Not Going Out Out | Jackie Ashton | Hand Made Embellishments

Hi Crafters, Jackie here, with my take on this month theme - handmade products.

So for this month I did a selection of tags that I plan to use on my layouts.  

I started by die cutting several sizes of  tags, circles, labels etc from patterned paper, and stamped some sentiments onto some of these shapes.    I mainly used a 6x6 pad and scraps I had from this collection.

Then I just randomly assembled the tags in various sizes and adding a few additional embellishments to each.

Some of the tags are specific to a photograph I know I have, but the majority of them are just random ones I will use on my layouts.

Not Going Out ... Out

This is 9x12 size layout, so I printed my photographs slightly smaller than the normal 3 x 4 size as I wanted a small gap between each photo across the page.

The story behind the photographs is how we went out on Thursday nights to ‘Clap for the NHS’ and also to socialise with my neighbours, but at the same time adhere to the Social Distance guidelines of being 2m apart.  So even though we was outside, we wasn’t actually going out out.  To be honest, during lockdown it was a lifesaver for me, knowing that each week I had something to look forward to for an hour or so and with the adding benefit of being able to socialise with others.

So to put my page together, I choose 3 tag from my hand made embellishments.

Cutting the background paper down to 9x12, I added two layers of patterned paper across the middle, leaving a small border showing of each patterned paper, and added a punched border to the bottom edge.

I added the largest tag to the lower section of the page and used the other two as at the top potion of the page.

After sticking all the tags into place, I added a few more embellishments around these clusters to bring the whole pages together, using stickers, prespextives, chipboard shapes, enamal dots.  

I backed the prespextives with patterned paper and used two alphas for my title.

Having the tags pre-assembled helped this layout come together quickly.  The tags I'd made  were simple in design and allowed me to add more embellishments to them, once they were on my layout.

Why don’t you give making a few tags a go and add them to your next couple of layouts, I must admit I got carried away and now have several collections with hand-made tags ready to go on my next layouts.

Don’t forget to share your layouts over in our Facebook group, we would love to see them especially if you have had a go at making some of your own hand-made embellishments to use of your layouts.

Till next time

Happy scrapping