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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Black & white photos are a timeless classic. We often think of them as being something from the past, the sign of photo taken long ago. But black & white photos are being featured in the scrapbook magazines more and more often…and not just on heritage layouts.

Without the distraction of competing colors in your photos, your subject is allowed to take center stage. Black & White photos in an album comprised mainly of colored pictures adds a little drama and surprise to your layout.

So, your challenge for this week is to use Black & White photos in a layout.

When might you want to use Black & White prints?

  • There are too many competing colors in your photos. Maybe you have pictures from your child’s birthday party and the guests are wearing colors that do nothing but clash.
  • You cannot find any papers to go with the colors in your photos.
  • You have travel and vacation photos of buildings and landmarks.
  • Wedding photos that you want to give a formal look to.
  • Heritage pages.
  • Pictures that you want to add “drama” to.
  • You truly want your subject to “pop” out of the page. I used my favorite picture of my daughter as my focal point of the page below, and feel that being in black and white it keeps her as center stage of the layout.

    Layout Using Black & White Photos

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    Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

    I’m Annie LuMaye from Colorado and I’m happy to be joining 451 Press as their Scrapping Blogger! I’m a certified scrapaholic and look forward to getting to know others who share that frame of mind.

    I created my first scrapbook in about 3rd grade and have barely stopped since then. I joined the “current” world of scrapbooking (back then it was more about saving memorabilia) the Creative Memories way about 11 years ago. Now I’m all about keeping up with the latest trends, buying whatever I can get my hands on and subscribing to every scrapbooking magazine I can find!

    This blog will delve into the latest scrapbooking techniques, great new products, challenges to get you scrapping, organizational ideas, chances to win prizes and MORE! So visit often, leave me comments on what you’d like to see here, and get scrapping!

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