Digital SN@P-Booking

Hello scrapbooking friends!

 

I'm Sara and I'm back this month to show you some more of the new releases in the Digital Store [1]!  There were lots of choices this month and I decided to once again work with my very favorite parts of the Simple Stories collections - the 3x4 and 4x6 cards!  I am having a blast experimenting with digital pocket pages, and have been even trying to use pocket style pages for scrapping events instead of strictly daily life.  I love making each little pocket it's own layout and mixing colors and patterns and finding just the right photos.  It is hard to narrow down which cards and patterns I want to use, though.  Simple Stories has an understanding for fun, lively colors.  

 

I started out working with the bright and sunny digital Summer Paradise Simple Set [2], which has so many refreshing and bright patterns, it calls to mind a warm summer day on a beach with your toes in the sand.  Which, for this Minnesota girl in the thick of winter, was a welcome change of pace! 

 

 

I dug up some pictures from our trip up to Lake Superior last summer since beach trips are few and far between for our family.  Once I found the pictures of my boys playing in the sand and in the water, I knew what I wanted to do with this collection.  I like to incorporate multicolored papers in my pages as much as I can, so this turned out really bright!  I also love to mix things up a bit sometimes and use some of the smaller square cards on a page with the traditional 4x6 and 3x4 layout by shrinking them down a little and putting them on a patterned background.  

 

I wasn't sure if I would be able to pull off a second project as I found myself stuck in a huge creative rut this month for whatever reason (or...winter).  But when the first digital SN@P! Set - the Love SN@P! Set [3] - became available, inspiration struck and I was so excited!

 

 

I have been known to randomly stage a little "photoshoot" from time to time and so I pulled out a few things toward the end of January to do a little Valentine's Day photoshoot of my boys.  I purposely picked a day when it was nicer outside so I could use outside play as a bribe to get them to sit for pictures, since they don't often get to play outside during our frigid winters.  I knew I wanted to use the Sn@p set to document a few of the pictures I captured that day and it turned out almost exactly as I had envisioned in my head.  

 

 

I like to pop a few of the elements off the page to give it a little more of a realistic look - like I had used pop dots on them.  I scattered hearts around the whole layout with the "pop dot" effect, and even on a few of the hearts in the jar to give that card a little bit of extra dimension.  This came together so very easily for me and I was thrilled to feel inspired once again!

 

Thanks for dropping by, and happy scrapping!