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Father’s Day Card Ideas

Jennifer Gormly — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:58:10 +0000

With Father’s Day approaching, consider using your scrapping expertise to make you Dad a unique Father’s Day card. Here we will show you how to make two special cards your Father and/or Grandfather will truly treasure.

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Both cards were made from the one sheet of Art of Scraps Hearts Cut-Outs. The first card also uses Scrap-Ease Marble Gold Paper, White Cardstock, a Red Brad, Red Ladder Ribbon, Foam Tape or Pop Dots, Alphabet Stamps and Brown Ink.

To begin, cut-out one large tag, one small tag, two squares and the title banner from your sheet of cut-outs. The large tag is your base. Wrap your ribbon around the tag, adhering it to the back to hold it in place. When adhering your tag to the marble background paper, centre it and angle it left to right.

I prefer to cut the background paper to size as the last step as I it allows me to position the elements where I want and then trim away any excess background. This, however, is a matter of personal preference.

You now want to attach your small tag. To do this, I glued it into the position I wanted. I lined up the little square at the top of the tag with the bottom corner of the yellow strip on the large tag. I then angled the tag in the opposite direction to the large tag to provide a sense of balance. When you are happy with your positioning, attach your brad. Make sure it is centred in the small square at the top of the small tag and passes through all the layers, including the background marble paper.

Next, take your title banner and use your alphabet stamps and ink to stamp a word in the centre of the banner. As I was making a Father’s Day card, I chose to keep it simple and write ‘Dad.’ Of course, you can adapt this to any theme you like. Once the ink is dry, adhere your title to your card. When positioning it across your tag and background, keep it parallel to the bottom edge of your card. This will help draw attention to it.

Now all that is left to do is to add an extra three-dimensional element to your card. To do this, use foam tape or pop dots to adhere one of your squares on top of the heart square on your large tag. Instead of placing it directly on top, move it slightly to the right and angle it so the edges are parallel with the edges of your card. Take your second square and cut out the heart from the middle. Again, use your foam tape or pop dots to adhere, but this time, place it on top of the heart on your small tag. It is your choice whether you place it directly on top of the heart or whether you angle it, as I have done, to create the appearance of two hearts.

Finally, trim your background paper to size (if you haven’t already) and adhere to the cover of a white card made from white cardstock. It is up to you whether or not you leave a white border around it or not. Either way, you have a great card for Dad, and you have enough of your cut-outs left to construct a second card like the one below.

This card uses the remainder of your Art of Scraps Hearts Cut-outs, Scrap-Ease Marble Gold Paper, White Cardstock, a Red Brad, Rust Flash Fibre, Foam Tape or Pop Dots, Alphabet Stamps and Brown Ink.

While this card is a variation on the previous design and uses much of the same principles and ideas, it is also unique in its own right and great to give to a father-in-law, grandfather or Pop (as in my case) this Father’s Day.

Again, begin by cutting out the elements you need – one large tag, one small tag and one square. Once again, the large tag is your base. Wrap your Rust Flash Fibre around the tag, adhering it to the back to hold it in place. When adhering your tag to the marble background paper, centre it and angle it left to right.

As before, the second step is to adhere your small tag to your card. This time however, place it so the centre of the square at the top of the small tag is directly above the centre of the top section of your large tag. Angle your tag out to the left, in the opposite direction to your large tag. I also tucked the bottom right-hand corner under the fibre wrapping the large tag.

Once the small tag is in place, attach your brad. Make sure it is centred in the small square at the top of the small tag and passes through all the layers, including the background marble paper.

This time, you do not have a title banner. Instead, use your alphabet stamps and ink to stamp a word across the yellow strip on your large tag. As I was making a Father’s Day card for my grandfather, I chose to keep it simple and write ‘Pop.’ Of course, you can adapt this to any theme you like. Make sure you give the ink enough time to dry.

To add a little more dimension to your card, once again, use foam tape or pop dots to adhere one of your squares on top of the heart square on your large tag. Instead of placing it directly on top, move it slightly to the right and angle it so the edges are parallel with the edges of your card.

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You now have two wonderful cards to give those special people in your life.

I’d love to hear what you think of this Father’s Day card idea. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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Grandpa Card Making Ideas

Jennifer Gormly — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:38:44 +0000

There’s one thing I really love about winter – it’s a great time to catch up on some card making time. And that’s exactly what I did over this past long weekend. So today I thought I would share one of my latest creations with you. I used one of our popular family stickers as the centrepiece.

