April 2010 Newsletter

Spring is in the air. The weather is starting to turn nice and the flowers are starting to bloom. Spring time brings sports like track, indoor football games, and other activities. Creating scrapbooks during this time of year are perfect. You can put them together to give as graduation gifts. The kids will love them and you’ll enjoy making them for any occasion.
 

Pinewood Derby Frame
by Jolene Johnston

This year my son and husband took on the cub scout Pinewood Derby with renewed excitement and determination. Their goal was to improve their performance even though they faced challenges with new kit wheels and differences of opinion about wheel treatments. This year the boys came home with a 1st place trophy for Bear Cubs and the Grand Champion trophy for the entire pack. During my son's final race a wheel fell off his car which caused near panic from just about everyone watching. Luckily our pack drops the lowest timed race, so without that race his little speedster was still fast enough to clinch the title.

I made this frame for my husband's desk at work so he can remember all the hard work they did together and the fun they shared with racing. The lasercut title was easy to use on this project - simply snip the title words apart and adhere to the frame with Mod Podge. Remember to utilitze doublesided papers (like this racing paper) on projects as they coordinate perfectly and save your scrappy budget. Altering a frame is a great way to display photos from a special event that makes everyone proud!

1. Paint edges of frame black and allow to dry.
2. Adhere Defining Racing Paper (words) to frame using Mod Podge.
3. Trim 3" wide strip of Defining Racing Paper (flag) to left side of frame with Mod Podge. Ink all edges of frame.
4. Trim Pinewood Derby Title to separate words and flag. Adhere words on frame as shown.
5. Apply strip of ribbon where patterned paper edges meet.
6. Cover entire frame with sealant coat of Mod Podge.
7. Adhere Race Metal Accents race car and metal gears with glue dots.

Scrappin' Sports - Defining Racing Paper
Adorn It - Race Metal Accents
Griff's Shortcuts - Pinewood Derby Title
Cat's Eye Fluid Chalk Inkpad - Charcoal
Offray ribbon
Tim Holtz Gears
Unfinished wood frame
Black craft paint
Mod Podge
Glue dots

 

Sketches are a great way to get your creativity moving, but sometimes we can get stuck on a sketch.  This article is going to talk about ways to look beyond the sketch and make the sketch work for you, your style or the particular photos you want to scrap.

I used a great PageMaps sketch:

I loosely followed the sketch, by using some of the key elements such as the three photos and the embellishments on the torn right edge.

Directions:

1. Start with three photos, 2.5”x5”, sand the edges with a file
2. Use black Bazzill as your base
3. Trim LYB - Generation Z - Black Metallic Zig Zag Paper to 11.25”x11.25”
4. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
5. Trim LYB - Generation Z - Orange Metallic Wallpaper Paper to 10”x10”, tear off a small strip along the right side.
6. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
7. Add photos to layout
8. Add LYB - Generation Z - Beyond Extreme Vinyl Sticker to layout
9. Add ‘Xtreme’ shape from LYB - Generation Z - Clear Cut Shapes, I held mine in place with two colored staples.
10. Add the gears from LYB - Generation Z - Dimensional Stickers
11. Mix in Creative Impressions - Mini Brads - Black with the dimensional gear stickers
12. Cut journaling strips from black Bazzill cardstock, write journaling on strips & attach to layout
13. Add date with Making Memories Magnetic Date Stamp

For my second take on the same sketch, I flipped the sketch and instead of using three small photos, I used one larger photo and a border punch instead of tearing the edge, but I still created a decorative border from brads:

Directions:

1. Start with one photo 4”x8.75”, sand the edges with file
2. Use Reminisce - Let's Hike Paper as your background
3. Trim Karen Foster - Red Notebook Paper to 7.75”x11” (I had already used the part with the words on another layout, but you will want to trim off the words)
4. On this layout, instead of tearing the edge of the paper I used a border punch along the bottom.
5. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
6. Trim Teresa Collins - Sports Edition - Zach's Sports Numbers Paper to 2”x11”
7. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
8. Using a sewing machine, stitch along all of the edges except the bottom edge with the border punch.
9. Trim Bella Blvd - Camped Out - Happy Campers Paper to 3.5”x9”
10. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
11. Add photo to layout
12. Use “I love hiking” sticker from Stamping Station - Hiking Sticker Sheet, attach to layout
13. Using Bella Blvd - Camped Out - Bits a Bella Paper, trim out the strip of flowers, a journaling block, ‘nature at its best’ strip and ‘hiking’
14. Trim the strip of flowers to 5.25” long, Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
15. Add journaling to journaling block, then attach to layout.
16. Using Bella Blvd - Camped Out - Label Additions Cardstock Stickers:
17. add a pop dot behind the oval tree sticker then attach to layout
18. tuck the ‘memories’ sticker under the photo and add a pop dot to the circle bird sticker and attach to layout 
19. Using your ‘nature at its best’ and ‘hiking’ strips, distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
20. Tuck in pin with flag
21. Add decorative bird and dragonfly brads, then mix in yellow brads from Creative Impressions - Mini Brads - Primary

Finally for my third take on the same sketch, I flipped the sketch around to create a two-page layout.  I joined the two-page layout by adding a photo to make the photos span across both pages as well as having the large title span across both pages to create a uniform layout.  I still used a torn edge and the decorative border from the original sketch, I just moved the border across the top.

Directions:

1. I printed my photos all 3” tall but trimmed them down so they would fit and sanded the edges with a file, my layout uses the following sizes of photos (left to right): 3”x3.25”, 3”x3.75”, 3”x2.5”, 3”x3.25”, 3”x2.75”, 3”x3.5”3”x2.5”  yours may vary depending on where you can trim your photos.
2. Use black Bazzill as your base
3. Trim two pieces of Scrappin' Sports - Baseball Reflections Paper to about 4.75”x10.5”,  tear off a small strip along the right side on one and on the left side of the other
4. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
5. Trim two pieces of Scrappin' Sports - Dotted Baseball Paper to about 3”x10.5”,  tear off a small strip along the right side on one and on the left side of the other
6. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
7. Trim two pieces of Scrappin' Sports - Baseball on Fire Paper to 1.5”x12”,  here I decided to not tear the edge and let this strip run all the way across two pages
8. Distress the edges with Making Memories Edge Scraper Tool, then attach to layout
9. Add photos to layout
10. Die cut letters to create a large title, I thought it would be fun to use patterned paper for part of my title
11. Use white Bazzill cardstock for "let's" 
12. Use Scrappin' Sports - Name of the Game Baseballs Paper for "play ball"
13. Create a fun cluster using Queen & Co - Baseball Felt Frenzy, I added a pop dot under the baseball for some dimension
14. Using Eyelet Outlet - Baseball Brads and Eyelet Outlet - Baseball Bat Brads and mixing in some red brads from Creative Impressions - Mini Brads - Primary I created a fun border, using the stars in the sketch as inspiration
15. Cut journaling strips from black Bazzill cardstock, write journaling on strips & attach to layout
16. Add date

Here were three layouts created using inspiration from the same sketch, all very different with photos, supplies and themes, but with some similar elements such as the borders (the sketch used stars) and the torn/punched edge!  I hope this inspires you to look beyond the sketch to create your own fantastic layouts! 

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October is a busy month for a lot of people. It’s also a great time to start scrapbook for the holidays. Scrapbooks make great gifts and you’ll have plenty of time to get them ready.
 

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