Guest Post : Making Memory Keeping Simple by Katie Pertiet
Tags:Sometimes there’s just not a lot of time to scrap but you want to have a little memento of your travels or a special day and a little badge book is a quick, easy and inexpensive way to do that!
You can pick up a package of plastic badge holders in horizontal or vertical format at your local office supply store for just about $3.00.
Using either Word or an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop Elements, make a new document sized 3.5” x 2.375. Bring in your photo and scale to size. For my overlay I used Ali’s Travel Memory + Title Photo Overlays - scaling them 55% to fit onto my badge document.
I changed the colors of the overlays to maintain readability over each photo (view a tutorial from Ali on how to do this in Photoshop Elements here) and added a little note about what we were doing in each photo on top of the overlays. I saved each page as a JPEG file and then created an 8.5x11 letter-sized document and arranged all the pages for printing.
A nice thing about this type of mini book is you don’t need to have a large format printer. I can get 8 pages on one letter-sized paper.
After printing trim your pictures, insert them into the plastic sleeves, wrap up with some ribbon and call it done! Simple as that! A perfect way to document your spring break!
ABOUT KATIE :A professional graphic designer for over twenty five years, Katie Pertiet turned her passion for scrapbooking into a full-time business at DesignerDigitals, an on-line source for digital scrapbooking products. Her layouts have been published in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Memory Makers, Legacy, and BHG Scrapbooks Etc. Katie also designs products for Autumn Leaves, Creativity, Bo Bunny among others and licenses her designs in the home decor market. Her blog is called Cherish Each Day, her gallery can be found at DesignerDigitals, and her products are available at DesignerDigitals.
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I'm going to Office Depot today! I love this idea. Thanks for sharing your talent.
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Thanks for the great idea Katie. I'm heading to the beach in a few months and was looking for a gift to give the family I will be staying with. This will be perfect and easy to mail. Thanks again and Designer Digitals rocks.
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Wow! What a fabulous idea. Thank you!
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Brilliant idea, love it :)
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I made album like this with random photos for Christmas and everyone loved it! I like the idea of a certain theme. Thanks for sharing :)
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Love this idea! Especially good for sharing pix with grandparents.
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Awesome idea love love love
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Love this idea!
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Great idea. I have the paper version of this in my purse with all my grand children's pictures
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fabulous project Katie!!
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Wow, that is so cute and easy! Thank you
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Katie - what a great idea - makes me wanna run right out and grab some badge sleeves! thanks!
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Love it!! I am SO gonna do this!
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How much fun is that? I have some badge holders just waiting for a project like this! Maybe this will give me the inspiration to do one!
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Can't wait to get some badge holders! I've been wanting to do a mini for my little granddaughter, and this is just the thing. Thanks for another neat idea, Katie (my granddaughter's name, by the way).
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this is my kind of project. Thank you Katie, and Ali.
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Hi Katie! Love the mini. Any tutorials on your Designer Digitals site that might show us how to place that many photos on one sheet of photo paper to print? I use an Epson R1900, too.
I made a paper version using some holders from Wal-Mart for our Mom's (and me) to carry as brag books, but I love this digital version for the journaling. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.
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very cute!
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What an awesome idea! I will be heading to Staples to pick up the badges. This would make a wonderful quick gift for a friend or family member.
Elaine Allen
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Wow! This is too cool, I love the idea. Thanks for sharing with us.
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