OK - in keeping with my month of giving classes and ideas away now I am enjoying a life of luxury - and I have had a lovely leisurely day today - this one is perfect for those of you who, like me, love Disney.
I knew there was a reason I kept all of this archive material. It was for the days when I had no decent computer to create with. I am missing my digital scrapping enormously and am grateful to Dawn Inskip and also everyone at Pickleberrypop for being so understanding about the fact I cannot keep my commitments at the moment. There is no way this machine could cope with Elements!
Anyway - on to the class for today ....
It is an Epcot Page that is really simple to do
I often do pages with just one picture, but then I also go to the other extreme and do crazy pages with lots of pictures. There are 11 different countries represented at Epcot and I wanted to use them all and include information about them. Then of course I also needed to include the iconic Epcot image – the geosphere. This page crams it all in. Each of the tags – sewn on at the edges – lifts up to reveal journaling about that land.
It would be a great page to use for maybe a birthday party or event where you had lots of pictures which were not good enough to be included as full size shots but which told a story and needed to be included.
I loved the fact that I could use both portrait and landscape shots. If you have index prints from developed pictures they could be used on the tags, or you could just crop and print your own.
All in all it’s a fun page and a neat way of using 12 pictures and loads of journaling without it looking horribly busy.
Supplies
- 1 sheet of patterned paper (I used a K and Co map paper to fit my theme)
- 1 sheet of cardstock (I used a cream Bazzill)
- Scraps of card for journaling under the pictures
- Rubber stamps
- Journalling pen
- Chalk inks
- Circle cutter
- Sewing machine (optional of course)
Step by step
- I printed 11 small pictures (you don’t have to use 11 – use whatever number you fancy) 2 ¼ “ x 1 ½ “ making some portrait and some landscape. You don’t have to use this size – work with what you are planning for your page. Or use ready printed index shots
- I printed one picture 5” x 7” but then I cropped it down a bit.
- Mount the main picture on white card to make it pop.
- Cut a circle from the cardstock approximately 7” in diameter
- Write or stamp your title. I used clear stamps for mine but you could use letter stickers. The Basic Grey stickers would be a fab size for this.
- Slot the picture through the circle and trim off the excess picture from the left hand side so it doesn’t poke out of the circle frame.
- Cut 11 (or however many you are using) strips of cardstock just a tiny bit wider than the pictures and mount the pictures.
- I didn’t want the pictures to look even so I varied the length of the strips.
- Journal a title on each strip if you want one then stick just the very edge of the strip to the background paper.
- I then sewed my strips onto my paper using a simple running stitch. You don’t have to do this. If you use a small strip of double sided tape it will secure it, but I thought the stitches looked kind of cute.
- I then decorated the blank spaces on the tags with postage stamped impressions. Use whatever suits your theme. Primas would look cute on a girlie page.
- Journal on small strips of scrap card and stick this under the tags. The journaling can be read when the tags are flipped up.
- Stick the main picture and its circular mount onto the backing paper and you are done!
- If you do use this class and upload it anywhere, please credit it as a class and please post a comment on my blog with a link as I really really do like to go and look at what you have done.
And just for the heck of it - this is another variation
and a third ... I do have a serious number of Disney albums!!! Including an entire Epcot World Showcase album just showing the features of each country. I really ought to stop witht he Disney - but let's face it - it is never going to happen.
Karen, did you think Epcot did a good job representing the UK?
I sometimes wonder if they capture it well, or if they just focus
on one bit of the country in a stereotypical way?
Posted by: Barb inAK | September 23, 2016 at 07:35 AM