August Scrapbooking Class

This birthday layout was lots of fun to make! The colors were bright and cheery, with Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, and Crushed Curry playing accent to the lively Lovely Lilac (try to say that fast 3 times... hehe). Letters from the new JUMBLE ALPHABET, were stamped inside Melon Mambo cupcakes, which were created by using the Scallop Circle Punch with a little extra trimming at the bottom. The Orchid Fine Cosmo Glitter was applied to the Textured Bermuda Bay cardstock strip using a 12" piece of 1/4" wide STICKY STRIP.

The TAFFY ALPHABET and the "H" from the retired LETTERPRESS ALPHABET were used to create the "Happy" Title Strip. The entire spread was pulled together at the end by using a fun technique called DOODLING, something most of us have done while sitting and talking on the phone, or while daydreaming in a warm, boring classroom. The BASIC BLACK STAMPIN' WRITE MARKER has two different tips, one is a wide brush tip and the other is a fine, hard tip -- perfect for journaling or doodling!

This layout was a generic spread, which means that it can be used with almost any kind of photographs taken about male or female in almost any activity or situation. There are several different small swatches of patterned paper used in the blocks across the bottom of both pages, which draws the viewer's eye from one page into the other. The same patterns can be found in the petals of the flower on the left page, which were created by choosing a stamp from "PICK A PETAL" stamp set and then trimmed around the edges of each. The center is stamped with Tempting Turquoise ink on the same card stock, then covered with a clear round button and Linen Thread. Then stitching was added around the edge of both pages, and from the flower on the left page across to the flower on the other side of the layout. Once again, this helps unify the two pages and carry the eye to the photos stretched from left to right in one long line across the center of the layout.

~Alice