Multi-photo layouts – scrapping and tips from the Design Team!

One of our popular kinds of blog posts are those that incorporate tips and how to use more photos on your layouts (see our last multi-photo layout blog post here).

So we’ve decided to do it again, and get more tips and advice from the Design Team!

Check out Elizna’s clever layout incorporating 5 photos onto her Pack Your bags layout.  We love how she’s used the ‘Itinerary’ (P427) paper and cut them ‘notes’ out as embellishments!

Layout by Elizna Parsons: Pack your bags patterned paper, embroidered badges, epoxy brads, colour and black rubons.

The ‘Itinerary’ paper is perfect for travel and multiple photo layouts!

Our next layout is from Sam!

We love how she’s used her swing tag from the packaging of her products to created a unique title!!

“When creating a multi photo layout I often like to use different sized photos.  I tend to like overlapping my photos too, as it just seems to make it work better for me.  I’m not really huge on journalling, so often having more photos on a layout can help tell the story a bit better.  On this page I have added a small amount of journalling and incorporated one of the product tags in it too”.

Layout by Sam Hauzer: Rewind papers, Rewind tag, Rewingembroidered badge and ink, small lowercase chipboard letters.

Next up is Rona’s layout:

Layout by Rona Bailey: Rewind Papers, Rewind Inks, Rewind Stamps, Kaisercraft Chipboard letters, mini alphas

Here’s her tips for using multiple photos on your scrapbook layouts:

Tips for using multiple photos:

• Choose photos from an event or a series of photos over a period of time of a certain subject that relate to each other, In this layout I have used photos of my boys at play, that shows the fun they have together.
• Play around with the sizes of the photos(I don’t like my photos to be to small, I still like to be able to see what is happening in each photo)
• Overlap the photos to fit
• Dont stick anything down until you are happy
• I take a “quick photo” on my mobile phone before moving anything (then I can remember where everything goes)
• Start attaching photos using your “quick photo” as a reference

Next up is Pam’s lilac avenue layout.

“This layout uses a series of school photo to show how my daughter changed over four year at primary school.”

Steps to create this layout:
1.    Drybrush lilac paint onto the Wisteria paper, behind where you wish to place the circle. Drybrush outward from the centre.
2.    Cut a circle from Dandelion paper (yellow side), scallop edges, doodle around edge, adhere to layout.
3.    Doodle frames around the photo, incorporating dates. Adhere to LO. .This helps relate the photos to each other
4.    Embellish with diecut scallop, and rub ons
5.    Add diecut journaling block, and flower embellishments.
6.    Add title
7.    Stamp one butterfly onto layout and another onto dandelion paper. Cut this one out and adhere to layout using foam pads to add dimension.

“Since most scrapbookers have a ton of photos to scrap, it makes sense to make layouts containing more than one photo,” said Pam

And here’s some of Pam’s tips for creating fun multi-photo layouts:
1.    Try to vary the size of your photo. You can do this by:
•  Cropping
• Resizing in a photo editing programme
•  Making a collage in a photo editing programme. Try Picasa (Free download from google).

2.    Use  a series of photo to depict: an event-like a birthday, an action-like a race at sports day, the passing of time-like how your child has grown and changed, an observation-like how a family resemblance has been passes through the generations.

3.    If you are struggling to fit your photo on a page use a sketch.
•  A one photo sketch works for multiphotos too. Just arrange multiple photos with the allocated space.
•  Find a mulitphoto sketch  from a site such as Page Maps
•  And of course Kaisercraft’s very own Saturday Sketches.

How you do you scrap your stash of photos?

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