Under Cover

 Janneke Smit

Let’s take a look at some more under cover pages. Just like Jenn did, Lindsey cropped off part of the photo - not to take away distracting objects, but to tell her story better. Julie placed an embellishment right on top of her photo to hide a sewer cover.

Mireille also covered part of her photo, but the story behind her layout is a little different from the others. I was so happy she gave me permission to share her story with you: “My firstborn had no hair for months and months. When Noah was born I was thrilled to see his hair. I was totally over the moon; I had a baby with hair! Can you imagine my face when I put him to bed Sunday night and woke him up Monday morning and found all his hair in his crib? … He had lost everything overnight. I cried for days and when I made a layout with this lovely picture of him I found myself covering his hairless little head with patterned paper. I can laugh about the story now (now that he has a lot of hair), but at that moment it was the perfect solution.” – Mireille Divjak

Whether you want to hide something distracting, something tangible or something emotional, under cover is the way to go!

Design note: I loved this photo of my husband keeping my daughter warm after a day at the beach in Chicago. I had the photo printed while on vacation to clear my memory card. When I got home I noticed the sewer cover on the sidewalk in photograph...bummer. If I had the digital version I could have cloned it out but I did not. So instead I decided to cover it up with a coordinating embellishment. I think it did the job.

Design note: The reason I chose half of a picture (actually, half the height from the middle of the picture) was just to crop off the parts of the picture that might confuse meaning. I wanted to scrap a moment and a story, not a picture. I added a descriptive title through the page to enhance that moment and to tell the story at the same time. 

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