It’s all about the context. It’s my goal to include information in my scrapbooks about how our lives intersected with what was going on in the world. So often I think of my parents’ lives and world events during that time a separate. I want my kids to understand that they do go together.
Summary of Our Lives: The section on the right is a brief summary of our year. Of course the scrapbook itself will tell a more detailed story, but I like how this piece brings everything together.
Summary of Our World: This is a mixture of world news and pop culture. Instead of a separate news and pop culture layout like I did for 2005, I reverted to my 2004 idea and used text to combine our story and the news.
Wanting Negative Space: I tried in vain to figure out a way to print the text on white cardstock and cut the headlines out as negative space right above them. I know there are print and cut features on the Silhouette, but I couldn’t figure out how to add that much text without it being a real pain. Any suggestions are welcome!
Fonts: Rockwell (headlines) | Silhouette SD (headlines) | Supplies: October Afternoon/Woodland Park/Minnow Creek (patterned paper)
Almost Never Clever 
My favorite! Journaling! It’s said that a good speech starts out by telling you what you’re going to hear, then the speech tells you, then the summary told you what you heard. It’s not a stretch to say that a scrapbook could do the same?? I like the opening page as journaling only. Great idea 🙂
I like this concept for a page, and it turned out beautifully.
Just an idea for future print-and-cut… I’ve never tried putting large blocks of text into the Silhouette Studio software (I have done small bits; you just have to make sure to turn off the cutting lines on the text 🙂 I absolutely LOVE the print-and-cut feature.) but something I would try would be to generate the block of text in the proportions you want in a program like Photoshop and then save it as an image file. Then, import the image into the Studio software and design your cutting lines around it. (Does that make sense?) I have done something similar with just an image (for example, the thank-you card base layer at the very end of this blog post was done this way: http://vegetablog.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/bridal-shower-tags-and-cards/)
Thanks for the tips! It makes sense to me and I’ll try this next time!