Here are some photos of some of the pages from my movie stars scrapbook. Some finished, others in progress. I'll go row by row and explain some of the stuff I did on the different pages. I really only use solid colour background pages. Now, some are pearl texture, some linen texture, some glitter (although it is a pain!).
Row 1:
A.) This has the tickets and handbill from the CAPA Summer Movie Series in Columbus. (They play classic films on a large screen in an old vaudville theatre in downtown Columbus.) So, I printed a poster from "Singin in the Rain" and the cutout of Gene Kelly is actually from a book. I enjoy doing cut-outs with an x-acto and coffee table books are a great source of large photos for the scrapbook.
B.) Garbo. I thought classic black would work for her and even did her autograph in silver marker. The left page isn't done. But that is the large photo that goes on it.
C.) This oversize Shirley photo came from a book. Books are great to get pics that are larger than 8x10 (max printer allows). She is on a blue glitter page with a piece of vellum turned horizontally behind the pic. I love vellum and it gives a very sleek look to a page. No good for the old-fashioned type.
ROW 2:
A.) Greer Garson. I dug out a colour photo and her red hair called for orange papers. Vellum behind the large photo, this time cut to give a small border on three sides only. Left page has vellum at an angle and I wrote a quote on it in sharpie. Usually I put the autograph of whoever says the quote, but I thought it would ruin the lines of this page, so unattributed. GG's auto in silver marker on a piece of black cardstock.
B.) Loretta Young, only page so far. I has this cool 8x8" piece of designed vellum behind the two photos. Only place I've used any vellum other than plain.
C.) Joan Fontaine, real autograph, so I didn't need to do my own. Base paper is the maroon, with a piece of black making a stripe along the bottom.
ROW 3:
A.) Gable. These are Sarah's favorite pages. Fairly simple, plain backfround paper, assorted size photos. Each page has a quote on a different colour piece that has a matte piece behind it of black, giving the - to use a photoshop term - drop shadow. On the right page, I haven't put Joan Blondell's signature under the quote. Oversight.
B.) Should be before the other two Gable pages, but I was flipping through from the back to the front, so the photos are reversed. The base background (which I am going to abbreviate to BG, to save typing room) is the beige. I cut the dark brown stripes, at different thicknesses and attached them, then the photo. I haven't decided how to put his autograph on it yet. Not sure if it will ruin the sleek look or not.
c.) One of my all-time favorites, the fabulous Flora Robson. As there aren't a lot of photos available, she got one large one with a simple piece of vellum that has a quote from her and her autograph. The right page is something I did for her role in "The Sea Hawk", but I don't like it so it is going to be ditched. Lots of writing though.
ROW 4:
A.) Grace Kelly, I did these early on. I collect Monaco postage stamps from her time in Monaco, and am scrapbooking the whole collection, so I won't do anymore Princess Grace pages in this scrapbook, as I am doing lots for my collection. The large photo has no matte of any kind (I leave a 1/4" border of white on the photos when printing to give them the old-fashioned look), with a hand cut flower as decoration. The right page just has the quote on a coloured piece with another behind it.
B.) Sis really likes this spread, too. I did these early on, before I came up with doing quotes by or about them. Hence the music lyrics. However, I will do another spread for the quote style. Got another photo I like, too. The striped behind the two photos took a while. The red is thinner paper and the stripes are very small. I ripped quite a few!
C.) Loved the movie and liked this photo, so I did this page one afternoon. The title is actually cut out of a piece of cardstock. Took longer than if I'd wanted to cut the words out themselves. The thing that took the longest was getting the five paper pennies to look carelessly placed!
Row 1:
A.) This has the tickets and handbill from the CAPA Summer Movie Series in Columbus. (They play classic films on a large screen in an old vaudville theatre in downtown Columbus.) So, I printed a poster from "Singin in the Rain" and the cutout of Gene Kelly is actually from a book. I enjoy doing cut-outs with an x-acto and coffee table books are a great source of large photos for the scrapbook.
B.) Garbo. I thought classic black would work for her and even did her autograph in silver marker. The left page isn't done. But that is the large photo that goes on it.
