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Julie's Article
Julie Kramer
Julie Kramer
Vacations
August is a popular month for family vacations and get-away-weekends. August was named by the Romans in honor of their emperor Augustus. During Augustus’s reign, the Roman Senate lengthened the month to 31 days by taking a day from February.
Although we always feel that the summer season is rushing past us, August 7th is the half way point. If you haven’t done all the fun activities that you’ve wanted to do this summer, it isn’t too late. Get out and celebrate such things as National Park Month and visit one of the many parks our great country has to offer. If you don’t want to venture out of the backyard, create a special day with a picnic or pamper yourself with a day just to relax. Check local and area listings for events happening in the area. State Fairs are in full swing and offer a variety of entertainment from music, to races, and livestock, among many other things. Spending time at local pools and lakes is a cool way to get through the “Dog Days of Summer.”
However you decide to spend your August days, be sure to take your camera along to capture the true spirit of summer. Enjoy!
Julie
Project 1: Sleeping Bear Dunes
Supplies:
  • New England Beach Creatable by Carol Halm
  • Deja View paper:Tangerine Peel,Tangerine Stripe
  • Cardstock: grey, dark aqua blue
Instructions:
  1. Crop photos to desired size. Create stripes by adding coordinating paper to one side of the photo to the width of the layout. Arrange onto the Tangerine peel paper and adhere.
  2. Copy and paste the lounge chair from the Creatable to a workspace, I use Microsoft Word. Size to fit with journaling.
  3. Create titles and journaling to fit on strips next to the photos running the length of the coordinating paper. Print on grey cardstock.
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Project 2: Yellowstone Wildlife
Supplies:
  • Crazy About Camping Creatable by Melissa Shupe
  • Cardstock: assorted browns, parchment
  • Assorted patterned paper
  • Alphabet templates: assorted
  • Paper fasteners by Creative Impressions
  • Square ringlets by Scrapworks
  • Silver Bar by Scrapworks
  • Tiny silver feathers by Bead Heaven
  • Silver metal gecko, source unknown
  • Jute
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste the leaf, log border, tree tag and plaid tag to a workspace, I use Microsoft Word. Size to fit layout. Add text boxes to the tags and add titles. I used Chalkdust font. Cut out and set aside.
  2. Adhere an 11¼” x 6” piece of patterned paper to the bottom of light brown cardstock. Cut random size rectangles from assorted patterned paper. Arrange onto layout along with photos and graphics and title created using assorted alphabet templates.
  3. Before adhering photos, tags and graphics to the layout, embellish with paper fasteners, ringlet, tiny feathers, gecko and jute. Mat photos or use photo corners.
  4. Adhere all elements and add a length of jute across the layout attached with paper fasteners. Tie on 3 short lengths of jute and knot.
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Project 3: Fort Mackinac
Supplies:
  • Patriotic Dreams Creatable by Teresa Kogut
  • Rusty Pickle Doll House Baby Blue paper>
  • Cardstock: white, baby blue
  • Spiral paper clips by Making Memories
  • Regular paper clips
  • Silver star eyelets by Stampin’ Up
  • Collage Alphabet Stamps by Stampin’ Up
  • Frost White Color Box Acid Free Stamp pad by Clearsnap
  • Small stick
  • Jute
  • Pop Dot by All Night Media
Instructions:
  1. Copy and paste the bird with flag graphic and size to fit layout. Copy and paste an identical bird. Create a text box6” x 2” and add journaling to use as a photo mat. Place the graphics and text box at the bottom of the paper and print onto white cardstock.
  2. Cut out one of the birds and use an exacto knife to cut around its wing. Tuck a stick under the wing to use as the flag pole. With tiny thin pieces of jute tie the stick to the graphic by the flag. Cut out the second flag and adhere over other flag placing a pop dot at the end of the flag. Cut out the wing section of the bird and place under wing cut with exacto knife.
  3. Mat 5” wide photo above journaling and trim to create a mat. Add 4, ¾” blue squares to the mat and adhere with silver star eyelets. Mat other photo with blue and white cardstock.
  4. Cut a 1½” white strip of cardstock to mat a strip of 1¼” blue. Adhere ¾” from bottom of layout. Cut a 1 ¼” white strip of cardstock to mat a strip of 1” blue. Adhere ½” from top of layout.
  5. Embellish the strips with small photos, tickets, spiral paper clips and the bird and flag graphic.
  6. Adhere photos to layout and stamp the title between the top strip and photos.
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Project 4: Summer Training Camps
Supplies:
  • Football Creatable by Linda Oberhansley
  • Take A Hike Creatable by Deena Rutter
  • Lettering Delights Alphabets, JDA Palladium, Pigskin, Main Street
  • Deja View paper, Kiwi Peel, Kiwi Square
  • Cardstock: cream, grey
  • Vellum
  • Pearl Grey Cat’s eye Brush Pad by Clearsnap
  • Paper Fasteners by Creative Impressions
  • Wire Mesh by ScrapYard
  • Label Maker by Dymo
Instructions:
  1. The team photo was a black and white postcard, so I converted my color photos into black and whites and trimmed them leaving a white border.
  2. Copy and paste the football from the Football Creatable and the word CAMP from the Take A Hike Creatable. Size to fit layout. Copy and paste from Lettering Delights the word PACKER using Main Street, SUMMER using JDA Palladium and the word TRAINING using the Football alphabet. Size to fit layout and print all onto cream cardstock.
  3. Cut out the football. Cut the PACKER, SUMMER and TRAINING words into rectangles, Tear out the work CAMP. Using the grey brush pad, ink the edges of SUMMER and TRAINING. With a small paint brush, dampen the edges of the word CAMP. Tear and roll over the edges. Crinkle up the cardstock and flatten. Randomly ink the edges and over the word to give it a distressed look.
  4. Prepare layout by placing a 4” strip of Kiwi Square down the left edge of the Kiwi Peel. Place a 1” grey strip next to this.
  5. Arrange and adhere titles and photos onto layout. Adhere a mesh triangle in the upper right corner using paper fasteners. Adhere football on top of triangle.
  6. Create a vellum pocket for smaller photos in the bottom left corner and attach using paper fasteners.
  7. Add journaling using the label maker.
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