When I digital scrapbook, I create a whole layout on one document in Photoshop.  After I am finished with the page, I copy and paste each half of the layout onto separate "pages."  That way I can place them in my "books" that are later published.  You'll notice that I leave margins around the edges of each page to make room for "bleeding." Bleeding is where the picture is printed all the way to the edges, and some of the picture is lost in the printing.  

The most pages I have done in one week was about 160, which was a book I made of my family reunion in July 2006.  For the most part, the pages were very simple, and I used very few embellishments (not only because of time constraint, but also because I have five brothers who aren't really into "frills").  It was quite a task.  My mom came out to take care of my kids so I could finish the project before Christmas.  NOTE TO SELF: Don't attempt to do that many in a week again.

Monday, March 10, 2008

You guessed it--I got my inspiration for this lo from the Italian flag. I never realized how "Christmassy" the Italian flag looked until I did this page. Perhaps I could just change the pictures and wording out and reuse it for a Christmas scrapbook page. One nice thing about digital scrapbooking is that you can take a layout you've already created, and with a few simple steps, create what I like to call, "Scrapover templates. You just need to change the pictures, the text, and, if you wanted, the colors. Very easy to do. I'm actually thinking about using layouts I've already completed and creating pages with new photos and backgrounds. That way I don'thave to spend so much time creating a layout. Maybe I'd get caught up.
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