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Taking a Trip and Mapping a Scrap!

Aloha, all!

Harry and I are finally back from a well-needed vacation to one of our sister islands, Moloka’i. We had been there for a short trip about 15 years ago. This time we spent more time and still didn’t see all that we wanted, despite the size of the island (small).

With a Stampin’ Up! workshop on my schedule for this evening, and with the hostess having requested that the Make and Take be a scrap page, I just had to get a quick scrapbook done to get ready for the demonstration! I decided on a 6" x 6" scrapbook as easier for me to complete a whole book in a short time and easier for the workshop attendees to finish a page in the 20 to 30 minutes we’ve allocated for the Make and Take.

To begin, while having a quiet evening in Moloka’i, I sketched out 4 scrap maps. Scrap Maps are basically outlines for placing your pictures on a page. In the case of a 6" x 6" scrapbook page, a 4" square photo is about the largest you can put on a page. To have more than 1 photo, you need to scale the sizes down even further. If you’re used to larger pages, these sizes may seem too small. But they really do work up well.

The photo above is of one of the set of pages in our new Molokai’ 2009 scrapbook.

And here is the Scrap Map that I used to lay out these pages. I interspersed the 4 maps throughout the scrapbook, rotating and flipping them at will! In some cases, I had to adjust the exact sizes to make sure that the photos fit. Scrapbooking is an art, not a science, and creative adjustments are always in order!

For the Scrapbook itself, I used one of Stampin’ Up!’s 6" x 6" looseleaf binders, and the Summer Home Simply Scrappin’ set. As you can imagine, with a 6" x 6" scrapbook there are, well, "scraps," left over! So I’ll be showing off a few cards made from those scraps tonight.

Tomorrow I’ll show off one of the projects that I’m demonstrating at tonight’s workshop. The ladies will be using materials from the Sunshine Garden Simply Scrappin’ kit. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I’ll be able to show off some of the scrap pages that were made at the workshop!

If you’d like a copy of the scrap maps I made up, including some ideas for rotating them to show off different orientations of photos, just call (808.854.6145) or e-mail me and I’ll send a copy off to you!