It's time to tear up your titles! Designer Vicky Breslin shares her technique for creating letters and title blocks with handmade flair. Materials: Red, white and blue paper
Lettering template
Pencil
Craft knife and ruler
Acid-free adhesive or glue
- Begin by cutting red and blue paper into 2" strips. Hand tear strips in half.
- Then, cut white paper into strip approximately 2-2-1/2". Adhere the blue and red hand-torn strips to edges of the white, leaving a thin white area showing between the strips (figure A).
- Next, place lettering template face down and backwards on back surface of the combined red, white and blue strip (white side should be face up).
- Trace letters (in this example, "America" is traced), and use craft knife to cut the outlines.
- After cutting letters, tear two remaining red and blue 2" strips in half. Arrange and adhere to edges white paper -- this time, allowing a larger band of white to appear in center.
- Arrange and adhere tri-color letters to the red, white and blue title strip ( figure B). Adhere completed title strip to page.
- Use same technique to tear and assemble tri-color stars. Add to page.
- Mat photos to page and embellish as desired.
Die-cuts/templates provided by Ellison Craft & Design. For more information about Ellison, see Resources. Click here for DIY's Scrapbooking Glossary.
RESOURCES :
Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks and More
Model: 0806939354
Author: Marie Browning
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Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.
Website: www.sterlingpub.com
Art of the Scrapbook: A Guide to Handbinding and Decorating Memory Books, Albums, and Art Journals
Model: 0823010198
Author: Diane V. Maurer-Mathison
Watson-Guptill Publications
Website: www.watsonguptill.com
Die-Cuts and Templates (Ellison Craft & Design)
Cropping and cutting system are not available
Ellison
Website: www.ellison.com
Crafting Beautiful Journals and Albums: How to Personalize, Embellish. . .Scrapbooks
Model: 1581801351
Author: Anna Morgan
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The Art of Creative Lettering: 50 Amazing Fonts You Can Make for Scrapbooking ...
Model: 192918011X
Author: Becky Higgins and Siobhan McGowan
(2000)
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Creating Keepsakes Books
Website: www.creatingkeepsakes.com
Terrific Titles: Getting Off to a Great Start
Model: 189152030X
Author: Jill Rinner
GUESTS :
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President
Website: http://cut-it-up.com
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