Hello everyone
well it's that time again, I can't believe that a month has gone since I posted the last one. This time it is a page for our children/grandchildren, or siblings. It's a page with a pocket and lots of tags, you can add more tags if you want to.
So let's get down to it.
Founation Page
Instructions for creating a foundation page:
Each month you will need to make a foundation page. For this
you will need two black sheets of cardstock.
Cut one to 8 ½ x11 inches- set it aside. Cut your second one
to 9 ½ x 11 inches. Please keep the left over bits as you will need them later
on.
The 9 ½ x 11 inches piece needs to be scored, place it in
your cutter at 8 ½ inch mark and score it, this will give you a one inch seam.
Completely fill in the one inch seam with strong tape.
Carefully adhere the 8 ½ inch piece onto the 9 1/2 inches
piece. Make sure you don’t go
over your scored seam, or your page will not fold. Once you
have it on, carefully fold the page over to check that it will shut.
Press firmly along the folded over piece, open up your page
and check at the two pages line up nicely. Don’t worry if one of your pages is
now wider than the other. You can trim it back to make them the same.
You need to add some more tape along the join of your
foundation page. Adhere one strip of tape along one side of the join and about
an inch of tape on the other side of the join.
A close up of the join with the tape each side. When you
come to adhere your print papers, one piece will be an inch wider that the
other page. The extra inch will need to be adhered over the top of the inch of
tape on the foundation page.
Please follow the
instructions carefully. Read each instruction to the end, before cutting. Lots
of the papers are used on the tag as well as for your page, so you need to cut
them the way I describe or you will run out of paper! All chipboard has been
sprayed white. All papers have had their edges inked using Colorbox Liquid
Chalk ink – Chestnut Roan.
Please note, I am only
human and do make mistakes, I have taken every care while writing the
instructions, and hope they make sense. It is quite hard to write instructions
as I know what I mean; but this does not always translate into the
instructions. If you are unable to work something out, then please ask a
question in the comments box at the end of the post and I will answer it for
you as best I can. Or email me at jane@seriouslyscrapbooking.net.au
Materials List
Little Darlings Collection
2x Lullaby
1x Little
Treasures
1 x Baby Borders
1 x New Arrival
1/2 x Rock-A-Bye
1/2x Cherished
Once upon a Springtime Die Cut Frames
3x Black Cardstock and 2 Yellow, + 1 of each of Pink and
blue cardstock
Imaginarium Designs Chipboard – IDC0002 Swirl corners.
White
Brads and
assorted Ribbons
Color Box Fluid Chalk-chestnut roan,
3L 12x12 Adhesive sheets
Wet Glue
The instructions for creating your 3rd page.
Before we start the page, we need to cut some borders from
our “Baby Border” print paper. Please cut the borders as shown above. We need 8
strips in total. Don’t cut all the strips into pieces, as we need the bottom
one to be 4 borders wide.
Have a good look at the back of your sheet of “Lullaby”
print paper. It has a border all the way
around the print. The top left and right corners of the print paper has a fancy
corner printed on it. We are going to use these fancy corners from both sheets.
Now look at the border. It is in from the edge of your print paper, this gives
us a nice creamy edge. We are going to remove the borders from each sheet. I
need you to cut each border piece one at a time using a craft knife and a
ruler. Place your ruler on the inside edge of your border, but leave a little
bit of the cream on it. Cut all four sides, making sure you don’t cut through
the fancy corners at the top.
Once you have cut all four sides, you can cut across each
corner and remove the middle of your print paper. Do this to each print paper.
The middle bit is what we will be using for our pages. Separate the corners
from the borders.
Because we removed the borders the print paper is now about
the right hight for our page. So now all we need to do is cut it to the right
width. Put the first piece in your trimmer in the right way up, so you can read
the writing. Cut it to 9 ¼ inches wide.
For the second sheet of print paper, we need to put the
print into our trimmer upside down. The images will need to be upside down. Trim
it back to 8 ¼ wide.
You need to completely cover the back of both pieces of Lullaby
Print Papers with adhesive. You can use double sided adhesive paper or tape, if
you use tape make sure you butt it together with no gaps in between each piece.
Adhere the 9 ¼ inch wide piece to your black foundation page
first. Try and have the same amount of black showing along the top and bottom
on your page. Remember this print paper is one inch wider, so it will go over
the join on your foundation page onto the other page. You should have tape on
your foundation page to help adhere your print paper over the join. Don’t worry
if your print paper is not on straight. You are going to add a border around
the page.