C.) This oversize Shirley photo came from a book. Books are great to get pics that are larger than 8x10 (max printer allows). She is on a blue glitter page with a piece of vellum turned horizontally behind the pic. I love vellum and it gives a very sleek look to a page. No good for the old-fashioned type.
ROW 2:
A.) Greer Garson. I dug out a colour photo and her red hair called for orange papers. Vellum behind the large photo, this time cut to give a small border on three sides only. Left page has vellum at an angle and I wrote a quote on it in sharpie. Usually I put the autograph of whoever says the quote, but I thought it would ruin the lines of this page, so unattributed. GG's auto in silver marker on a piece of black cardstock.
B.) Loretta Young, only page so far. I has this cool 8x8" piece of designed vellum behind the two photos. Only place I've used any vellum other than plain.
C.) Joan Fontaine, real autograph, so I didn't need to do my own. Base paper is the maroon, with a piece of black making a stripe along the bottom.
ROW 3:
A.) Gable. These are Sarah's favorite pages. Fairly simple, plain backfround paper, assorted size photos. Each page has a quote on a different colour piece that has a matte piece behind it of black, giving the - to use a photoshop term - drop shadow. On the right page, I haven't put Joan Blondell's signature under the quote. Oversight.
B.) Should be before the other two Gable pages, but I was flipping through from the back to the front, so the photos are reversed. The base background (which I am going to abbreviate to BG, to save typing room) is the beige. I cut the dark brown stripes, at different thicknesses and attached them, then the photo. I haven't decided how to put his autograph on it yet. Not sure if it will ruin the sleek look or not.
c.) One of my all-time favorites, the fabulous Flora Robson. As there aren't a lot of photos available, she got one large one with a simple piece of vellum that has a quote from her and her autograph. The right page is something I did for her role in "The Sea Hawk", but I don't like it so it is going to be ditched. Lots of writing though.
ROW 4:
A.) Grace Kelly, I did these early on. I collect Monaco postage stamps from her time in Monaco, and am scrapbooking the whole collection, so I won't do anymore Princess Grace pages in this scrapbook, as I am doing lots for my collection. The large photo has no matte of any kind (I leave a 1/4" border of white on the photos when printing to give them the old-fashioned look), with a hand cut flower as decoration. The right page just has the quote on a coloured piece with another behind it.
B.) Sis really likes this spread, too. I did these early on, before I came up with doing quotes by or about them. Hence the music lyrics. However, I will do another spread for the quote style. Got another photo I like, too. The striped behind the two photos took a while. The red is thinner paper and the stripes are very small. I ripped quite a few!
C.) Loved the movie and liked this photo, so I did this page one afternoon. The title is actually cut out of a piece of cardstock. Took longer than if I'd wanted to cut the words out themselves. The thing that took the longest was getting the five paper pennies to look carelessly placed!
I broke the photos up, so that you don't have to scroll through so much writing to see the pages. See below this text box for the remaining five rows!
ROW 5:
A.) Katharine Hepburn, one of my very favorites. The green page is Hepburn and Cary Grant (two of my favorite films are "Holiday" and "Bringing Up Baby"). I used black photo corners on this page to give it more of the scrapbook look. The other page is Hepburn and Tracy, with a quote from "Adam's Rib" on vellum. The photo is on a black matte.
B.) Hepburn. She has a lot in my book and more coming. For months after doing this page, I could sign her name without looking at it. I practiced hers and Myrna Loy's so much, I could sign them whenever!
C.) Lauren Bacall. More photo corners. The brown page is for "The Big Sleep" and I haven't decided how to do the title yet, which goes on the dark brown piece. The large photo I actually removed and sent to her to get signed, so it is personalised! The blue page has a beatiful quote from Katharine Hepburn, this written on vellum. Lots of writing. My favorite Bacall photo is the top one on this page.
ROW 6:
A.) Bogart and Bacall. When we sent to Lauren Bacall, I thought of sending this photo, but my own signature for her had come out so nicely I didn't want to ruin the look of the page! ha ha The brown page is for their wedding at Malabar Farm, home of novelist Louis Bromfield. It is a National Park not twenty minutes away from here and we grew up going there all the time. So, we sent a wedding photo and she signed them for us. We've stood on that same spot before!
