COLLAGE

This month, Susanne is sharing with us this gorgeous summer layout. To create this layout, she has used Paper Pizazz patterned paper (Sea Shells and Wood Alphabet Tiles), Ginger paper, brown and white Bazzil cardstock, white Magic Mesh, Magic Mount, Plaid Royal Coat Dimensional Magic, Scrapbook Mania Perfect matting system and Art of Scraps Shells Cut-Outs.

Begin by cutting out the shell shapes and 'BEACH' letters. Add highlights and dimenstion to them with Royal Coat. Set aside and allow to dry for three hours. Make sure they dry completely. If you try to work with them when the coating is dry on the surface but still wet underneath, you may risk the possibility of cracks forming in the coating. These will remain visible in the finished product.

While they are drying, cut a strip of ginger paper approximately 11cm wide and a strip of sea shell paper approximately 21.5cm wide. Glue them together so you end up with a sheet of paper 12 inches wide. Apply white magic mesh along the paper joint.

Next, create your title (in this case, Waikiki) by printing it on white cardstock and cutting it out. Mistral font was used to do this. Adhere your title to brown cardstock. Use a matting system to trace around the lettering to create a border and cut out.

Mount your photos directly onto your brown cardstock and adhere to your background. Alternatively, measure, cut and remove two 20cm by 11.5cm rectangles from your brown cardstock to create frames for the photos to sit behind. In this example, a 5mm border has been left around the outside and 10mm through the middle. Before adhering to your background, tear the bottom section.

Adhere your title in the top left-hand corner of your page, overlapping both the background and the photos.

When your sea shells and 'BEACH' letters are completely dry, experiment with positioning them around your page. When you are happy with their placement, lightly mark out their positions. To achieve a three-dimensional look, mount the bottom shells using sticky tabs and layer the others on top with Magic Mount. Also use Magic Mount to adhere your 'BEACH' letters.

If you would like to have any of your designs included in our resource centre, please email them to us at [email protected] (please make sure all files are .jpg or .gif).