Show Notes: Paperclipping 33 – Intimacy
Intro: Today I want to talk about intimacy. * Some scrapbook pages are about close relationships. Some pages are more like a personal journal where you reveal something about yourself or even share something private. When I do these types of pages, I like to use visual elements that create a feeling of intimacy and today i want to share the design principles that help me do that.
*Insert: Not that kind of intimacy!
1. Intimacy is about breaching personal space and getting close, physically and emotionally. So that is what you do on your layouts to get the same feeling. On this layout I breached personal space by overlapping my title and a little bit of paper with my photo and I brought them close to the subjects. In fact, for this photo where my son and I are squeezing together, I surrounded our faces with the lettering. Sometimes I think of this as “hugging” the subject of the photo with other elements of my page.
2. Here is another example (show example) where I tore away some of the empty background, overlapped the photo with the title and an embellishment, and then added a design on a transparency that even follows the shape of my body and head. By bringing decorative items close to the subject of the photo, it’s like zooming in on the subject with your camera. It brings your eyes right to the person or people in the photo.
3. (Show third layout) For this layout I laid journaling strips over the photo. So let’s sum up some different ways to break the barriers of the photo edges:
a. Do it with your journaling by writing directly onto the photo or overlapping wordstrips with the photo.
b. With your title.
c. With embellishments.
d. Alter the picture by tearing away the background or painting over it.
Close: When you want to scrapbook about something personal, or if you want to emphasize a close relationship, remember that there are ways other than words to express intimacy. You can evoke that feeling visually by hugging the subject of your photo with other elements of your layout.
