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Springtime Layouts
Flowery spring days and Happy Easter holidays... check out these fresh ideas
for preserving your beautiful memories.
An Egg-stra Special Easter
By Shauna Berglund-Immel
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Highlight key words in your journaling
using chalk to draw attention to the important details.
Supplies:
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Instructions:
- Cut 31/2" squares out of pink spattered, green spattered and lavender
spattered papers. Mat on gold. Line up centered
on the left side of light blue spattered paper.
- Mat photo on gold; on green spattered paper and again mat on gold. Cut two
1/4 x 6" strips of spattered pink and spattered lavender
papers. Mat on gold. Adhere to top left and bottom right corners of photo,
at an angle and secure behind photo. Mat on white vellum and trim to 1/2".
Outline with gold pen. Adhere centered to light blue spattered paper portion
of layout.
- Journal on white paper, then mat on gold. Use chalk to highlight words for
emphasis. Center and adhere under matted photo.
- Trace, cut out and fold three mini envelopes out of white vellum. Outline the
top edges with a gold pen. Wrap with blue ribbon and adhere behind. Cut out embossed
words, punch 1/16" hole in top, string gold thread through and tie. Adhere
to top of ribbon on mini envelope front, using a glue dot and a shoe string bow
to hold it in place.
- Punch oval shapes out of pink, green, and light blue spattered papers. Chalk
edges, mat on gold and trim to 1/16". Tuck inside envelopes.
My Little Garden Angel
By Shauna Berglund-Immel
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Add dimension and interest to a page
by using the tag template to create a collage-style tag through layering
and adding embossed charms.
Supplies:
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Instructions:
- Overlay white vellum over garden scattered flowers. Measure 7" from the right
side of lavender sponged paper and tear. Adhere to right side of garden scattered
flowers. Measure 3/4" from the left edge and tear. Glue
to the left edge of the layout.
- Mat photo on white then on purple vellum. Mat on garden scattered flowers.
Center toward top of lavender sponged portion of layout. Glue a 1/4"
strip of garden scattered flowers to the right edge of the lavender sponged.
Computer journal on white paper, then mat on purple vellum, trim to 1/8"
and adhere centered under matted photo. Place mini buttons in each corner
as shown.
- Using the tag template, trace tag onto the back of the blue, lavender and
green sponged papers. Cut out. Mat on white. Tear blue, purple and green vellums
and garden scattered flowers. Layer over coordinating colored tags. Trim to
fit. Cut tags down to 2 and 3" in length. Place foam tape on back and adhere
to white vellum.
- Trace smaller tags onto white. Cut out. Mat on green, yellow and blue papers.
Cut out vellum flowers and center on tags. Adhere tags to larger tags using
foam tape. Place buttons at the top of each tag. Cut out charms, and adhere
to tags as shown.
Tulips
By Shauna Berglund-Immel
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Use a mini envelope template as part of a decorative element in a collage sequence,
outlining with a metallic pen for a dressed up look.
Supplies:
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Instructions:
- Trim pastel pink vellum to 8" wide. Measure 1 1/4"
down from the top and cut out a 7 x 5 1/8" rectangle.
Outline with silver pen. Mat photo on silver paper, mat on pink vellum. Outline
with silver pen. Adhere pink vellum w/window to the right side of the tulip
collage paper, fasten with mini silver brads in each corner. Center photo
in window and adhere. Top with shoestring bow in the upper left corner.
- Trace and cut an envelope out of white vellum. Fold as directed and outline
the edges with silver pen. Adhere to pink vellum as shown. Punch a rectangle out
of an extra photo, mat on silver, trim to 1/16", then mat on purple vellum
and trim to 1/4". Outline with silver pen. Place foam tape on back and adhere,
overlapping envelope.
- Cut out charms and arrange across envelope and pink vellum as shown. Then
cut out alphabet tiles and adhere to pink vellum as shown.
- Journal on tulip collage paper with a plum mist pen.
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