Working with formal school photos can be very challenging because they have little to inspire and often look the same year to year. This year I decided to print out some duplicates in black and white to provide some variation and interest. I also added some handmade paper flowers and pleated paper for texture and interest.
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Supplies::
- Adhesives: ATG (Scotch); Foam Tape (Helmar); Glossy Accents (Ranger); glue dots
- Alphabet/Letters: Basic Grey
- Cardstock: kraft, navy (Bazzill)
- Die-cuts: My Mind's Eye
- Embellishments: My Mind's Eye
- Fibers: twine (Jillibean Soup)
- Ink: Clearsnap
- Patterned paper: Stella & Rose – Hazel/Special, Mable/Little Lady Fine Flowers, all other papers (My Mind's Eye)
- Punches: Martha Stewart
- Ribbon: Pebbles
- Tools: sewing machine
1. Trim blue paper to 10.5” x 10.5” square and punch around the edge before inking around the punched edge.
2. Machine stitch around the edge of the blue paper and the background kraft paper.
3. Cut a 2”x11” piece from the yellow paper and ink the edges.
4. Cut two 1” strips from the light blue paper. Distress one side and punch the other with a scallop punch.
5. Run a strip of adhesive down the middle of the yellow paper and use that to hold the blue paper in place as you pleat it.
6. Add liquid adhesive under the edges of the pleats to keep it secure, before wrapping twine around it a few times and tying in a knot.
7. Ink the edges of all the photos before matting the large one on navy cardstock.
8. Adhere the large photo with foam tape, and tuck the other two under the pleated paper using regular adhesive.
9. Make the flowers by cutting three 6-petaled flower die cuts for each flower.
10. Remove two petals from one, one petal from the next and make a slit in the final one.
11. Using the Glossy Accents, overlap the petals on the edge of the slit and openings, so that you have cone shapes of varying sizes.
12. Curl the petals with a pencil or rounded stick before stacking the cones one on top of the other with the largest on the bottom. Be sure to skew them so that the petals are not centered over one another and use Glossy Accents or glue dots to adhere them together.
13. Take the two petals and fold them so that one petal is curled and the other is curled around it but flipped down, and then adhere that in the center of the flower.
14. Snip the pointed bottom from the flower before adhering to the page around the die cut title as shown.
15. Layer two die cut circles with foam tape and add the title.
16. Add the brad, die cut and ribbon to the top left corner of the photo.
My name is Megan and I’ve been scrapbooking for about 6 years. When I am not scrapbooking, I work as a software engineer and have a busy life as a mom and wife. I am currently on the team at www.acherryontop.com and I have an active blog at thoughtsoftraveling.blogspot.com I hope you stop by!
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