Multiple Frames - One Photo

I love having a photo spread over several frames. It's one of my favourite design ideas and I bore people to death with it. You can do this in various ways:

1) Use a quickpage that already has multiple frames built in. If you're not sure how to use quickpages see this page. There's an example in Tutorial 2 of having a photo behind multiple frames.

2) Use a pre-made frame cluster with several frames.

3) Add your photo then put multiple frames over it yourself. Don't forget you can make frames out of any paper or colour in My Memories Suite.

Click on any photo in this page to see it in more detail. (Choose the larger sizes at the top).

Emphasising the Landscape

We stayed at a family timeshare apartment twice a year for 20 years. Most summers we saw poppies in the nearby field:

TIP: You will emphasise the landscape more if you have people or other features in a frame at the side.

Here's a more sober interpretation of that page:

These quickpages are from the in My Garden set by Natali Designs.

Emphasising Movement

My Mum's on this page a lot. She's in the middle frame but it looks as though she's moving into the next one. Quickpage was a free one from Microferk. Go Mum!

Improving a dull photo

I liked this photo of the sea at  Gurnard, Isle of wight, but it was too dull in a layout until I thought of putting it behind this quickpage (Blue Skies set by Baersgarten). Folk seemed to think I'd cut the photo up to do that. As if! Just put one photo behind your quickpage.

I wanted this page in Mum's safari album but it was faded and difficult to improve. These were photos from an old Instamatic camera back in 1986. So I put it in this quickpage by Lindsay Jane then used the kit to make a companion page.

When you love the page but it's too much trouble...

I loved this quickpage but there was no way I was going to cut up photos to fit. So I used it for a two  beach photos - one in Morocco and one a bit closer in Boscombe. The page is from Penny Springmann's catch A Wave set.

As you can see, I tweaked them a bit by adding extra embellies. The cool surfing bits are from Any Other Place by Snapwings. It is actually a surfing beach. Allegedly.

In this one it was tricky finding photos to fit the frame cluster so I used just one and it puts Mum nicely in the middle circle.  Quickpage is from the "I do like to be beside the seaside" set from StudioMix4 at Scrapbook Graphics.

Window Effect

Where there's a rectangular arrangement in a frame, treat it as a window rather  than adding separate photos. This is another one of Natali designs' fabulous quickpages. You can see more in the Gran Canaria 2009 album in the Cruise albums page. It was easy to do and it's another way to emphasise the landscape.

In this one John took a photo of our reflecton in a big window so a window effect seemed appropriate. The page is from Passport Required by Creations By Rachael.

Serendipity ...

This is Mum, dad and my Auntie Monica on Brighton beach in the early 1950s. It just so happened that the regency building in the background showed in the top frame. it's a joyful summer page for a joyful photo. Another QP by Natali Design.