Over the last few years I gradually moved from making mostly 12x12 pages to 8.5 x 11. Here in Australia, wide format printers are expensive and not easily available, so as a digital scrapbooker it was nice to have a finished, printed page for my album rather than storing up pages for batch printing a few times a year at Persnickety Prints. I also just started to favour starting with the rectangle page over the large square (and found it much easier, physically, to flick throu

Another travel page (so many travel pages in my future). After making my Foot Photo spread, I thought it would be fun to look at the trip by the numbers. I found this airport photo (so many airport photos) and knew that Ali's Numbers and Go kits would have the perfect embellishments. I use this technique a lot - full 6x8 page photo with some embellishments and words on top. Easy and quick. The hardest part was doing the math! SaveSaveSave #USATrip #6x8 #AliEdwards #DigitalScr

In September/October our family travelled around the USA. Even before we went, I had an idea to take a photo of our feet in every city we visited (for two we didn't even leave the airport but it still counts!). At first everyone thought it was a bit weird and annoying every time I yelled "FOOT PHOTO!", especially if we were running to make our connection. But by the end of the trip they were all on board. When we got back home, one of the first pages I made about the trip was

After so many years doing Project Life (see my thoughts on that), I was ready for something different this year. I wanted a smaller printed book I wanted to put whatever I felt like in it I wanted it to be very personal to me I wanted to be free of chronology and expectations I wanted to have fun working on it I wanted to make digital pages I wanted a loose format to follow I wanted it to turn into whatever it wanted to be I wanted the reader to know me I decided on a Blurb t

I am a big fan of the year-long scrapbook project. Even though these projects are a labor of love, there is something special and valuable about capturing a little bit of your year each week - the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. I made my first Project Life album in 2010 using the physical kit from Becky Higgins. It was hard work but worth it in the end to have this record of our year. I did five more years in various forms (one year I did 6x8 but I nee

I made this simple 6x8 digital layout this morning about our family roller-skating adventures. It is a simple design - a black and white photo, a journal card (cut down to just the title) and two elements from the kit. I've had this photo since Christmas - I love when you open a kit and know exactly the story you want to tell. TIP FOR THE DAY: It's easy to cut down digital elements like journal cards in Photoshop Elements. Just make sure you have the element selected in the l