Pages featured in the May 2003 issue of Scrapbook Storytelling E-zine
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Diva
Flower stickers bloom with nail head centers and pipe cleaner stems on this fun and funky page. An example of yet another way to use stickers on your pages. (Stickers and paper by Paper Adventures, frames by KMA.)
Ideas to STEAL
I pushed the nail heads through the stickers while they still had their backing paper on. Then, I flattened down the nail head spikes with a tongue depressor. Finally, I peeled the backing paper off the stickers and attached the sticker with the nail head stuck in it to a piece of archival paper. I trimmed the flower out of the archival paper and taped a piece of pipe cleaner to the flower. Last of all, I put a pop-up dot under the flower head and adhered the whole thing to my page.
The Diva sticker was added to the journaling box and then I used watercolor paints to color the entire box. The sticker has a slick surface, so even if a little paint slopped onto it, the paint wiped right off. I let the journaling box dry between a piece of wax paper and glass with a book on top that kept it flat. Finally, I journaled around the sticker.
I loved the embossed oval frames, but they were too pale of a blue for this page. I used an pearlescent ivy ink pad (Brillance Archival Pigment Ink Pad by Tsukineko, Inc.) to wipe color onto the frames until I had the shade I wanted.
To purchase the nail heads on this page, go to www.my-memories.net.
Memphis Notes
You can cram a lot of storytelling onto a page and still have a pleasing design with color blocking. Notice how the background cardstock frames all the blocks. That's important for visual continuity.
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The Elvis photos came from a postcard. Of course, you can cut up a postcard once you own it. Note that I used the striped paper both horizontally and vertically, so it almost seems like two papers. A thin rectangle between the blocks isn't a problem because you can add just a couple of words as I did with the Graceland*Elvis here. I numbered my journaling blocks to make the story easier to follow. Also note that I managed to tell a very short family story about a friend's daughter who told her teacher that Elvis built the pyramids well, he did, didn't he?
I Wish You
Just another example of color blocking and using up all those stickers you have sitting around. What's great about color blocking is that you can use small stuff which would normally get lost on a page. When you put something small in a box and mat it, suddenly the small stuff gains visual impact .
Ideas to STEAL
The shiny stripe across the long rectangle almost in the middle of the page and repeated on the upper right corner of the page is actually a piece of gift wrap ribbon. I love how shiny it is. I trimmed around some of the flower stickers in the middle journaling block so that when I overlapped them none of the white border would show. On this page, I used large mats twice to back numerous blocks. Look at the upper left corner. It's one large solid purple block behind the group of 4 blocks and the journaling block. Then again in the lower right hand corner, a large solid purple mat is behind the 3 floral blocks. All the paper is by Paper Adventures and the colors worked together beautifully.
Memphis Music
As I mentioned in the E-zine, these two Memphis pages are part of a larger section of pages about my trip to Memphis.
Ideas to STEAL
Note how the colors of the Memphis pages I've shared here are co-ordinated. When I have a series of pages I want to make, I create a fancy title page and then co-ordinate, but not necessarily match the papers I use. On this page, I used "One Word Journaling" along the right hand border. (Okay, some of it is phrases and isn't one word, but you get the drift.) This gave me the chance to include words and phrases that would evoke memories for me, without trying to create a flowing narrative.
By the way, I often write with pencil first so I can properly space my words.
To make the quarter notes (the ones without flags) in the box, I simply cut the flags off. I outlined all the boxes in black and then with a grey marker to give them depth.
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