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Creating Winning Sports Pages for Your Scrapbooks by Katrina Simeck To get some great sports pages for your scrapbooks, be sure to follow these 6 tips from Katrina Simeck Article rating: 9.33

For most of the year, my mudroom resembles a fully equipped sporting goods store. On weekends, you can likely find me at a field or in a gym…always with my camera in tow. With two children playing at least one (sometimes 2) sports per season, there is certainly no shortage of sports photos. I have memory cards filled with hundreds of photos of soccer, football, baseball, and basketball games. The challenge? Choosing the right sports photos to highlight in my scrapbooks. Just like in sports, practice is essential! Use these tips to create scrapbook layouts that capture the energy, excitement, and action of their activities.

1. Get close to the action – with a zoom lens, that is. Shooting from the sidelines is limiting, so compensate by using a zoom lens. It’s also helpful to change your camera setting to “continuous shooting” mode. Keep clicking and you’re bound to get some fabulous close up shots of your athlete’s moves. Including consecutive shots will help to capture the motion and action of the game.

2. Make the player the star. Action shots are great, but don’t forget to highlight the individual athlete. When photographing your athlete, use a wide aperture to keep the subject sharp & the background blurred. Quiz your player after the game…what was the highlight for them? What is their favorite part of the sport? Use the answers as journaling on your page.

3. Catch them with their game face on. Help to direct the focus of a page by using just one larger photo that communicates the spirit of the game. This is a great way to scrapbook a particular position that your athlete plays. This layout conveys the intensity of the goalkeeper position – a feeling that might be lost in a layout with multiple photos.

4. Show the details. Include photos of the equipment or uniforms to personalize the layout & to capture important details.  How about a highlight layout that showcases photos of the trophies or awards that the athlete received? Including an extra page protector in your album is a great way to store certificates, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia from the season.

5. Make contact. If you’re like me, you end up with hundreds of shots of various games. A great way to use those photos is to print an index sheet or contact page. Including multiple photos helps to keep the page high energy – just like the activity being scrapbooked. In this layout, I used index photos of my son’s football game as borders for the larger individual photos.

6. Show your team spirit. There are many sports-related scrapbooking products on the market. Using just a few theme embellishments or papers will really give a sporty feel to your page. Karen Foster Design (www.karenfosterdesign.com) and K&Company (www.kandcompany.com) both offer sports themed paper & embellishments that will be a great addition to your pages.

Hopefully, using these tips will help you to create winning sports pages for your scrapbooks. Go, Fight, Win!

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