A couple recent layouts I've uploaded to Flickr.
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Made these pendant/charms, I guess you could call them temporary jewelry. They're collaged out of paper, then glued between a sandwich of thick plastic laminate. I stitched around them a couple times to make them hardy, but they are in no way permanent or even really water-proof. Attached big jump rings and now I can hook them onto my favorite silver necklace. I can see them as key rings and luggage tags too.
My latest challenge page for Journaling Junkie: Creative ways to hide your journaling. My tip is this: I always attach my photos, papers and mats at the top and bottom only (leaving the sides unattached.) I'm famous (to myself anyway) for forgetting to leave enough room for journaling, so this way I can always slide journaling tags and cards under the layers. On the rare chance that isn't possible, I use an exacto to slice a line right next to the edge of a photo or mat so you can't see it. Then I tape a scrap piece of paper on the back side so it forms a pocket. I can then add the tags/cards into the slit and know they won't just slide through the back. On this layout the center paper mat is only attached top and bottom. It left room to slide an entire letter to my daughter underneath.
You can see this whole collage here. Love taking bits and pieces and putting them together where the whole is greater than the sum of parts. A lot like life, collage.
And a big thank you to my friend Suzanne (she lives just 2 doors down) who sent me two HUGE containers of scrap fabric, zippers, trim and even some yarn. Going to be using a lot of this in the future!
