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Don’t Have the Scrapbook Supplies You Need?

Apr 2011 3597

I never bother to coordinated products. I just buy what I like (limited to an amount that will reasonably sustain me until my next shopping trip). Since we all tend to gravitate toward certain colors and certain color families, much of our unrelated items will look great together if you know how to balance it all out.

But if you don’t have the colors of the items you need, just alter what you do have!

For my layout below, I turned a black and white journal block into a blue and green decorative compartment.

Tap Dance for Money - right side

All it took was a little altering to make it coordinate!

Supplies: Bundled Sage Distress Ink * Tumbled Glass Distress Ink * Peeled Paint Distress Ink * Stickles in Aqua * Ink Blending Tool.

You can click here if you would like to see the other page with the journaling.

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  • http://papercuts.dw.co.za/ Tanya

    Hi Noel, not sure if you’ve answered this question before (you probably have over and over but could I ask you to one more time?) Do you scan your layouts in for publishing on your blog or do you take photos of them? They’re always so beautifully clear and distinct and I can never get mine to look like that. What’s your secret? (course if it’s a large bed scanner then I’m out of luck). Regards Tanya

  • http://scrappingmariangeles.blogspot.com/ mariangeles_spain

    She takes pics. I remember a post where she explains it all. If I find it, I will tell you :)

  • Iceteeeeee

    I’m also interested in this answer!

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Yes, I photograph them. I have two different episodes for the members videos
    that show my process — one shows how I photograph them to get them as
    straight and as much even light as I can. The other one shows how I edit
    them in Photoshop. I actually edit them in Aperture now and when I do my big
    Aperture tutorial I’ll show how I do it there.

    Sorry for anyone who isn’t a member — I don’t have anything available free
    on the blog.