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Your Summer Scrapbook
Cherish your memories in creative style with Shabneez Khan-Muztar’s simple scrapbook layouts
We’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.
SKILL LEVEL 33
USA
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 1 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. 2 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. 3 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 undernea th the star trio, and the larger one to the right of the star trio. 4 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.
Natural Connection “Using inks to create your scrapbook layouts is a lot of fun, and can really brighten up your design”
Beach Time
Kit List
Card: white, blue, silver Brother ScanNCut Blending tool Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pads: Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean 4" square photos
Bone folder Deco foil & transfer set, blue and silver Adhesive First Edition Alphabet Tiles dies 1 Use a ScanNCut to create a scalloped border on a 12” square sheet of white card. Use another sheet of card to make a 7” square frame to use as a mask. 2 Use a blending tool to apply oxide ink directly onto the scallopededge card, through the centre of the frame mask. Use Squeezed
Lemo nade at the bottom, then use Tumbled Glass in the middle section. 3 Finish with Salty Ocean oxide ink at the top of the frame. Spatter the ink with water to let the distress ink activ ate and create water marks on your layout. 4 Size and print two photos to 4” square, keeping a white border around the edges. Place the photos in opposite corners of the layout at an angle but do not stick them down yet. 5 Place the lighthouse from the Deco
Foil and Transfer set just above the photo on the bottom left of the layout. Peel off the backing on the white image and burnish with a bone folder. Put the foil on top and burnish again so the foil sticks to the image. Repeat this step after placing all the other images on your layout. 6 Using alphabet tile dies, die cut Beach
Time from blue card. Matt silver card behind each letter. Stick the letters in the bottom-right of the layout. SKILL LEVEL 33 SHABNEEZ KHAN-MUZTAR, DESIGNER
