Expandables
by Helen Naylor

Expandables are a fun and easy way to expand your scrapbook layouts. The frames and slides and frames with spinners allow you to multiply the space you have on a single scrapbook page, while making it fresh and fun to see.

Designed on acid-free paper, the embossed pages are all ready to mount photos and stories on, and tuck into your scrapbook with a minimum of time involved.

The embossed frames and slides are pre-cut. Each of the 4 kits is available in white, cream, red and navy. Each kit includes one embossed frame with slide(s) and a matching embossed companion page, with directions and ideas included.

The embossed frames and spinners come in a variety of styles (Family Tree, Nostalgia, Farm House and Checkerboard) and colors. Each of these kits also comes with an embossed companion page and the spinner, complete with directions and ideas.

At first I thought these would be good for heritage pages, but they will easily work with any photo and story. If you are looking for something fun and different in your scrapbook, try using an Expandable.

Suggested Retail Price: $2.95

Family Tree
by Helen Naylor

Supplies:

• Page and spinner (Expandables)

• Chalk (Craf-T Products)

• Adhesive (Hermafix)

Instructions:

Using chalk and a Q-Tip, chalk the leaves two different shades of green, and the trunk brown. Mount the three bottom photos on page from behind. Using the pattern included in the kit, trim photos to fit in the spaces. Mount on spinner.

Long Beach
By Alison Beachem

Supplies:

• Slider Kit (Expandables)

• Cardstock (Paper Reflections)

• Journal liner (Chatterbox, #1)

• Pen (Writer, EK Success)

• Adhesive (Hermafix)

Instructions:

Cut three pictures so that they all fit on the pull strip provided in the kit.  Mount photos on strip and place strip in the slot.  Trim main page from kit ¼” on all sides and mount on blue.  Trim blue 1/8” on all sides and mount on green.  Mount on photo on green.  Journal on white with blue pen.

To use this kit with sheet protectors, place layout in sheet protector and mark a line where the tab is.  Cut a slit along the line and place the tab that pulls the slider up through the cut slit.  Now you can have the page protector and still be able to pull the slider with the other “hidden” pictures.

*If you want to protect the slider pictures, use a Xyron and laminate the slider.