Don’t be intimidated by the thought of scrapbooking. It’s easy when you start small. This scrapbooking technique is called ‘Build-A’Page’, or Scrapbooking 1-2-3, but whatever you call it, it’s a lot of fun, easy, and certainly very doable!
Part of our Christmas Vacation this year included a trip to our home-away-from-home in Durango Colorado with most of the boys, and Jack’s sweet wife Emily. Since it was Emily’s first trip to Durango I wanted to do some scrapbooking for family heritage memories.
Step 1: 6 x 6 page
I began with a 6 x 6 piece of Night of Navy. Used the Starburst Jumbo wheel on a strip of Bashful Blue, a 1/4″ sliver of our Silver Glimmer Paper and created a focal point in the lower right corner with the Polka Dot Big Shot Embossing folder, circle punches and the snowflake punch to build a cute little snowman. The photo is mounted on Whisper White and Basic Grey. A trio of snowflakes from the Northern Frost Big Shot Decorative Strip hangs in the upper left corner to balance the page.
Step 2: 8 1/2 x 11 page
I used an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of Stampin’ UP! Bashful Blue for this next step. For texture I added a torn strip of Whisper White, curled on the torn edge, then added some Stampin’ UP! Dazzling Diamonds for sparkle. Another element that was introduced with Step 2 was to add punched Basic Grey circles under another of the snowflakes from the Northern Frost Decorative Die Strip. I wanted to extend my original 6 x 6 base by adding a 6″ Night of Navy ribbon that is half of the Stampin’ UP! Lace Ribbon Border Punch. It nicely mimics the snowflakes on the rest of the page. A final addition for this step was a Mini Jingle Bell trio tied to a silver bow on the new picture that was framed like the previous one.
Any one of these steps are complete in itself. You can make a lovely 6 x 6 album or if you prefer an 8 1/2 x 11. You decide which best fits the occasion and your need. You will be surprised at how easy it is to step-up your scrapbook pages with this technique.
Step 3: 12 x 12
I decided to bump the 8 1/2 x 11 page over to the left and add a matching second strip of white to it’s right side. This leaves plenty of room for a journaling strip and a couple of additional embellishments.
The same great Stampin’ UP! supplies you use in your card making are a perfect match for beautiful scrapbooking projects.
The 6 x 6 page was just one of the make & takes for my Stampin’ FUN class last week. We meet once a month, usually on the Third Tuesday, (it had to be moved this month because of the Stampin’ UP! Leadership Conference I attended).. The class is offered at 9:30 a.m. till 11:30 a.m. and then repeated at 6:30 p.m. till 8:30 p.m. If you’d like to give us a try just call or email and I can get you further details.
I’ll post the second make & take from class on Monday, so be sure to checkback, Until then Happy Stampin!
Katherine
Placing the greeting on a pair of Stampin’ UP! Extra Large and Large Tag punches makes this card all the more easier. It doesn’t take all morning to create a great card!
, and two scraps of Stampin’ UP! Designer Series Paper on a Whisper White panel on a Going Gray card stock standard size card. Stampin’ Write Markers were used to color the focal image of the card.
