Charming

This week's sketch challenge at Scrapbook Steals inspired me to break out a photo of my youngest.  He loves climbing and playing and doesn't mind humoring mom while I snap pictures.  The papers I used were from the Collectable series by My Mind's Eye.  I love the bold primary colors and patterns that are perfect for my boy pages. 

I decided to use kraft paper for my background, but wanted the green polka dot paper to serve as a border.  Since I hate the thought of wasting paper, I couldn't bear the thought of covering up perfectly good paper by layering, so I created a frame from the green paper.  I used my paper trimmer to cut the center out of the green paper and I stored the center piece away for another project.  I took my green "frame" and layered it right on top of a piece of 12x12 kraft cardstock.  To add some stability and to anchor the frame to the background paper, I used my sewing machine to stitch a small zig zag stitch all around the edges. 

Another "new to me" technique involves the cork photo corners.  I started with a piece of adhesive backed cork paper from my local Michael's.  I used my square punch to cut two one inch squares from the cork material.  Cutting the squares in half left me with four triangle shapes.  I trimmed away the centers of the triangles to make my own adhesive photo corners.  Cork adds amazing texture and the fact that it was already adhesive made it that much better!  Now I need to look for some new punches or die cut shapes to make more fun cork embellishments.  Thanks for stopping by!