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The Four Digital Scrapbook Layouts above show the Air Force Memorial in Washington, DC and some of the Dedication Ceremony on 16 october 2006. These were done using the Heritage Makers Storybooking system and some of my own photos of the Air Force Memorial. I chose for this project to do indivdual 12 x 12 pages and have them printed to slide in the sheet protectors of my Air Force Scrapbook. You can check out the Heritage Makers system through my other website at Memory Book Architects. 
These are two digital scrapbook layouts I made using the Heritage Makers Storybooking system and my own photos of the U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds in action. I chose for this project to do indivdual 12 x 12 pages and have them printed to slide in the sheet protectors of my Air Force Scrapbook. The "background paper" on the left side is actually one of my photos cropped square and enlarged to 12 x 12 inches using the Heritage Makers tool set. Then I placed 2 smaller photos onto the "background" and "matted" them both with dark blue. All of this was done using a drag and drop system to position the elements where I wanted them on the page. The Title Text was also done using the Heritage Maker tool kit, and the same color for the text as the mattes. The page on the right was done the same way, using the dog tag embellishments, lettering circles to display the date of the photos. The photo corners were also pieces of digital art available using Heritage Makers. The background paper was selected from one of the Heritage Makers many many choices of "papers." 
These next two digital layouts used one photo for the background on the left page and on the right side a background paper from the many choices of art work in the Heritage Makers Premier system. I used 4 uncropped photos for each page, staggering then on the left page - on the right side they were placed next to each other as if stitched together in a panoramic photo. The lettering "Aim High", the Air Force Title and the Stars were all elements found very quickly in the Heritage Makers Premier package. Once I had placed the Title letters, I was able to change the color of the elements very quickly to various shades of Blue and Silvler. To find these particular elements and background papers, I merely typed into a search box, "Military" and up popped many different Art and Page elemente to choose from that were all Military related.
This digital layout of me trying on the gear from one of the First Combat Camera Squadron members is a fun one. Me in the pink outfit with the body armor and helmet equipped with the camera was just too funny and the photos were courtesy of one of the Air Force pros. Using the camoflauge background paper and pink tags which were available in the Heritage Makers Premier I thought emphasized the contradiction of colors in the photos. These Heritage Makers layouts were my first 9 digital scrapbook layouts and all were printed to go into my Air Force Scrapbook. I purchased the system recently and these 9 pages above took only a couple hours - and that included the learning curve of using digital scrapbooking for the very first time. Here is a link to check out the Heritage Makers system for yourself at MemoryBookArchitects. 
These two Air Force Scrapbook Layouts focused on the Thunderbirds. The large photo on the left was another photo that I purchased from the First Combat Camera Squadron stationed at the Charleston SC Air Force Base. This was the first I had learned about the Combat Camera Squadron and I was fascinated and used their patch as an embellishment on the photo. The panoramic photo showing the Thunderbird jets all lined up was taken with a Richo Film Camera that I use a lot for panoramic photos (4 x 12 inch format). Since I scrapbook in 12 x 15 a lot, I use the panoramic photos and can still use the 12 x 12 paper. The lettering on both layouts were some Patriotic Letter Stickers in Red, White & Blue. The Red Tag on the left side is adorned with Patriotic Ribbon and a small red star sticker - with "50 years" in white ink. 
These two Air Force Scrapbook Layouts represent my experience in a Special Ops Jump Simulator. I had always wanted to parachute since college, when a group of my friends did it, but I never could get permission from my father. Dad made some comments about 25 years of flying and trying not to jump out of an airplane and that was the end of the discussion. So I took advantage if the simulator. Let's just say the experience cured me of wanting to jump out of an airplane. I couldn't get the hang of the steering mechanism and the virtual reality through the head gear made me horribly dizzy. That was the longest 3 minutes of my life. The journaling done on the computer in Blue Ink, told the story of my experience. The opposing page is photos of the real pros as they parachute with the red, white and blue smoke streamers to announce the precision of an on-target landing. No dizziness there. 
These next Air Force Scrapbook Layouts contain photos of some of the aircraft and equipment on display. The lettering is the same Red, White & Blue Stickers as used on the Thunderbirds layouts. The two embellishment cards with the Flag and Star are made with a technique called Iris Folding and various sizes of Star Stickers. 
All the items on this Air Force Scrapbook layout are from the Combat Camera Squadron. The purchased photo of Airmen inside an aircraft, the Combat Camera decal, a post card and the brochure from the Combat Camera Squadron. Here's a link to the First Combat Camera Squadron to learn more about what they do.
One more layout made from the program from the Air Expo - mounted on a white back ground paper and decorated with more of the metallic star stickers. There will be more to come later when we get those photos printed from the latest Thuderbirds performance in 2009. Go to the B-17 Scrapbook for layout ideas on the Click here to go to Heritage Makers pages for Memory Book Architects.
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