first up, thanks for all the sweet comments on my cover layout! appreciate them all. and now, to pick a winner for a free copy of scrapbooking tips & tricks: tools & techniques. i turned to the random number generator. in full disclosure, it choose #29. which was dawn, who mentioned that she already had the issue and not to enter her name. so i tried again, and i got #49. congrats KATEMERI! email me your info and i'll pass it along so that CK can get your copy mailed out to you.
as seen in Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Paper Palooza issue, by Creating Keepsakes magazine. copyright creative crafts group. posted with prior permission from the publisher.
here's another one of my layouts from the previous scrapbooking tips & tricks: paper palooza. geez, could i have taken a more wonky photo of it? lol!
admittedly, this was another layout that i had to make changes too. i had completely different papers for my flowers. but they asked for some bolder patterns. and i love this version more than my original. the idea was to use die cuts to make your own pattern paper. i choose a single flower die, by quickutz. and i choose a few sheets of pattern paper, and went to town die-cutting a ton of flowers.
i actually cut a piece of white cardstock for each area that i wanted to add the flowers. then i adhered the flowers in rows on that piece of cardstock. i was then able to trim off the parts of the flowers that went off the edge of the cardstock, to give it nice and clean edges. it's hard to see in this photo, but i added those pieces to the layout using pop dots for some extra dimension.
i think it gives the look of a piece of pattern paper at first glance. this would even look great with just a single piece of pattern paper used for all the die cut shapes. or you could try it with cardstock. in fact, i just got an idea for using it with cardstock, to give an embossed look. will test it out, and let you know what i come up with 🙂
Laura Vegas 
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