Hello Spring Scrapbook Layout Creating Keepsakes March April 2013

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Ahhh… spring is in the air… the days are getting longer… those occasionally annoying birds are getting louder… and the new issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine is out now!

The spring 2018 issue is packed with fun layouts and cards for spring and more, and I'm happy to share a few of my pages here today! Normally, I just do two layouts for my Design Your Story column, but I created one more page for a brand new column called—be still my heart—Design School! We'll be focusing all year on teaching different topics of design as they apply to both card making and scrapbook page layout.

Now you know I love a good story and I LOVE comparing time spans, right? My topic for the spring issue of Design Your Story is scrapbooking about you! While I've covered this before, I always need to come back to the topic to encourage women (and men!) to tell their stories. You can read more about it in the column, but here are the layouts.

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Can you document a decade in the life? When I came across that first photo—a selfie taken with a point-and-shoot camera in the pre-smart phone era—I knew I had a fun idea to make a page about yours truly. While I'm happy to report that I mostly resemble the same person a decade ago, it's wild to me how things have changed on every other level. And, of course, how some things have not. And because I like to make designing stuff like this easy, I just released the corresponding layered template today in my shop at Designer Digitals, which can be the perfect base for a hybrid layout like the one I created.

Next up, another page about me, but this one is more reminiscent of my Present Participle series here on the blog. I know it can be hard for some of us to scrapbook about ourselves, but if you take a fill-in-the-blank approach, it can seem a bit more doable!

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I used a layout kit from Close to My Heart to create this page, adding in my own typed circles for the journaling. (You can download my free circle journal layered template here!) I also added the subtitle and printed it onto my background cardstock using my wide format ink jet printer. I just eyeballed where I thought it should go to line up just below the gold metallic "currently" title. Using the active ing words, I simply chose a list based on what was in this kit already, and typed up my answer. The kit paper comes with a words already in the circles, but sometimes I don't feel like using my handwriting, and that's why I created my own.

These are small details. This is not a hard way to tell your story. It might be challenging to get a photo of yourself, but heck, take a selfie or hand your phone off to someone else. My daughter snapped this shot of me using the Portrait Mode on my iPhone 7 Plus. Easy and done.

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My final page in the issue (found in the Design School column) features a simple message to my incredible daughter, who is officially headed to law school at the University of Minnesota. I love the simple gatherings of embellishments from Pinkfresh's Escape the Ordinary collection, and the contrast of the white die cut title with the yellow and black of this page.

OUR DESIGN TEAM ROCKS! All in all, I'm really happy with the layouts I created for this issue, but seriously, go check out the full issue because our designers blow me away. There are moments when I'm laying out the magazine and I see what designers like Nicole Nowosad and Lisa Dickinson create and I'm all, "I could never come up with that!" Or Stacy Cohen andPaige Evans… honestly, we have hella talented designers that make this magazine a joy to be a part of. And I can't quit there: Virigina Nebel, Sheri Reguly, Melissa Phillips andMeghann Andrew literally hit home runs every issue, and our newer team members, Anya Lunchenko and Latisha Yoast are inspiring the heck out of me. It's… how do you say, an embarrassment of riches! And like I said, it's a pleasure to be a scrapbooker who also happens to be an art director and gets to work with what these ladies create.

CHECK OUT ALL THE GOODNESS! Click here to visit the home page for the spring 2018 issue and check out everything online today!

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