500 Scrapbooking Sketches: How to Scrapbook More Attractive Layouts with Limited Scrapping Time
Scrapbooking sketches are such time-savers and so helpful to beginners. That's why I hardly scrapbook without them nowadays. Sketches save me the headaches of having to "plan" out my page placement. I had the experience of being stuck for long minutes while I agonized over the placement of my elements. Time-wasting! Whether you're a creative powerhouse who's stuck in a rut, or a beginner who doesn't know where to start, a traditional or a digi scrapper, a collection of sketches is sure to explode your creativity. Life can get busy and scrapping times can be limited, so during such moments, all you want is a "surefire way" to put together a page quickly before you make an exit! That's why I found Jennifer Gormly's 500 Scrapbooking Sketches e-Book to be a practical resource tool. She's an expert on single-page sketches. What's winning about Jennifer's sketches? They come in a hassle-free and easy-to-follow black & white format. Besides the placements of standard elements, she'll also drop in some "extra bits" like border strips, row of circle embellisments, hanging tags, etc on various sketches. Note: Jennifer's book is an e-Book (electronic book) which you can download to your computer as soon as you order. No postal /shipping fee. Instant Results When You Use ItWhen I first chanced upon this e-Book, I was excited as it claims to have one of the largest collections of sketches ever. I gotta say I got instant results from this e-book. How? It came out at the right time when I've just decided to start a new a scrapbook album based on mostly one-page scrapbooks. I was looking for single-page inspiration and ideas. The moment I used this e-book, I immediately created two new layouts! You'll get to see these layouts further down the page. Before that, let's peek into the Table of Contents of this valuable 54-page e-Book and see what's in it:
Right now, you can look at one of Jennifer's sketches and see how she created a layout based on her own sketch.
Make the Most of Your Limited Scrapping TimeWhat do I like about 500 Scrapbooking Sketches? It's a no-frill, straight-forward reference guide that's packed with many sketches. All in one place. All at the convenience click of a button for printing out if desired. And I did print out mine. I like having the scrapbook sketch right in front of me while I scrap. :-) I also like it that it's neatly organized and categorized by the number of photos for easy reference. By categorizing the sketches by the number of photos, I can quickly flip to the relevant category for the sketches that fit my requirements. Let's say if I want to create a 3-photos single-page layout, I simply turn to page 34,and viola! A bunch of 3-photos sketches will appear. A time-saver. But I feel that the section on combining the single-page sketches to create double-page sketches might be a little tricky for beginners. If you don't mind spending some time to do the mix-and-match, you might come up with some really creative double-page sketches. It's still an excellent resource for single-page inspiration. Another thing you might want to take note. Some of Jennifer's sketches are without "Titles" and some don't include journaling area. So don't be surprised when you come upon those. Not all pages need a title and not all pages need journaling. If you still feel like something is "missing", simply add in your own title/journaling, like I did for one of the sketches below. With this e-Book, accomplishing a few stunning scrapbook layouts after a scrapping session is very possible! It Works. These Scrapbook Sketches Survived the "Road-Test"To put my newly-acquired 500 Scrapbooking Sketches e-Book to a "road test", I decided to meet up with a good friend for a 3-hour scrapping and chatting session one Sunday afternoon. Both of us have not been paper scrapping for months and this was the "getting back into the groove" scrapping session. We were getting "rusty"... Our project was to create two theme pages for that session. She didn't use any scrapbooking sketches while I had chosen two sketches from my new e-Book to use. As I already knew which sketches I would be using, I set down to work immediately with my chosen supplies while she stared at her photos... Results? I created two scrapbook pages as shown below well within the targeted time. My friend? She struggled to finish up on just one layout. I'm pleased with the results. Would I be using more of Jennifer's sketches? Yes! In fact, I've since created several more layouts using the sketches from this e-Book. Powerful time-saver!
Created based on Sketch 003 from 500 SS e-Book Note: The sketch didn't come with a "Title", so I added in my own title. I also added a flower embellishment at the top left corner of the photo. Supplies used: Patterned paper- Basic Grey Urban Couture "Jacquard"; Cardstocks - The Paper Company; Letter stickers - Thickers by American Crafts; Flowers - Prima Marketing; Pens - Staedtler Triplus Fineliner, White UniBall Signo; Others: Buttons.
Created based on Sketch 005 from 500 SS Sketches e-Book Note: The sketch offers single block of journaling, but I decided to break it into two blocks of journaling on the notebook papers. I also sprinkled different embellishments on the layout. Supplies used: Patterned paper - Basic Grey Urban Couture "Gabardine"; Cardstocks - The Paper Company; Flowers - Prima Marketing; Letter Stickers - Thickers by American Crafts; Pens - Staedtler Triplus Fineliner; Others: Measuring Tape patterned paper, buttons, notebook papers.
Created based on Sketch 485 from 500 Scrapbooking Sketches e-Book Note: The sketch doesn't come with a journaling block so I added one in. Other than that, I followed it closely. Supplies used: Cardstocks - The Paper Company; Chipboard embellishment - Brenda Pinnick by Paper Confections; Clear stamp - Autumn Leaves; Flowers - Prima Marketing; Pens - Uni-Pin Fine Line and Zig Memory System; Others: Ric-rack and buttons. If you want to save time and scrapbook more beautiful pages, I'd recommend you
get this very useful e-Book now.
|