Carefully fold your page over, use your finger to run along the
seam as you fold the page up and over. This will create a fold that you can see
and use to line up your second piece.
Now you need to adhere your 8 ¼ inch piece. Make sure you
are away from the centre fold of your page or you page will not shut nicely. To
make it easier for yourself, don’t remove all the backing from your adhesive
paper or tape. Just take a little strip off. Then if you don’t quite line it up
right you can lift it off and try again.
Carefully fold your page over, use your finger to run along
the seam as you fold the page up and over. Fold the whole page over and run your hand firmly along the
fold to set the crease.
Find your sheet of “New Arrival”. We need to cut it so that
we have lots of pieces to use on our page, pocket and tags. Use the photo as a
guide. You need to cut all the pieces as follows. You need to have, one piece
two stamps wide and 8 stamps long. Plus the three images from the middle, and
the two pieces, above and below the images.
You also need another piece, 6 stamps wide and 3 stamps high. Keep all
the left over pieces, as we still need to cut some extra pieces for our tags.
Now you are going to make the pocket. From your sheet of
yellow cardstock, cut two rectangles 5 ¾ inches x 8 inches. We only need one
for the pocket; once the pocket is finished you will be adhering the second one
to the back to cover all the brads. From your sheet of “Little treasures”, cut
a piece 5 ½ inches x 7 ¾ inches. Cut the 5 ½ inches first then cut the piece
back to 7 ¾ inches. Ink around the edges and adhere it to your piece of yellow
cardstock. You should have a little bit of yellow showing at the left end and
at the top of your yellow rectangle, don’t worry about having any yellow
showing at the bottom or if you have too much at the right end. We will be
hiding the right end and the bottom with a border.
Cut a second piece from your “Little Treasures” to 4 ½ x 7
inches. Adhere it to your pocket about ½ inches in from the left and ½ inch down
from the top.
From your sheet of “Baby
Borders” find the strip that has the cute little baby faces on it. Cut it so
you have 7 faces and add it to your pocket about 3 inches down from the top of
your pocket. Save the leftover piece of baby border, you will need it for a
tag.
Choose one of the images from your sheet of “New Arrival”.
Cut a piece of yellow cardstock, 3 ½ inches wide x 3 1/8 inches high. Adhered your image to the middle of the
yellow mat. Cut another mat from your blue cardstock, it needs to be 3 ¾ inches
wide x 3 ½ inches high.
Adhere the image to your pocket; use the photo as a
guide. Add two white brads and a title
to finish the pocket. Add your second yellow rectangle to the back of your
pocket.
Now we need to place our
pocket onto our page. It is to be a pocket with the left and top edge not attached to your page. You will
need to put tape on your founation page, so the pocket is attached to the page
on the right and bottom side and corner of your page only. Use the photo as a
guide. Please don’t worry about the right side of your page yet!
This border is done slightly different to our first and
second page, so please read the instructions carefully. You need to sort your
borders out. Some have the pattern running all one way and the some have the
pattern changing direction in the middle. We need four pieces with the pattern
running the same way. These need to be used at the top and bottom of our page.
The ones that change direction, we need to use two of them, one for each side
of our page. We will be starting in the bottom left corner of our page, then
doing the bottom right corner. Next will be the top and lastly the sides.
We will not be doing a mitred corner for this page. Trim the
left edge of your border so it is straight. Start that the bottom of your page
and at the left edge. You need to be just in from the left edge of the page and
just up from the bottom. We need to have a little bit of black showing at the
bottom and side of your page.
Adhere the first strip on your page, and run it across your
page over the join and onto your pocket. It needs to go across the page and
onto the pocket about an inch.
Place the
second strip on your page, start in the bottom right corner of your page and
run it across your pocket and over the top of the other border. Trim it back so
it is not near the fold on your page. Adhere the strip to your page.
Now you can adhere your border at the top of your page. Start
in the left corner. Adhere your border and run it over the join in the middle
of your page. Go over the fold in the middle of your page for about an inch. Place
the other border on your page and trim it to fit. It needs to go over the top
of the first border and finish near the fold in the middle of your page. It
must not go over the fold. Once you have it trimmed, you can adhered it to your
page.
Now you can do the left edge page border and the right edge
page border. They can overlap the top or bottom borders in the corners. Trim
each end to fit and adhere it to your page.
Your corners should look like this.