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Materials Used: Blue cardstock (three different shades), scraps of blue patterned paper, Chatterbox striped paper, circle stamps, blue ink and Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

To create this card, I used sketch #2 from my collection of 50 Card Making Sketches. For those of you with a copy already, please check page 21. If you haven’t got your copy yet, please visit:

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The card sketch called for a square background. I could have just used a single square piece, but I decided to have a bit more fun.

To Create This Background:

1. Cut out 16 squares from scraps of blue patterned paper. Each square should be 1 inch by 1 inch.

2. Arrange your squares to form a 5 inch by 5 inch square frame.

3. Using stamps of your choice (I have used circles) and blue ink, randomly stamp images on your squares.

4. When dry, ink the edges of each 1 inch square with blue ink.

5. Finally, arrange your squares to form a 5 inch by 5 inch square frame in the centre of your card and glue down.

Now that you have a unique background, you can create the centrepiece of your card.

To Create Your Centrepiece:

1. Cut a 3 inch by 3 inch square from light blue cardstock. Mat with dark blue cardstock and glue in the centre of your card.

2. Cut a strip of striped paper approximately 2.5cm wide and 18.5cm tall. Use some decorative edged scissors to create a pattern down the right side. I have used a heartbeat pattern, but you can use whatever you like.

3. Ink the edges of your strip with blue ink and when dry, glue down the left side of your blue square, as shown above.

4. Embellish the rest of your card. I have used a Grandpa and grandson sticker from Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

This is just one idea for using sketch #2. I’d love to know what you create!

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Grandparents Stickers

Jennifer Gormly — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:17:07 +0000

Grandparents play an important role in our lives so should also feature in our scrapbooks. But it’s not always easy to keep on top of all those wonderful photos we take. After all, the more we scrap, the more photos we seem to take! So, this week I thought I would share a quick and easy grandparents layout using cute family-themed stickers.

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Materials Used: Me & My Big Ideas paper, green cardstock, cream cardstock, scalloped edged scissors, Beary Patch Denim Alphabet stickers and Sandylion Grandmas & Grandpas stickers.

To recreate this scrapbooking idea using scrapbooking stickers, follow these steps:

1. Use the Me & My Big Ideas paper as your background.

2. Cut a piece of green cardstock measuring approximately 18cm by 15cm. Glue it towards the top right corner of your page approximately 2.7cm from the right edge and 3.8cm from the top edge.

3. Mat a horizontal 4×6 photo with cream cardstock. Glue on top of your green cardstock from the previous step. Make sure you leave a gap of about 3.5cm between the bottom of your photo and the bottom edge of the green cardstock.

4. Mat a grandparents sticker from your sheet of Grandmas & Grandpas stickers with cream cardstock and glue towards the bottom right corner of your green cardstock, as shown above. It will overlap the bottom right corner of your photo.

5. Select a collection of small stickers like flowers, cupcakes and hearts. Arrange them in a line along the bottom edge of your green cardstock to create a nice accent for your photo.

6. Place a hummingbird sticker in the top left corner of your green cardstock.

7. Cut a strip of green cardstock approximately 4cm tall. Mat with cream cardstock. For a more interesting effect, use decorative edged scissors to create a scalloped edge along the bottom of your mat. When done, glue across your page approximately 2cm from the bottom edge.

8. Mat a grandparents sticker from your sheet of Grandmas & Grandpas stickers with cream cardstock and glue in the bottom left corner of your page on top of your strip of green cardstock.

9. Use Beary Patch Denim Alphabet stickers (or any other blue alphabet stickers) to write your title across your strip of green cardstock.

10. Finally, embellish your title with any remaining small stickers like flowers and a humming bird.
And there you have it! A layout you can whip up quickly and easily to ensure the special people in your lives appear in your albums.

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Cooking Stickers

Jennifer Gormly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:50:54 +0000

Your kitchen is not just a place where you prepare food but it’s a place where the whole family can get together, catch up on the day’s activities and even have a little fun. So why not capture your kitchen and cooking memories in your scrapbooking albums? There are plenty of cooking-related scrapbooking supplies like cooking stickers that you can use to scrap your favourite memories. You can even scrap your favourite recipes.

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In this layout, I have use the brand new Karen Foster Kitchen Cooking stickers to create a “In the Kitchen” layout.

