Rosemary Merry shares her craft tips

Craft Day is coming up on Sunday 3rd May and to get you in the mood Rosemary Merry (left) has put together a couple of craft projects for you to try at home.

Catch her on Craft Day this Sunday at 8pm in Scrapbooking with Rosemary Merry.

To create the page you see here (right) I used a Christmas-themed craft collection - 585966.

First I trimmed 2cm from two sides of the blue snowflake paper and adhered it to the mottled lilac sheet.

I stuck down a number of the pre-cut squares of decorative paper, intentionally not making them straight, and adhered some of the vellum word stickers randomly to a number of the squares.

I used the same mottled lilac paper for my photo mat as I used for my main background.

Once I had attached my photo I used die-cut letters and stickers for my title, and ribbon and chipboard pieces to give some dimension and texture.

For this scrapbook page (left) I used a set of floral papers - 586791.

I cut 2cm from two sides of pale green wash paper and attached it centrally over a 30.5cm x 30.5cm (12" x 12") sheet of muted yellow flower paper.

I cut a rectangle of muted yellow flower paper and attached it to the bottom centre of the page and then cut a square of blue flower paper and adhered that to the top right hand of the page.

For the photo block, I attached a square of muted yellow flower paper over the blue flower square and a slightly smaller piece of green wash paper over that.

I also attached a strip of plain lime green paper to lift the page to the left of my main photo block. For my journalling I cut a piece of the floral lined paper and stuck it to the top left corner.

To finish, after attaching the photos, I cut some flowers from the papers, adhered them and used chipboard self-adhesive thickers from American Crafts for my title.

As I went along I ran a brown inkpad around all the edges of my pieces, including the main background piece, to give a distressed look.

See Rosemerry Merry on Craft Day (Sunday 3rd May) at 8pm and 11pm.

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Comments

[jenny cook]

Thanks for the inspiration Rosemary, I was not at all sure what to do with all those tiny squares of paper that come in the kit. I have just started collecting all the old family photo's of christmas to fill the large album. This is a treat to myself over the summer holidays when I have more time to craft.