Hello crafty friends, it's Janna. I have a fun scrapbooking layout tutorial for you today. Before I share my thoughts on today's page, I'd like to remind you to use the code janna10 in the Studio 40 shop for a 10% discount! Now, let's take a look at the scrapbooking page first before diving into the tutorial. 

On the photo is a sign that stood in front of a little shop in Cuxhaven, Germany. It says: "Ich bin gerade etwas neben der Spur. Ist schön da." which means "I am a little off track, it's nice there." My initial thought was, to create an asymmetrical layout, but in the end I decided against it. Instead, I went for an organized, clean look, as this is how I feel sometimes: organized on the outside and chaotic on the inside. Do you know what I mean?!

Now, let me show you how I create the page.

 

I choose a neutral background from the Don't Grow Up collection and cut 2 cm from two sides of a white 12x12" cardstock.
With a circle cutter, I cut a circle (10 cm diameter) into the middle of the cardstock. Then I cut the cardstock in half and trim it to fit onto the patterned background paper.

With the Big Shot and an embossing folder I create a dimensional arrow pattern on the lower half of the cardstock pieces. The pattern fits the Studio Forty stamp I am using later perfectly.

The Essentials doublesided patterned papers are beautiful, but also the floral stickers. I use both to embellish the page. I adhere the stickers onto cardstock and cut them out with scissors. Like this, I can easily add dimensionals beneath the stickers. This will add more depth when applied to the layout.


As you can see on a previous photo, I use double sided adhesive to glue the white cardstock pieces onto the background and dimensionals to adhere the photo. In the next step, I am creating a little cluster on the bottom right, using a black marker to draw little dots onto the paper. I bend the leaves with my fingers for more depth.

I cut out hearts from the Essential mint and pink tabs and decorate the left side of the photo with leaves, flowers, enamel dots, hearts and die cuts.

Hello crafty friends, it's Janna. After last month's scrapbooking layout with round photos, I am back with a cluster page. Before I share my thoughts on today's layout, I'd like to remind you to use the code janna10 in the Studio 40 shop for a 10% discount! Now, let's take a look at the scrapbooking page.

Usually, I lay out the cluster design before glueing the items onto the page. The design of the clusters may change during the process of adhering everything. If you want the arrangement to be exactly the same as the draft you made, you might want to take a picture of the design before adhering.

There are many ways of designing a cluster, I decided to go for a blurred one: sometimes it's hard to tell if a page includes one, two, or more clusters as the different areas on the page correspond or maybe overlap. This is what I like to call the "blurred cluster" design. 

I did this with the bottom cluster on the left and right as well as with the mini cluster below the photo. Each is a seperate cluster, but as they are so close to each other, they become a blurred arrangement.