Have you noticed the trend of flowers on projects lately? I have, and I’m loving it. When it comes to embellishments I’m always looking for something different, cute, and easy to make. Take a look at this layout made with handmade tissue paper flowers I made. It was so quick and easy!
This is what you’ll need:
- 3 to 4 sheets of white or color tissue paper
- pencil
- scissors
Step 1:
With all sheets together in a stack, free hand the shape and size you would like (photo below). I made 3 different sizes for more dimension.
Step 2: Holding all sheets in hand, cut out your flowers (photo below).
Step 3: You’re going to wad up each flower shape individually. This helps create that textured look.
Step 4: Now layer your flowers. Add button, brad, or any other embellishment to the center of your flower.
** To give your tissue flowers a different look you can ink, glimmer mist or even paint your tissue paper before starting***
Check out what Grace did with the July 2010 Main Kit:
Layout #1 Beautiful Friend
In this layout, I used a bunch of the products in the kit. You will find rub ons, embellishments, paper and stickers in this layout. I because I ran out of the maroon “f”. I punched out a circle from a paper with the same color and layered the white/beige sticker on their. This technique still kept the word in the same color scheme. I punched out decorative borders from pattern papers and created a frame for my photo with it.
Layout#2 Cream Puff Heaven
This layout is pretty symmetrical. Everything was assembled in a “lined up” fashion. To break all the lines, I added some buttons, used a scallop edged journaling block sticker and added a cardstock strip with a border punch. I also liked the sugar/flour pattern paper. I thought it was the perfect thing to add to my cream puff layout.
Layout #3 Food trip
This is by far my favorite of all the layouts I made with this kit. I love it because I was able to play with the round scallop piece cut from the pattern paper. I was also inspired by the definitions rub on that I used it to describe our fun food “activity”. I added a strip of pattern paper to point to the title so that it’ll be connected to the rest of the layout.
Layout #4 Kindergarten Buddies
In this page I used the stars and the ruler ribbon to emphasize the “school” theme. I also used the a lot of “three” in the layout like the number of kids in my picture, the three stars in the bottom and the rub on three.
Layout #5 Swing me silly
In this page, I layered a lot of pattern papers. I added about four in this page. I also used the two sets of letter stickers and added a rubon bird. The journaling block sticker had some vintage edge that didn’t match really well with my page, so I cut out the unwanted frame before adding the block sticker to my page.
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Here are a few more pictures of what Amber did with the book.
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Here’s a look at what Katie Turner did with her mini book. She based her book on Effer Dares’ Dare 119 and created a book of graphs and charts that correspond with random bits of my life!
For more photos of Katie’s mini book, visit our gallery.
If you are anything like me, you take lots of photos. Seriously, tons and tons of photos!! I get mine developed online, so I have to spend some time deciding and figuring out what I want to get make into prints. It’s not always easy, so I usually end up with lots of extra prints that I don’t use. And I don’t like to waste photos! When I saw the cute little star mini album in the July kit, I knew exactly what I was going to use it for. It seems I always have extra photos of my kids doing sports. Soccer, softball, baseball, track…I always have too many prints. So I decided to make an All-Star mini to use up all those photos that didn’t make it onto layouts.
I covered the cover with patterned paper, used my star punch to create a place for my title, and did lots of inking. I also added some small letters for my title (not included in the kit).
I added a title page that will tell what this book is all about and the date ranges of the photos in the book. That way I can add photos without being stressed about journaling and keeping things in perfect order.
My kids love looking at sports photos of themselves in this little album. And it was the perfect spot for all those extras. So the next time you have extra photos lying around, consider making a mini album with them!!
Your kits are being packed up and are about to ship to you. While you are waiting for your kits, here’s a peak at some wonderful layouts from Mara Campbell to spark your creativity. These pages are such a great celebration of summer and family. They make me want to pack my kids in the car, head out on a road trip and enjoy all things summer. Mara, thank you for the fabulous pages!
What are you scrapbooking these days? Are you scrapping your summer photos? Show us what you’re scrapping!
We hope you’re having a great summer. Check back tomorrow for a great July giveaway.
The cute JBS mini book that came in the main kit was adorable to say the least.
The idea of making a “save the date” book out of it was inspired by the Glitz sticker, the number paper and the stars.
Since dates are numbers, I decided to use the number paper to cover my front and back pages. I then used the save the date sticker as my title tag.
In the inside front page, I used some of the Pink Paislee stickers to add birthdays and then cut out a star from the GCD Studios paper.
In the back page I added another journaling sticker and hand wrote a little “note for me”.
This mini came together pretty fast and the best part of this project- it’s small enough that I can tow it in my purse and NEVER, EVER forget a birthday, anniversary or any other special dates ever again. *wink*
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