Grandma’s Girl
By Paris Dukes

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Paris says: “I can’t get enough of the new Vintage sarapapers™! They make it so easy to coordinate papers for just the right look. Since my photo was digital, it was easy to change to black and white to fit the tone of the papers. The matching brads and ribbon from Vintage Embellish-abilities™ complete the look.”

Supplies:

• patterned Paper Pizazz®: Blue dots, green dots, striped and white textured papers, tags and artwork from Vintage sarapapers™
• white brads and white ribbon from Vintage Embellish-abilities™
• black ink pad
• fonts: Cg Greeting Monotone
• Scotch® Brand foam mounting tape

Instructions:

1. Use the striped paper as the background and cut a large strip (about 3” wide ) of blue dots paper to go across the bottom of the page. Ink the edges of the strip black and glue to the striped paper, about 1/2” from the bottom edge. Cut a 1” wide strip of green dots paper, ink the edges and glue 3/8” above the blue dots paper. Cut a 5 3/4” strip of blue dots paper, ink the edges back and add about 1” from the top of the page.
2. Cut an 11 3/16” x 5 1/4” piece of white textured paper and glue the photo to the right side as shown. Ink the edges black. Knot a 5” piece of white ribbon in the center and add it to the upper right corner of the photo as shown, tucking the ends behind the blue dots paper and securing on the black. Glue the white mat to large rectangle of blue dots paper.
3. Print the journaling and titles on the remaining white textured paper and cut out the tags. Trim the journaling to fit on the tags as shown, then ink the edges black. For the large green tag, add a large embossed brad and folded piece of ribbon to the top. Trim the ribbon ends at an angle and glue to the left of the photo as shown. Cut a small piece of green dots paper and ink the edges black. Cut out the flower artwork, ink the edges black and layer over the green dots strip with foam tape as shown. Glue under the green tag and add a large brad to each side as shown.
4. Glue the remaining journaling to the striped tags as shown. Glue the striped tags to the right side of the bottom piece of blue dots paper, with the tops of the tags facing each other and about 1” apart. Add large brads to each tag as shown, then wrap the ribbon around the brads and tie in a knot. Trim the tails at an angle.

Designer Paris Dukes is true paper crafter with a love for art. To learn more about how Paris makes her artistic creations, check out her work in Design Elements.