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By
Alison Beachem
and Helen Naylor
Create
quick pages by adding color blocks of
cardstock behind your pictures. Instead of matting your photos
straight, try skewing the mat behind the picture. This technique
is a great way to designate a focal picture on your layout. This
method can also be used for patterned paper. Just be
careful not to overpower your pictures with too busy of a pattern.
The key to this technique is picking the right colors to go with your
photos. Just because your pictures are Halloween, doesn’t mean
you have to choose bright orange for blocks of color. Try
different shapes like triangles in the corners or squares. Even
just bands of cardstock across your layout can add enough to a page and
allow you to get more pages done.
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Supplies:
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Cardstock
(Paper Reflections)
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Black pen
(Writer, EK Success)
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12” Paper
Trimmer (Fiskars)
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Adhesive (Hermafix)
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Tucker at the Park
By Alison Beachem
Cut to triangles of blue cardstock and place in
opposite corners of page. Mount
photos on moss green cardstock. Mount
1 ½” squares on opposite corners of photos.
Journal in black. |
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Supplies:
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Our Little Bundle
of Joy
By Helen Naylor
Trim ¼” off the top
and one side of the blue striped paper.
Mount on pink striped paper.
Mount photos on 3 different pink patterned papers, using the
paper trimmer. Cut out a
heart, free hand, and mount on pink; cut out leaving about a ¼”
border. Mount photos on page, and then add the die cuts.
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Supplies:
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Cardstock
(Paper Reflections)
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12” paper
trimmer (Fiskars)
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Black pen
(Writer, EK Success)
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Adhesive
(Hermafix)
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Hiking, Winter 1996
By Alison Beachem
Mount main photo on white and then country blue.
Create a third mounting mat in light gray but skew the mat behind
this photo. Mount any other
photos in white and then the light gray.
Journal on white cardstock and then mount on country blue.
Mount all photos on a lighter blue than the country blue.
Freehand border in black pen.
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Supplies:
- Patterned paper and stickers (Bo Bunny
Press)
- Cardstock (Paper Reflections)
- Paper trimmer and craft knife(12”
Personal Paper Trimmer and Swivel Blade, Fiskars)
- Pen (Zig Twin Tip, EK Success)
- Adhesive (Hermafix)
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The Big Surgery
Mount all photos on pale
pink. Using a self-healing mat and craft knife, cut along the outline of
the bear, from the top of the right ear, down to the bottom of the right
paw. Tuck photo under paw. (I added a sheet of cardstock to the backside
of the page because the cut undermines the integrity of the full sheet
of paper.) On the second plaid sheet, mount photos on page and add
journaling boxes, white on pink cardstock. Embellish second page with a
few coordinating stickers.
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