Hi I’m Elaine and I have always been interested in arts and crafts since primary school. I started scrapbooking in Oct'05 when a friend (Ringo) introduced me to the idea and I spent a few night researching Irish and UK craft sites and since then I have been totally hooked. I have a background in Marketing and more recently Interior design. I have always loved papercrafts (starting with fancy paper collections!), photography and family history so it seemed liked the perfect hobby to amalgamate the three passions. I'm a SAHM to two little girls and they feature in a lot of my work. I have recently started teaching Scrapbooking on a local basis in Dublin and we meet up once a month which is great fun and everyone learns from each other. My personal style is vintage and distressed but I have started to investigate the clean and simple style (Ali Edwards). I also adore altered art and ATC’s and have been known to alter anything from pizza boxes to my daughter’s Barbie books!
Project - Proud Mammy Moments
This LO is perfect for displaying a series of photos of an event. It will suit red themed photos or B& W equally. It also shows you how to get the most out of free font downloads when you are on a budget.
Materials
3 landscape 4" x 6" photos in red themes or B& W
1 sheet white Bazzill 12 x 12 cardstock
10mm wide red gingham ribbon
American Crafts - Poinsettia 12 x 12 paper
Lettering – free fonts downloaded from www.dafont.com
Large Red Daisy Petals
Mini Silver Bradletz
Chatterbox Doodle Genie - Botanical
Love Tablet Stickers
Black pen
Instructions
1. Use the white Bazzill as a base for the layout.
2. Trim 6 inches off one side of the red Poinsettia paper.
3. Turn over the Poinsettia paper and half way in, with a pencil draw a flattened ‘S’ freehand to create a wavy design. Cut along this line so you have two pieces of patterned paper with a wavy side and straight side each.
4. Arrange the photos top to bottom so that a small border of white is shown at the top and the bottom for journaling.
5. Stick down the patterned paper on the left hand side and slot in the three photos and so the wavy section overlaps them.
6. Repeat for the patterned paper on the right hand side – again putting the wavy edge over the photos.
5. Adhere red gingham ribbon across the top and bottom of the layout and using the Bradletz, apply a red flower with the love tablet centrepiece.
6. Lettering - using www.dafont.com download fonts to suit the photos. I chose ‘All Hearts’ and ‘Andrew Script’. Type the journaling and right align the text then create the wavy design in the text by pressing the return button at various intervals. Stick on the patterned paper on the left.
7. Using the doodling template (or you can doodle freehand too!), doodle around the journaled piece and the white spaces around the layout.
