Digital Scrapbooking Ideas

Happy Thanksgiving 2

This scrapbook page is an excellent example of the flexibility you have with Cliptures clipart for creating scrapbook pages. The same turkey image is used here that was used in Happy Thanksgiving 1 but this time the image is enlarged and cropped to fill the corner of the page. The page works well by itself or makes a great complimentary page to the previous idea.

The design uses 2 sheets of layered paper for the background. The Cliptures image is imported into a layout program, scaled and printed on white paper. The large image is cut out from the printed sheet and, along with the photos, positioned on the background. Once everything is positioned, the right and bottom portions of the image are trimmed off at the edge of the background.

Supplies:

- Cliptures: Turkey clipart from Cliptures #16 Occasions 2

- Paper: White for printing layout, brown or orange for background sheet and a light yellow for the inner background sheet.

- Scrapbooking glue or adhesive.

- Craft knife and cutting mat for cutting out images.

- Paper cutter or straight edge ruler for trimming inner layout sheet.

- Decorative edge scrapbook scissors for cutting photo frames.

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

2. Import the turkey from Vol. 16 and scale it to about 5 3/4" tall.

3. Print the layout on white paper. (See Paper Saver tip.)

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

5. Cut the inner background sheet of paper to 7 1/2" by 10", center, and attach to the border background sheet.

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 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 straight edge 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 with scrapbook adhesive.

That's it!