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Who knew simple geometry could add so much fun to a scrapbook page? It's true: Triangles look amazing on layouts, especially when one triangle is vellum, as Arlene shows here.
An easy way to make a triangle is to start with a square or rectangle of paper, then mark the center of one outside edge and cut from that center mark to both opposite corners. Or for a right triangle, begin with a square, fold it diagonally and cut along the fold. Now you have two equal triangles. What to do with those fabulous triangles once they're cut? Take a look at this layout from designer Arlene Peterson. Patterns and album page reprinted from Making Fabulous Scrapbook Pages.
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In this page, designer Arlene glued a 2 1/4"x12" rectangle of black paper 1/2" from the left edge of the diamonds paper. She cut 1"x11 3/4" strips of both solid green and floral papers and glued them as shown. She cut 3 7/16"x7" rectangles of both green and floral papers and glued them to a 7 1/8" black square. She cut a 7" square of the floral, measured 3 1/2" down from the center to the upper and bottom corners on the left to form a triangle. Arlene repeated for a green vellum triangle. She matted the floral on black and glued it pointing to the right, then glued the vellum triangle pointing to the left. She then matted her photo on black and glued it centered on the square. She used the pattern to cut six vellum triangles, then used those to make six floral triangles, matting each floral triangle on black. Next, she glued the floral triangles along the left side of the border rectangle, then overlapped the green vellum triangles on top. She inserted a hear brad in the center of the top and bottom triangles. Beautiful!
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