Find your four corners and trim them back to match the photo
above. Glue them to your page; try to match up the corners with the borders.
They need to meet on the outer edges.
Don’t worry if they don’t quite match as we
are going to add some chipboard corners.
Your page should now look
like this. All the borders on and corners gluded on as well.
Now it is time to do work on
the left side of your page.
Find your piece of “New Arrival” that is two stamps
wide and 6 stamps high. Mat it onto a piece of blue cardstock. Adhere it to
your page.
Find your piece of “New Arrival” that is 6 stamps wide and 3
stamps high. Turn it over and adhere it to your page.
From your sheet of “Once upon a Springtime “die cut frames,
remove the largest frame. Punch out the middle bit and keep it for your tags. Place
a photo under it the frame and add it to your page. Add a chipboard title to the
bottom of the frame.
To finish your page add four chipboard corners.
Tags Tutorial - Page 3
By
Jane Tregenza
All artwork,
images, instructions and design are copyrighted 2012
Instructions for creating the Tags.
Please follow my instructions carefully, as you will need
all the left over bits of your print paper. Remember to ink the edges of all the following pieces, except the
black cardstock. Please note that I have not added any names, dates for any
information to my tags. You will need to add your own personal details for each
child to each tag.
1st Tag
Front side
From your blue cardstock, cut a rectangle 4 ½ inches x 7 ½
inches. Corner round all four corners, using a punch. Cut a rectangle from your
spare “New Arrival” print paper. It needs to be 4 ¼ inches
x 7 ¼ inches, corner
round all the corners as well. Ink around the edges and adhere it to your blue
cardstock tag.
From your “Baby Border” sheet of print paper, find the piece
that has the blue kewpie dolls on it, cut it so it is about 9 inches long. Adhere it to your page about 1 ¼ inches up
from the bottom of your tag and wrap the ends around to the back of your tag;
they should nearly met in the middle on the back of your tag. Cut a black mat 3
¾ inches x 6 inches out of black and adhere it to your tag. Add a photo and title to finish your tag.
Back Side
Choose an image from your “New Arrival” print paper. Cut a
yellow mat 3 ½ inches wide and 3 ¼ inches high. Adhere your image to your
yellow mat, don’t adhere it to your tag yet. Cut a black mat 3 ½ inches wide and
3 ¼ inches high. Cut a piece from your “Baby Border” print paper. I used the
blue lace border. Cut it to 4 3/8 inches and adhere it to your tag about 1 inch
down from the top of your tag. Now you can add your two squares to your tag. Punch
two cardstock circles and two paper washers. Glue one circle and one washer
together. Glue one each side at the top of your tag lining them up. Punch a
hole through the washer and feed some ribbons through the hole and tie them
with a knot. Add some photos to finish your tag.
2 nd Tag
Front Side
Cut a rectangle 4 ¾
inches x 8 inches out of your pink cardstock. Cut the left corner off your tag
using your eye. Place the cut piece on top of your tag in the right corner and
cut it to match. Use a corner rounder on
the bottom two corners.
Cut a rectangle 4 5/8 inches x 7 7/8 inches from the
“Cherished” print paper. You need to
make the print paper match the cardstock tag at the top. To do this, place the
print paper under your tag. Line your print up the top of the tag and the left
edge of the tag, trim along the corner to match. Move the print paper over to
the right edge of your tag, making sure it matches up at the top and side. Trim
the edge again. They should match your
tag.
Ink around the edges
of your print paper and adhere it to your cardstock tag. Cut a rectangle from
“Cherished” 3 inches x 4 1/4 , turn it over
and adhere it to your tag. Find your butterfly border from “Baby Border”, cut
to 10 inches. Adhere it to the front of your tag about ¾ of an inch up from the
bottom of your tag and wrap it around to the back of your tag. Remove your Medium
pink frame, add a photo to your tag and adhere the frame over the top. Glue a chipboard word to the bottom of the
frame to finish the front of your tag.
Back Side
Find your piece of four borders from “Baby Border”, cut it
back to 4 5/8 inches wide and adhere it to your tag near the top. Find your strip
from “Baby Border” with the phrase Little Darling, cut one and mat it onto a
piece of pink cardstock. Add it to your tag partly on the border print paper. Cut a mat from your black cardstock, 3 ½
inches x 5 inches. Cut a second yellow mat, 3 3/4 inches x 5 1/4 inches. Adhere
the black mat to the yellow and add it to your tag. Find one of the small
frames and a stamp from our left over “New Arrivals”. Mat the stamp onto a
piece of yellow cardstock. Add the finished piece to the small frame. Add your
photo to the tag and adhere the small frame over the top. Punch two cardstock
circles and two paper washers. Glue one circle and one washer together. Glue
one each side at the top of your tag lining them up. Punch a hole through the
washer and feed some ribbons through the hole and tie them with a knot.
