Hey it’s me Margie Romney-Aslett! I’m so excited to be “guest blogger” today! I have been scrapbooking and papercrafting for close to 22 years. For the past 5 years I was a product designer for Making Memories, and now I am thrilled to be starting an online business with my daughters Megan & Brooke called The Girl’s Loft. One thing I loved about designing product was creating style programs–choosing the look and theme, picking the colors and putting it all together. That’s what we will be doing at the Girl’s Loft gathering our favorite products from all of our favorite companies! It’s going to be fun!
Today I created a layout using some products from our first kit. I have to say . . . I have been scrapping a lot lately and I am loving all the fun products on the market. I have been “getting my hands dirty.” One thing about me, I am a clean hands kinda girl, but with all the great inks, paints and glimmer mist out there, I have been getting dirty!
Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned paper: Dream Street; Border punch: Fiskars Americas; Brocade: Pink Paislee; Letter stickers: American Crafts; Ink: Ranger Industries; Glimmer spray: Tattered Angels; Label: Scenic Route; Other: Buttons, crepe paper and vintage music sheet.
On this layout I created, I used a few of my favorite new techniques. For the first technique, I created the title of my layout “best friends” using stickers to create a mask.
Then I took the Glimmer Mist and sprayed it over the stickers and randomly over the base of my layout. Make sure when you put your stickers down you press hard enough so that the Glimmer Mist won’t seep underneath, but not so hard they don’t pull up!
Once your Glimmer Mist is dried, pull up the stickers carefully. Love the outcome!
The second technique I used was creating a border with crepe paper. Here, I took 24 inches of crepe paper and did a gathering stitch down the middle of the crepe paper, tied it off on both ends and then adhered it to my page.
Ruffle it up then cover the center stitch with a border created with a scrap of printed paper and a Fiskars scallop border punch.
For the last technique, I created flowers using 3 different size circle punches and 3 printed papers. Mix it up, distress the edges, wrinkle the paper up in your hand then ink it. Layer your circles to create flowers.
Some fun tips: Use non-traditional scrapbooking products like vintage music sheets as paper and crepe paper to create a border. Use ric rack edged scissors to trim wallet sized black and white photos to give them a vintage feel.
This layout was fun to create! I hope I was able to inspire you to play and get your hands dirty. For more inspiration and beautifully designed kits join me, Megan and Brooke at The Girl’s Loft, Monday, June 15th. We’ll be previewing the first Girl’s Loft Kit!
Kiss kiss,
Margie
Hi Margie,
GREAT to see you here
Very cute page and getting your hands dirty can be a good thing too, right? Good luck with your new venture, Lady!
XO,
Mou
Margie is the best and enjoyed seeing a peek at the new kit. Of course, I expected it to have pink in it! LOL
Thanks for making her a guest blogger so we can get a peek at the Girls Loft kit.