We're participating in a blog exchange with SRM Stickers this week—you'll see four beautiful projects perfect for Mother's Day designed by four talented members of the SRM Stickers design team, and if you hop on over to the SRM Stickers blog, you'll find some familiar WCS faces over there! If you're new to Write. Click. Scrapbook. this week, welcome! Explore our archives and galleries and be sure to say hello (and visit us often). Please welcome today's guest designer, Amy Heller!
First of all, I just want to say what a pleasure it is to be on Write. Click. Scrapbook. with you today. Thank you so much for letting me share with you. I made a Mother’s Day mini album using SRM Stickers and Basic Grey's new Green at Heart line, with all sorts of ideas for using SRM Stickers on your layouts and mini albums. So let's get started!
1) Piecing Stickers with 3-Dimensional Letters
For the title of my cover I used several pieced stickers to create the title I wanted, interchanging the words with chipboard letters to create a long title that has visual appeal. Sometimes having a long title in all the same font becomes cumbersome to the reader. Breaking a title up visually with varying type and texture adds interest and easier readability.
2) Adding Stickers on Top of Patterned Paper
The great thing about SRM Stickers is that they completely “melt” into your paper. I really love adding these stickers on top of patterned paper because it creates an entirely new element where I probably would not have placed anything for fear of over visually cluttering up the page. They are perfect for just giving a slight added texture without showing the seams of the sticker.
3) Placing Stickers on Top of Photos
This is probably my favorite use of SRM Stickers in my layouts. Talk about adding something to your page! You can add a page title, a simple emotion or additional texture to the page simply by using stickers on top of your photos. I use this technique with nearly every layout I use SRM Stickers on. This is what really knocked my socks off with these stickers—visually it looks like you have printed your verbiage onto your photo! It’s that seamless! The added benefit is that you can run the sentiment off the photo, too! You can’t do that unless you are going entirely digital.
4) Placing Stickers on Top of Several Layers of Paper
One of the styles I use frequently, especially in my cards, is layering papers. Whether it’s cardstock or patterned paper, if you lay an SRM Sticker over the layers and press firmly into the creases, again you get a completely seamless effect. This was so great for me, because I didn’t feel like I needed to change my style in order to fit the stickers—they were going to work no matter how I worked with my paper. I love that!
5) Journaling Tags
I find this all the time. Manufacturers make all kinds of beautiful journaling tags, lined and unlined. And I know there are plenty of scrappers out there who dislike using their own handwriting on their layouts. These stickers offer such a great solution by allowing you to maintain the beauty of the journaling tag behind the sticker without an off-putting white background, or heaven forbid, a mess-up with your own handwriting! In addition, many times I used journaling tags/spots as secondary titles, or call-outs to my layouts. I find that these stickers are my go-to solution for sentiments or emotions. Often times it is for that last journaling tag on my layout that just pulls everything together.
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