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Julie's Article

Julie Kramer

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Patterned Paper & Untraditional Colors

For two decades my husband and I have traveled West in the fall for hunting vacations. Recently our teenagers have begun accompanying us. We’ve seen from the San Juan National Forest in Colorado to the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. I never tire of the scenery, but I was beginning to run out of scrapbooking ideas and was becoming bored with the traditional outdoorsy colors I was using to showcase my pictures.

Project 1: Purple Layouts

Supplies:

Heart-Warmed Holiday Cardable by Carol Halm
Santa’s Express Creatable by Jill Webster
Miss Elizabeth’s Two- Sided paper, Heritage
Cardstock, purple, Colormates Medium Outdoor Olive
Eyelets, Stampin’ Up, purple, olive
Circle punch, 1 ½” by Creative Memories
Stapler

Instructions:

Copy the yellow background from Santa’s Express Creatable and paste to a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Copy and paste the Christmas tree from Heart-Warmed Holiday. Size the yellow background to be used for journaling and layer the Christmas tree in the center of the background. Add a transparent text box over the background and add journaling. Cut out and mat onto irregular rectangles of purple and olive mats. Place a row of purple and olive eyelets on the mats.
Mat photos using olive cardstock and arrange on layout with journaling box.
Punch photo circles and place within the circles on the patterned paper. Place purple and olive eyelets above the photos to give it a tag-look.
Cut 3, ¼” strips and fold into “V’s”. Staple to the layout.

Project 2: Pink Layouts

Supplies:

Live, Laugh and Love Creatable by Cara Bradshaw
Miss Elizabeth’s Two- Sided paper, Wine
Cardstock, Colormates, Medium Creamy Cocoa, Deep Autumn Red, Medium Mauve
Cardstock, white
Jewelry Hemp by The Beadery
Delta Tea Dye Varnish (optional)
Sewing Machine (optional)

Instructions:

Copy the leaf graphic from the Creatable and paste to a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Size to 1 ½”. Copy and paste a duplicate and print onto white cardstock. Cut out and machine stitch around the edge with burgundy thread. Cut 2, 2 ½” medium creamy cocoa squares and brush the edges with the tea dye varnish. (Option, brush lightly with water.) Curl and tear the edges for a distressed look. Place as a mat onto the leaves.
Mat photos with deep autumn red and medium mauve cardstock. Arrange onto patterned paper with leaf graphics and adhere. Embellish with hemp knotted around a photo.
Cut a 1 ½” strip of medium creamy cocoa and tear in half the long way. Brush with tea dye varnish on both sides or brush with water. Stitch to the bottom stripe and curl the torn edges.
Put page setup to 8 ½”x14” in landscape format. Create a title or journaling strip and print it onto medium cocoa cardstock. (I used Batik Regular font.) Cut strip and adhere between curled up borders on the bottom of the layout.

Project 3: Blue Layouts

Supplies:

Mountain Meadows Scrapable by Cara Bradshaw
Deja Views Vintage Pattern Paper, Country Plaid-Blue
Rusty Pickle paper, Dollhouse Yellow
The Paper Patch paper, Ocean Water Color Stripes
Cardstock, white
Vellum
Pop Dots by All Night Media
Eyelets, Stampin’ Up, Creamy Caramel Earth Elements
Square Punch, Creative Memories

Instructions:

Copy the Flower01 border and paste to a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Size to 10” wide and duplicate graphic. Print onto white cardstock in landscape format. Cut out one border and mat onto the Ocean Water Color Stripe Paper. Cut out the flowers from the second border and attach to the matted border using eyelets and pop dots under the petals.
To create patterned background, trim a 4” vertical strip from the Dollhouse Yellow paper. Now cut a 4” horizontal strip. You know have 4 sections to the paper. Adhere the top right corner and bottom left corner to the Country Blue-Plaid paper. Tear a 1” strip of the Ocean Water Color Strip paper and place across where the yellow paper meets.
Adhere the flower border across the top. Arrange and adhere photos. Punch square frames to focus on important parts of the picture and adhere to photo.
Create a title and print onto vellum and attach using eyelets. (I used Times New Roman and Scriptina font.) I placed the blue squares that where punched from my square frames along with a small square photo under my vellum title.

Project 4: Orange Layouts

Supplies:

Snow Angels Creatable by Rebecca Carter
Deja Views Fresh Print paper, Tangerine Square
Cardstock, Colormates, Light Orange Dream, Light Belgium Blue, Light Chocolate Malt
Cardstock, white
Stamp, Hero Arts, Criscross Background
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
Jewelry Hemp by The Beadery
Eyelets, Stampin’ Up, Brocade Blue Square
Snowflake Charms, source unknown

Instructions:

Copy the Snowflake Square02 and 03 and paste to a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Size to 2”. Duplicate the Snowflake Square02 and print onto white cardstock. Cut out and adhere the snowflake charms to each color square and set aside.
Trim a 1” border of blue cardstock and stamp with the Crisscross stamp and VersaMark pad. Attach to a 1 ¼” tan border and place on the left edge of the layout using eyelets on either end of the strip. Tie a piece of hemp 3” from the top around the strip.
Mat photos using blue and orange cardstock. Arrange onto layout tucking 2 under the border strip.
Create title tags to tuck under a photo by printing the title onto tan cardstock. I used GF Ordner Inverted Font. Trim tags and mat onto blue cardstock and place a square eyelet at the end, tie hemp through the eyelet, tuck under photo.
CAdhere snowflake squares onto layout.

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