B.) Teresa Wright. My favorite actress. She played Carol, in "Mrs. Miniver", Eleanor Gehrig" in "Pride of the Yankees", etc. This is a very early page, with the photos actually removed from an old scrapbook I'd started that was small, hence the large amount of tiny pics. I love this mint green paper, and she didn't look bad on it, so she won!
C.) Eleanor Powell. This is the first page spread I made, again with small pics from the old book. The cursive handwriting I developed for this scrapbook is actually based on Eleanor Powell's writing with capitols taken from a few other stars, mostly Barbara Stanwyck. Also do her small "t"s now, although the early pages are done with EP's "t"s. I only write cursive in the scrapbook. Mom is probably thrilled I can write anything legibly, cursive or printing! I was a late bloomer! ;o)
ROW 7:
A.) First Ellie spread. The left, purple page was my first use of vellum behind the photo. Doing the angled lines of the double matte really made the photo look cool. Purple (purple, green and black are my favorite colours, so I have to ration the use of them) just seemed to match. Theright blue page is another old one, that was made the same day as the previous two.
B.) Anne of Green Gables . . . OK. Not a classic film, but getting old. Come to think of it, it is older than us! Aaaah! Anyway, I love Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. Read the first book many years ago, and always mean to go back and read the series. I want to try and get her autograph one time.
C.) Amanda Root. Played Anne Elliot in the 1995 "Persuasion". Love her! What a voice and so fabulous! Beautiful eyes, too. We wrote to her and she sent us the nicest reply and photos. That pink paper is what she'll go on, even with a pattern, but I haven't done anything to her page. We bought a pack of Jane Austen style papers to do our period British autographs on. Jane Austen, Cranford, N&S, etc.
ROW 8: Easy. These are just autographs, no made pages. Picture A is Mary Costa, the voice of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty". She lives in Tennessee and has the most gorgeous handwriting! I saved "Dleeping Beauty" stamps and used them on the return envelope. Picture B - no explanation needed! ;o) Picture C: The right page are the photos from the lady who played "Aunt Gardener" in the 1995 mini-series of "Pride & Prejudice", and she sent autographed photos of her two kids. Her daughter played Georgiana in the mini-series. She reads Agatha Christie mysteries (audiobooks) and she is fabulous!
ROW 9 ( last):
A.) Astaire and Rogers. One of the latest pages, which is actually not so recent, but I need to get back to doing this! I am happy with this set. The large photo is from a book. This time I wrote their last names in decco style and "sigend" their first names below in silver marker. Ginger Rogers handwriting is awful to copy! Very hard!
B. & C.) More autographs. Margaret from N&S and then David Suchet as "Poirot".
ROW 5:
A.) Katharine Hepburn, one of my very favorites. The green page is Hepburn and Cary Grant (two of my favorite films are "Holiday" and "Bringing Up Baby"). I used black photo corners on this page to give it more of the scrapbook look. The other page is Hepburn and Tracy, with a quote from "Adam's Rib" on vellum. The photo is on a black matte.
B.) Hepburn. She has a lot in my book and more coming. For months after doing this page, I could sign her name without looking at it. I practiced hers and Myrna Loy's so much, I could sign them whenever!
C.) Lauren Bacall. More photo corners. The brown page is for "The Big Sleep" and I haven't decided how to do the title yet, which goes on the dark brown piece. The large photo I actually removed and sent to her to get signed, so it is personalised! The blue page has a beatiful quote from Katharine Hepburn, this written on vellum. Lots of writing. My favorite Bacall photo is the top one on this page.
ROW 6:
A.) Bogart and Bacall. When we sent to Lauren Bacall, I thought of sending this photo, but my own signature for her had come out so nicely I didn't want to ruin the look of the page! ha ha The brown page is for their wedding at Malabar Farm, home of novelist Louis Bromfield. It is a National Park not twenty minutes away from here and we grew up going there all the time. So, we sent a wedding photo and she signed them for us. We've stood on that same spot before!
