Saturday Special
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Hi everyone! Jen (virginiajen) here to bring you the Saturday Special for this week. I chose Scrapbook Page Titles as my subject.
One thing that can really make a scrapbook page special is the title. It is sometimes a play on words, sometimes an important thought, a definition, a poem, a quote, a letter of the alphabet or just the one word that best describes the photos on the page. The title sets the mood for the page and introduces the person viewing your page to what you are trying to portray. There are also many ways to make a title look…using text or an alpha or multiple alphas or a combination of a fun font and an alpha, backing the title with a block of paper or leaving it floating, maybe decorating it with some elements. You can orient the title horizontal or vertical, have it touch the photos or not, it can be bold and really stand out, or be blended on to the background paper and be muted and subtle. It can be word art, or your own home made word art (by mixing fonts and using different orientation and maybe some elements) or you can clip papers to text to make the title coordinate to the papers used from a kit. There are endless ways to personalize a page and really make it come alive by customizing the title.
Sometimes a clever title comes to mind while I am scrapping a page and I just know that it’s the one. Other times I am looking for a clever way to say something and it isn’t as easy. I suggest brainstorming and writing down anything that comes to mind for your title; words, phrases, ideas. Then you might take little pieces from several of your ideas and come up with the perfect title! And then other times I need a little outside inspiration and for those times I have a couple websites that I reference to find just the right way to title my page. Here are a few good ones:
http://www.scrapbook.com/titles.php
http://www.theperfecttitle.com/
http://scrapsayings.com/say-top.htm
If you Google scrapbook page titles you’ll even find sites that list other sites where lists of title ideas can be found.
So, I want you to make a page and really concentrate on your title. Make it really work with and complement your photos and the subject of your page. Think about what the title actually says and how it looks. I know there are some really creative ways out there..show me how to make a page standout!
Here is an example I made for you using a font/alpha combo and wrapped my font text around the alpha and then to tie it all in I wrote around the circle photo a repeating line: “a circle is round and has no end”:
Circle of Friends: a digital scrapbook layout by VirginiaJen
Here is some more inspiration from our CT:
from iisuzieii…she used a cool stamp monogram and added the second part of her title in a font:
Digital layout, "6 years" by iisuzieii using digital scrapbook kit, "Whimsy."
from AlliJ2008…she repeated her cute decorated title for effect:
from kissncontrol…she actually muted her title and weaved the letters which echoed the softness of a wedding gown:
from Cristina…she also combined text with an alpha/word art:
Crisp Days of Autumn digital scrapbook page by Cristina
and from mommy22girls..she not only used her title to make her point, but the whole LO!! She used 2 kits and two alphas to set the mood she was going for:
Great great job ladies, thanks for the awesome examples!
So, now you go get scrapping and when you are done, post your layouts to the Saturday Special gallery and then link us up in the Saturday Special Gallery at SM so we can see your amazing title! You have until the end of October to complete it. You can get an extra point by using a NEW Scrap Matters product (within 1 week of release). Please note that here in the thread when you link us up so I can note your extra point. And, no double dipping, your LO must be unique to this challenge. And at the end of October, I’ll pick my favorite LO to receive one more extra point!
I can’t wait to see all the ways to title my page, I’ll probably be scrap lifting from this challenge!
Thanks,