Materials Used: Three shades of brown Bazzill cardstock, Provo Craft Green Flowers paper, Deja Views Tangerine Flower Fresh Print paper, Foofala Brown Ivy paper, white cardstock, light brown cardstock, white Bazzill cardstock, two shades of brown ink, a brown pen, two white brads, orange ribbon from Bo Bunny and Karen Foster Kitchen Cooking stickers.

To recreate this scrapbook page idea, follow these steps:

1. Use the darkest shade of brown Bazzill cardstock as your background.

2. Cut a piece of Provo Craft Green Flowers paper measuring 27.3cm by 22cm. Ink the left and right edges with brown ink. Lightly ink again with dark brown ink. When dry, glue to your page so that it is centred and up against the right edge of your page.

3. Cut a piece of Deja Views Tangerine Flower Fresh Print paper measuring 27.3cm by 4cm. Round the top left corner. Ink the edges with brown ink. Lightly ink again with dark brown ink. When dry, glue to across your page so that it is approximately 2cm from the top edge and up against the right edge. It will slightly overlap your green paper.

4. Cut a second piece of Deja Views Tangerine Flower Fresh Print paper measuring 27.3cm by 4cm. Round the bottom left corner. Ink the edges with brown ink. Lightly ink again with dark brown ink. When dry, glue to across your page so that it is approximately 2cm from the bottom edge and up against the right edge. It will slightly overlap your green paper.

You have now created your background.

5. Mat a vertical 4×6 photo with white cardstock. Mat again with light brown cardstock and again with you middle shade of brown Bazzill cardstock. Glue to your page within the green section and approximately 1.2cm from the right edge.

It is now time to create your tags.

6. Cut two pieces of Foofala Brown Ivy paper, each measuring 5.5cm by 9cm. Cut the top corners of both to create a tag shape. Ink the edges of both with brown ink. Lightly ink again with dark brown ink. Then, using a brown pen, draw a border around each tag.

7. Mat both tags with your lightest shade of brown Bazzill cardstock and lightly ink the edges of both with your darkest shade of brown ink.

8. Cut two piece of orange ribbon, each about 9cm long. Wrap one around the first tag so that it starts towards the bottom left corner and finishes about one third the way up the right side.

9. Wrap one piece of ribbon around the first tag so that it starts towards the bottom left corner and finishes about one third the way up the right side. Please refer to the picture above for exact placement.

10. Wrap the second piece of ribbon around the second tag so that it starts towards the top left corner and finishes about one third the way down the right side. Please refer to the picture above for exact placement.

11. Cut out a flower shape from white cardstock. You may wish to use a template or punch to do this. Ink the edges with brown ink. Lightly ink again with dark brown ink and place the ‘A pinch a smidgen or a dash?’ sticker in the middle.

You now have the elements you need to create the collage to the right of the photo – two tags, a flower shape and your Kitchen cooking stickers.

12. Arrange your stickers and tags as shown in the layout above. You may want to place around with your arrangement before you stick anything down. You also have room to add journaling on the ‘From our kitchen with love” sticker.

13. One everything has been stuck down, cut two more piece of orange ribbon, each approximately 5cm long. Fold them in half and secure them at the top of each tag with a white brad, as shown above.

14. Finally, place the ‘In the Kitchen” cooking sticker towards the bottom right corner of your page, as shown above, for your title.

And there you have it! A cheerful and fun layout for showcasing your fun in the kitchen photos!

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for using cooking stickers on your layouts and what you think of this page. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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Heritage Scrapbooking

Jennifer Gormly — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:18:53 +0000

Heritage scrapbooking is a great way to create a valuable, unique and important visual record of your family’s heritage for your descendents. Most of us have mountains of family photos and memorabilia sitting around in old albums and shoeboxes gathering dust – not the ideal conditions for preserving them! So why not have some fun and breathe some new life into them. You will be creating an heirloom that your family will love and treasure!

When creating your heritage scrapbook, there are some things you should consider:

1. How much of your family tree (and your partner’s family tree) do you actually know? Write it out. Don’t forget to include dates and places of births, deaths and marriages. If there are gaps in your knowledge, ask other family members for help or consult family history websites.

2. How much to you know about your family members, both of this generation and previous generations? How many photos and other things of interest do you have? Collect everything together and organise them. If you feel you do not have enough, ask other family members if they have anything they could contribute.

Archival Quality

Before we go any further it is vital to stress the importance of only using archival materials in your heritage scrapbook.

