tips & techniques

Do you love spring as much as “we” do?  We happen to think that  “Pink Plum” is the perfect paper crafting collection for accenting your spring inspired layouts this year. Christine Middlecamp created this lovely layout using a variety of blossoms to get you thinking about spring. She’s also put together a host of tips & techniques for us, which you’ll find below. Check it out! 

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Window boxes, both large and small, leave plenty of room for surprises. This particular layout houses a large window box. Within the box sits a long series of pattern papers and homemade embellishments. The box serves a “frame” for these items and is the base for the title.

The window box/frame is cut from vanilla cardstock using an exact-o knife, ruler and cutting mat.  Before trimming box/frame from cardstock, pre-measure it to ensure it’s of the appropriate size to fit on your layout. Also, decide on width of the frame. Width is important because it will determine the size of the window. After trimming the window box from cardstock, trace the inside of the window on background cardstock. Cut around tracing and use as base for adding items to your window. After you’ve completed your window’s design, adhere both window contents and frame to layout as shown above.

Flower accents are easy to create and are extremely popular right now. The flowers above are created using the following four items: Martha Stewart Large Flower Punch, MS Starburst Punch, ¾” circle punch & pink buttons. Punch eight large flowers from “Pomegranate” pattern paper. Punch eight starburst circles from “Very Berry” pattern paper. Punch eight geometric circles from “Wildberries” pattern paper. Combine items together to make the flowers and use to your liking!

Speaking of popular, paper rosettes can be found just about anywhere these days. They’re really simple to make and offer up all kinds of design options. All that’s required to make them is paper, tweezers, scissors and glue-dots. Trim a medium size circle from paper. Cut circle in a spiral-like fashion. Wrap spiral around tweezers tightly. Remove wrapped spiral from tweezers and adhere rosette at base using large glue-dot so that it doesn’t come apart.  Use your paper rosettes on a layout/project either individually or as part of a grouping of rosettes. The possibilities are endless!

Decorative scissors are great for creating your own one-of-kind borders. Use decorative borders to accent a focal point on a layout/project. The “Raspberry” pattern paper above is housed between two thin borders trimmed from pink cardstock using pinking scissors.

Lastly, even though Valentine’s Day is officially over, there’s always good reason to add hearts to a layout/project. Remember the days of hand-cutting hearts from folded paper? It’s the easiest way to trim an “almost perfect” heart. Layer hearts with embellishments like the one above, Crate Paper’s newest addition – “Sparkle Chip” – layered chipboard with glimmer and rhinestones!

Thanks Christine for the beautiful inspiration.

Comments

[Lexi]

so beautiful.."lovely" in fact ;)

[MaraMay]

Perfection. She does it again! <3

[Domenico]

She's amazing!!!

[Lori Gentile]

Gorgeous page, Christine! I loved seeing your process. Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!

[Janene]

As always - absolutely stunning!!!!! Got to go order some punches now. :) Can't wait to get my Crate order - later this week.

[Amy H]

GORGEOUS, I just love it!

[LollyChops]

Stunning! Christine never fails to deliver the most stunning projects ever!

[Karen Poirier-Brode]

This is very lovely!

[Jonnelle]

I {heart} Christine and her gorgeous layered creations!!

[Shawn Wenrich]

Beautiful layout and a beautful post, luv this blog!

[~kellyann~]

Love to see anything Christine creates... especially like the fabulous layered button and punched flowers and rosettes.

[Wendy]

Christine - thanks for sharing that amazing layout with us. I want to run to my scrap desk and try a few of those techniques. :) I also love the Pink Plum collection. Can't wait to play with it!

[Robbie Herring]

So many fabulous ideas on one page!! I love the layered punched flowers! Beautiful page!!

[patty c]

I can't find that Martha Stewart flower punch - ??

[Suzanne]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

[~kellyann~]

Love this layout and how Christine made the flower accents. I found the large MS punch at Michaels and {score!} had a 50% off coupon to boot!!!
Thanks for showcasing Christine's amazing talents on your blog....

[jill]

i have just bought the brook and pink plum collection packs here in the uk as a direct result of the ever inspiring christine and laura. x

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