B.) Teresa Wright. My favorite actress. She played Carol, in "Mrs. Miniver", Eleanor Gehrig" in "Pride of the Yankees", etc. This is a very early page, with the photos actually removed from an old scrapbook I'd started that was small, hence the large amount of tiny pics. I love this mint green paper, and she didn't look bad on it, so she won!
C.) Eleanor Powell. This is the first page spread I made, again with small pics from the old book. The cursive handwriting I developed for this scrapbook is actually based on Eleanor Powell's writing with capitols taken from a few other stars, mostly Barbara Stanwyck. Also do her small "t"s now, although the early pages are done with EP's "t"s. I only write cursive in the scrapbook. Mom is probably thrilled I can write anything legibly, cursive or printing! I was a late bloomer! ;o)
ROW 7:
A.) First Ellie spread. The left, purple page was my first use of vellum behind the photo. Doing the angled lines of the double matte really made the photo look cool. Purple (purple, green and black are my favorite colours, so I have to ration the use of them) just seemed to match. Theright blue page is another old one, that was made the same day as the previous two.
B.) Anne of Green Gables . . . OK. Not a classic film, but getting old. Come to think of it, it is older than us! Aaaah! Anyway, I love Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. Read the first book many years ago, and always mean to go back and read the series. I want to try and get her autograph one time.
C.) Amanda Root. Played Anne Elliot in the 1995 "Persuasion". Love her! What a voice and so fabulous! Beautiful eyes, too. We wrote to her and she sent us the nicest reply and photos. That pink paper is what she'll go on, even with a pattern, but I haven't done anything to her page. We bought a pack of Jane Austen style papers to do our period British autographs on. Jane Austen, Cranford, N&S, etc.
ROW 8: Easy. These are just autographs, no made pages. Picture A is Mary Costa, the voice of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty". She lives in Tennessee and has the most gorgeous handwriting! I saved "Dleeping Beauty" stamps and used them on the return envelope. Picture B - no explanation needed! ;o) Picture C: The right page are the photos from the lady who played "Aunt Gardener" in the 1995 mini-series of "Pride & Prejudice", and she sent autographed photos of her two kids. Her daughter played Georgiana in the mini-series. She reads Agatha Christie mysteries (audiobooks) and she is fabulous!
ROW 9 ( last):
A.) Astaire and Rogers. One of the latest pages, which is actually not so recent, but I need to get back to doing this! I am happy with this set. The large photo is from a book. This time I wrote their last names in decco style and "sigend" their first names below in silver marker. Ginger Rogers handwriting is awful to copy! Very hard!
B. & C.) More autographs. Margaret from N&S and then David Suchet as "Poirot".
This is the sketchbook I told you about. Bought it at Hobby Lobby! (By the way, I don't know if Sis told you, but the two military displays I made . . . bought those displays at Hobby Lobby! We love going there!) The paper is handmade and very thick and sort of lumpy. More for watercolouring, probably. It was challenging, as you could not use and eraser. It totally erased the paper as well! So, you had to be very careful with the pencils.
All of these had model photos/pictures/illustrations from a variety of places. Remember that this is supposed to be the sketchbook of the hero of our novel.
ROW 1: a.) The front cover b.) Two dogs, really happy with this. Totally different style than I've ever tried before. c.) Aconite in flower. I put watercolour pencils on top of this. First attempt. Them I added more highlights with the dry wc pencils. I don't really do colour, so this is a rarity.
ROW 2: A fountain pen. Really happy with this one. I bet the pen is 7 inches long. b.) A cutaway view of a hops oast house. Really like this one. Want to tint it with the wc pencils eventually. c.) Damson plums on branch. Darker than I usually do. I was trying the look of some of my darker shades. I think I even tried my 9b pencil on the deep shadows!
ROW 3: a.) French Camargue horse. Believe it or not, I can never draw horses! Sarah really wnated one and I think this was God letting me do one once! Needless to say . . . I am thrilled with this one! b.) Camargue Guardian Cabin. Click the link to see a photo. Actually, the model photo I used! ;o) Kind of like a forest ranger hut, but in a French reserve where the previously drawn horses live. Interesting to read about. This is one of my favorite drawings ever. c.) Parsley. I love drawing plants.
