Square Punch Labor Day Title Pages
Level: Easy to Medium
Keeping track of family is the main reason I continue to scrapbook. This annual picnic for Brian's family happened to coincide with my dad and stepmother's trip up to see me for the first time. The only component of this layout that in my mind moved it toward the medium level is the tool needed to make stickers. If you do not have a Xyron or other sticker-making machine, then the mounting of the punched squares becomes that much harder or tedious. Otherwise, this layout is very simple and fun.
Materials:
10 photos of family picnic
1 blue plaid 12 x 12 sheet of paper
1 red plaid 12 x 12 sheet of paper
Xyron Create-a-Sticker
Blue letter stickers
Red letter stickers
Wood Log letter stickers
Journaling pen(s)
2 sized Square Punch
Photo adhesive
Scissors/paper trimmer
Step 1:
Take the red and blue plaid papers and punch out squares using the smaller of the two punches. I used a square punch for ¾" and one for 1". The take the larger square punch and center over the holes left by the smaller punch. When you punch out the larger square, you are left with a square frame with about ¼" margin. This is a simple way to make quick embellishments for your pages and you can do it with any punch that has progressive sizes.
Step 2:
Take the punched squares and frames from previous step and run them through a Xyron sticker maker, or other if you have a different brand name. This makes the mounting of these punches so much faster and easier later.
Step 3:
Trim all the family picnic photos into rectangles or squares depending on the focus of each picture. I left all the corners intentionally squared off to match the square punch embellishments.
Step 4:
Arrange your photos across both pages, varying the size and shapes that you put next to each other. I divided mine in half for five photos on each side. Using the photo adhesive only in the middle of the photos, mount to the pages. Only applying the adhesive in the middle leaves the edges loose so you can go back and mount the square and frame stickers underneath some of them.
Step 5:
Take the stickers you made from the plaid squares and frames and use them to highlight around your mounted photos. You can tack some underneath the edges of your photos so that the photos overlap them. You can then go back and use the photo adhesive to secure the edges of all the photos.
Step 6:
Take the red letter stickers and spell out the words Labor Day in the top left hand corner of the left page.
Step 7:
Take the blue letter stickers and spell out the word at on the middle of the left hand page and then the word the on the middle left of the right hand page.
Step 8:
Take the wood log letter stickers and spell out the word River on the middle of the right hand page.
Step 9:
Use your journaling pens to go through and either name the people in the photos, or to write a short description of each photo. I used both techniques and wrote some of them on the sides going down the photos just to change it up.
