Sharpshooter Templates

[GlazeFamily3]

I have decided to use the Sharpshooter Templates from @LynnG for an album I am creating of our Massachusetts and New Hampshire trip in January.

I can’t decide...
- do I want to include papers and journal cards in the photo spots or just photographs?
- do I want the top and bottom strip to be the same color throughout? For each spread?
- where do I want to journal?

That being said, I would love to see your pages using these templates. If you’ve completed an entire album with them, I would really love to see that!

 

[jk703]

I don't think I'll be much help. I did both. I used JC's, papers and then added some shadows. I have not completed an entire album. Maybe Tracie did? For some reason, I thought she did from another thread. It was simply gorgeous, graphic, if I'm not mistaken! @tkradtke I also think that Lynn's own album is in the preview, but she would have to comfirm.

 

[tkradtke]

- do I want to include papers and journal cards in the photo spots or just photographs?
- do I want the top and bottom strip to be the same color throughout? For each spread?
- where do I want to journal?

These were the same questions I had when I started my album. I opted against papers and any other digi scrap stuff, just so I could work quickly and have a uniform book (keep in mind, that this is just for the coffee table type book I'm doing of trip photos... I will do a more personal book with scrapped pages and more of the stories at my leisure later).

As for the strip. I started out thinking that I would switch colors by subject. My Louvre pages all have grey accents, but I switched to a dark red for our stop for crepes in the park. Honestly, I think I'm going back to grey for everything. I like the red, but moving forward in the album, it became a hinderance to always be picking a new color to coordinate with the photos and previous pages. If I had picked a coordinated set of papers to work with, this might not have been an issue, but since I was picking from every color possible, it slowed me down.

Again, for me, since this is not my big "story" book, I did light journaling within the spot on the template.

I have not completed an entire album. Maybe Tracie did?

Nope! Haven't completed it yet! I need to post more pages here though!

Here are a couple I've posted...





For more options, I'm also adding in pages with other more graphic templates like Lynn's To the Point...

 

[GlazeFamily3]

Tracie this is STUNNING. I am looking to do a more graphic look for this book and the pages you created are what I was picturing in my head.

I had thought of doing different color strips for different stops during our trip... but the more I think and the more I look, I feel like the colors would be all over the place and not unified in the least. I like your choice of gray because that works across the board.

Thank you so much for sharing!

These were the same questions I had when I started my album. I opted against papers and any other digi scrap stuff, just so I could work quickly and have a uniform book (keep in mind, that this is just for the coffee table type book I'm doing of trip photos... I will do a more personal book with scrapped pages and more of the stories at my leisure later).

As for the strip. I started out thinking that I would switch colors by subject. My Louvre pages all have grey accents, but I switched to a dark red for our stop for crepes in the park. Honestly, I think I'm going back to grey for everything. I like the red, but moving forward in the album, it became a hinderance to always be picking a new color to coordinate with the photos and previous pages. If I had picked a coordinated set of papers to work with, this might not have been an issue, but since I was picking from every color possible, it slowed me down.

Again, for me, since this is not my big "story" book, I did light journaling within the spot on the template.



Nope! Haven't completed it yet! I need to post more pages here though!

Here are a couple I've posted...





For more options, I'm also adding in pages with other more graphic templates like Lynn's To the Point...

 

[tkradtke]

@GlazeFamily3

Thanks Desi! I had trouble with the color thing in other ways. It was harder than I thought to figure out what constituted a new location/subject when I have quite a few "in transit" photos... or just random photos I snapped along the way. I do like the grey for my museum photos... but I'm not entirely sure how I'll feel about it when I get to my Disneyland Paris photos! Although, it was grey and rainy the whole time we were there, so maybe the color will work just fine!

Can't wait to see your pages once you get started!

 

[GlazeFamily3]

It would be SO HARD for me to scrap Disney without Project Mouse lol.

I will share when I get a few done.

 

[tkradtke]

It would be SO HARD for me to scrap Disney without Project Mouse lol.

I know!!! I'm kind of dreading that section of my album. BUT... I have used PM to scrap the DLP pages for my PL book and my DYD... and you can bet that I'll be using a whole bunch of PM stuff when I do my more personal album later. I'm just going to have to keep reminding myself of that when I'm putting plain grey strips on Disney pages for this album

 

[Iowan]

Here's one I did for a trip to London. (definitely not graphic look!!!!)

 

[GlazeFamily3]

Here's one I did for a trip to London. (definitely not graphic look!!!!)

I love this too! And I really want to see it used different ways so I can figure out what works for me.

Thank you for sharing @Iowan (and also until today I thought your forum name started with a lowercase L)

 

[cookingmylife]

Here are two from a 2012 river Cruise. I used Sharpshooter as well as other templates for this trip. I NEED to do journaling. n.b. I missed the one spot for journaling on the first page! fortunately these pages are in a regular binder and my page was corrected.

 

[A-M]

Thankyou @GlazeFamily3
You inspired me to go and buy that set of templates as I had been wondering what to do with a Cruise I went on back in 1981 as I am creating albums of past major vacations and this was an important one and needs it owns album and those templates will be perfect as I can now keep the pages all consistent and really make the photos stand out which is what I want to achieve and not use too many embellishments.

 

[Iowan]

I love this too! And I really want to see it used different ways so I can figure out what works for me.

Thank you for sharing @Iowan (and also until today I thought your forum name started with a lowercase L)

I get Lowan a lot since most forum fonts use the cap I that looks like an l -lower case L. In forums that allow a subtitle I often put in eye-oh-one, like the state, or Hawkeye to help peeps. Where is the naming fairy when you need her!?

Good luck on your book.