Hybrid is defined as being something of mixed origin or composition. Most of us have heard of hybrid cars, but have you heard about hybrid scrapbooking? I had heard of that term recently, but have never tried to make a detailed hybrid layout….UNTIL NOW…just in time for ACOT’s NSD Weekend Crop-Around-the Clock – May 2007.
So, my quest began with doing some research on hybrid scrapbooking layouts. A hybrid scrapbook layout consists of using both paper scrapbooking items and digital items / techniques on your layout. It can be as simple as printing out your journaling to be used on your page (like most of us have done in the past)….or adding some text or brushes to a photo and then printing it out to use for a layout. It can be as complex as printing out almost everything from digital kits (or something you created yourself on the computer) and using those items to make a 3-D paper layout.
I started with picking one photo I wanted to use. I chose different elements from digital kits by Marcie Reckinger (ACOT) that I thought would match with the photo. I picked and chose different elements from a different number of her kits, sized them to the sizes I though would be appropriate, and printed them out on my Canon printer. The sheet with the photo on it was printed onto matte photo paper and the other sheets with the other digital elements were printed onto white acid free cardstock.
I then went through my paper scrapbooking supplies and chose different items that I thought would look like they “matched” with my digitally printed out items.
After choosing these, I then cut out my digitally printed out items.
From here, I worked with all of my items and mixed and matched things that I thought looked good, moved things around until I was happy with the look I was going after here. Only then did I transfer on the rub-on and add adhesive to my items and adhere them to my 12x12 sheet of patterned paper.
After a lot of hard work and tweaking here is the end-result of my first hybrid layout! (Please bear with the scan of a lumpy layout!)
