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Family Photo Projects

Instead of using one sheet of paper as a background for your photographs in a
scrapbook or in a frame, try using blocks of color or pattern. You can make the
arrangement simple or as complex as you like, using several colors or as few as two.

• Four sheets of cardstock in harmonious colors plus one sheet as a supporting background. 
  
• Graph paper
  
• Colored pencils or crayons (optional)
  
• Ruler, pencil, paper trimmer, Photograph(s)
    
• Paste (acid free)

1. Sketch an arrangement of colored areas ("blocks") on graph paper, letting each square represent one inch on your project. Indicate the dimensions, as I have done on the diagram. The blocks can be rectangles and/or squares of varying sizes. (Make the appropriate adjustments if you are using the metric system instead of inches.)

2. Indicate the paper colors on your diagram, or color the diagram with colored- pencils or crayons.

3. Referring to your diagram, use the paper trimmer to cut blocks from the colored cardstock.

4. Adhere the blocks to your background paper according to your diagram.

5. Paste photographs onto the blocks. You may want some photographs to overlap two or more blocks.

6. Print a title or more extensive journaling and paste it onto a block or across several blocks.  

Margin between blocks; see layout B. Use a dark paper for the background support. Follow the above steps, but leave about a 1/8th inch space between all blocks. In this arrangement, you can place identically colored blocks next to each other since the margins will separate them.

Four quadrants; see layout C. A simple but effective arrangement is to use just four large blocks. Each block can be a different color, or you can use two and two. They can be of equal size or not.

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