Family frame: a hybrid tutorial

Today, I am shar­ing a tuto­r­ial over at the Mouse, Paper, Lovely blog. This is a very cool blog of Jes­sica Sprague’ that fea­tures all things hybrid, and they have free­bies and tuto­ri­als every week! Our cre­ative team is amaz­ing and you will find end­less inspi­ra­tion there…

This is the first time I have ever done a tuto­r­ial like this, so let me know if it works for you

For my tuto­r­ial, I chose to make a hybrid lay­out. Most of my scrap­book­ing lay­outs get pre­served in albums. Once in a while though, I like to make some­thing extra spe­cial, and frame it for dis­play, just so that I get to enjoy it that much more!

This hybrid lay­out  mea­sures 8.5 by 11 inches. Since I wanted to use so many dif­fer­ent sized tags in this lay­out, I started it dig­i­tally to make sure every­thing was aligned per­fectly. I also used these brand new, amaz­ing over­lays by Jodie Lee (that will be avail­able on May 30) to cre­ate an extra layer of depth on this lay­out. After choos­ing all my papers and tags, this is how my dig­i­tal lay­out looked,

While print­ing, I split the lay­out into two dif­fer­ent groups, one as the inner rec­tan­gle that con­tained all the tags and one as just the back­ground. This is how I printed them out,

(for this, you might want to save your file first, and open a copy of the file, and sim­ply close the eye of the lay­ers you dont want and hit print)

Once every­thing was printed out, I was now ready to embell­ish the lay­out. The fun part

I trimmed out my rec­tan­gle with the tags. You could use a scal­loped or any dec­o­ra­tive scis­sors here if you wanted, I chose to keep it sim­ple and used straight scis­sors. To embroi­der the heart around the word “love”, I used a paper piecer to make equally spaced holes. Embroi­der­ing paper is much eas­ier if you use a paper piercer on it first.

Since I had only white floss at home, after embroi­der­ing, I col­ored the floss using an ink pad and cot­ton swab. Just dip the cot­ton swab in the ink pad, and then lightly rub it on the stitches. You may not get the color you want at first, but give the ink a few sec­onds to dry and then go back a sec­ond time and recolor the stitches. I later used some Sharpie mark­ers on the inked stitches too, just to add another layer of color depth. I am not a great stam­per and don’t own any Copic mark­ers, but I am pretty sure those would work here as well.

I then added some but­tons, a flower (which you can see bet­ter in the next cou­ple of pho­tos) and some hand­writ­ten jour­nal­ing to the layout.

Once I was sat­is­fied with the lay­out, I adhered it to the back­ground paper using lots of foam tape to give a nice depth,

I fussy cut a flower, and adhered that with more foam tape here,

And added some buttons,

And this is how it looks all framed up,

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