Ways To Work It Wednesday - Large Photos
Hey Hey! It’s Ways to Work it Wednesday, the day we bring you an article on how to take something “ordinary” and turn it into something extraordinary!
Today the team is all about tips for working with large photos! Whether you’re incorporating them into a page or embellishing on top of them, large photos can have big impact!! Read on for 5 examples for using large photos on your pages!
Caroline - Felicity
Here are my tips for working with large photos:
Choose a photo that has some ‘white’ space. By white space I mean areas of the photo that don’t include focal images etc. a good example of this would be a landscape with 2/3 of the photo being sky or sea. In the photo I have used, although it is a large portrait image, the white space sits in the corners of the image where there are no defining details or anything of any interest.
Utilise the white spaces - these are perfect areas to add typed journalling (or even written journalling with a Slick writer pen) or to build embellishment clusters upon. I have used the latter technique with my photo - creating embellishments in the bottom left corner and opposite top right.
If working with a double page spread create cohesion by working with repeated motifs or patterns. In my example I have used pieces of the pattered paper from the left hand page in the embellishment clusters. I have also used the same motifs (hearts and flowers) in the visual triangle I have created across the two pages.
Allow a large photo to invite in extended journalling. In my spread I worked with the prompt included on one of the travellers notebook signatures to include a list of the 10 things currently making my daughter happy. As there was a lot of space on the page I used a TN Signature from the Felicity collection to include my own list of the 10 things I thought made her happy - as a little game to see how well I know her.
Erika - Felicity
Hi friends, Erika here. I love using large photos in unusual ways because they lead to such interesting pages. Cutting your photo right down the middle is an easy way to flip the script highlight your content. In this case, I'm using the Felicity collection to journal about a few of my baby's prevailing at her current age. This is also a great way to use up space. I hope you try this out!
Heather - Felicity
One of the reasons that I invested in a printer that was capable of printing a 12 x 12 piece of paper was so that I could scrapbook large photos that take up the majority of the page. I’ve seen many scrapbookers do layouts where the photo is the main event, and I love them. For this layout, I printed my photo so that it filled up most of the 12 x 12 page leaving a bit of room at the top and bottom to add scrapbook paper and embellishments.
I used Traci’s Felicity collection and cut/tore some strips of paper to accent the top and bottom of the page. Then, I just added a title, some fun elements from the Felicity stickers, and a little bit of journaling. The photo takes center stage and the layout was incredibly fast to put together.
Kaye - Renewal
When I seen that ways to work it Wednesday theme this month I immediately jumped at this category! Full or large photo layouts are my jam and if look at a lot of my work/spreads they most likely will feature a large photo as I love for the photo to tell the picture!
This spread is a full page 6.85 x 8.25 photo of my son on the first day of our Myrtle Beach trip we took last summer! I used mostly the Renewal kit and all the amazing embellishments that Traci packs her kits and stacked them down the edge of the photo. Using the white or dead space of a large photo is my favorite way to build a spread!
Stacy - My Person
When working with large photos like this one using the My Person collection, I like to utilize the empty space or the space that is solid color - such as the green in this ball to be able to cluster embellishments , this is the perfect place to hold the pretties and still draw your eye on a large photo.
And being someone who loves the story in all my pages I will often times then put hidden journaling or a side page to hold them , because I find sticking the journaling on the large photos is often to much for me visually .
