Step-by-Step: Silly Christmas

I discovered chipboard not long after it hit the scrapbooking market and I was instantly hooked! It is so versatile and can be used on almost any style of layout, from simple to shabby and anywhere in between.

On my layout "A Very Silly Christmas," I used chipboard letters from Making Memories and Heidi Swapp. The Heidi Swapp letter was a peach color that didn't match my layout, so I sanded it and colored it with a green glitter Gelly Roll pen by Sakura. I used the same pen to color the Making Memories letters. A strip of chipboard across the top of my layout served as a base to attach my fibers. I painted the strip with red acrylic paint. You could use red cardstock, but the chipboard is sturdier and less likely to tear when you tie on the fibers.

This layout is easy to re-create using these supplies and following these easy steps.

Supply list:

• 12" x 12" sheet of fawn or natural cardstock (1)
• 1" strips of green cardstock (2)
• 3/4" strips of red cardstock (2)
• ½" strip of chipboard (1)
• strips of Flair Designs patterned paper - 1" x 12" and 3" x 12"
• 4¼" x 6 ¼" photo mat (1)
• FiberScraps fiber (Tintz-Moss)
• Making Memories tag
• Flair Designs cardstock stickers
• Li'l Davis rub-ons
• Heidi Swapp chipboard letter "S"
• Making Memories gameboard alphas "I", "L", "L", "Y"
• Arctic Frog letter stickers
• American Crafts brads
• Ranger ink (sepia)
• Red acrylic paint
• Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pen (green)
• sewing machine

*To prep for this layout, use the Ranger sepia ink to ink all edges of the papers. Paint the chipboard strip red and use your Sakura pen to color the MM chipboard letters. Sand the Heidi Swapp letter and then color it using the same pen.

1. Start with a sheet of 12" x 12" fawn cardstock. Add 2 strips of green cardstock, followed by 2 strips of red cardstock.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Add small strips of patterned paper across the top of the layout and a wider strip across the bottom.
   
   
3. Tie fibers around the strip of red chipboard and attach it over the patterned paper at the top.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Mat vertical photo and add it to the layout, followed by the two horizontal photos.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Add brads to "JOY" tag stickers and attach them.
   
   
6. Tie fiber through the shipping tag and add it to the left side of your layout. Add rub-on "A" and handwrite "very". Add your chipboard letters and finish off your title with sticker letters.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Add machine stitching in red across the top and bottom of the layout as your final step.