Themes, layouts and inspirations
Monique cut out a large circle for the background of her layout, no need for fancy tools or large dies, she simple traced around a plate and cut it out. Using fringe scissors she add texture all the way around the circle adding her photo in the center along with clusters of embellishments behind and around the center circle and picture.
Visit the My Creative Scrapbook blog for step by step directions.
-Heather
I love interactive elements on a scrapbook layout, they are so fun to create and so fun for others to play with when flipping through your album! Nathalie created this wonderful Lilypad Gate using a variety of products and techniques to go over top of a stunning outdoor photo.
The base of the two arches were die cut using rainbow shaped dies from white and green cardstocks with scored hinge flaps that adhered behind the photo. The Lilypads were created with a dry embossing folder ran through a die cut machine and then she used coordinating dies to ink blend on the beautiful colors. Inside the flaps are other elements too like another photo and a softer stenciled scene with some sentiment strips scattered all around.
Visit the Altenew blog for her tutorial.
-Heather
