with Helen Naylor

I love little stickers!  My boys love little stickers!  They are so inexpensive that when we make our trip to the local scrapbook stores, I let the boys pick a bunch!  Now what?  Using little stickers on border strips is a great way to, in essence, make your own patterned paper.  Decide on the size of strip you want for your border.  Then start filling it in with little stickers.  Hang part of the sticker off the edge, then trim and use the other half on another part of the edge for fill in.  After you’re done placing the stickers, trim off any excess that can't be re-used.  Mount the border on another color of cardstock and trim, leaving an 1/8 “ edge.  Place on page and you are ready to mount photos and create a title.  Experiment with different types of stickers and decorative edges for endless combinations and effects.

Who Needs Conversation?

Supplies

• Cardstock and lettering template (Pebbles In My Pocket)

• Stickers (Mrs. Grossman’s)

• Pens (Twin Tip, EK Success)    

Cut a 1 ¾” x 11” strip of white cardstock.  Add stickers, following above directions.  Mount on yellow.  Cut a 1 ½” strip of white cardstock.  Use lettering template, first penciling in the letters to make sure they’ll fit, and then trace the outline with black pen, “stacking” the letters so that one letter appears to be on top of the one ahead of it.  Fill in with the pure red brush tip.  Mount on red and then yellow.  Mount photos on red, and then conversation heart colors like yellow, lavender, mint green or pink.  Mount and journal.