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Layout Tutorial

By Katie Turner

Here’s a tutorial I created based on the layout I made using the sketch from Sketch Inspiration!

1. Choose your background paper. I chose to use the beautiful My Mind’s Eye Life Stories Roses patterned paper (probably my favorite sheet in the May kit!). Then, position your photos where you want the frames to be in the end. Since I used a sketch at Sketch Inspiration, my positioning is based on that. I used vertical photos instead of horizontal, though, and also used 2×3 instead of larger sizes.

2. With a pencil, mark the paper where the corners of the photos meet it. Set the photos aside.

3. Using a paper piercer or an X-Acto knife (my weapon of choice), poke small holes through the marks you created in the previous step.

4. Turn your paper over. Using a ruler or a straight edge and your pencil, connect the holes. They will match the dimensions of your pictures, so when I was finished, I had two 2×3 rectangles in the exact place I’d positioned my photos earlier — just on the back of the paper.

5. Using a scalloped template (whether it’s something like I used or a punched border you created with a scalloped edge punch), trace petals inside the rectangles you just drew.

6. There’s no particular way to go about this; the size of my template allowed for roughly three scallops on the top and bottom edges and two scallops on each side.

7. Using an X-Acto knife, cut out all parts that won’t be needed. These include wherever scallops meet — most of what you’ll be tossing will have a triangular or diamond shape. Be sure not to cut everything out; you’ll want to cut the sides only down to where the scallops begin, meaning that you won’t cut the outermost top or bottom edges at all, and only the corners of the sides, before you reach the part where the two scallops jut out toward the middle.

8. Once you’ve done that, go ahead and fold outward, using the outermost lines you drew as a folding guide.

9. Using a toothpick or a coffee stirrer, curl the petals upward. Your basic frames are complete!

10. Mat your photos on matching kraft cardstock — I used the back of the My Mind’s Eye Life Stories Pink Damask patterned paper. My matting resulted in about half an inch of kraft cardstock visible on each side of the photos.

11. Place adhesive on the kraft border around your photos and adhere to the back of your background paper, carefully matching the photos up with their frames. And that’s it!