Simple, but elegant

Let's be honest.....I do things the way I want to do them.....surprised by that statement?  Ha!  Then you don't know me!!  Lot's of people take different approaches to scrapbooking.  You've seen one or two pictures with lots of added detail.  You've also seen lots of pictures with slight embellishment.  Then of course everything in between. I'm an "everything in between" type of scrapbooking fool.  Yes-I said fool:)

Basically, anyone can scrapbook.  This is a very simple approach, that is SO simple, you can create an entire book in one afternoon!

When Mikaela was born, she had AMAZING newborn pictures.  I had the problem of having a few shots, in several tones, and wanting to use each of them in a scrapbook.  As you can see, I chose to go uber simple on my design.  One picture, per page, in a 6x6 book.

 Most of the pictures are matted on a single piece of fancy paper.  You can add a piece of two tone ribbon, to a solid sheet, and completely change tone of the page.  Keep in mind, no matter how complicated your page is, sometimes just one simple addition (like a ribbon or some doodling) can draw everything together.

These two pictures are one, two-page layout.  I chose pink, for the left, to compliment the color photo on the right.  On the other side, a gray background compliments the other black and white photo.  I cut the photos to sit diagonally on the page, and used a circle corner punch to even the two pages out.  Then to add a little POP, I drew around the punches with pink marker.

This layout is also quite easy.  The pictures are the same-just different tones.  I chose a patterned paper I liked, and cut it down.  I made stripes for both pages, placing them perpendicular to add contrast.  The orange background compliments the patterns perfectly.  Three scissor cuts, three strips of glue, trim the picture edges-instant layout!

I have several other pages in this book.  If you'd like more ideas, I'd be happy to post pics