9/08 Jenny's "Patterned paper is your friend" techniques

I like patterned paper.  There.  I said it.  Sure cardstock is pretty, but come on, now isn’t this fun?!?…

Yikes.  I have a lot of friends who look at my piles of scrappy paper and utter aloud, “ Now what in the world would I do with that?”  I think the problem some people have when looking at busy pp is that they just don’t look close enough.  When I look at a sheet of pp I see what my pink Cutterbee scissors can do with it.  The very first thing I do when I get home from the scrappy store with a bunch of new supplies is to start cutting up my paper.  See that first Sassafras paper above?  I just started cutting into it.  I looked for sections of designs I could cut out while still maintain some orderly shape.  I cut out 2 corners of flowers and mounted them on my base paper.  See here.  Take note of the upper and lower left corners.

 Next I found some more single flowers and cut them out and mounted them on popdots.  Besides my trusty Cutterbees I also NEED a plethora of popdots to add to my patterned paper creations. Like so…

I also cut out one of those cute frames from the second Sass paper.  I cut out the owl that was framed and backed it with a scrap of another Sass paper.  I used that for some of my journaling. To finish it off I used yet another busy Sass scrap and punched the butterflies.

For this next page from my archives,  I used the 3rd Sassafras paper.  Isn’t she lovely?

Insert sass vintage yummy image again

Now, that’s what I call a sheet of paper with endless possibilities.  There are so many cool elements to fussy cut.  The first thing I did was cut out the top set of rainbow rings.  But to clean up the edge I simply took a piece of pp and and pleated it and followed the curve of the  edge of the Sass paper.  Once I had it just the way I wanted it, I stitched it down.  I added a couple more pieces of paper handcut once again and popped up one of them (the frame) with another popdot.  Like so..

For yet a final design element I used another paper and hand cut the branch.  It was facing the wrong direction for my page, so I simply rotated it before I adhered it.  Rather than gluing down each single leaf and branch I only tacked down the main branch leaving the rest to kinda flutter in the breeze.  Like so…

I hope you’ve enjoyed your peek into my mind when I’m playing with my paper and glue.  Now go out and get cutting!

scrappinJen