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One thing to remember in your scrapbooking efforts is that sometimes the simple things in life are far more effective. When we scrapbook, we normally find ourselves coming out with busy and ornate layouts with lots of embellishments, but sometimes it is nice just to have a clean and simply structured layout.

Every now and then it can be quite effective to have a simple, not too busy design that lets your photographs do the talking, instead of all the embellishments taking up all your focal attention.

One of my most effective layouts was one I created in about fifteen minutes. I had some beautiful photographs of a close friend standing in front of a body of water. I had three of these that were taken on the same day, but from different angles of her looking out over the lake. The reflections from the lake came out on the photograph bright blue in color and it was almost as if she were standing by a large swimming pool. I had been dying to scrapbook these for actually ages, but wasn’t quite sure how I could show them off to their full advantage. Luckily the photos all had the same blue from the water as a background color, and her costume was in a darker blue, which made choosing my background paper a breeze.  Read more...