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  • Learn how to add textured tags to highlight special scrapbook pages.
    From "Scrapbooking"
    episode SCB-305


    Tags are a popular material in scrapbooking these days. Guest Joy Macdonell shares two techniques that dress tags in color and texture.

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    PHOTO

    "My Girl...I Love You."
    My Girl...I Love You

    Materials:

    circle, square, retro flower and daisy punches
    screen
    washers and wire
    paper fasteners
    leather pieces
    sewing machine
    card stock
    beads
    photo

    1. Punch screen (figure A) using the different punch shapes.

    2. Adorn punched screen pieces with washers (figure B), wire, brads, and beads.

    3. Adhere screen punched pieces to random shapes of leather.

    4. Sew the leather shapes to a border strip of cardstock using a sewing machine and extended stitch length.

    5. Adhere the border to the bottom of a piece of cardstock (figure C). Cut scraps of leather and attach to the border strip using paper fasteners.

    6. Arrange photos and add title.


    Photo

    Figure A

    Photo

    Figure B

    Photo

    Figure C


    PHOTO

    "My Child"
    My Child

    Materials:

    fibers
    scroll and Brush Markers
    themed title stickers
    makeup sponge
    circle tags
    card stock in celery green, dark blue and periwinkle (or colors of your choice)
    foot punch
    paper fasteners

    1. Apply color from brush marker directly to make-up sponge, then sponge the color onto the white circle tag.

    2. Use foot punch to punch center of circle tag and add vellum or cardstock underneath to show through open space.

    3. Tear a piece of celery green cardstock and attach it to the left side of a 12 x 12" piece of blue cardstock.

    4. Print poem of your choice onto an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of periwinkle blue cardstock (landscape position), tear around poem and attach to the bottom of the 12 x 12" blue cardstock.

    5. Adhere title sticker to a celery green rectangle of cardstock. Mat with a dark blue and periwinkle blue cardstock.

    6. Mat and adhere the photographs to the page.

    7. Use fibers to hang punched tags from a paper fastener.



    RESOURCES :

    Punch Art Supplies
    EK Success Ltd.
    Website: www.eksuccess.com

    Zig Calligraphy Pens and Scroll Brush Pens
    EK Success Ltd.
    Website: www.eksuccess.com

    Title Stickers
    Stickopotamus (A division of EK Success)
    Website: www.stickopotamus.com


    GUESTS :

    Joy Macdonell
    EK Success
    Website: www.eksuccess.com

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