Waterfall Trip Scrapbook Layout

Hi there! Today I'd like to share a scrapbooking layout that I did recently.

But first, I'd like to thank all of your for your fabulous hugs, well-wishes, support, love, and encouragement yesterday. I truly appreciate it!

For this scrapbook layout, I was inspired by Tiffany's Dad Card to use a circular photo along with the Three Ferns stamp. And I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's "Thinking Inking" class on the Two Peas Education message board to stamp with Distress Inks.

My Waterfall Trip Scrapbook Layout:
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To make this layout, I knew I wanted to cover a piece of white cardstock with the Dots and Flowers stamp. I learned from Hero Arts that you can microwave your wood mounted stamp for 10 seconds, peel the stamp off, and then reposition it to make it easier to line it up time after time.

I thought this would help me with this project, so, for the first time ever, I microwaved a stamp. Since it is such a large stamp, it had to microwave it twice, 10 seconds each, before I could peel it up. But then I peeled it up and repositioned it so it lines up with two sides of the block. It was so easy to do, and I'm so glad I did it!

After I repositioned the stamp, I stamped a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock using the Dots and Flowers with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I was so much more successful in lining it up so the pattern repeats nicely because I had repositioned the stamp.

When the ink was dry, I turned the white paper over. I used a ruler and pencil to mark a line 1/4" in from each side. Then I used a very old scrapbooking template to trace a bracket shape along each line. Where the corners met, I sketched in a curve. Then I cut out along the lines I drew, to make a "label shape" for my layout.

Next I printed out my photo as a 6" circle and cut it out. I took it into my kitchen and found a bowl that had a rim that was just a bit smaller. I took the picture and moved it around on the page until I had it where I wanted it. Then I replace the photo with the bowl (upside down) and traced around the rim with a pencil. This pencil guideline helped me to position the rest of the stamps out and around the circle.

First I took the Three Ferns stamp and inked it with Tea Dye Distress Ink. As Jennifer showed in one of her Thinking Inking videos, I added a bit of Worn Lipstick Distress Ink (pink), just on the tips of some of the leaves. Then I stamped the Three Ferns around my circle repeating this process.

Second I stamped the Leaf Flourish image using Peeled Paint Distress Ink (green) all around the circle. Third I stamped two leaf images from the Branches set in Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to finish the design around the circle. I really like how this layering turned out.

I set the white cardstock with the Distress Ink stamping aside to dry. Meanwhile, I took a shipping tag and rubbed Antique Linen, Tea Dye, and Worn Lipstick inks onto it. I put it on my non-stick craft sheet and used a blending tool to rub ink from the sheet onto the tag in a circular motion, to keep the ink soft and to prevent splotches or dark patches. This is another technique Jennifer showed in her videos.

After the tag dried, I ran it through my Cuttlebug using a Curved Rectangle Nestie shape to die-cut and emboss it. I used a paint brush and water to create water droplets on the tag, which has the effect of lightening it or lifting the color, as shown by Jennifer in one of the videos. I dried the tag using a heat gun. Then I used Peeled Paint ink on a blending tool to ink just the edges of the die-cut shape and let this dry.

When the tag dried again, I stamped the sentiment on it, using VersaMark watermark ink. I covered it with white embossing powder, shook off the excess, and heat embossed it.

Next I selected a shimmery copper metallic cardstock with texture to be the base of my layout. I adhered the white Distress-Ink-stamped piece on top. Then I adhered the photo over my pencil circle (the pencil does not show). I attached the sentiment using pop dots for dimension. Finally, I hand wrote "Waterfalls Trip - May 2008" around the top edge of the photo.

I am so very pleased with how this layout turned out! Thanks Tiffany and Jennifer for the inspiration!

Materials used:

• cardstock: plain white


• Die Cuts with a View (DCWV) 12"x12" Metallic Stack (copper textured background paper)


• Hero Arts LL234 AI: Branches


• Hero Arts AR135 Archiver's Exclusive Flourish Branch set similar to F5042 Leaf Flourish


• Hero Arts CL267 Card Messages (sentiment)


• Hero Arts S5213 Dots and Flowers


• old, unknown scrapbooking template


• paintbrush and water


• pencil


• photo cut to 6" round


• Plaid All Night Media Pop Dots (1/8" thick)


• Ranger Distress Inks: Antique Linen (pale brown), Tea Dye (middle brown), Peeled Paint (green), and Worn Lipstick (pink)


• Ranger Embossing Powder: Seafoam White


• Ranger Inkssentials Blending Tool and Foam


• Ranger Inkssentials Heat-It Craft Tool (heat gun)


• Ranger Inkssentials Non-Stick Craft Sheet


• ruler


• scissors


• Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Permanent Marker: Brown


• shipping tag (sentiment)


• Tsukineko VersaMark watermark ink

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