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An Abundance of Flowers

Look around you in the scrapbooking idea books, galleries and magazines and you are sure to find dozens of pages laden with flowers of every type and every size. It seems that flowers have become an important and popular scrapbooking embellishment. The best part is that there are dozens of types of flowers, and plenty of materials that they are constructed from. From the every popular paper flowers, to silk flowers, to chipboard and card stock. Even acrylic and metal flowers are available everywhere. Even eyelets and brads come in flower shapes now. I walked into a large chain scrapbook … Continue reading →

American Idol, Making Memories Style

With the popularity of FOX’s American Idol, I guess the Making Memories wanted to get in on some of the same kind of fun. Last month Making Memories had a call for layouts to be posted for a Making Memories Idol Contest on their site. They had thousands of entries and the Making Memories team narrowed the competitors down to 50. Now it is your turn to help decided the next Making Memories Idol. You can go here to sign up to receive an email reminder when the voting begins on Monday morning, March 5. The voting polls will be … Continue reading →

Fresh Flower Ideas for Layouts

Flower Uses on Layout and Cards Incorporating flowers into your layouts can be a simple way to add a finishing touch to your project. Scrapbook safe flowers come in all shapes, sizes, colors and materials. I would like to share with you some thing that I have made using flowers as accents on my projects. Cardstock Flowers The paper flowers used on this layout and card are from Bazzill Basics. In addition to providing great cardstock, they also have some fun embellishments. These flowers are cut right from their high quality paper. In this layout I used the flowers to … Continue reading →

Using Acrylic Shapes on Layouts Part Two

Acrylic shapes are one of my favorite things to include on my scrapbook layouts. Today I’d like to share some tips on how to attach these to your scrapbook page. Since you can see through the acrylic shapes, you need to be a bit more creative with your attachment. You need to do something to attach the shape of letter that is visually appealing rather than just putting an adhesive tab on the back. Attach it with a brad or eyelet. If you want to use a brad to attach the shape or letter to your page, I suggest using … Continue reading →

Using Acrylic Shapes on Layouts Part One

Using Acrylic Shapes on your Layouts Part One Acrylic shapes and letters are such a fun embellishment to add to your layouts. At first, looking at these products you may wonder what you do with them. Heidi Swapp offers a wide variety of shapes and alphabets, called Ghost Shapes, that I will be focusing on today. These ghost shapes are made of a thin acrylic, or plastic-like material, that will not add any bulk to your page. They are thin, but not floppy. There are two areas that I want to address today. The first area I want to cover … Continue reading →