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Okay, I need suggestions for putting my wedding scrapbook together. We did a Mexican fiesta theme for our wedding. When I first came up with that idea, I didn’t think about the scrapbooking aspect of it. Now I have traditional wedding stickers in one hand and maraca, chili pepper stickers in the other. What’s the best way to combine this? Any ideas would be appreciated.
What a fun way to celebrate your new lives together! I gave this some thought, and you can do this. The fiesta theme would have bold, bright colors while the traditional embellishments are going to be more neutral with gold and silver highlights. The two can blend on a page. The way I’m envisioning this is using the traditional elements as highlights/accents on the pages. The gold/silver elements will work perfectly for this and will fit just about anywhere, even with chili peppers. The traditional stickers can be matted on a neutral piece of cardstock that also blends with the fiesta background. These would be best used on the ceremony pages. For example, the background might be a bright color, with a few of the photos matted with coordinating paper. You might even have strips of chili peppers as a border on the page. Take a traditional sticker or two and mount them on a neutral piece of cardstock that coordinates with the main colors–this will be a nice transition that blends the traditional with the fiesta. You can also do the opposite on a few pages, with the traditional being the primary color theme, and then adding a fiesta themed element matted on coordinating traditional colored paper. Here are a few tricks to try: –Make a tag in either theme colors and attach an accordion folded strip to include a mini photo album on the page. Make a ribbon or hemp string closure or use a velcro dot. These are like little surprises on the page. So it can be viewed without removing the page from its protector, make a window in the protector (cut a hole) where the mini album will be. –For every page or layout, keep your focal theme intact by blending only a few elements of the traditional or fiesta into it. –Mat a few elements and cut around them leaving a bit of a border. Mount these on the page with a PopDot. –Mat other elements as tags and use ribbon or hemp on them as an accent. Mount some with PopDots. –Use glitter glue with a light touch to add some movement and highlights (one of my favorite techniques). –Hemp string as an accent will work nicely with both themes. You can also try using hemp and ribbon together in the same tie. This sounds like so much fun! I hope you share a few of your pages when they are done; I’d love to see them. Lynne N. Scrapbook Advisor/IC #1360
October 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I would say mix the stickers up by putting a traditional wedding sticker then a maraca chili pepper sticker and so on. Alternate them is what I am trying to say. Hope this helps.
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am
What a fun way to celebrate your new lives together! I gave this some thought, and you can do this. The fiesta theme would have bold, bright colors while the traditional embellishments are going to be more neutral with gold and silver highlights. The two can blend on a page.
The way I'm envisioning this is using the traditional elements as highlights/accents on the pages. The gold/silver elements will work perfectly for this and will fit just about anywhere, even with chili peppers. The traditional stickers can be matted on a neutral piece of cardstock that also blends with the fiesta background. These would be best used on the ceremony pages.
For example, the background might be a bright color, with a few of the photos matted with coordinating paper. You might even have strips of chili peppers as a border on the page. Take a traditional sticker or two and mount them on a neutral piece of cardstock that coordinates with the main colors–this will be a nice transition that blends the traditional with the fiesta.
You can also do the opposite on a few pages, with the traditional being the primary color theme, and then adding a fiesta themed element matted on coordinating traditional colored paper.
Here are a few tricks to try:
–Make a tag in either theme colors and attach an accordion folded strip to include a mini photo album on the page. Make a ribbon or hemp string closure or use a velcro dot. These are like little surprises on the page. So it can be viewed without removing the page from its protector, make a window in the protector (cut a hole) where the mini album will be.
–For every page or layout, keep your focal theme intact by blending only a few elements of the traditional or fiesta into it.
–Mat a few elements and cut around them leaving a bit of a border. Mount these on the page with a PopDot.
–Mat other elements as tags and use ribbon or hemp on them as an accent. Mount some with PopDots.
–Use glitter glue with a light touch to add some movement and highlights (one of my favorite techniques).
–Hemp string as an accent will work nicely with both themes. You can also try using hemp and ribbon together in the same tie.
This sounds like so much fun! I hope you share a few of your pages when they are done; I'd love to see them.
Lynne N.
Scrapbook Advisor/IC #1360
References :
http://home.comcast.net/~scraplifesart
http://www.pictureperfectscrapbookco.com
October 7th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Go with the idea of the fiesta colors and make your own wedding embellishments. You can do a lot with computers now for your own colors and stickers. If you need more ideas there are a ton of ideas and those who will help at the
Craftyscrapper http://groups.yahoo.com/group/craftyscrapper2/
I love the site
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October 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Whenever possible, combine the two types of themes! Put your sombrero sticker on your traditional bride diecut! This will tie the two themes together and make the pages more fun to look through!
I'd love to see the finished product :0)
Tracy
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