Dream using Paper House and published Scrapbooking.com article - Dream with instructions on the Accordian Butterfly

Today I am sharing and amazing photo piece.  There are so many fabulous and gorgeous places, gardens and sites that are a photographers dream come true. Beautiful scenery, flowers and foliage make for stunning scrapbooking pages. This is the McKee Gardens in Florida and they are so amazing and  beautiful in every season that I find myself going back repeatedly and still amazed each visit.

1. Following the photo above gather yourself some photos, coordinating papers, some accents, border and stickers and your ready to start.

2. Single matt 1 photos and the larger patterned paper accent. Ink the edges of papers.

3. Double matt the sentiment accent popping the top section up for depth. Ink your paper edges.

4. Using the template above start by saving it then printing it on 8 1/2" x 11 paper, cut it out to use this as a stencil template.

5. Trace the template of butterfly onto a fun bright accent colour to match your page. Cut it out and then folding in small pleats like an accordion press firmly to make the creases crisp. Tie off the centre with twine leaving a short tail like antennae of butterfly.

6. Now gather all your accents. Place all the pieces down in estimated position. Decide on adding more or less. Just remember to place them in  fun clusters with layers. They add layers, texture and colour. Include a title and decide if you like the flourish bottom border.... use it as shown or omit it and re space the whole page to omit it by centering everything.

7. You are now ready to glue down everything starting at the bottom layer. HINT: take a photo to follow to make it easy to reposition your own page as you laid it out.

Supply List:
Paper:
Paper House blossom pix
Cardstock: DCWV
Stickers: cardstock border and Butterflies, canvas, 3D puffy floral
Rubons: Scenic Route
Accents: Creative Embellishments
Ink: Tim Holtz Ranger
Other: metal accent, twine, homemade accordion flower

Paper House, a great sketch and Published in Scrapbooking Magazine October - Trick or Treat

Did you ever notice that when your crafting things just seem to fall together when the base paper is the perfect theme to start with. Well that is exactly what happened with this page. 

Some themed papers are so gorgeous you don't want to cover them up .. so

you have to step lightly when creating to be sure that the main part of the paper isn't covered up.

1. so with that said I started this page with photos and cropped them to fit with out losing the people.

I didn't want to cover the title and pumpkins on the bottom or the amazing moon on the upper corner.

2. With the photos in position the first thing that jumped at me was the photos looked like they were just hanging in thin air so grabbing an accenting striped paper I set out to make a border accent.

FOLDED CHEVRON BORDER TUTORIAL

3. Also above the photos was a mass of open space.. so I masked with gesso and also used the We R Memory Keeper circular roller inker to frame the outer edge. (see below)

4. Pull lots of fun accents from your stash that mix and match with the theme and paper. I grabbed some small short journal type accents, found a piece of punchinella to tuck behind the one photo and the halloween 3D  stickers  are perfect.

5. The upper corner needed a small cluster also to finish it off. Often this can be just small tag, pennent type pieces of left over scraps and an accent or two.

6.With everything laid out I still needed something through the centre behind the photos. A scrap of web paper behind the bigger photo and the cute tag above the smaller photo was a great additional to the overall appearance of the page.

7. Just remember.. always lay your page out, tweak the positioning and after taking a photo for placement you are ready to glue it down.

Supply List:
Paper: Paper House P-0506 Trick or Treat, P-0499 Autumn Collage
Misc. Stash Paper: Echo Park 
Stickers: Paper House STDM -0101
Ink: Tim Holtz Ranger 
Stitch: Sew Easy Ink Roller
Mask: gesso
Stencil: Prima
Sketch: Turtle Soup by Bev Code
Other: punchinella, burlap

Thrilled to be published in Scrapbooking.com

I am thrilled to be published in Scrapbooking.com

Be sure to visit and check it out.

http://scrapbooking.com/article/82007

and here is my 2nd piece

http://scrapbooking.com/article/81977

copy and paste the link to view.. thanks

Scrapbooking.com Magazine.. so excited to share with you

Really excited today to share 2 projects on Scrapbooking.com Magazine.

here is the link to see the full details.. check it out.... please

http://scrapbooking.com/article/81894

and my 2nd post is found here.....

http://scrapbooking.com/article/81791