* * American Crafts Daydreams * *
The trick is to look beyond their original purpose of being ‘just’ cards and envelopes and look at how they can be used as embellishments on your layouts.
Firstly… you can use the envelope as a means to store some memorablia on your page. This is particularly helpful when you want to keep several paper items from an event but you have not got room to scrap them all on your page.
I scrapped my friend’s recent (and beautiful) wedding. (She had a photobooth, which as scrappers we obviously totally adored, but that is a story for another day!) I wanted the photobooth strip to be the focus picture for the layout but I also wanted to save the invitations for the wedding day itself. So I used one of the envelopes to create a pocket as part of my page and inside his envelope I slipped in the invitations. This way the details of the day will stay safe, they will stay with the layout and I know that I will love looking back on the invites in years to come.
I also used one of the card fronts as part of my title. This ‘smile’ card was a portrait card that I laid flat and scrapped as if it was a seperate journalling card or patterned paper/cardstock.
I also used one of my all time favourite thickers font, these fabric ‘patchwork’ thickers in aqua are a great colour match for the Daydreams range. I then jazzed them up a bit with a few bits of bling. (FYI: only £1 for a sheet of gems.. such great value & they will last for ages!)
Again for this layout I used a card front design as part of my title work but this time I also used the card for my journalling. The full sized card didn’t quite work with my layout but that was easy to fix by chopping the card in half. I added my journalling inside using my all time favourite pen (American Crafts Precision Pen… 0.3) and the outlining was done with a white pen (Ranger Inkessentials)
And then… after three layouts completed. I still have 9 cards and envelopes left for future layouts… or I could use them to write to my friends…. or my mum…. or anyone really.