Hello! Welcome back to WCS and another day of big + little pairings.
One of my favorite things to do on a layout is use a quote as my title. I would guess about 10% of my layouts use this approach. To me, a "quote" is anything that was written or said by someone else (usually famous in some capacity, although I have used a friend or family member's words as quotes, too) that is so striking in its use of language paired with idea that I get a little bit swoony. (Remember...I'm a word girl at heart.) I have a big collection of quotes and I'm always adding to it.
So last week, when my friend I've known since junior high shared a picture of me from one of our sleepovers in 1984 or 85, I had two thoughts: even though I look like a goofball, I must scrapbook this picture right now and I know exactly what quote to use!
But I also kept in mind my recent goal of re-using good techniques. I looked at a few of my recent layouts with quotes and spotted something I hadn't really intentionally noticed myself doing: using a quote as a title, in big letters, paired with my own words as a sort of sub-title in smaller letters. Here's what I mean:
The quote, from Coco Chanel, is the title, of course. And my words—I loved those bead necklaces—is the smaller subtitle. I like the way the repetition of the font (it's called Alegance, if you're curious) helps draw the eye from the title, through the story, and then out of the page. Even though the subtitle is the little thing in the pairing, it helps give the layout a finished look.
I don't have a ton of photos of myself as a teenager in the 1980s (one of the great tragedies in my life!), but I have made a few layouts with the ones I do have. This is always a hard process for me because almost nothing in the aesthetics of 20-teens scrapbooking really matches the aesthetics of the 1980s. I find that I tend to use a lot of cardstock or almost-solid patterned paper for these layouts, because more obvious patterns feel like they just don't match somehow. (If any manufacturer ever made decade-inspired products, I'd probably buy some!) But I almost always use the font Perpetua for my journaling. It feels timely to me—a chunkier sort of serif.
So, I'm curious: Have you ever scrapbooked any photos that scream "I was taken in the 80s"? What supplies and approaches have you used?
Happy scrapping!
