Friday, July 3, 2015

Three Amigos July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog hop.  We are three Close to My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you.  On the 3rd of each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project.  There are only three stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are sharing a blast from the past. I'm sharing a Fourth of July layout I put together about 5 years ago. This layout is simple, but perfectly showcases the photos. I used the Reflections pattern book for my layout designs, and stamps to create a custom patterned paper. The right page features a flip flap, allowing me to add an additional picture and journaling without cluttering the original design.




I dry embossed the cut-out stars and sanded them to reveal the embossed pattern. The USA letters are dimensional elements. The phrase "made in the" was created from alphabet rub-ons.


I added a flip flap on the right page and used one of the cut-out stars to hold the flap closed.



Thank you for stopping by today. Hop over to Lisa's blog and Donna's blog to see what they created for you.





3 comments:

  1. Awesome! And you have pictures on it! I love it and love your stamped background paper.

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  2. I did this type of challenge with one of my 4th of July scrapbook pages from over 20 years ago...it was fun. Your old to new is a very nice layout and I'm always in favor of creating your own stamped background paper. Wish I could have seen the original too. I put mine on facebook and got a lot of contradiction on changing old to new...but I was happy with it.

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    1. Thank you, Sue! This layout is the original layout from 5 years ago. The layout was designed for a workshop for new scrapbookers and fit our theme "A Blast From The Past". I would love to see your original and challenge layouts. Did you post them on your blog as well as Facebook?

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