Interactive flap Tutorial

Today I’m sharing a fun easy tutorial on how to add interest, surprise and a lot of fun to your layouts on Scrapping Everyday Miracles. Interactive design in scrapbooking is when you add something that moves to your layout. If it has to be opened, pulled, turned or pushed, it’s interactive! Today I’ll show you how to add a flap to your layout. 1. To create the flap you’ll need one 4″ by 6″ photo and two smaller photos. The flap is great for creating more space on your layout there by enabling you to add more photos as well as hiding photos which are not so perfect but you still want to use. 2. Take a 4″ by 12″ piece of double sided cardstock and fold in half. 3. Adhere the flap to your layout by putting glue only on the bottom part of the flap. 4. Adhere the large photo on the outside flap. 5. Adhere the two smaller photos …

Technique corner: using a title to make a point

Sometimes I get my layout ideas from places that surprise even me. One of the papers of this month My Punch’s Kit of the Month Club had the Title: “Little Hands, button nose, chubby cheeks, tiny cloths”.   When I saw it I thought to myself what a great title, too bad it’s not applicable to me, since my boys have already passed the tiny stage and there are on their way to huge…but then again, I thought why not use it, design a layout exactly about that? So, I took the title and changed it in a way that would be visible and stress the point I want to make. The “little” turned to “large” and the “tiny” into “big”. I used small bold colored letters to write the new words so they would be noticeable enough but not too big. I also added the title GROWING to put everything in context. Have fun creating! Einat

101 Flowers Tutorial #15: Folded Paper Flower

Another fun and easy flower tutorial coming your way! This time it’s really simple to do and you can use your scraps! 1.       Punch 5 circles from double sided cardstock. It can be in any size, you can even use scalloped circles, as long as all five circles will be the same size. 2.       Take two circles. Fold the first one in half. Open and fold in half the other way, creating a cross shape. 3.       Open and fold in half again, creating a diagonal middle line in the middle of the cross. 4.       Flip the circle over and fold the last fold the same way. 5.       Repeat with the other circle. 6.       Repeat the process with the other two circles starting from the opposite side.  If you started with the green side up, now start with the blue side up. 7.       To create the petals of the flower, fold the middle line in and the other two lines out. …

Photography Tips: Black and white photos

Not all of us are great photographers (especially me) and sometimes we get imperfect photos, just like the one I used in this LO. It’s grainy and a little blurry but I wanted to use it in a Lo because I really like it. My solution to this problem was not to use it in its original colors but to turn it into black and white. This solution softened the imperfections without losing the essence of the photo. If you want to turn a photo to black and white you can use Photoshop or any free program online that offers photo editing options. Working with black and white photos allows you to use more vibrant colors in a LO that would not clash with a colorful photo and create noisier backgrounds. In this LO I used a resist paper that has a printed pattern that is for resist techniques like misting.  A few challenges: Scrap fit #27: Fussy cutting Sketchabilities #70 …

You love flowers

Hexagons are in fashion right now so I decided to join the crowd and use hexagons in my layout. This LO is about my son who loves to go to the nursery and buy plants. Recently we went on a mother and son day out and only did things he wanted. One of them was visit his favorite nursery and buying a flower to plant in our garden. When we got there he simply sat on the floor and looked at the flowers for awhile. A perfect photo op, don’t you think? All the materials in this LO were part of the My Punch’s May Kit of the Month Club. This is one of the inspirational Lo’s I created as DT for our monthly kit craft night. Have fun creating! Einat

Rodeo Star

It’s time for Mad about Scrapping’s May challenge. Here is my layout for this fun sketch. I’ve used yellow glimmer mist to create the stars background on the patterned paper. Added more papers and an old leather strap I had. To complete the cowboy look I added themed embellishments and a title from leather letters.  Join us and create a layout from this wonderful sketch and get a chance to win a great prize! Have fun creating! Einat

Einat Kessler

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