Tag 3
Front Side
Cut a rectangle 4 ½ inches x 5 ¾ inches from your yellow
cardstock. Cut the left corner off your tag using your eye. Place the cut piece
on top of your tag in the right corner and cut it to match. Use a corner
rounder on the bottom two corners.
Cut two pieces of “ Rock-a-Bye” print paper. They need to be
4 ¼ inches x 5 ½ inches. You need to
make the print papers match the cardstock tag at the top. To do this, place the
print paper under your tag. Line up the top of the tag and the left edge of the
tag, trim along the corner to match. Move the print paper over to the right
edge of your tag, making sure it matches up at the top and trim the edge
again. They should match.
Ink around the edge and adhere both of them to your cardstock
tag. Find your pink lace border and cut it to 9 inches. Adhere it to your tag
about 1 ¾ inches down from the top of your tag. Wrap the ends around to the
other side of the tag. Cut a black mat 3 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches, add a photo and adhere
it to your tag.
Back side
Use the middle of your larges frame, ink around the edges
and adhere it to your tag. Cut a photo mat from your black cardstock. It should
be 3 inches x 4 inches. Punch two cardstock circles and two paper washers. Glue
one circle and one washer together. Glue one each side at the top of your tag
lining them up. Punch a hole through the washer and feed some ribbons through
the hole and tie them with a knot.
Tag 4
Front side
Cut a rectangle 4 inches x 6 inches from your pink cardstock.
Cut the left corner off your tag using your eye. Place the cut piece on top of
your tag in the right corner and cut it to match. Use a corner rounder punch on
the bottom two corners.
Find your piece with
the four borders on it from your “Baby Border” print paper, cut it back to 5 ¾
inches wide. You need to make the print papers match the cardstock tag at the
top. To do this, place the print paper under your tag. Line up the top of the
tag and the left edge of the tag, trim along the corner to match. Move the
print paper over to the right edge of your tag, making sure it matches up at
the top and side, trim the edge again.
It should match. Ink around the edge and adhere it to your cardstock
tag. Cut a black cardstock mat to 3 inches x 4 inches. Add the mat and photo to
your tag. Find a stamp images from your “New Arrival” print paper, mat it onto
a piece of yellow cardstock and add it to your tag over your photo.
Back side
Cut a rectangle 3 inches high and 5 ½ inches long from your
“Little Treasure” print paper. Round the corner and make the other corner match
the tag. Find your leftover piece of border strip with the baby faces. You need
a piece about 4 faces long. Add it to your tag as shown. Cut a black mat 2 ½ inches x 3 ½ inches and
adhere it to your tag. Cut a piece from your “New Arrival”, it needs to be one
stamp wide and two stamps high. Mat it onto a piece of yellow card stock and
add it to your tag. Punch two cardstock circles and two paper washers. Glue one
circle and one washer together. Glue one each side at the top of your tag
lining them up. Punch a hole through the washer and feed some ribbons through
the hole and tie them with a knot. Add a chipboard word to finish your tag.
Tag 5
Front side
Cut a piece of black cardstock to 4 1/8 inches x 6 inches.
Cut a yellow mat 3 7/8 inches x 5 ¾ inches. Adhere it to the black card stock.
Add a photo to your mat and place a green frame over the top. Add a chipboard
word to finish your tag.
Back side
Cut a blue mat 3 7/8 inches x 5 ¾ inches. Adhere it to your
black card stock tag. Add a photo to your mat and place the blue frame over the
top. Find a left over piece of the print paper you used as a border around your
page. Add it to your tag as shown above. Punch out three hearts and add them to
your tag. Add a chipboard word to finish your tag.
When placing your tags in your pocket, please be careful of
the chipboard words that you don’t “catch” them. Don’t forget to add your
children’s names and ages along with some information.
Hope you like the page, I love the fact that I can add more tags as your family grow or change.
thanks for looking
Hugs
Jane
PS don't forget that if you are wanting to make the book along with me, then Seriously Scrapbooking are selling kits on their online store. They have kits for page 1, page 2 and three ready to go. All kits come with instructions.
