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June 2008

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Show Me Your Colors

Janneke Smit

While taking a shower a few weeks ago I was thinking I should make a scrapbook page about my website, to document what it looked like in 2008. I am sure I will change it again soon and it will be nice to keep a record of the changes over the years. Then I thought that many scrapbookers have a blog or website and perhaps this would be a fun idea for them as well. ScrapStreet Magazine turned this idea into a more general publication call to make a layout about you, including journaling, based on the colors of your blog or website. Let’s take a look at some of the submissions we received.

My homepage is basically a short scrapbooking bio, some artwork and images, contact info and navigation. I wanted to keep my scrapbook page as close to my homepage as possible, but I chose to leave out my contact info and navigation. Michelle has a blog with a white background and each of her posts has all colors of the rainbow. She created a scrapbook page that looked like a color wheel on a white background. It matches her blog - Living Life in Color - perfectly. Brianne’s blog also has a white background and some black and white images for the header. She created her layout based on the title of her blog - One Crazy, Beautiful Day at a Time – and used the clean style of her blog for her page design. Please turn the page for some more ideas.

Design note: : I created the artwork myself in Adobe Illustrator. I replaced the welcome message on my homepage with the title and I used the thin orange outline around the navigation buttons as a frame around my whole page. (Black outline only for viewing purposes.)

www.jannekesmit.com by Janneke Smit. Supplies: Software: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Font: Verdana, Photo by Hans Smit.

Journaling: Hiya! My name is Janneke Bakker - Smit Duyzentkunst, but I usually just use the part "Smit". I am 41 years old, I am married to my best friend Hans and we have two kids; a 6 year old boy named Darren and a 4 year old girl named Larissa. I am a full time Mom and a part time bookkeeper for my husband's home based business. My husband and I were born and raised in the Netherlands, but we moved to Southern California in 2000. Our children were born here and we love living in So Cal! I was introduced to traditional scrapbooking by our babysitter not long after our son was born, in 2001. In the summer of 2005 I started playing with a free digital kit and one month later I had designed my first digital kit. I love all different kinds of scrapbooking; paper, hybrid and digital; I create layouts, cards and other projects.

Janneke's Blog

Design note: To make the sections of the circle, I cut out a circle in the size I wanted on a piece of unused cardboard, cut it into the number of sections I wanted, and traced those sections on the patterned papers. And then I simply pieced back the sections to make a complete circle. I LOVE bright colors of the rainbow against a white background.

Trying the Cute Thing by Michelle Tan. Supplies: Paper: KI Memories, American Crafts, Urban Lily, Chipboard: Urban Lily, Scenic Route, Ribbon: KI Memories, Other: buttons, ribbons.

Journaling: On our date evening last summer, Jay took me up to the top of Brooklyn where the wind turbine is. It was a gorgeous summer evening. We took a few silly pictures and this one is my favorite...me trying to do the 'cute' pose thing with the peace sign that Koreans and Japanese girls do... Do I look cute? Maybe...

Michelle's Blog

Design note:

My blog does not have any background color or any particular scheme, but I am very drawn to colorful pictures, as well as a mixture of fonts and colors. I decided not to use any patterned paper on this layout and really push the simplicity of my blog into the design.

My Life by Brianne Nevill. Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper, Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket, Fonts: CK Ali’s Writing, Comic Book Commando, Up In Arms, Playdough, Dread, Blood of Dracula, Screaming, Other: buttons.

Journaling: My life is full of crazy, beautiful things. The simplest things bring me SUCH joy. Watching Matthew look at his Cars with such interest and pretending they talk to one another, to the making snakes out of playdough. Don’t get me wrong, not everything in my life is like this. There are things like work, bills, picking up after a household of boys, and bills (oh wait, did I already say that?) that get me down. Hearing my son and husband play together in the next room brings me right back up again (minus the screaming toddler sounds, of course). My life is just one crazy day at a time, and that’s really good for me right now.

Brianne's Blog

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