Many old photos have already succumbed to aging and have probably come into contact with materials containing acid and lignin. I highly recommend you have copies made of all your heritage photos and use these in your albums. You will be able to protect them, plus you won’t have to worry about cutting up the originals. If you do decide to use originals, use photo corners in case you need to remove them later.

Keep in mind that newspaper clippings, magazine ads, certificates and other memorabilia are not photo safe. If you wish to include them in your scrapbook too, either use copies, spray them with archival mist or use memorabilia pockets to keep them and your photos safe.

Of course, all heritage scrapbooking materials at Stickers ‘N’ Fun are photo safe.

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The Size Of Your Album

You will also have to decide how big and extensive you wish your heritage scrapbooking album to be. A small album may include just your immediate family or one generation. This is perfect for short projects and mini albums.

Alternatively you could create an enormous album featuring everything you have and everything you know about everyone. Keep in mind that this is quite an undertaking. Do you really have time for this? Perhaps there is someone who can help you.

Most likely, you will choose somewhere in between.

Themes

Now that you have decided the size of the heritage scrapbooking project you wish to take on, it’s time to go about choosing the photos and the memorabilia you would like to include. One way to do this is to choose a theme.

Possible themes include:

Births and Baptisms
21st Birthday Parties
Family Members in Sport / Art / Dance or any other activity
Family Members in Military Service
Occupations – How did everyone earn a living?
Weddings
Holidays
Famous Family Members
Deaths, Grave Stones and Eulogies
School Days
Family Reunions
Family Traditions
Family Pets

Another way to organise your scrapbook is by time. For example, you could focus on your family in the 1950s or the 19th century.

Title Pages

Your title page sets the scene for the rest of your album. It could include your family tree with a heading and if space permits, either an indication of what part of the family tree is featured in the album or a statement of the theme.

Also, make sure you include your own name on the title page (Eg Compile/Created by…) and the date. After all, you are an important part of your family’s heritage too.

Journaling

Journaling is an important part of heritage scrapbooking. It is important to record who is featured in the photos so future decorations have a record. Also include their relationship to you. For example, “Aunt Mary, Mum’s eldest sister.”

Where possible, try to not only identify the person in the photo, but also include something about them. For example:

Pop was a practical joker.
Pop loved gardening.
Nana said it was love at first sight when she and Pop met.
Aunt Mary loved animals and had 13 cats and 6 dogs.
When I knew him, Fred has a 1932 Ford pick-up truck.
Grandma made the best cakes in the world.
Aunty Phyllis had a cabinet full of tennis trophies.

Colours

You may decide your colours with each new page or you might decide to use a consistent colour scheme throughout your album.

Heritage colours are usually browns, greens, an occasional deep red and an occasional deep blue, but it’s up to you which colours you want to use. You may like to include soft pinks or blues and browns on baby heritage pages.

To keep in sync with the heritage feel of your album, try having your old photos re-printed in sepia for that old-time feel.

Heritage Scrapbooking Ideas

There are many scrapbooking techniques that work well with heritage layouts. Collages can be particularly effective for creating that vintage feel, as seen in the layout below.

Materials Used: Marah Johnson Canvas Wash paper for the background, brown Paper Garden cardstock for the photo mats, scraps of Hot of the Press Lace paper and KI Sand Linen paper and Karen Foster Heritage stickers.

Other techniques include:

1. Distressing your papers by scratching the surface with a nail file or sand paper

2. Age your papers by smudging brown or black inks around the edges or across the surface.

3. Scrunching up your papers and then flattening them again to give an old, used effect.

4. Creating your own backgrounds by scanning some of your memorabilia. Fabrics, old letters and postcards work particularly well for this.

Now it’s time to select your supplies and get started!

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for heritage scrapbooking. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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Family Stickers

Jennifer Gormly — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:54:25 +0000

Family stickers is one of our most popular ranges of stickers and it’s not hard to figure out why. It doesn’t matter how old you are or how long you have been scrapping, chances are you have created a layout or two (or two hundred) featuring members of your family. After all, preserving your family memories is probably one of the main reasons you scrap.

Stickers with family motifs, quotes and titles allow you to create sensational and heart-warming scrapbooking layouts with ease. You don’t have to spend hours making up hand-made embellishments or procrastinating about how to decorate your pages. Family stickers take care of that for you, leaving you free to just have some fun and enjoy reflecting on your treasured family moments.

