on assignment
write all about it Jump-start your layout by thinking about what you get out of scrapbooking. Make your page personal with a photo of yourself
Leah’s assignment
scrap happy
Create a page about why you love to scrapbook.
Share the reasons you love scrapbooking.
issues a challenge and shares reader
interpretations in each issue.
Contributing editor Leah Fung
along with handwritten journaling.
SOURCES Patterned paper: My Mind’s Eye (circles); Collage Press (ledger);
Prima Marketing, Inc. (green). Stickers: Martha Stewart Crafts. Chipboard letters:
BasicGrey. Die cuts: Making Memories (black labels), Creative Imaginations
(labels behind title). Pin: Making Memories. Pen: Creative Memories. Design: Lisa Kisch.
pierce it
Use a paper
piercer
to make
holes for
straight pins.
It’s much
easier than
sticking the
pin straight
through the
paper, and
it’s safer
for your
fingertips.
add definition
stay in line
Don’t have time to
If you plan
dye or paint raw
to do a lot of
chipboard letters?
handwritten
Draw around
journaling, select
the edges with
lined ledger
a pen for quick
paper to keep
definition.
