Scrapbooking Ideas

Christmas Bears

Here's a fun and easy scrapbook page! The Cliptures clipart is imported into a layout program, positioned and scaled to size. A background color is added to the page. The layout is printed, trimmed, and attached to a background sheet of paper. Text can be added directly in the layout, or, by hand after the page is printed, Frames and photos are added to the page.

Materials:

- Cliptures: Teddy Bears from Cliptures Vol. 44 Teddy Bears 2

- Paper: White for printing layout, green for background sheet, and red for photograph frames.

- Scrapbooking glue or adhesive.

- Straight edge ruler, craft knife, and cutting mat for trimming edges from printed layout.

Directions:
1. Start a new document in your layout program. Change the background color of the layout to a light yellow. (If your program won't let you change the background color of the page, see Adding a Background Color.)

2. Import the teddy bear and ornament image. Scale the image to 2 1/2" tall and position it in the upper left part of the page about 1 1/3" down from the top of the page.

3. Import the teddy bear and lights image. Scale it to 2 1/2" tall and position it in the lower right corner of the page.

4. If you like, you can add text to the layout using the Adding Text technique.

5. Print the layout on white paper.

6. Trim the non-printed edges (1/2") from all 4 sides of the sheet.

7. Center and attach the trimmed sheet onto the background paper with scrapbook adhesive.

8. Cut frames for your photos.

9. Attach the frames and photos to the layout.

That's it!