Spring Photos

Once a month Creating Keepsakes is hosting a “class” on the Club CK website taught by one of their staff or Dream Team members.  Todays class was taught by Kim Watson and involved a couple techniques.  The class (membership as well) is free, if you’d like to see more, you can check it out here:  Kim Watson's Spring Flowers free scrapbooking class.

I decided to play along today.  Despite the fact that there was misting involved!  I would like to offer up this one tidbit:  Use your American Crafts Chipboard Thickers that don’t have enough tack to actually stick to a page.  Perfect guilt free way to use them – and you can use them for the same application repeatedly which makes them go even farther.



Notice the stitching through the letters?  Super easy technique to add a lot of interest to your pages without adding expense.  Definitely going to have to try this technique more!
Budget Tip:  When using multiple layers of paper for a background that is almost the entire 12x12 size, cut out the center of the back layers to use as additional scrap sized pieces on the layout.  I used the paper I cut from the back to mount my photos and cut my journaling strips.
Supplies:  Co’redinations (cardstock), Crate Paper (patterned paper, stickers, small alphas), Studio G (tape for flowers), The Twinery, American Crafts (thickers used as mask), Lindy’s Stamp Gang (mist), Misc (thread & bling)

Design Tip:  Repetition  This is another page where I used the same photo three times.  I only had one pose of this, but didn't feel that one photo on the page was what I wanted.  By printing the same photo two additional times smaller, it allows me to say "this is important" and create a cohesive page.

Price Per Page:  $$$ ($3-$4 suggested retail)