Assembly Line Scrapbooking
I’ve sorted scrapbooking into three main categories.
1. Newbie: This involves lots of stickers and embellishments, is generally the scrapper’s first foray into the craft - and costs a fortune! Like a kid who’s told she can eat all the candy she wants, the newbie goes crazy. I know! I have boxes and boxes of stuff I am unlikely to use any time soon and way too many layouts where I’d gone a little ’sticker crazy’.
2. Traditional - You take a photo - or two or three - and using the elements and principles of design, you build a page around those particular pictures.
3. Assembly Line Scrapbooking - pretty much what it claims to be: putting together scrapbook pages without the photos. This is very much what I do - with the frequent addition of paper piecing, my favorite part of the entire process.
Follow along as the pictures below give a quick tutorial on assembly line scrapbooking.
I used a patterned paper for my background. It’s a spring stack my daughter-in-law picked up for me at Michael’s.
12 x 12 Background Paper
Lay down a 12 x 5 and 12 x 4 strip of co-ordinating cardstock.
5 x 12 Cardstock
4 x 12 Cardstock
Add a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 Whisper White (Stampin’Up) to each page 1/4″ in from side and up from bottom.
Add a 6 x 8 piece of co-ordinating solid cardstock. I used Certainly Celery by Stampin' Up. Love this color.
Add a ribbon.
Place your 4 x 4 mattes on opposite page.
Use the 1-1/4 inch circle punch and Stampin'Up scallop punch for the embellishment. Rub-on is from Making Memories.
Used the Cricut and George cartridge at 1-1/2″to cut the title. I picked the title from the rub-on, Joy of Discovery (Making Memories). Perfect for this layout!
Max and the Bunny
Crop and add pictures to page two and you’re done!
More bunnies
Another easy assemble is the 5 and 7. Lay down your 12 x 12 background pages. (I used black) Grab a 12 x 12 co-ordinating patterned paper and cut at 5″. This gives you a 12 x 5 and a 12 x 7. (black and white print) Edge each of these with a 3/4″ x 12″ piece of solid cardstock. (Here I used red) Add your 4 x 6 photo mattes and a 4 x 4 matte, both backed with 4-1/4 x 6-1/4 and 4-1/4 x 4-1/4 mattes as below. Add title, embellishments, paper piecing and you’re ready for your photos.
7 x 12 Patterned Paper
5 x 12 Patterned Paper
Too stinkin'cute!
Here’s yet another simple layout called In the Gutter. I used a Christmas print for the background on this one. Bright green 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock ‘in the gutter’ - 1/4″from side and bottom. Single mattes cut at 4 x 6 make this an incredibly easy layout. The extra large brads add a nice touch. I paper pieced Mr. and Mrs. for embellishments and didn’t even bother with a title. Too easy!
Mrs. Claus
Mr. Claus
Grab a couple sheets of paper and put together one of these oh-so easy layouts. They take minimal time to put together and you can always go back later and add paper piecing.