Caitlin
Level: Easy to Medium
Robin Dorsey, a close friend and my boyfriend's sister-in-law, did this page. She decided she wanted to scrap all her daughter's 8x10 photos from each school year and is doing them all differently in one big album. This page she did while we were at an all day scrap and had a challenge to use a bubble punch for one of our pages. The time involved for the details of this page is what would push it up into the medium level.
Materials:
1 8x10 school year photo
1 medium blue 12 x 12 sheet of paper
1 medium pink 10 x 12 sheet of paper
Several scraps of various shades of pink and blue (pieces just have to bigger than the punch)
Bubble punch
Pink letter and number stickers
Photo adhesive
Scissors/paper trimmers
Xyron Sticker Maker
Step 1:
Using photo adhesive, mount the 12x12 blue paper to your page to make the background color.
Step 2:
Trim the 8x10 school photo with scissors. Trim out around the child's head and shoulders — eliminating all the background area of the photo. Use photo adhesive to mount the trimmed photo, starting with the bottom left of the photo even with the bottom left of the page and going up.
Step 3:
Take the 10x12 sheet of pink paper and cut off three of the corners to make three instant triangles. The edges need only be about 3 inches along each outer cut. Using the photo adhesive, mount one triangle in both top corners and lower right corner with the edges of the triangle matching the edges of the page. You can use the remaining piece of pink paper as one of your scrap pieces in the next step.
Step 4:
The bubble punch used that day was from Creative Memories, but any punch that will make multiple size small circle shapes can be used. Use the bubble punch to punch out the circles from your pieces of scrap pink and blue papers. When finished you can run all the circles through the Xyron for easier application to the page. If you do not have a sticker maker, then use a photo safe glue pen to dot the back of each circle when applying to the page, either way — a pair of tweezers will come in handy. However you choose to do it, apply the circles in random order on the page. Try to stick with mainly pink circles on the blue background around the photo, and blue circles on the pink triangles. You can put pink on pink, or blue on blue, just make sure they are not the same shades as your background or the pink triangles.
Step 5:
Use the pink letters and numbers to title the page with a short description of the child or the year they had and the year or grade of the photo.
