There are so many great scrapping tips in this article, I just had to share. Read through the text. Leigh shares how she overcame some challenges to make this page look great! My notes are at the bottom as to what I learned today.
By Leigh Penner
I decided to play along with the Crate Colour Challenge this month, which was very fun!
I pulled out my (latest) favourite Crate Paper products and got to work, making this layout.
In addition to the Crate Paper patterned paper, I also used some Crate Paper chipboard, stickers & border stickers, as well as some Papertrey Ink stamps (strawberry patch sentiments) and dies (tag sale #3). I also used some baker’s twine.
I love this photo that Sage’s teacher took of Sage & me at the zoo last week. However, there was a car driving past in the background which bothered me, so I decided to hide it with the tag. The tag was cut from a sheet of 12×12 patterned paper that was full of tags, but it seemed to be missing something, so I ran it through my big shot with my PTI tag sale #3 die to trim it up slightly, punch the hole and add some embossing. There was a part on the tag that said “to/from”, so I covered these with the chipboard strawberry.
It’s hard to tell in the photo, but Sage’s top is a royal blue. I decided to play this up a little by adding three blue elements in a triangle around the photo: the chipboard flower on the chipboard strawberry on the title tag, the “wonderful” sticker that I layered over another sticker and the fussy cut flowers on the journaling tag.
The reddish pink embellishments are also in a similar triangle: again, the strawberry on the title tag, the strawberries on the journaling tag and the frame around the wonderful sticker.
This journaling tag came from another sheet of 12×12 paper and was orginally 3×4″, which was a little too long for what I needed. I ended up cutting the tag in two and then layered them back together again using the scalloped edge as a guide. The bakers twine hides the cut.
Thanks for looking!
Blog Post: http://leighpenner.blogspot.com/2012/06/colour-challenges-few-tips-and-tricks.html
Helpful scrapping tips:
1. Go to a color or design challenge when stuck
2. Hide an undesirable part of the photo with an embellishment
3. Alter a preprinted embellishment to make it your own style
4. Use an embellishment to cover parts that you don’t care for
5. Bring out colors in the photo with small accents – blue bits of color in a triangular pattern on this one
6. Modify the preprinted embellishment to fit your design; Leigh covered the cut line with Baker’s twine
