Triple T Tuesday

It’s time for another Triple T Tuesday!! I decided to post a tip for some of our newbie followers (and maybe for some not so newbies that never really thought about this…lol). How many times have you seen a layout posted in a gallery, and something just did not look right?? Have any of you seen 2 inch staples, or 3 inch buttons? Proportion is so important on digital layouts. Many of you digi scrappers started off scrapping with paper, right? Something you want to think about while working on a page is how would this look if I was gluing something to a paper layout. If you are not sure about the size, turn on the grid in your software so you can see actual size while you are working. Sometimes designers have their .png files bigger than what the actual size would be for a particular item, such as buttons and staples I mentioned previously, so you do not always want to just copy and paste an element and assume it is the size that is reasonable.

Beyond assuring the size of your elements “makes sense,” you should also give some thought to the size of the journaling font you use on your pages. Normally, I try not to put my font size at more than something like a 16pt. font and not less than 10pt. If you go higher than 16pt. with most fonts, the journaling on the printed page (when you eventually print it out) will look huge and out of proportion to the text we would normally write/read. And of course, if you make your font smaller than 10pt in size, with most fonts it will be very small and difficult to read your journaling on the printed page. So, you should always give some thought to “realistic” sizes for both elements and journaling when constructing your pages.

Here I have done a layout as an example. For this layout, I used a template from Trixie’s May Templatetopia, and her new GGI kit called Mr. and Mrs. Mouse (staples are the only thing not from this kit). This first one shows a couple of elements a little too big.