Words for Wednesday – Lyrics (freebie alert!!!)
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Hi blog readers! Marci here! So, today I’m talking about using music lyrics in your pages. This is something that I love to do! I love music and have loved it all my life! My mom and dad are both amazing singers and my mom is an amazing pianist. I learned my love of music from them. So when I started digital scrapbooking I wanted to be able to put something that I love so much into my new hobby! I feel like putting in a catchy song lyric can really brighten up your page and give you the perfect title! It can also capture the type of emotion you’re trying to get across in your layout.
The first time I tried to use lyrics in a layout was for a wedding picture. I put the lyrics to our wedding song over one of our wedding pictures. This song meant and still means so much to me, so I wanted it to be the focus of the page. I also used the first line of the song for another page I did with a wedding picture.
The next LO I tried was with some pictures that I did of our trip to Canada, where I’m from. We got to spend a lot of time with my best and oldest friend and so I wanted a statement that really captured our friendship! And who better describes friendship than Dionne Warwick!
The next one I did was a really special page that I did for my mother-in-law. She LOVES Disneyland! So for Christmas I made her a page with 2 of her favorite things, Minnie Mouse and My daughter Eden. Well of course I needed the perfect title, and for anyone who’s been to Disneyland, you know that there is a magical feeling that is in those walls! So I wanted to have a little ‘magic’ in my title!
The next page is one that just came to me when I was in my car listening to the best song! It’s called, I’m in Love With You by Joy Williams. I was listening to the lyrics and I got a little teary eyed because I just loved the lyrics so much. It made me think of my sweet husband. So I immediately went home and started to think of how I could use that song in a LO. So I put the lyrics on top of a paper in text form, and then changed the opacity so that it looked like it was just part of the paper. Then I used the last line of the song as the title of the page!
So as you can see, music is something that you can use to really make a page mean more to you! SO – the next time you’re stuck with no ideas for a title or theme for a LO, think about your favorite song, or think about those classics songs that are so clever, you just have to put them on a LO! To get you started using music and lyrics in your pages, Brittney (Britt-ish Designs) created a fun freebie for everyone!
It is now available for sale in the ScrapMatters’ Shop–while you’re in the shop make sure to grab our other freebies too) or link expired (4shared). Leave us some love or say hi when you download!
Here’s one I just did with one of the freebie wordarts! Isn’t this freebie awesome?! So many cute lyrics! Great job Britt…I don’t know who wouldn’t want one of these!
Happy scrapping everyone!
