Design Strategies for Scrapbooking Teachers Manual: 2nd Edition

Design Strategies for Scrapbooking:  Teachers’ Edition

By Pam Hedden

©2021

Table of Contents

Introduction      4

Required Supplies      5

Lesson #1a: Getting Started      10

Lesson 1b: Let’s Start Scrapbooking      17

Lesson 1c: How You Scrapbook      20

Lesson #2: Sharing Your Story      27

Lesson #3: Focal Point      35

Lesson 4: Colours: Choice, Regulation, Contrast      41

Lesson #5a: Visual Flow and Repetition      48

Lesson 5b: Visual Triangles & Odd Numbers      51

Lesson #6: Space      56

Lesson #7a: Alignment      61

Lesson 7b: Grounding      62

Lesson 8: Balance      67

Introduction

I used to teach a series of classes to help scrapbookers improve their layouts with some interesting techniques and strategies. I haven’t taught it for quite a while, years in fact, but a group of past students asked if I would be willing to teach the program as a refresher for them as well as for scrappers who had never taken the course before. I agreed. After all, how much work would there be? All I had to do was find my notes to refresh my memory. I quickly realized that my notes were seriously out of date. Change comes so quickly to the scrapbooking world and I was going to have to do the necessary research and rewrite the entire program to reflect the new products and ideas that so many scrapbookers have embraced.

This book is the result. I hope it will inspire you to create many beautiful layouts.

Please realize these strategies are not for every single layout you ever create. Try these strategies if you are unhappy with the layout you are working on. One of these may be the solution to finding happiness in your finished project.

Required Supplies

There are several ways to prepare for teaching these classes. Here’s what I have learned over the years.

This class works better as a two day workshop. If the individual classes are held too far apart participation tends to drop.

If you are not providing the required supplies for the classes give your students a copy of the supply list so they can pack kits in advance.

I usually suggest buying a paper pack collection or two and then add a stack of matching cardstocks and, of course, some neutral cardstocks rather than individual page kits for each class.

Lesson #1

I Dare You Game

prepare slips of paper and a basket to put them in

Layout #1

Photos: 2-3/4 x 4-3/4 (three), 3-3/4 x 3-3/4, 3-3/4 x 4-3/4",

and 3-3/4 x 5-3/4

1 sheet of Patterned Paper #1

1 sheet of Patterned Paper #2

1 sheet of Patterned Paper #3

1 sheet of Patterned Paper #4

2 identical sheets of Patterned Paper #5 (or 2 sheets of identical

cardstock)

2 identical sheets of Cardstock #1

title

ribbon

embellishments

border punch

hole punch

ink

acrylic paint and foam brush

distressing tool

Lesson #2

Let’s try a little experiment

writing paper

pens or pencils

Better Handwriting

No. 2 pencil, ruler, scrapbooking pen or marker, white eraser

Layout #2

Photos: 3-3/4 x 5-3/4 (two) and 2-3/4 x 4-3/4 (three)

1 sheet Patterned Paper #1

1 sheet Patterned Paper #2

1 sheet Patterned Paper #3

1 sheet Patterned Paper #4

2 identical sheets of Cardstock #1

1 sheet Cardstock #2

1 sheet Cardstock #3

metal clips

washi tape

ink

title

embellishments

Lesson #3

Practice Choosing

each student to bring a small stack of photos from a single event

Layout #3

Photos: 3-3/4 x 5-3/4" portrait-oriented photos (five)

1 sheet of Patterned Paper #1

2 identical sheets of Cardstock #1

1 sheet of Cardstock #2

1 sheet of Cardstock #3

title

ink

embellishments such as die cuts, stickers, etc.

Lesson #4

My Eyes

photo at least 4 x 6" of student’s eyes

1 sheet Patterned Paper #1 to match student’s eye colour

1 sheet Patterned Paper #2 black

1 sheet Cardstock #1 white or other neutral

1 sheet Cardstock #2 to match Patterned Paper #1

title

ink

embellishments

Layout #2

Photos: 8 x 10 and four 3-3/4 x 3-3/4

1 sheet Patterned Paper #1

1 sheet Patterned Paper #2

2 identical sheets Cardstock #1

2 identical sheets Cardstock #2

title

ink

tags and die cuts

washi tape

border punch

Lesson #5

Testing Z flow

two sample layouts, one with the focal point photo in the top left

hand side and Z flow, the other where the focal point photo is not

in the top left hand corner and there is no Z flow

Practicing Z flow

each student to bring a small stack of photos from a single event

some sample layouts

Off again on again

4 of the same embellishments such as brads for each student

Layout #5

Photos: 4 x 6 landscape, 4 x 4, and three 3-1/4 x 4"

1 sheet Patterned Paper #1

1 sheet Patterned Paper #2

1 sheet Cardstock #1

2 identical sheets Cardstock #2

title

ink

stickers, die cuts, embellishments

border punch

Lesson #6

Why not white