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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Welcome to 3 Scrappy Boys Four & Fabulous Anniversary Hop!
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To celebrate our Anniversary I created a layout with a photo of just my husband and I from our family photos taken last month. It just happened that our photos were taken on our wedding anniversary so I decided to make a page celebrating our 11 years together.



I have the March Main Kit to play with this month, and I was so excited to see the kraft Maya Road die cut tags.  I've seen so many people using similar products to create a unique canvas for journaling.  For my layout, I decided to write down 11 things or reason why I love my husband.  I then typed them up and formatted them to fit on the die cut tags.  Here's a look into my process for printing on tags and die cuts:

Here's where I made my list, and figured out a placement for the tags in a way that I liked the look.



I then typed them all up and formatted them in my word processing software.  I had to run it through a couple times and change my font size and spacing.  I just used my computer monitor as a light box and held the paper and die cut together to make sure everything would fit.



Then I lightly applied some scotch tape across the top and bottom of the die cut tags.  Normally I would only place the tape along the top, but since there were so many tags and the paper was going around a roller in my printer I opted for extra protection against a jam.


And here they are ready for my page.  I did stamp some Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday phrase stamps in white ink on a few of the tags that I felt had some extra empty space to add some more interest to the journaling.

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17 comments:

  1. Great LO! Love the computer as light box tip - Genius!

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  2. So beautiful, thanks for the inspiration !

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  3. Great layout and wonderful quick tutorial on computer journalling. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  4. Your layout is fantastic!! I stopped doing computer journaling years ago because I never get my layouts complete but you are making me rethink that idea. Love your tutorial on it.

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  5. Beautiful layout!
    Congrats on 11yrs!!

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  6. Great idea. Loved your tutorial. I will have to try this sometime.

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  7. Love how you journaled on the tags. Your layout is fabulous! Just hopping along to say hi!

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  8. Just thought I'd hop on over and tell you that I love your LO. I love out did your tags...what a GREAT idea, too. Thanks so much for sharing how to do the tags and for the inspiration. Now to hop some more. . . Oh, and Michele Kociesk sent me (I hope I spelled her last name correctly)

    Kathy
    UpintheNightwithKat.blogspot.com

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  9. What a pretty page and sweet pic. Love the journaling tags.

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  10. Love how you printed on the journaling tags!!

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  11. Great idea for journaling! Nice page!

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  12. Great journal tags! Awesome picture!

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  13. Fantastic layout - just wondering - which stamps did you use - Ali has quite a few.

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    1. Deborah - I used: A Date with Ali on the date inside the polaroid; i "Heart" you is from Smooch, "celebrate this life" is from Favorite Memories; there is no doubt came from Loving Words; and "love" and "you" are both from Good Day. I hope that helps!

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  14. Great layout and love the journal tags! So cute! :)

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  15. Reallygood information on printing on the tags. Great layout!

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