idea is the traveling notebook pages.. you can put thoughts down and decorate with papers and elements.
     
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  4. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    I just put a journal card or something in the spot of the photo if I'm using a template and then I just journal to tell the story I want to remember. Here are a couple examples:

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    I really love Liz's Artsy Journal templates for my photoless layouts that need lots of journaling. :agree
     
  5. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    Thanks @Karen for sharing your layouts - they are all so creative
     
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  6. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    Thanks! I'd love to take credit, but honestly they are all just awesome templates! :)
     
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  7. cfile

    cfile My bags are packed for Platform 9 3/4

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    @littlekiwi Jennifer.. I just made this one quick using the wedding song for me and my DH.. we will celebrate 27 years in July... anyway another example of photoless... @Karen Karen gave you some great examples using templates!!

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  8. LeeAndra

    LeeAndra A total Betty.

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    On a photoless page, I generally do the journaling first & build the rest of the page around it.
     
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  9. Ferdy

    Ferdy Heavy Metal Head Banger

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    great ideas, @cfile and @Karen !! It's been months since I did a photoless page, this one I did for MOC, for me, it's easier to go more for an art journaling page...but I like the examples in this thread, using lyrics is also a great idea!
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  10. Ferdy

    Ferdy Heavy Metal Head Banger

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    I found one more I did, you could scrap about lists...or currently reading, watching, etc:
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  11. BevG

    BevG If I can't remember it, it didn't happen

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    I also like to search my stash for a related kit and use the wild patterned paper to tell the story. For ex: we often visit a water park where the phones and cameras stay in the car. So I will do a page with water related things and then journal about what we did, what we liked, etc.
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    Or this one which documents where we ate out while on vacation.
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  12. Tree City

    Tree City Get a stepladder, I'm busy

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    like others have mentioned, I put a JC in a photo spot. Sometimes I remove the photo and put elements (or nothing lol) in its place.(Both pages are made with a template)
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    Rebecca's art dolls could be a way to show emotion or have a "person focal point" that you'd otherwise have via a photo:
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    My AJ-style photo-less pages are usually heavy on the WA.
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    and if the page isn't WA-heavy, then I like to play around with contrast and texture, like in these pages
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    and don't forget MOC7 Day18 - Elements on a Path. You could make a shape related to what your page is about. Mine is a light bulb because that's what DS yells when he has an idea. I don't have a pic of him yelling it cuz it's random lol, so this challenge really worked for that memory.
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  13. Cherylndesigns

    Cherylndesigns All glasses should be bigger than 1.5 oz

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    I agree with all of these ideas. I find myself doing more and more photoless pages. If you have quotes that you like you can use them as a focal point. A lot of times I’ll fill a frame with a patterned paper or just a color then put the quote in the frame.


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  14. cinderella

    cinderella I was alone once...best.day.ever.

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    I love photoless pages! But I always need to have a focal point, like a quote, a big title, an art doll etc.
    Here are some examples from my gallery's first page
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    Regarding the template, I do the same as mentioned above: I clip papers or tags in the photo spots.
    Here are two pages with templates by FDD. I have more, but aren't TLP template designers and I don't want to post them in this thread.
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  15. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    Thanks all, I’m hoping to get some scrapping time once I’m finished my work contract in a little under 2 weeks now so will try some of these ideas.
     
  16. LoveItScrapIt

    LoveItScrapIt I'm a poet, and everyone knows it!

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    You could use screen shots from the web. Maybe about a trip you want to take, or the weather like this one I madee
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    Or using a journal card as the "photo" spot like this one
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  17. LoveItScrapIt

    LoveItScrapIt I'm a poet, and everyone knows it!

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    Also, using stock photos if the pages are just for you are fine.
     

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