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We ❤ Papercrafting
Your summer Scrapbook Cherish your memories in creative style with Shabneez Khan-Muztar’s simple scrapbook layouts
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e’re all guilty of snapping away on our summer hols… then doing nothing with the photos! Scrapbooking is a wonderfully creative way of hand-picking a selection of your favourite shots and showing them off in style. Another great thing about scrapbooking is that it doesn’t matter whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned professional - it’s totally personal and everything you add to the layout can mean something to you. If that’s not enough to get you reaching for the glue, it’s a great excuse to make the most of your crafting stash! You can incorporate so many different techniques onto each page. Shabneez recommends getting creative and experimenting with your pages. “Try using different products on your layouts that you’ve not tried before, like the Deco Foil and Transfer set I used. They are so simple to use and give a wonderful foiled effect. After all, who doesn’t love a little sparkle?”
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Helping HAND
• If you’re using distress inks or distress oxide inks on your layout, you can make your layout waterproof once you have finished activating the ink by adding some Micro Distress Glaze to your project with a paper towel.
• Do a mock layout first, so you can see how it will look. Taking a photo will also help when you go to stick it all down as you’ll be able to remember where each element should go.
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Kit List
Card: textured white, blue, red, silver Tim Holtz Mini Distress Inks: Abandoned Coral, Blueprint Sketch Dies: Sweet Dixie Star nesting dies, Carnation Crafts alphabet dies Printed photos Adhesive
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Take a 12” square of white textured card. Starting three inches from the bottom of the card and two inches from the left-hand side, swipe a stripe of Abandoned Coral ink across the page leaving approximately an inch of white space at the right. Repeat this two more times, working upwards, leaving half an inch between the stripes. After making three red lines, change to the blue ink and do the same, this time only swiping half way across. Finish the blue stripes with red ink, then repeat once more. To finish the flag, stick three silver die-cut stars onto the blue stripes. Print two photos, one measuring 3” x 5½” and one measuring 2½” x 5”. Matt both onto red card leaving a thin border. Stick the smaller photo underneath the star trio, and the larger one to the right of the star trio. For the bottom border, die cut USA three times from blue card, two silver stars measuring 1½" and two red stars measuring 1”. Arrange and stick the die-cut pieces in a repeated sequence across the bottom of the layout.
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