2nd Grade Fun
By Susan Cobb

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Susan’s Tip: I took advantage of the color-blocked design on the background paper to place my elements—it’s a great time-saver. The wood alphabet tile stickers are perfect for this page theme and add a different kind of texture and dimension to the page. I used them to spell the page title and to spell “fun” down the right side of the page. For the journaling, I included details about Natalie to give a written snapshot of her in second grade.

Supplies:

• patterned Paper Pizazz®: colorblock, red scuff, yellow lines, lime canvas paper art from Busy Scrapper’s Solution for School Pages
• Paper Clip Wood Alphabet Stickers
• black ink pad
• black pen
• four gold brads

Instructions:

1. Mat photo on lime canvas paper, leaving a 1/8” border. Cut out the yellow “ribbon” and layered squares with clip paper art pieces. Cut a 5/8” piece of the paper ribbon and set the small piece aside. Cut the remaining length in half and ink the edges. “Hang” the matted photo from the paper ribbon pieces and glue to the background paper as shown.
2. Arrange the wood stickers along the top and sides of the page and adhere in place, covering the top of the photo hanger with a letter. Add a brad just above the top of the letter.
3. Write “nd” on the small piece of yellow paper ribbon and ink the edges. Glue next to the number 2. Write name and date on the remaining art and glue to the upper right corner of the page.
4. Computer print your journaling on the yellow lines paper or write by hand with the black pen. Trim to rectangles and mat on red sponged paper. Arrange beneath the photo and glue as shown. Finish by adding brads.

Susan Cobb is a cardmaker, a scrapbooker and a papercrafter who designs full-time for Hot Off The Press and the Paper Wishes catalog. For fast, easy-to-coordinate pages, Susan relies on the Busy Scrapper’s Solution, a series of themed collections that contain papers and art cut-outs.