ROW 4: a.) Yorkshire countryside. Based on an illustration from a James Herriot childrens book about a sheepdog. b.) Edelweiss. One of the last drawings I did in the book. I did this while watching "Objective, Burma!" with Dad one evening. I was shaking and crying so hard, and this drawing had to be done so lightly, since the petals are white and I only did the shadows. It was a good distraction. Funny what you remember about a certain object. c.) Kinghts. Just picked up an old book about armour and thought I'd do a page with a knight on it.
ROW 5: a.) Hops. I didn't take photos of all the drawings in the book, but you'd have seen more hops if I had. b.) Smoking pipes. These were very fun and didn't take long. c.) A wonderful cow. I did this over two days, starting on the left side and working all the way to the right. So, as it progressed, it looked like when you erase an etcha-sketch, the left side was completely finished, but just ended at a straight line and there was nothing but a vague outline. Super fun to see it progress. Actually, we were decorating for Christmas the day I started it and I am afraid I kept leaving and getting another inch done. Had it on my bed and would just dash upstairs to draw for a few minutes at a time!
ROW 6: a.) Hazelnuts. One of the last and one of my favorites. b.) A La Gonda. the car we want the character to have. A 1936 Italian sportscar. c.) Onions. My prize! I've threatened to cut this page out and keep it myself! I just am so happy with it and that is a rare thing! I can always find something I could have done better. These are just so fun!
All of these had model photos/pictures/illustrations from a variety of places. Remember that this is supposed to be the sketchbook of the hero of our novel.
ROW 1: a.) The front cover b.) Two dogs, really happy with this. Totally different style than I've ever tried before. c.) Aconite in flower. I put watercolour pencils on top of this. First attempt. Them I added more highlights with the dry wc pencils. I don't really do colour, so this is a rarity.
ROW 2: A fountain pen. Really happy with this one. I bet the pen is 7 inches long. b.) A cutaway view of a hops oast house. Really like this one. Want to tint it with the wc pencils eventually. c.) Damson plums on branch. Darker than I usually do. I was trying the look of some of my darker shades. I think I even tried my 9b pencil on the deep shadows!
ROW 3: a.) French Camargue horse. Believe it or not, I can never draw horses! Sarah really wnated one and I think this was God letting me do one once! Needless to say . . . I am thrilled with this one! b.) Camargue Guardian Cabin. Click the link to see a photo. Actually, the model photo I used! ;o) Kind of like a forest ranger hut, but in a French reserve where the previously drawn horses live. Interesting to read about. This is one of my favorite drawings ever. c.) Parsley. I love drawing plants.
ROW 4: a.) Yorkshire countryside. Based on an illustration from a James Herriot childrens book about a sheepdog. b.) Edelweiss. One of the last drawings I did in the book. I did this while watching "Objective, Burma!" with Dad one evening. I was shaking and crying so hard, and this drawing had to be done so lightly, since the petals are white and I only did the shadows. It was a good distraction. Funny what you remember about a certain object. c.) Kinghts. Just picked up an old book about armour and thought I'd do a page with a knight on it.
ROW 5: a.) Hops. I didn't take photos of all the drawings in the book, but you'd have seen more hops if I had. b.) Smoking pipes. These were very fun and didn't take long. c.) A wonderful cow. I did this over two days, starting on the left side and working all the way to the right. So, as it progressed, it looked like when you erase an etcha-sketch, the left side was completely finished, but just ended at a straight line and there was nothing but a vague outline. Super fun to see it progress. Actually, we were decorating for Christmas the day I started it and I am afraid I kept leaving and getting another inch done. Had it on my bed and would just dash upstairs to draw for a few minutes at a time!
ROW 6: a.) Hazelnuts. One of the last and one of my favorites. b.) A La Gonda. the car we want the character to have. A 1936 Italian sportscar. c.) Onions. My prize! I've threatened to cut this page out and keep it myself! I just am so happy with it and that is a rare thing! I can always find something I could have done better. These are just so fun!