As you take in the beauty of this year’s May flowers, be sure to look for some original ways to scrap them. Here are two great ideas from Shauna and Paris.

Blooming Beauty
By Shauna Berglund-Immel

	The Busy Scrapper’s Solution Girl’s to Women collection makes it easy to create a quick and easy spring page. To keep the page simple with clean lines, Shauna used a lot of straight lines and then embellished with a row of three circles.
	Click here for larger image.	Supplies: patterned Paper Pizazz®: Busy Scrapper’s Solution Girl’s To Women antique brads 1/2” green gingham ribbon black inkpad black pen: Sakura Gelly Roll fonts: CK cursive, script (Creating Keepsakes The Best of Creative Lettering) Scotch® Brand foam mounting tape Glue Dots™

Instructions:

1. Cut the purple texture paper to 3” wide. Adhere under the left edge of lavender check paper. Trim the right edge of lavender check paper so the whole page is 12” across. Cut out and glue border strip over seam.
2. Mat the photo on lavender texture paper. Trim to 1/16”. Mat on purple texture and trim to 1/8”. Ink the edges with black. Center on lavender check paper.
3. Cut out paper embellishments. Place brads in the top of circle tags and adhere under photo using foam tape. Attach tulip embellishment to top of border strip using foam tape.

Spring in Bloom
By Paris Dukes

	Paris says: “I love how the botanical artwork, paper and letters on parchment all match. The tone-on-tone color blocking paper is the perfect place to add the diamond shaped artwork while vellum gives a soft touch and raffia completes the garden look.”
	Click here for larger image.	Supplies: patterned Paper Pizazz®: green color blocked: Kyla’s Tone-on-Tone Color Block Papers specialty Paper Pizazz®: green vellum: Pastel Vellum Papers (also available by the sheet) Paper Pizazz® Botanical Ephemera green decorating chalk: Craf-T Products black pen Cezanne font raffia Glue Dots™ photo squares

Instructions:

1. Cut out the diamond shaped floral artwork leaving a thin parchment border on each side. Add one to the center of each small color blocked square on the bottom of the green color blocked background paper. Tie a piece of raffia into a knot and add to the top of each with a Glue Dot™.
2. Mat the photo on green vellum, leaving an extra 1 3/4” on the left side. Trace computer journaling onto the vellum with a black pen. Cut out the floral artwork and add to the vellum as shown. Cut a 7” x 7 1/4” piece of the parchment words ephemera paper and layer it behind the right side of the photo as shown. Glue to the page.
3. Cut out the botanical alphabet tiles to spell “spring”. Chalk the letters with green and mat them on the left side of a strip of green vellum the same length as the vellum photo mat. Computer journal the words “in bloom”, then trace them onto the vellum strip. Glue the strip under the photo, hiding the adhesive under the alphabet tiles.