Hello Friends,Welcome to Part 2 of Scrapping Your Family History!In Part 1, Scrapping Your Family History: No Photo? No Problem!, we looked at how to scrap a family history page when you don’t have a photograph of your ancestor (use maps and documents; take a picture of a family heirloom; focus on locations and occupations; and so on). In today’s post, I’d like to showcase some of the different styles you can use to bring your family history pages to life.When I first started scrapping my family history, I had a very traditional paper scrap approach indeed. Here’s my first family history layout, created in 2007. Were you looking for some patterned papers? You can find them on this layout, LOL!I still love a traditional paper scrap look, which is basically my scrappy comfort zone. However, thanks to the influence of the TLP designers, Pollys, and scrappers, and to the … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | Winterize Me
Hey everyone I'm back on the blog for a little fun this happy Tuesday. At least I hope it's a happy day where you are. As we push closer to the end of the year, many regions of the world are gearing up for winter. The color, snowy season that blankets the earth with its wonder. Of course with winter and snow come lots of outdoor activities (and indoor ones too) as well as things like shoveling and of course, our favorite holiday, Christmas. lolI was browsing the winter section of the shop earlier and saw so many wonderful things that can help us document all those cold memories. One thing I was really interested in seeing was the template options so I figured I'd come over to the blog and share them here too. I wanted to find options with clear winter themes and others that may not be specifically themed but could definitely work to winterize my pages.The template area of the … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | A Clean Slate
Hey everyone I'm super excited to be presenting my very first Polly blog post here at TLP. Every month I enjoy playing along with the challenges and one of my favorites is seeing what designer will be giving us a cool new template for the template challenge. This month Lynn Grieveson is giving us a super easy clean & simple template design that lends itself well as a clean slate ready for your creative ideas! Find the November challenge template in the shop right now and it's totally FREE for the month.If you know me, then you know I love me some clusters but sometimes I just need a clean slate to be creative with. To let all my ideas just ebb & flow on the page. The template Lynn designed this month allowed me to do just that. This is Lynn's template:I started with the clean slate of her simple design with all that whitespace:and my first steps were pretty … [Read more...]
Scrapping Your Family History: No Photo? No Problem!
Hello Friends!Are you one of those lucky scrappers who've inherited a cherished family photo album, or a couple of shoeboxes full of old family photos? Good for you! You’re already well on your way to scrapping beautiful and compelling family history pages.Alas! many of us are not so lucky. Maybe you have a branch of the family that just didn’t do photographs? Or perhaps a treasured family album was lost to flood or fire? or mistakenly sold off at a yard sale (that time when my dad accidentally sold my mother's beautiful satin wedding gown at a garage sale!...)? Or maybe you’ve taken a deeper dive into your family history, and want to scrap about an ancestor who lived and died before the invention of photography in the mid-19th century?In this post, I want to give you some ideas, and show you some examples, of how to scrap an interesting and visually appealing layout about … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday: One Template, Four Ways
Hello friends!TLP's wonderful designer Allison Pennington created a fantastic template for our October template challenge. FYI, it is free this month, so check out the October Template Challenge thread in the TLP forum to download it and join in the monthly challenge fun. It is such a versatile template and there are already so many great layouts from our TLP community using it and I wanted to see what I could make with it too!I love using templates, but I have a peculiarity about me where I'm always driven to see how I can change it up a bit and make it unique to me. For some reason, I really never use a template as designed and love the creative spark a template offers me. So this month I decided to see how I could use one template and not only change it up, but change it up multiple times. I wanted to see if I could create 4 different layouts - and each layout needed to look … [Read more...]
Seasonal Inspiration: Leafy Layouts
Hi there! Even if it is not Autumn where you are, you may have noticed the abundance of foliage in the gallery recently and whether it's the greenery of Spring or crunchy colours of Fall, leaves are always in season to me and today I'm looking at some of the ways leaves are showing up on your pages.____________________________________________________________________This layout by Traumelfe uses a method we'd usually reserve for flowers, a bouquet style cluster complete with bow, to give dimension and amplify the colours of her papers and photo and pops against the white background. The placement against the colourful hexagons and photo draws the eye right in to the centre of the page. This page by kayteapea also uses a cluster of leaves but more like a border or path and this is such a great way to showcase a mix and match variety of leaves! Love the way the leaves … [Read more...]