It has been playing on my mind, rolling around in my psyche and teasing my brain cells. That leaflet from the Deutsche Museum (bottom row) has a lot to answer for. Rife with scrapbooking design possibilities, it has eventually popped out as a template looking like this. There's another version lurking on my hard disk with squared off (rather than rounded) edges on the top and bottom strips. Mmm, that's three spaces for photos, journalling, paper, and embellishments, strips at the top could be solid or patterned ... There might even be a bit of doodling ...
There are some of you, I know, hovering tentatively on the edge of digi-dipping, in a "I really must ... one day ... when I've got time ... " kind of a way. If, across a couple of posts, I offer a layered template and graded help for using it in Photoshop and Elements, might that be useful? Plus, of course, some ideas for using a template like this for determinedly paper-and-scissors scrapbooking?
I've already been having a play, with a distinctly blurry picture from last weekend. Babies are not good at staying still I'm not very good at taking photos. "Can't you see it?" I said. Himself peered. "Err, what am I looking at?" he ventured. I was a little testy: "He was sitting on his Mum's hip when she swung round. You mean, you can't see his little arm and hand, and the sleeve of the christening robe?" There was a long pause. I waited hopefully. "Nope", he said firmly, "I see an amoeba". I'm putting it down to his angle of vision but he may, alas, be right. Still, you get the idea - there are possibilities in this template.

And even if you decide it's not for you, I hope you'll pop back to see how it's going. I might even have some photos which are blur- and amoeba-free. :)