The Art of Conversation
By Susan Cobb

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Today’s technology calls for change—even to your scrapbook pages! Susan created this fun cell phone pattern and a page about text messaging. Use it on your own page to accompany journaling about a conversation or about your teen who loves to talk on the phone.

Supplies:

• Paper Pizazz® patterned paper: burlap (available by the sheet)
• Paper Pizazz® cardstock: yellow: Light Cardstock Collection and Black
• Paper Pizazz® Library Card Holders & Mini File Folders Template
• antique mini brads
• brown decorating chalk
• tracing paper
• transfer paper
• black pen
• pencil

Instructions:

1. Glue an 8”x12” piece of yellow cardstock vertically to a sheet of black cardstock, about 1 3/4” from the left. Tear two long sides of burlap paper to 6”x12” and glue centered to the yellow cardstock on the background.
2. Mat the photos on yellow cardstock leaving a 1/8” border. Arrange on the background paper and glue in place. Computer print or write text messages and translations, journaling and title by hand with the black pen on yellow cardstock. Trim into file folder shapes or rectangles as shown. Mat file folders on black cardstock, and burlap paper as desired. Outline edges of all the yellow cardstock pieces with the black pen, then chalk edges with brown.
3. Glue journaling and title in place and add brads as shown. Use patterns to cut cell pieces out and glue together. Add outline detail with black pen. Glue photo to the center of the page.

How to transfer the pattern:

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Place tracing paper over the pattern and use a pencil to trace the lines. Place transfer paper on the burlap paper, with the tracing on the top, then re-draw with the brown lines. Place transfer paper on yellow cardstock, the tracing paper on top, then re-trace the red lines, Repeat the process for the black lines on black. Cut out all the pieces and glue together as shown.