Thankful Garden Scrapbook Layout

Last Friday, I had my first session of the “Anything But a Card Class.” One of our projects was this easy and quick scrapbook layout. A lot of us are dipping our toes into the scrapbook water so I thought a pretty (but simple) layout was in order.

I started with a 12″ x 12″ piece of White Willow. I then cut a piece of Two-Tone cardstock in Garden Green down to 10 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ and adhered that to my Willow White. I cut a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock down to 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and adhered that on top of the Garden Green. I took a 3″ x 12″ piece of the Lovely Garden Designer Series Paper and notched out a banner at its end. I adhered that to the left of the page.

My photo ‘frame’ is a piece of Basic Black cardstock cut at 4 1/4″ x 6 1/4″ to accommodate a 4″ x 6″ photo. I put my down in Portrait but you could easily put it down in Landscape – it would just cover your DSP banner a bit. Before I glued that piece of Basic Black down, I took some leaf sprigs that cut out using some Two-Tone Garden Green. I used both sides of the paper for a nice contrast. I glued two of those sprigs down in the upper left corner of where my frame would be. I then adhered my frame down and then the last sprig on top of the frame. For fun, you can add a Dimensional to the backs of one of these top layers of leaf sprigs so that it pops up a bit.

The flower in the lower left was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored using Fresh Freesia and Daffoldil Delight Blends. I used some ink from my Garden Green ink pad and a blender pen for the stems and leaves of this image. I cut it out using my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and the coordinating die. I’ll adhere that on the lower left corner on top of the photo (once I choose one – haha).

I chose the word ‘family’ as the title to this scrapbook layout. I used the Alphabet A La Mode dies and cut my letters out. I laid them on the page where I wanted them and then covered with a piece of masking paper. I flipped it over, put some glue on the backs of the letters, flipped them back over and placed them on the page.

I also used Masking Paper to help me mass produce these letters (as I realized it’s going to be a pain to always whip these out and cut -haha):