Layouts by the numbers

Pumpkin Farm mini-book

Ok, this is perhaps the craziest scrapbooking project I've ever done.  Remember how AOL used to send out CD mailers CONSTANTLY, and sometimes they got oddly creative?  Well this project uses a wooden CD mailer. 

Half of the pictures are just pictures, and for the other half I used a digital kit from Chef (ScrapKitchen Designs) to make scrapbook-enhanced photos.  :)

The scrapbooking paper is an old Chatterbox line, and who knows where I got those stickers.  Other than that?  Lots of Mod Podge, and lots of ribbon.

My best friend and I have gone to Walden Pumpkin Farm with our kids every year but one since 2005.  We love it for the photo ops!

My boy

This is a fold-out page.  I censored my very pregnant belly for the internet, but these pictures RULE.  I love love this page.  :)

Me @ 5

Yes, I am once again using a fold-out on a scrapbook page as therapy for being upset from random things in childhood.  :)

It's a fine line

I made this page in Jan. '06.  It's just dawning on me that I never posted it.  duh. :)

If you really look, you can tell that the paper that {art} is on folds out for the journaling (which I forgot to scan.  heh.)

New baby

The fold-out in this layout is actually only held to the layout with those hinge-stickers!  (They're cardstock weight.)  I gave myself a TON of journaling space on this layout by adding the fold-out.  ;)

Books

the top picture on the 1st page is hinged on the left and folds out for journaling and another photo.

My Room

This is like the ULTIMATE fold-out/journaling layout.  The above is what the layout looks like in a scrapbook.  Below shows the fold-out from the 2nd page.  That stripe along the left edge?  That's where the folded edge is.

ENFP = ME

This page is in the "fold-outs" category because I made the square that my photo is on to be an envelope, which holds the testing papers.  The darkest purple paper is the envelope, I just mounted everything else to it, and when cutting, I left 1/2 inch on each side to fold under and attach to the layout (well, except for the top.)

Paint Is Fun

This is such an easy trick -- when you're cutting your patterned paper to mat the photo (top photo), leave about a 1/2 inch on one side, for mounting to the layout.  With a 4x6 image, you've given yourself 48 more square inches to work with!

Broken Arm

Here's an example of how to make more space for journaling -- I mounted the top right image on patterned paper, then left enough on the right edge to fold under and attach just that strip to the layout.  The journaling in the second image is underneath and behind that top picture.