Styles of Scrapbooking, Heritage Scrapbooking... Part 2, Digital Styles

In my previous post, I shared how heritage scrapbooking in traditional style is one of my most favorite ways to scrapbook.  There are times, though, when digital scrapbooking is essential to completing your project.  You can do some special effects with digital scrapbooking that cannot be done any other way.  You can also use it to include items in your Heritage Album that could not otherwise be used.

For example, I can take a photo of a very large painting that my mom painted and then use it digitally in my album.  I can also take a photo and enlarge it to 12 X 12" to fill the entire page, change it to be very opaque, and then add other images in photo boxes over it.  It is a beautiful technique.  With digital scrapbooking, you can add as many layers as you'd like and not have to worry about your album being too bulky.  You can also turn your page into a hybrid if you just have to add some real live embellishments to it:)

Here are some examples I've made using our My Digital Studio to create my pages.

The next 2 photos (below) are kind of like a miracle to me.  I didn't actually have this photo at all.  What I found was an old negative.  I laid it on my printer, backed it with plain white paper and ran a copy.  It worked!  I thought this photo was lost forever.

Notice the large, opaque background photo?

This photo is not in good condition, but I was able to 'tweak' it digitally and still use it in my album.  

Below... a photo of a very large painting that my mother did.

The next 2 photos are of my great great grandparents.  They were on old chipboard that was something like 2 X 5 FEET or more... very large!!! All the edges are crumbling and I know they won't last much longer.  I set them up outside and photographed them.  I know, the people are kind of scary looking, but they were part of my family history.  I wonder if she hadn't maybe had a stroke.

The next page is from an old photo that my husband's parents used for a family Christmas card.  I love it!  Wasn't my husband a cute little boy?

So... what do you think?  Would you maybe try some digital scrapbooking now?  I'll share one more way that digital scrapbooking can make some wonderful memories.  I had been making an album to celebrate the life of my FIL.  When he died, my husband asked me to make a CD that we could play at the visitation.  My digital 'album' I made is 75 pages.  My daughter set it up to play with Amazing Grace.  It was played at his visitation and everyone loved looking at it and sharing the wonderful memories from his life. 

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Styles of Scrapbooking, Heritage Scrapbooking... Part 1, Traditional Styles

Today, let's look at another popular way to scrapbook.

Heritage scrapbooking is the most meaningful style of scrapbooking, to me, because it involves showcasing your family heritage and sharing the history of your family.  I love, love, love old photos... with their gorgeous sepia tones or sharp contrasts of black and white.  The pages of my Heritage Album are rich in sepia tones, rich in family history, and they touch my heart.  This is how I can tell my family story.

10.
heritage scrapbooking
--- using vintage photos to share and preserve a family history.  This includes journaling that tells the story and history of your family.  This can be done using a traditional or digital scrapbooking style.  For this post, let's focus on the traditional pages I've created.  I'll share some digital examples in another post.

Here are several layouts I've made to showcase my family history.

This first layout is of my great grandparents, on my dad's side.  I love the poses.

This large photo is of my great grandmother, on my dad's side.  I don't have other photos to go on the opposite page of the layout, so I'll use that page for journaling and some coordinating embellishments.  She was quite the gardener and I love this photo where she is literally surrounded by her beautiful flowers.

This is one of my very favorite layouts.  It's a wedding photo from my great aunt and uncle and a photo of all my grandfather's brothers.  Here, you can see that I added torn vellum pieces with typed journaling to tell the family story.

These are my grandparents on my mom's side.  My grandpa called my grandma Molly.  The handwriting is in her own hand.  My mother had saved it in an envelope with an explanation on the front of what it was.

In this layout, I had a lot of journaling going on with it, to tell some of my family history.  Sometimes I type my journaling and print it on vellum CS.  For this layout, I wrote it all out by hand.  I feel so fortunate to have so many old family photos.  Most of them have identifying info on them.  Some, sadly, do not.

This layout is a tribute to my Aunt Vivian, my mother's sister.  I love how this layout turned out.  It took a long time to create it and I think it was well worth the time.

This layout is all ready to add my photos.

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Other Projects That Are Related to Scrapbooking

Before we move on to my 10th and final style to showcase various Styles of Scrapbooking, let's look at some related projects.  These are fun, are great for gifts and/or to display in your home.

... vintage tags ...

... scrapbook in a box ... 

... framed projects ...

These are all wonderfully fun projects and may or may not involve photos.  They all use scrapbooking supplies and can showcase your creative endeavors.  What projects have you tried lately?

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