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New to Digital Scrapbooking, just started in 2019, want to make a record of family stories before my mother passes away. My dad died in 2016. I currently live in Canada but was born and raised in New Zealand, and emigrated to Canada upon marrying my Canadian spouse. Home Country - lets see - New Zealand or Canada? Which to choose? Most of my photos will be from NZ, but any pics of my son will be from Canada. MY IP Address will say that I am in Canada which is fine. My mother and sister are still back in NZ so I will make my home country as NZ for now. For Facebook, I dont check it every day - I am not addicted to FB, and I use a different name for privacy. My image is myself as a child - aged about 2 or 3 years old
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Digital Scrapbook LayoutDescription
This is an experiment. I am trying out a template where all the layers are provided, and I just need to put them into the right place. Kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.
To continue my story - in 1986 I went back to Polytech and tried yet another course of studies. Once again, I passed some exams and flunked others. I still had not found my passion.
I decided that it was time to spread my wings. At the end of 1986, I was 22 years old, and still living at home, and had nothing to show for my life. My older sister had gotten married in this same year, and was now living in Auckland. I wrote and asked if I could crash with her for a while while I got myself settled in Auckland. She agreed.
So I said goodbye to Dunedin, packed everything up and left home - stopping at a few places on my way north. (Nelson, Wellington and Putaruru).
I also noted the fact that every time I had moved to a new place, it has always been to a larger town or city. Putaruru had 5000 people - Honiara had 20,000 people - Dunedin had 100,000 people - and Auckland had close to 1 million people.
Supplies
Studio DD Layer Works Number 1063 - Designer Digitals
All elements except for the cobweb background paper
https://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/supplies/product_info.php/products_id/24629
Halloween Bootiful cobwebs paper - Elif Sahin
https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/elif-sahin/kits/it-s-the-magic-bootiful-edition-papers-kit-halloween-it-is-magic-autumn-horror
Photos
Top Central - Dunedin railway station - Hostelbookers
https://www.hostelbookers.com/blog/travel/history-and-architecture/best-train-stations-in-the-world
Right central - OGHS in 1921 - OGHS website
https://www.otagogirls.school.nz/about/history
Bottom Central - Our second house in Dunedin - family collection
My parents lived here from 1981 to 1995
Left Central - Larnach castle - the only castle in the southern hemisphere - from a postcard
https://mypostalcards.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/larnach-castle-dunedin-new-zealand/
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Recent Comments
This page is really beautiful Robynne! You did a great job finding a wonderful background for it! The software I use to make my LOs has some restrictions and it doesn't read the layers in the tif files I send to it. Instead it loads as a plain jpg file. So I use templates very much as I use sketches. I place them on my top layer, lower the oppacity ( sometimes I change the blend mode to multiply if I think it will help) and use them as a loose inspiration for how I want my LO to go and where I want to put elements and photos. Maybe you will like this approach better? Anyway, great job with this one!
Thanks for the encouragement Becky.
I'm not sure if I like templates or not. I kind of really like placing the elements, the images and papers myself instead of having to be constrained by the template layout - which is why it is called a layout!!
I used the Halloween Bootiful paper because the original was just a plain cream (or off-white) colour and I thought that was boring. The cobwebs give the page some pizzazz without intruding over the layers in the middle....
The only other element that is out of place is the Discover More brown button at the top. I didnt like where that was placed on the original layout, so I put it somewhere else!! LOL
The colour scheme is also totally different from the bright bold colours that I usually like to use!!!
I will have to try a few more layouts (that have PNGS files that my software can use) to see if they grow on me.
That's fun that you were able to use a Halloween paper in a way that isn't holiday-themed. And this is how I've been doing the bulk of my pages for the project so far, with the layered templates. How did you like working with it?