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...Presents
topics of our readers' layouts which have been
intentionally "staged" |
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I am staging an Easter Egg Coloring page with my
grandkids. I have already prepared the background
page with cutouts and paper piecing. |
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-Nona Mitchell |
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I can't believe you are actually asking to find out which
ones are staged. Now all my friends will find out
the truth! I had just got a teapot punch in at my
store, and I had a four year old girl turning five.
She wanted a "swimming" birthday party, but I made her
have a very formal proper "tea" with the fine ladies she
hangs out with. The whole party was great, and my
pages turned out pretty good too.
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-Sheila Kurtz |
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I planned a St. Patrick's Day party for my 20 month old
son just to have a wonderful photo opportunity!
I found shamrock & leprechaun die-cuts, stickers and
paper.
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-Denise Faircloth |
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Some of my favorite pages are "staged" ones that I've
taken certain pictures to go with paper or stickers I've
found. I have two girls, nineteen months and three
months. I've taken pictures of them in several
different matching outfits and did a layout in each of
their books. The baby's was titled "Cute as buttons"
with button stickers to tie together; and the toddler's
was done with dark blue paper with white stars and was
captioned "A match made in heaven".
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–Lori Olson, Indiana |
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I have normally staged many of my photographs.
When I did an ABC book for my 3rd son I couldn't
find anything that would go with the letter "F".
So, I baked cupcakes and loaded all the kids into
the minivan and headed to our local fire station.
It was a great mini fieldtrip for my children and it
gave me the opportunity to take snapshots of my
children in all the firefighter gear standing near
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Next, when I didn't have much money to spend on
professional photographs for my newborn daughter, I
dressed her in an angelic white dress and used all
the fresh flowers that I received in the hospital
(before they wilted) and cut the stems off. I laid
her on my fluffy down comforter and placed the
flowers around her. She looks so pretty and the
pictures came out perfect! |
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Last but not least, here is a mean one! [LOL] Every
baby I have had (4) has a picture of them eating a
graham cracker and asleep in the highchair.
The first one was natural, but I must admit to
letting my very tired babies suck on a graham
cracker and fall asleep in the highchair just so I
could take that picture. |
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-Anonymous |
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I "staged" two pictures of a sledding collision with my
friends to finish a page. We had spent the day
sledding, but the camera was left in the car, so we staged
a bunch of pictures before we left for home. It was
pretty funny! =0)
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-Anna Bickel |
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My husband thought I was nuts, but for Labor Day '98 when
my daughter was 8-months old, I went out and bought a
watermelon (even though we don't care for it much).
I put my daughter in her little red bathing suit and we
packed our things and the cut up watermelon and went to
the pool for the afternoon.
I sat her down on the ground with the pool to her
back and gave her a slice of watermelon to chew on.
I took tons of pictures and they all turned out so great!
Well, with this, I was able to create a two page
layout titled 'Slice of Summer' and I used DOTS®
rubber stamps for the title and one of their watermelon
stamps. I even cut out my daughter and made it look
like she was hanging over one of the stamped watermelon.
I used green, red, and white in my layout and it is one of
my favorite layouts! We had a great time that day!
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-Pamela O'Connor , TX |
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This Halloween, I staged photos with my two cats.
I placed one of my cats into a brown paper grocery bag and
took a picture of him looking out of it. I also took
a photo of my other cat with its head in one of those
orange, plastic pumpkin-shaped buckets kids used to carry
around all the time.
For this one I had to place catnip in the bottom to
keep his head in it long enough to take the photo.
My caption is "Hey, where's the treats?"
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-Tiffany Alm |
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I made a book to send to all my family for Christmas.
I dressed my children and their cousins up to tell the
Christmas story. We had shepherds, an angel, and
Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus. It was a lot of fun and
everyone loved it. I had four pages plus the front
of the book to put pictures in.
I cut most of the people out and drew in the
background. I
hope it will give people ideas for next year.
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-Diana Sunde |
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One set of photos that we "staged" was taken when my
daughter was just three days old. It was Easter
Sunday. We put her in a large Easter basket
surrounded by Easter eggs and candy. She looked so
cute! I
titled the page "Look What the Easter Bunny Brought!"
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-Faith Kilmer, TX |
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We live in Puerto Rico and the fall season was upon us.
I was saddened to realize that my children would not enjoy
a pumpkin patch this season. So when our Navy base
commissary received a large shipment of pumpkins, I
dressed my two toddlers for the occasion and took pictures
of them picking out their pumpkins in the 'pumpkin patch'.
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-Kenya Smith |
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I once planned a picnic in the park after church one
Sunday just because I had seen a great layout for park
pictures. The whole family had a great day at the
park playing and eating. I also now have one of the best
layouts I have ever created with some very nice pictures
with lots of color and fun memories.
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-April Reynolds |
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I recently staged a picture of my daughter climbing up the
bottom two steps of a stairway (she is only 7 months) so
that the caption will read: "With imagination,
anything is possible" or "If you can dream it, you can do
it". Her Grandfather taught her to climb a set of
three steps, so I thought it would be cute to take a
picture that shows the steps in front of her.
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-Roxanne Kuerschner |
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I had seen a cute apple quilt pattern - and I thought it
would make a cute layout, with pictures of my two boys.
I dressed them in red, and gave them each an apple, and
prepared to take a couple pictures. My little
7-month old baby looked at his for a moment, then leaned
over and licked the apple. It was so cute.
Even though the original idea had been staged, can you
ever really "stage" anything with children?? They always
do the unexpected. My 4 year old took a bit out of
his apple, and then offered his to the baby. Again
the baby looked at it, and licked it - one of his first
tastes other than milk and cereal, and he really seemed to
like it. I ended up using the rest of that roll.
The kids were so cute. Incidentally, as I
tried to sit down to make the apple quilt layout, it
hasn't come together. I may just bag that idea and
create a completely different layout than what I
originally planned and staged the photos for. |
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-Jennifer Blackham, Utah |
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I am in the process of staging
a Halloween layout and it started with the costume for my
8-month old daughter. While shopping for costumes,
we came across this beautiful ladybug costume. I had
to get it because I had the best stickers and layout idea
using Anne Geddes stuff. So, hopefully I’ll get some
great pictures come next weekend to do justice to my
ideas! |
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-Sonja |
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I just had to have
a layout with wonderful fall colored leaves featured in
photos and using leaf punchies. We had no leaves in our
yard, so I dressed my 13 month old grandson in a cute red
jacket and matching pants, perused the neighborhood and
found just the tree and pile of leaves across the street
from our house. With my youngest daughter's assistance the
baby was plopped among the leaves (the neighbors were out)
while I snapped off photos as quickly as I could...poor
baby didn't know what we were doing and eventually cried.
The photo show his anxious
little face but I love the layout!! |
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-Deborah in
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada |
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| I had pictures of
my son and my cousins daughter when they were about 18
months old kissing. I staged my daughter and my
sisters children kissing for a "Kissing Cousins" page. |
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-Debbie Bertram |
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| I got a great idea
for a bowling layout, but we'd never gone so I took my
step kids and nieces and nephews bowling just so I could
get the pics and do the page*Ü* |
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-Christy Hofherr |
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