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It is important to choose the correct stickers for your family layouts. Of course, the most vital factor is that you love the stickers you have chosen. Never work with a product that you don’t absolutely love! It takes away all the fun of scrapbooking and leads to disappointment with your creations.

There are two main types of family stickers to choose from:

1. Specific Titles And Quotes

Family stickers are perfect for defining and recording the exact relationships between members of your family. For example, if you are scrapping a photo of your Dad, you may choose stickers that specifically say ‘Dad’ or ‘Father’ as I have done in this layout:

Materials Used: Dark brown textured cardstock (for the background), Provo Craft Circles paper, Doodlebug Designs Blue Stripe paper, white cardstock, dark blue cardstock, two light blue brads and Autumn Leaves Love & Laughter stickers.

This layout could then either feature a photo of my Dad or a photo of my Dad and me together.

How often have you looked at old photos and wondered who on earth the people in them are and why they are important to your family’s memories?

By using specific family title or quote stickers like this you can quickly and easily record the relationship the people in the photo either have to you or to each other. And then when you and your family look back on them in years to come, it’s easy to see who everyone is.

Scrapbooking companies like Flair and Reminisce have realised the importance of recording this information and have released a large variety of stickers covering all sorts of family relationships including mother, father, brothers, sisters, daughter, son, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and more.

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2. Sentiment Stickers

While it is important to record who the people in your photos are, after a while it can become a bit repetitious and boring. For example, if you are working on a whole album about your immediate family (say you, your partner and your children) you do not need to identify everyone and their relationships to you and each other on every single page.

Instead, you may prefer to record specific memories about the event featured or you may like to reflect on what that person (or people) really mean to you.

This is where family stickers featuring sentiments can be a real blessing. They allow you to express your feelings without getting caught up in the terrible struggle of trying to figure out the right things to say. We’ve all had writer’s block before and we all know it’s just not fun.

And it’s also easily avoided! For example, in this layout, I have used a sticker that reads ‘Love & Laughter’ and another that reads ‘Cherish’ to convey my feelings:

Materials Used: Karen Foster Plum Glaze paper (for the background), cranberry cardstock, K&Company Green & Yellow Striped paper, Creative Imaginations Unit 22 paper, green Bazzill cardstock, cream cardstock and Autumn Leaves Love & Laughter stickers.

The ‘Love & Laughter’ sticker reflects how I feel about the events taking place. It’s perfect for any photo/s of loved ones who are smiling and enjoying themselves and it captures the emotions of the moment.

The ‘Cherish’ sticker, on the other hand, conveys what the person (or people) in the photo mean to me. It focuses not on who they are but on my feelings about that person (or people). And, of course, there is nothing stopping me from writing their name somewhere else on the page if I still wish to record it.

So instead of sitting down and tearing your hair out over what to say, you can capture your most important memories and emotions with simple-to-apply sentiment stickers.

Both types of family stickers have an important role to play in your scrapbooking albums. Before deciding which stickers to use, think carefully about what information you actually want to record. And most of all, choose designs you love!

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I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for using family stickers on your layouts. Please leave a comment in the comments box below.

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Using Rub-Ons

Jennifer Gormly — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:37:11 +0000

Last week my Mum attempted her very first scrapbooking layout. Thank you so much to everyone for all of your kind words and encouragement. They really mean a lot to both her and me.

Mum has now taken her second step on her scrapbooking journey and I wanted to share it with you too (call it Proud-Daughter Syndrome!). So here it is…

She created this scrapbooking layout using Basic Grey Jackson Oh Baby Boy paper, Pebbles Inc Winter Circles/Stripe paper, dark blue cardstock, white cardstock, a black pen, blue alphabet stickers and Piggy Tales Flowers & Bugs Rub-Ons.

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Mum saw our new Piggy Tales Flowers & Bugs Rub-Ons and thought they would be perfect for a garden layout. This layout shows my grandfather at one of the things he did best – tending to his garden.

Mum had never used rub-ons before, but thought she’d give them a go. She soon realised how simple they are to use and I love what she has done with them. I thought the way she used the circles in the background paper to emphasise some of the rub-ons (like the ant in the bottom left corner) was very clever and the ladybug footprints across the bottom of one of the photos is so cute!

Once again, I am so very proud of her! Please continue to help me encourage her to scrap by leaving a comment below.

Thank you so much!

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