A Mixture of Methods Makes for a Marvelous Memory-filled Page

If you've been reading this blog, you know that I share different methods on how to create scrapbook pages that capture specific moments in time.

Here's a page that I worked on this afternoon from an old photograph I found while moving my mom into her new house over Thanksgiving weekend. The photograph was one from the mid 70s, old, brittle, and yellowed with age. I took that photo to my father-in-law, who worked some PhotoShop magic on it to get it to shine like the day it was first developed!

Before

After

So the first thing I did was to pull the photo into template that would feature the photo prominently. I chose Big Shot 14 Template for that.

Next I used a Disney Emoji of Captain Hook's Hook in the lower journaling pocket. You can read about how I go about using Disney Emojis on my scrapbook pages HERE.

Then I exported the whole page (even with  the empty card slot). When you have empty card slots, during the exporting process, the blank spot is filled in with whichever background color you have selected for the page, which in this case, is white. I saved the page as a photo, and then brought it back into the app and placed it in the center slot of the Squared Away 16 template.

I chose a purple-pink color plain card from the Bloom Edition card set and put those plain cards in the slots surrounding the picture. Then I exported that whole page as a photo, because I wanted to create a layered edge effect on the page. You can read about that process HERE and HERE.

Once I had the purple around my page I exported that whole page and brought it back into the PL app via the orange collage section as a 12 x 12.

Collage section of the app

12x12 card slot

I  brought the photo into this 12 x 12 card slot and pinch and zoomed so that the purple border is a narrow edge all the way around.

Then, using FFT I wanted to add text to all of the white area of the page.

It took a little manual work to get the text to flow around the hook shape. I had to add extra spaces in between words, add in manual returns and realign things every time the line wrapped, but in the end, I really like how it turned out!

I had a little extra white space at the top, so I added a pirate flag emoji (just from the Apple emojis) using FFT........and DONE!