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!

Instructions
1.    Take the striped paper (Les Stripes) and trim to 9’’ x 7’’.
2.    Place this piece of paper on top of the Chic Notebook page and position it where it will be on the finished layout.  Trace around the shape of the striped paper lightly with a pencil.