Hybrid Scrapbooking

HYBRID SCRAPBOOKING WITH STORYBOOK CREATOR PLUS
By Lori Willcox, Independent Creative Memories Consultant
Do you love traditional scrapbooking but want to incorporate some digital scrapbooking into your work? Try “hybrid” scrapbooking which is the best of both worlds!

Make your own “Kit”
Create an 8.5x11 page in Storybook Creator Plus (SBC+) and design embellishments for a 2‐page 12x12 layout. You can make a border, title, journaling box, embellishments, framed or matted photos, etc, print it off on your own printer, and cut up the pieces to use on your layout with some coordinating background papers! I like to print these on photo paper for the safety and quality.

Create Titles
Do you need lots of titles for your album but are low on ABC stickers? Create a page in SBC+ and fill it with all the titles you’ll need in various sizes, colours and fonts! Sometimes I’ll do a few on a 4x6 page and print it on photo paper, and sometimes I’ll do a bunch on an 8.5x11 page. You can match the title colours exactly to your photos! On my son’s Shot Put page, I used a photo of the shot itself to replace the “O” in Shot.

Make Embellishments for Cards or Scrapbook Pages
Only have one particular flower sticker and need 3 for your card? No problem! Duplicate as many as you like on a 4x6 SBC+ page and print! I like using photo paper with a satin finish for this. Then you can either cut them out with scissors or use a circle punch. Cut some mats with the Scallop Circle Maker.

Almost Fully Digital
Create an 8.5x11 digital page, print it, mat it and mount it on 12x12 paper. You can use a template, a predesigned page or your own design. Use paper from the matching traditional kit! You could also make an 8x8 page to center on your 12x12 paper.

Make Borders
You can buy 12x4 photo paper now. If your printer supports it, design your own borders….one 4” border, two 2” borders, or four 1” borders! You can also do 11” borders using 8.5x11” paper. Also, you can fill a 12x12 page with borders and upload it for printing (unless you are lucky enough to have a 12x12 printer)!

Create Journaling Boxes
Go crazy with your journaling! Make your journaling fit inside of a shape like a circle or a heart. Journal along a wavy line or make a nice rectangular box. Match colours to your photos and use any font on your computer. Make it fit nicely to 4x6 photo paper or fit a bunch of them on an 8.5x11 print.

Mat your Photos
There are several options for matting your photos but I like the triple matting. You can use a patterned paper or match a colour in your photos. A great alternative if you don’t have quite the right colour of cardstock to use for matting. Then print your photos and they are ready for mounting in your album!

Add Text to your Photos
Is your page short on journaling space but you have a big chunk of sky in your photo? Put your title or journaling right on your photo!

Use Digital Templates to Plan your Traditional Pages
There are many different template designs that could work well on a traditional page! Depending on the type of template, you could drag your photos into the template for sizing and placement, and then move the photos to a separate page for printing. Or, you could drag your photos into a photo cluster, print the cluster and then cut out the cluster as a whole.

Make Photo Globes
You can use the Sphereize tool in SBC+ to make a photo globe or a soccer ball using several photos. Use the circle cutting system to cut it out and then mount it on your page using foam squares.
Traditionalize a Digital Page

Make a digital page and then add traditional embellishments.
For example, put digital flowers on your page and layer paper flowers on top of them.

Make Filmstrips
Use a filmstrip template and fit lots of photos inside. Fit 3 or 4 strips on 8.5 x 11 photo paper and trim. Place them a different angles on your 12x12 paper.

Make Bubbles
Use a digital glass brad with the metal trimmed off as a bubble to place over your photo! Great for bath or beach pics.

Create a MosaicCut your photos into a grid for a quick mosaic page.

Traditional Titles
Like the look of ABC titles on punched out squares? Print your letters so that they are spaced out enough to be cut with a square punch. Mount each square on cardstock.

12x12 Photo
Sometimes a photo is so great that it deserves to take up a whole page. Create a 12x12 full bleed photo page and upload it for printing. Adhere it to your scrapbook page or slide it into a Picfolio Max album.

Create “Anne Geddes” type PhotosPut a photo of your baby’s face in a daisy or a pea pod. Be creative!

Make a Photo Wheel
Use a wheel template to make a circular group of photos. Cut with the circle cutting system and mount with foam squares.

Make Paper and Embellishments out of a Photo
Use a skinny rectangular slice of a colourful photo and stretch it into background paper or a border. You can make plaid paper by copying your stretched paper, rotating it sideways and reducing the opacity so that the first paper shows underneath….beautiful