6th Grade Scrapbook Layout + Paper-piercing Technique
Well I haven’t shared a scrapbook layout in a while but it’s mostly because I haven’t been scrapbooking as much these days! I’ve mostly been sticking with the smaller crafts like card-making because they are shorter to complete and therefore less painful. But I wanted to keep catching up with my kids’ albums, so I finally got to the layout with the photos from Harmony’s first day of grade 6 (so just about 1 year ago!).
First Day of Grade 6
Materials: Riding Hood Red card stock & ink, Chocolate Chip card stock & ink, Only Orange card stock, chocolate brown ribbon, white jumbo brads, Chocolate Chip felt flower, orange flower brad, yellow mini brads, red mini brad, fall multi-colour brad, red metal frame, white Creative Memories letter stickers, various-sizes circle punches, scallop circle punch, stamps from various Stampin’ Up sets, and several different patterned paper sheets in oranges and reds.
This is actually a good time of year to do these Back-to-School and School Album layouts because we are very much getting into the Back-to-School mood these days! With about 3 weeks left of summer, we’ve done some shopping for school supplies and I have done a lot of online shopping for the kids’ clothes. I’m glad my son doesn’t mind – too bad little miss preteen is a little fussier about that! She is far more used to getting to go shopping at the mall. It was a yearly tradition that I have really had to give up the past couple years. She says she doesn’t *mind* pushing me in a wheelchair at the mall but it’s just not the same and I just can’t go as far and as long as I used to, so we can’t get it all done in one shot like every other year. Thank goodness I have some fond memories still tucked away in my foggy brain of previous trips and also some pics in her album to show her!
Side Note:I’ve re-organized the albums in my Scrapbook Layouts Gallery to show the more current albums on Page 1 of the gallery. It also made me realize I have not yet uploaded the pictures of layouts from Avery’s First Year scrapbook (one of my fave albums!) so I’ll be sure to do that soon.
Back to this layout… I tried out a new technique for paper-piercing the “6″ on the layout and my trick worked pretty well so I wanted to share it…
Paper-Piercing Technique – Using a Punched Shape as a Guide:
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Step 1: Line up at least 2 different sized punched shapes, one inside the other. Align to center or however you want them to be aligned. Keep in mind that the top piece will not actually be showing in your final design – just a paper-pierced outline of it. |
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Step 2: Punch the smaller shape in a piece of scrap paper (mine is white). |
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Step 3: Line up the scrap paper on top of the center punched shape. |
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Step 4: Carefully remove the center punched shape. |
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Step 5: Holding your scrap paper tightly, paper-pierce around the inner edge of the shape. |
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Step 6: Remove the scrap paper guide once you have your perfectly shaped paper-pierced pattern and decorate as you’d like. |
You can try this with any other shape you like – if there’s a punch for it, you can make it! 
Have fun and I hope everyone is enjoying (or if you’re not a stationary-freak like I am, at least surviving) their Back-to-School shopping! 
August 16 2010 09:55 pm | family and pain / disability and scrappy / stampy
