Scrapbooking Ideas
Trend : Doodling
by Sara Naumann
Check out any scrapbooking magazine and you’ll
see—doodling is one of the hottest trends
around. Can’t draw? Don’t worry!
Hate your handwriting? No big deal! Designer
LeNae Gerig shares her doodled-on album page,
along with tips and tricks for this hot trend.
Alexis & Emma
LeNae Gerig |
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LeNae’s Doodling Tips:
• Start with a simple design
• Practice until the doodling is smooth and flowing
• Use fine point pens
• Doodle with dark ink on light papers and white or metallic on dark papers
• To make doodling look continuous, stop when you come to obstacles like
borders, then continue again on the other side
• Doodle onto solid or faux-texture papers, not heavily patterned ones
• Add doodling at page corners or around the corners of a photo for an instant
accent or frame |
Supplies:
Paper Pizazz® 8"x8" Vintage
Papers for papers and cut-outs
Cardmaker’s™ Citrus Ribbons
Sakura Microperm .03 black pen
foam tape
stapler and staples
Instructions:
1. Cut a 5 3/4” x 6 1/4” rectangle
of brown and teal striped paper; glue even
with the right side of the textured tan background
paper. Mat the photo on textured dark brown
paper. Glue the photo in the center on the
page.
2. Glue the aqua dot border cut-out across
the bottom of the photo. Attach the circle
cut-out to the border with foam tape.
3. Cut teal grosgrain ribbon into two 2” lengths;
fold each in half. Staple a folded ribbon piece
to either side of the circle cut-out.
4. Glue the “smile” cut-out at
the top right corner of the striped photo mat;
attach the “laughter” cut-out on
the right edge of the striped photo mat.
5. For the doodling: Add a flowing, looping
doodle along the top right corner of the page,
on the textured tan background paper. Accent
the doodle with small dots and circles. Repeat
on the left-hand side of the photo, along the
left corner and by the dot border. Journal
in the bottom right corner.
LeNae’s final tip: “Practice makes
perfect—and you may be practicing doodling
without knowing it! Next time you’re
in a meeting or on hold, notice the loops and
swirls you doodle—then use them on your
next project.”
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Give credit where credit is due, do not replicate for contests or take credit
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