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Paperclipping 148 – Four Ways to Embellish a Collage Template

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Today’s video tutorial will give you four different ways to embellishment a rectangular collage of photos. It doesn’t matter how many photos you’re using, how rectangular the collage is (it can be squarish), or how big your collage is. Once you’ve established your collage, you can choose which of these four embellishment formulas will work best for you!

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Below are the layouts I featured in today’s episode…

Socks

socks
Journaling reads:

  • He puts his eye on the prize
  • He lets nothing get in his way
  • He’ll climb every obstacle
  • He’ll jump any height

He only does this with Blake. Gatsby loves to go after Blake’s socks.

Supplies:
Yellow tags: these are plain old white ones that I’ve had for at least five or six years now. To get this look, color them with Lemon Grass Glimmer Mist, then tone the color down by blending Old Paper Distress Ink inward from the edges with a blending tool.

Other: The letter ‘g’ Type Charm is the only other current product still available. Everything else I used was either old stash or from outside of the scrapbook industry. The cork circle (under the ‘g’ charm) is from the kitchen department of my dollar store. The wire is from the garden section and the beads are from the jewelry section of my craft store.

(Note: Links to the above products are through my affiliate store and I will make a commission from your purchase. All other supplies in the layouts below are also old pieces I scavenged from my stash and no longer available.)
socks_closeup_tags
The tag technique in the layout is from Episode 108. Members can find it in the archives to get the step-by-step instruction. If you click on the episode link, you will see the two other ways I’ve used it so far.

Starbuck’s Adventure

starbucks_adventure
Journaling directed to my kids: Before Dad started working from home, these visits to Starbucks were a regular event. Dad and I could get some work done while you guys hooked your DS’s together to play a joint game. Nice out of the house adventure. ’08.

Mama’s Bed

mamas_bed
Journaling:
Aiden: You’re gonna have to have three pillows when I’m big.
Me: Why?
Aiden: Because I’m gonna sleep with you guys in your bed. In the middle.

Zoom

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  • Jenn V.

    I really love your layouts! Your tag idea is so cool. I recently found some old tags and thought of maybe doing something similar, since I saw your last tutorial on tags. I also really love the blue butterfly layout! Did you use stickles to draw the wavy lines? I just love that idea.

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Thank you, Jenn. I did use Stickles — Diamond. Before I did the stickles,
    though, I drew the lines with a pencil because I wanted it to have a hazy
    grey under the glitter.

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

    Love it!!

    As soon as I finish with my space [yes, I'm still reorganizing it] I'll try to use it :)

    THANKS!!

  • http://suealthouse.blogspot.com Sue Althouse

    Here's another winner – I hope you'll add it to your design course, which I'm very excited to see. I download episodes to my iPod to watch downstairs in my scrap room for inspiration and ideas. To save memory, I had to make some choices on which ones to include. The design templates and embellishment concepts all made the cut. Really looking forward to seeing this great information consolidated into an educational format. That will definitely find its way onto my iPod!

  • http://www.tortagialla.com Linda Tieu

    great episode! I always love learning about embellishments and giving them meaning and function…not just slapping on pretty flowers, for example :)

  • allisonLP

    Noell, is it ever ok to not have a visual triangle??

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Allison, I want to say yes. These aren't rules, they're principles. But a
    visual triangle, even a subtle one that is only barely there is almost
    always the way to balance something.

    For example, in the Socks layout, the most obvious triangle is the “G”
    embellishment and the line of tags at the bottom. But if there had been
    brighter colors in my photos, I wouldn't have needed that “G” embellishment.
    Still, within the tag gathering, there is a triangle of three mushrooms. The
    triangular shape is such a good way to lay items out. Also, look at my
    photos. There are four pictures of Blake. But because of his legs at the top
    left, there is an overall triangular shape between all of the Blake's.

    I am hoping to do an episode that goes revisits the visual triangle. If
    anyone has more questions about it it would help! :)

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  • Francisca

    I am sorry to be off topic, but I was just listening to the PRT with Ali en Cathy, and you were talking about making a printscreen about your tweets. You made a comment about how it is possible to capture a printscreen, but that you were not able to scroll down to capture the whole page. Well, I am using this little program FastStone Capture; you can find it at: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm With that program you can capture the screen while scrolling. Hope this helps,

    Francisca

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Awesome! Thanks, Fransisca!