Scrapbooking Made Simple

Well here's a really simple layout. I used the store's fiskars border punch (must get one of these.. LOL) to make the edge of the page interesting. I used a piece of patterned paper from a pack I got at one of the discount stores and the chipboard letters were actually a gift, but are rather cheap and come from K-Mart. The butterfly and journalling circle are stamps I then cut out and I have stamped onto the page the swirl along the left side. My saying was again printed on acetate at the retreat.

I really love this layout too! It's so simple and cheap as I haven't used much but I think it's very effective. I have a sheet of cardstock for my background and two patterned papers from the DCWV Nana's Nursery range. I used a fiskars border punch on one (courtesy of the daisy chain scrapbook tools supply) and cut out pieces of another and layered them onto the first with foam tape. I love that the embellishments on this page are all just pieces of the patterned paper cut out and layered on top. If you wanted to make them stand out even more you could cover them with dimensional magic. I then used the store cuttlebug to cut out the swirls and swirly heart from one of the papers and after stamping a journalling square on some scrap paper I attached it using a pin as these were on special at the front counter. The letters from the "Sweet" was my lash out spend here. The glittery thickers were I think $9? for the packet. I also used the retreat's computer t...

I did this layout on my retreat weekend and you can see the influence of the class with all the layers! LOL I saved here by stamping the journalling circle and then cutting a larger circle with a circle border punch. I also stamped an image on the layout once and then stamped it again and cut out elements of the stamp and raised them up with 3D foam tape. I also saved by sewing my title. As you can see I haven't used much paper apart from my background. There is one small strip of patterned paper which I punched with a fiskars border punch and a strip of plain paper. So not alot of "stuff" on this layout.... I put all my time into sewing the "Love"!

This layout was done on the first night of the retreat. It was actually a class. The kit for this layout came free with our weekend. I love this layout! I love the layers! It has influenced my layouts since. I am now using alot more 3D foam tape than ever before. LOL I think if you use different layers in this manner you can use simpler less expensive materials. Another thing I got out of this class was how to destress the paper of the paper flower to make it look better. My best scrapbuddy added some bling to this which looks really cool!

here is another of my retreat weekend layouts. I saved alot on this layout as I only paid for the monkey... everything else is left over from a class we did on the friday night.

Here's one of my retreat weekend layouts: I saved by using a cricuit to cut "busting" out of cardstock and using my velvet puffy marker to do "out ". Also I only used one piece of cardstock and half a sheet of patterned paper. My embellishments were cut from that patterned paper.

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