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Whilst I have your attention Dave, can you explain something else please? I use your solution to importing lines into LO to create correctly positioned and scaled dotted lines which cannot be created in SU. It involves creating a scene without the lines and another with the same camera position including only those lines. You then explode the latter in LO. Quite often, I am not left with just the lines but a white background as well that obliterates everything under it. I am not sure how you make sure you do not import a background. Is it to do with the imported scene settings?
Scrapbook entities will generally be displayed in the scrapbook pane smaller than they really are. On the PC (on mine anyway), when the entities is dragged out on to the page it is not shown until I let go of the mouse but when it is displayed, the entity is larger than it is shown in the Scrapbook window.
I always try to find ways to make unique and interesting scrapbook layouts but it's hard when everything has been done before. I've notices that if I'm repeating myself and create the same scrapbook pages again and again the entire scrapbooking experience becomes boring. So in order to make things more interesting for me and make my pages more exciting I found a way to change things up a little. I've started working on making unique and different scrapbook page backgrounds that will be surprising and new!
Most of the pages we make have a standard 12x12 cardstock background. We sometimes use solid cardstock and sometimes patterned cardstock but we usually stop there and concentrate on unique embellishments, pretty photos and interesting journaling to turn the page into a work of art. How about concentrating on the scrapbook page background? Making it surprising and different so it will stand out?
Use a piece of canvas or fabric as your background. Canvas or fabric are much less sturdy but if you put your page inside a page protector that won't be a problem. Fabric and canvas gives you more design options that paper can't. For example:
There is one full proof way to have a unique background and that is to make it yourself! Today you don't even need to have any graphic skills or fancy computer programs you can use online free options like canva.com to design your paper. After your paper is ready you download it to your computer and print it.
One of my favorite layouts is the one I used my son's drawing in the background. I scanned the drawing and then used Photoshop to cut it out and add it to a 12x12 paper I designed. If you don't have Photoshop you can cut out the drawing with scissors or ask your kids to draw on a white 12x12 cardstock.
Need some more scrapbook page inspiration? Check out the 45 Scrapbook Page Ideas eBook where you'll find step by step tutorals for making unique and beautiful layouts, detailed photos and lots of tips and tricks o make amazing pages!
We believe simple is not how your page looks, but how your scrapbooking hobby works. We have a free workshop called SPARKED and it is the best way to learn more about Simple Scrapper and start creating consistently.
So I thought I would share with you some of the backgrounds in my scrapbook and how I did them as inspiration for those of you who (like me) need a bit of help making things look craftier than they are :p
I used to scrapbook but I got so busy that I could no longer find the time. I have three scapbooks, two for my boys and one family one but they are falling apart. I might start new ones this spring. This is a great idea!
My next layout share will be working with the brown/grey stamped background I created, also inspired by the collaged effect found on the B-side papers from the 49 and Market-Spectrum Sherbet Classics pack. You can view images of this stamped background in my last blog post, scroll right to the bottom to view them.
As I had quite a rush going on and just a moment for my sweet crafts, I decided to create the simplest background ever. By using my electric cutting machine, I simply drew some triangles in several sizes, cut them out and the same was repeated with the title. A simple font, simple title, a thick line below and cut.
The scrapbook craze is always present! This technique is so cool and awesome to show off that it's never a thing of the past. Thanks to these templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint that imitate scrapbooking, you'll amaze everyone with the visuals of your presentation
I thought of bringing fresh life to my blog and since I moved to Wu Wei, a WordPress theme that allows me to upload my own blog backgrounds, What the Heck! I can make my own backgrounds! So, I started messing around with free patterned backgrounds but I found that most of them were unreadable between the font colors that the WordPress template offered and the patterns/colors I selected. Then it struck me that I needed to make a background with two areas- a white/cream colored center area which would be under the blog text and a patterned outer area that would not be below the blog text.
Personally, i don't care for scrapbook paper as wallpaper for a couple of reasons. Its hard to find a print that looks to scale, they are generally larger designs. I also don't like the fact that if your wall is longer than your scrapbook paper, you have a seam somewhere along your wall. It's your preference really. I did use scrapbook paper in my beacon hill in the hallway and my dining room as well as the ceilings. I do have seams on the ceilings. Not sure how i will deal with that yet. It kinda bothers me tho.
I have found some really nice scrap book paper in check I have used for kitchen and bathroom floors . The check is just the right size, about 1/2 inch square if you can find it. I use regular wall paper paste that comes in a tub . I get it at Ace Hardware. It's around nine dollars for a good size resealable tub. I put what I need for a project in a smaller Rubbermaid, etc., container and the rest stays fresh in the tub until needed. The best I found so far in patterns is one with sunflowers on a waterstained-looking background, and just last week a black on white toile that is about to scale. HBS has a good buy now on older patterns from Minigraphics for $5.99 and $6.99 for 12 and 18 sheets. I stocked up.
I found some lovely scrapbook paper at Hobby Lobby and used it entirely in my Garfield. www.miniatures.com had a sale awhile ago on some regualr dollhouse papers which I used on the first floor of my Brimble. Either seems to work just fine. I just used Aleen's glue-- the same glue I used to glue my houses together, but thinned it down a bit with water, then used an old credit card to even it out.
I live just West (and a bit South) of SLC too. MRS Hobby is a fun place. Not a lot of dollhouse minis, but the train stuff is really cool. There's another hobby shop on 5400 South just off of Redwood Rd - West Valley Hobby. They don't carry dollhouse supplies per se, but they're a great source for landscaping and stripwood. They also have a decent selection of tools. Michael's or Robert's or Joann's are good places to look for scrapbook paper or fabric. Oh, and there's another dollhouse shop on the East side of the valley called Daffodil Miniatures. I haven't been there but I'd love to check it out sometime. They have a website too - I'll try to find the link. I usually end up doing most of my shopping online though, because there's such a large selection and usually things cost less than what you can find locally.
I've used scrapbook paper on a few houses and it works pretty well. Depending on the pattern of the paper, you can usually disguise the seams alright. I've used Grandmother Stover's glue on my wallpapers and like it a lot.
I got a square paper punch to punch out my scrapbooking paper to "mix and match" patterns and make it look like tile or linoleum. I can't remember what size the squares are though. But I think it's great to use scrapbooking paper, especially as that is one of my other hobbies.
I am using scrapbook paper for my BH. So far, it's worked out just fine. As far as the seam issue, what I do, if I need more paper than just one sheet cause of the size of the wall (which so far for my house has been every wall). Rather than butting the seams up together (very noticeably), you can just overlap the seams, with the seam that is overlapping facing towards the back of the house. I really hope this makes sense. If not, PM me and I would be happy to re-explain it. As much as I wish I could take credit for this lovely tip, I have to give credit to none other than Miss Havanaholly. This method really works!! Good luck.
Since it's stiff it can be not so good for funny angles. I had trouble when I tried to use stiff scrapbook paper for the upstairs of the Arthur. But I've used it in my Orchid, McKinley, and Fairfield with good results. For the Fairfield I think it made papering easier because I could fold the paper in the correct configuration for small areas (like the hallways) and slip it in more easily than I would have been able to with flimsy wallpaper.
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