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Switzerland road trip digital photobook COMPLETED 10/15
Having slaved away on my various digital photobooks, I wanted to share this one with you. I can’t share the family ones with you that I’ve done as Christmas presents, but this one?
For this one, I went for a 12 x 12 book, so it was a very different process of designing it, as usually the books I get are closer to A4 size. It meant on some pages I could put a lot more photos and still have them at a reasonable size, so it gave me a lot more flexibility.
It might take me a while to post this book up, as it was a big one – over 100 pages…
The front cover – you may not be able to read the text. It says “Switzerland – September 2013. A holiday of mountains, lakes, thermal baths, stunning scenery and cows…” which I thought summed things up quite nicely! The story of our first night – more text on this page than I’d usually use, but I thought it was needed to tell the story The bit you can see along the bottom is clipart from the programme I use I liked the idea of putting the text over the flower of the background page and I’m pleased with how that came out A couple of the photos on this page have shadowing, just in case you’re wondering I’m not sure the text worked 100% on the background, but it was hard finding something that contrasted well enough with the background The first of many pages which are just made up of photos and no actual background paper The background came from an image of the Swiss flag that I found online, then I made the text fit the white cross beneath So nice to be able to use the Japanese style background paper and clipart I haven’t used this text before, because it’s so ornate, but it seemed to fit the style of this spread perfectly It’s hard to get the pages properly displayed for photos – the text on this says “Lunch at a Swiss chocolatier – heaven!” I really like the way this page came out and the randomness of it The paper seemed to fit the photos perfectly – and I was really pleased with how closely I was able to match the colour of the text to the clipart in the corners The sunset background paper went perfectly with the photos on this spread…
Ok, that’s it from me for this morning. I’ll post some more when I get a chance…
Beautiful, Cheryl! I've recently done a few digital ones myself (while we were moving and my supplies were in storage), so I love seeing what other people do. I can't wait to see more!
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I love the fun feel to this page – the text and the background paper just seem to compliment each other perfectly The “bienvenue a Gruyeres” sign was a photo I took of the sign that I was able to crop down… The text on this page says “We headed for the chateau, as admission was included with our trip. What a beautiful place!” Unfortunately the top text is a bit hard to read: “We got our first view of the formal gardens from above, then we were able to talk through it at the end of our tour”. It’s a very nice change to be able to have so much of the background paper showing through on a page See what I mean about how many photos you can fit on a page with this size of book? Two of my favourite photos of the whole vacation The flowers you see on these pages are clipart Again, the signs were actual photos that I just cropped down The film strips were clipart, although sadly the photos didn’t quite fit them, which was annoying, but this was the closest I could get it… The background paper here is snow – appropriate I thought! And more snow for these pages too… A fun cow page! I felt these photos spoke for themselves and didn’t need anything else, they were beautiful enough on their own
Ok, that’s it from me for this update – more to come soon….
Beautiful! Really liked the pictures of Basel - DD Tanja travels there for work regularly but never really gets a chance to see much of anything. Her pictures are usually of the street as she heads into work, then of the current hotel to show us where she's been stashed this trip. One of these days she will get a chance to really see the city, and hopefully some of the country, too!
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2013 Scrapbook pages count: 631 / 350
2014 Scrapbook pages count: 60 / 250
Beautiful! Really liked the pictures of Basel - DD Tanja travels there for work regularly but never really gets a chance to see much of anything. Her pictures are usually of the street as she heads into work, then of the current hotel to show us where she's been stashed this trip. One of these days she will get a chance to really see the city, and hopefully some of the country, too!
Oh I hope she does, as it's such a beautiful country.
Ok, here’s some more… we pick up on the day we went to Interlaken, then on to a couple of museums
With the plane photo, I was able to zoom in on it, using the software that’s part of the programme I use A very fun double page spread! And I think the text on these pages just says it all…. I was so glad to just use the one photo on a page – I wanted to do more of this, but there were just too many good photos to pick from! I was really pleased with this double page spread – another example of being able to fit a lot of photos on each page to illustrate what we saw, yet still these pages don’t look that busy… With this page, I made the borders of the photos the same colour as the background paper, so the whole theme followed through… I like the simplicity of this page – it allows the beauty of the photos to shine through One of my favourite double page spreads of the whole book – I just love how these photos turned out The view from our room the next morning This is us going through the 10 mile Gottard Tunnel again the writing isn’t easy to see I love this page with all the flowers Again, the clipart on this page comes from the program I use. I figured it was quite fitting, being that we were in the Italian part of the country The “paper” for this page is a photo of the Swiss flag blown up to the size of the whole page Again, the writing’s not that clear to see. It says “We headed next to the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz to enjoy their thermal baths – and wow, they were quite something!” The bottom left photo is a cheat taken from their website, as obviously we couldn’t take photos inside the baths, but they were so amazing, I wanted a record of them The text on this page says “Another day, another country – this time Liechtenstein.”
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