Happy National Scrapbooking Month!
It’s National Scrapbooking Month – so let’s get some scrappin’ done this month!
To get your creative juices flowing, I’m going to be posting several scrapbook page layouts over the next few days. These layouts were created with the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt and Designer Series Paper Pack that were available in the Occasions Mini Catalog. Unfortunately these products are no longer available so hopefully you have already ordered them! But don’t worry if you didn’t get your order in…. there are many ways these layouts can be adapted to fit the paper and products you are already have — or products that are available from this year’s Idea Book & Catalog or the new Summer Mini Catalog! I will give you some ideas on what products you could substitute too.
Here’s today’s layout:
Scrapbook Layout with Sweet Pea Felt and Paper
There are many options with this layout:
- You can put 6×4 photos in the 6 large squares and save the smaller squares for smaller photos, journalling, or just left “as is”.
- You could use one of the 6×4 squares for your title and/or one for journaling.
- You can use no photos at all… and just add lots of journaling! For example, this page would be a great page to highlight your 5 favorite things about spring.
Instructions:
- Cut squares of patterned paper to fill up your 12×12 paper, leaving an evenly-spaced border around the edges of each square.
- Rub a Basic Brown Classic ink pad along the edges of each piece of patterned paper.
- Adhere pieces to 12×12 Whisper White cardstock.
- Glue felt pieces and butterfly punch-out to the layout, overlapping the edges of the patterend paper pieces (to break up the straight lines a bit).
- Add photos, journalling, and/or a title as you see fit!
What to do if you don’t have Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper or Stitched Felt:
- Use a different patterned paper pack. For a summer or vacation layout, the new Island Oasis paper from the Summer Mini Catalog would work great! There are also several different paper packs available in the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog. The nice thing about Stampin’ Up!’s paper packs is that all the papers coordinate the other papers in the pack, so you can’t go wrong when trying to match your papers! I like to try to mix stripes with dots — and small prints with large prints.
- Substitute flowers from the Pretties Kit, Flower Fusion felt flowers or Fleurettes II crocheted flowers for the stitched felt. Or use cut-out stamped images, punches, or die-cut pieces.
- Instead of using Basic Brown to edge your papers, try Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Going Grey, or any dark coordinating color of your choice.
Closeup Images of each page:
Left Side of Scrapbook Layout
Right Side of Scrapbook Layout
Check back tomorrow for another layout!
