Bright leaves, beautiful browns and a coolness in the air—all pleasures
of the Fall season that is upon us. While the spirit of fall envelopes
you, capture the precious memories with pages like these from Shauna and
Susan.
This page is perfect to express how you feel about the Autumn season.
Shauna used a tinted black and white photo with Botanical Ephemera for
a shabby chic style layout.
Supplies:
Instructions:
Shauna tinted the flower in the black and white photo yellow. She matted
it on black, then a wider mat of vellum to allow the background to show
through. She placed the photo in the top center of the page.
Shauna cut and tore out pieces of Botanical Ephemera and layered them
across the bottom center of the page as shown. She cut a piece of cork
from the Altered Book Treasures to fit the bottom right corner of the
page and added a diagonal stamp above it and a tape-style fragment to
it. She ran fibers across the page over the ephemera pieces to enhance
the color scheme.
For a 3-D effect Shauna strung the metal dog tag on one of the fibers
and embellished it with ephemera and a tape-style fragment. Shauna added
a tag with gold fibers in the top right corner of the photo to balance
the page and used a black pen to journal vertically on the top left and
under the photo.
Jumping in Fall Leaves
By Susan
Cobb
Susan’s incredible lifting technique is a great way to make this
photo look as if it were part of the paper. The rich maroon and gold bring
the season to life.
Supplies:
Instructions:
Susan cut a 8” x 12” piece of brown leaves paper. She matted
her photo on metallic gold, then centered it, at an angle over her brown
leaves paper. She marked where the photo would lie and then used her X-acto®
and cutting mat to cut the edges of some of the leaves out. She then tucked
her photo under the cut edges.
Next, Susan matted the top and bottom of the brown leaves on metallic
gold, then on a wider mat of caramel cardstock she chalked the cardstock
edges and matted again on ivory vellum, tearing the edges. She placed
the piece on the center of the maroon cardstock.
Susan cut 12” lengths of the gold fibers and threaded them through
the lock. She added a large maroon button and attached the fibers to the
left side of the page, adding gold brads a shown. She cut out a few leaves
from the remaining paper and outlined the edges in gold, then added them
to the page for accents.
Susan journaled on a small piece of ivory vellum, tore it out and chalked
it. She added the vellum at an angle to the right of the photo, accenting
it with a button with a brad through it. She cut out the embossed charms
and added them to the page, then journaled with the gold pen.
Soft black and white tones go perfectly with the golds and browns of
fall. Shauna used these captivating photos for a bright inspiring page.
Supplies:
Instructions:
Shauna cut a 4” x 12” piece of tan vellum and outlined the
right and left edges with a gold pen. She matted each of her photos on
metallic gold trimming closely, then placed two of them on the vellum
piece, as shown. She matted the third photo on tan vellum, leaving 1/4”
on the top, right and left and 3/4” on the bottom. She then outlined
the vellum in gold.
Shauna added the vellum border with photos 1/2” from the right
side of the page, gluing behind the photos. She placed the close-up photo
on the top center of the remaining background paper.
Shauna added four gold eyelets in the top edges of the border, two on
each side, and one each on the bottom of the smaller vellum mat. She threaded
fibers diagonally through the eyelets on the top right and also through
the smaller mat’s eyelets, securing them on the back of the page
with clear tape.
Next, Shauna computer journaled on white cardstock, then cut it out and
chalked certain words. She matted the journaling on metallic gold, then
added fibers to the corners and added between the two photos at an angle.
Shauna cut out the embossed charms, punched holes in the tops of them
and strung them to the fibers with gold thread. She stamped the word “believe
at the bottom left of the page and added the library treasure over it
with gold brads.
Pages reprinted from Using
Ephemera, It’s Easier Than You Think and Making
Designer Scrapbook Pages.
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