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I hope you had a great Fourth of July! I know I did. I ate way too much food, stayed up way too late and had way too much to clean up on Monday. Now that I have recovered it is time to look at the pictures I took. I have 9 grandchildren who live nearby and the annual fireworks-in-the-backyard event gives me lots of great pictures to scrapbook.
I had one picture of my grandson, Jeshua, from last year that begged to be the ONLY picture on the page. I like the idea of featuring a single picture on the page but don’t always want to fill the page by using a lot of journaling. That is when I like to use paper lace overlays. They fill the page, add dimension and are a lot of fun to design. Pazzles sells a wonderful CD of paper lace designs but you can also make them yourself.
Two weeks ago Amanda showed you how to make paper lace that had random images placed at different angles to each other. This week I have made a video that shows you how to make paper lace that has structured rows. I find them very quick to make. Simply choose a shape or word, multiply it across and up, making sure the edges overlap and use WYSiWYG to convert it to paper lace. (Hint: WYSiWYG really means what you see is what you get. So you can create the illusion of overlap by thickening the lines before you use WYSiWYG.) If you want, you can add a border (or frame) around the edge of the lace like the stars paper lace I made for my scrapbook page.
Today I am loading you up with tutorials and instructions so make sure to snag them all. The Basic Structured Paper Lace is a good beginning project for paper lace. The Freedom Page tutorial is an Advanced project and comes in 2 parts. The first one shows how to make the paper lace with offset rows and a border around it. The second part shows you how to make the rest of the Freedom page shown here. There is also a pdf file of the instructions for the Freedom page as well as the actual cutting file for the page.
Happy Designing!
Chris
Basic Paper Lace |
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Paper Lace are intricate overlay designs that you can lay over a solid piece of cardstock for a beautiful design on your scrapbook page, cards and more.In this tutorial you will learn how to make your own paper lace quickly and easily. This lesson will teach you how to use the multiply function to fill your page with a design for paper lace. Then learn the tricks to of increasing line thickness and using WYSiWYG to save time and steps when creating the lace. |
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Freedom Page Part 1 |
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In this tutorial you will learn how to make the star paper lace with a border around it featured in the Freedom Page.Using tools such as multiply, group, and WYSIWYG you will learn how to create this paper lace design and frame quickly and easily. Follow this tutorial up with Part Two where you will add the poem around the border and a fun title element. |
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Freedom Page Part 2 |
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In Part Two of this tutorial you will learn how to finish your fun Freedom page for any patriotic event. After learning how to create the paper lace in Part One, you will now learn combine it with other elements to create a scrapbook page. Learn how to arrange a poem around the border of a page using the Justification tools. You will also learn how to use Fit Text to Path to shape a word to fit the inside of a title element. |
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July 6th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I love this page layout. It’s a tutorial I will be checking out.
July 6th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Great tutorials Christine Thank You!!
July 7th, 2010 at 1:26 am
I always love lace…this is really cute!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:50 am
This is great! Your grandson is adorable ! Thank you for the tutorials. Dana
July 7th, 2010 at 6:11 am
I don’t have the time to do scrapbooking and only wish I had seeing your stunning layout. I like the use of the pen tool around the page and the paper lace. Thanks for the inspiration.
July 12th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
This is grat. Can’t wait till I have time to try this out.