Scrapbook Magazine - Issue 25
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Take a look at some examples of our talented readers’ scrapping. Want to see your pages here? Send an email to lindsey.hopkins@practicalpublishing.co.uk with an image of your layout attached, and you could be published!
Mother’s Day by Staci Compher
Materials
• Patterned paper:American Crafts • Journaling spots:Heidi Swapp • Cardstock:Bazzill • Stickers:American Crafts, EK Success • Pen:Zig
Inspiration “Normally my Mother’s Day layouts are of me and my girls or my mother, but I have been waiting to be an aunt for a long time and this year my sister-in-law found out she was pregnant. To say I was happy was an understatement! This Mother’s Day was all about their first baby together, so in our family me and my mum now get to share the day with my sister-in-law. In the picture she is just glowing... and now a year later she’s given birth to a beautiful baby boy.”
Technique “My main technique was to cut the flowers out of patterned paper, which I love doing because it’s such an inexpensive embellishment. I then sewed around the edges of them and crunched up the edges, giving them a little lift.”
Summertime by Louise Booking
Technique “I sanded the photograph around the edges and matted it onto patterned cardstock, then inked around the edge of the cardstock and stapled on some lace. The photo was mounted onto the patterned paper and the buttons glued into place and sewn on. I painted the green lines around the photo using a foam brush. The title was created by sticking some alphabet stickers to the page, painting over them, then removing the stickers.”
Inspiration “I took this photo of my son, his dad and my dad while on holiday in Italy. I love how natural they all look and wanted to keep the photo as the main focal point, so I kept the layout quite simple.”
Materials
• Patterned paper:BasicGrey • Buttons:Bazzill • Letter stickers:BasicGrey • Acrylic paint • Distress Ink:Tim Holtz • Lace • Diamond Glaze:JudiKins • Foam brush
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Materials
• Cardstock:Bazzill • Patterned paper:Rob and Bob Studio, Paper Adventures • Oak leaf punch:Woodware • Chalk:Pebbles Inc • Fibres • Journal stickers:Karen Foster
Don’t Rake... Play! by Alun Maxwell
Inspiration “My inspiration was the fabulous oak in our garden – fabulous until you have to rake the leaves that is! I took photos and supplies to my local scrap club, the very friendly Pages of Memories, where I made this tribute to a 300-year-old tree – and to my kids of course!”
Technique “The principal technique was to ‘drizzle’ the leaves from the top to the bottom photo – to portray the journey all leaves make eventually. I also added some autumncoloured texture by threading ribbon through two holes in my cardstock, and tearing and chalking the paper edges.”
The London Eye by Joanna Shimwell
Materials
• Patterned paper:Junkitz • Cardstock:Bazzill • Letter stickers:Doodlebug • Cutting system:Creative Memories
Inspiration “It was a bitterly cold day on the South Bank. After buying my mum a new hat, we queued for over an hour for our flight on the London Eye and then warmed up with tea and scones in Harrods! The black & white papers were perfect for scrapping my photos from this memorable day.”
Technique “I overlaid the Junkitz papers so that the pattern matched, and attached these to Bazzill cardstock. Some of the photos were cut into circles to sit in the centre of the pattern, and the corners were rounded on the other photos. I then backed them onto black Bazzill cardstock.”
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