Thanksgiving Scrapbook Page
Turkey 2
This design is an excellent example of the flexibility you have using Cliptures clipart for creating scrapbook pages. The same turkey image is used on the Turkey 1 page but this time the clipart image is enlarged and cropped to fill the corner of the page. The page works well by itself or as a complimentary page to the previous idea.
The turkey 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 left and bottom portions of the image are trimmed off at the edge of the page.
Supplies:
- Cliptures: Turkey from Cliptures #8 Occasions 1
- Paper: White for printing image, orange for background sheet, and brown for photo frames.
- Acid free scrapbooking glue.
- Craft knife and cutting mat for trimming the image and text.
- Decorative edge scissors for cutting photo frames.
Directions:
1. Start a new document in your layout program.
2. Import the turkey from Vol. 8 and scale it to about 7 1/2" tall.
3. Create the text for the page and color it to compliment 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!