Soccer Scrapbook Page Ideas

Soccer Girl

A great way to make use of an entire page! Enlarging and cropping the Cliptures clipart image off the edge of the scrapbook page adds depth and makes the page feel larger than it actually is.

The image is imported into a layout program and scaled to size. The headline text is created and scaled to size also. The page is printed and the image and text are cut out from the page. The image, text, and photos are positioned on the background paper and the portions of the image that extend off the paper are trimmed off at the edge of the page.

Materials:

- Cliptures: Clipart from Cliptures #47 Kids

- Paper: White for printing image, green for background sheet, and blue for the picture frames.

- Acid free scrapbook glue or adhesive.

- Decorative edge scissors for cutting photo frames.

- Craft knife and cutting mat for trimming the image and text.

Directions:
1. Start a new document in your layout program.

2. Import the soccer girl image from Vol. 47 and scale it to about 5 3/4" tall.

3. Create the headline (topper) text for the page and color it to compliment or contrast with the color of the background paper.

Note: Because the image and text are cut out from the printed paper, their positioning in the layout program isn't particularly important. Just be sure to leave enough room between the image and text so they can be trimmed with an even border around each one. (See Paper Saver tip.)

4. Print the layout on white paper.

5. Using scissors, or a craft knife and cutting mat, cut out the image and text leaving an even amount of white space all the way around each. (This is much easier than trying to trim right up to the edges and it creates a nice design too!)

6. Trim your photos to their final sizes.

7. Cut the frames for the photos with decorative edge scissors.

8. Before actually gluing anything down, arrange the photos, text, and image on the background sheet. Once your satisfied with the positioning of all the elements, glue just the full image in place.

Note: At this point the image has not been cropped and will be extending off the paper.

9. With the image glued in place, turn the background paper over and place it on top of your cutting mat. Using a craft knife and ruler, trim off the part of the image that extends off the background paper.

10. Arrange and attach the rest of the elements to the background page.

That's it!