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10 Ways for Scrapbooking with Washi Tape

Washi tape has the versatility of patterned paper and can be used in very similar ways, and yet its functionality as tape and transparent quality makes it an especailly fun supply to use!  Here are 10 interesting ways we've seen our members use this popular product:

By lisafisa

USE IT TO ATTACH SOMETHING. The diagonal orientation of the tape here reminds us of a bulletin board look or an idea saved in a Smash book.  There's no need to add adhesive if you don't wish; the tape does the work for you.

By stacitaylor

Washi tape is used to attach this scalloped fabric piece; the edges hang off the page adding a nice sense of depth.

By missy whidden

CREATE A MOOD. A green polka dot or black chevron tape might not scream Christmas to you, but Missy has paired them with red patterned paper to create a festive feel.  By combining the washi with paper and stamping she has created a whole range of texture on her page.

By michelle hernandez

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ITS TRANSPARENT QUALITY.  One shade of washi tape can create different looks!  Layer pieces or sections on top of each other to create darker patches. Michelle has even layered other designs behind the pink to mute them a bit.  Cool!

By whimsicalnature

LOOP & LAYER IT.  What an eye-catching design!  We love how this member has challenged herself to use her tape stash; check out more fun ways she's used washi from her profile here.

By auntieklm

CREATE A PATCHWORK FRAME.  We love the quilt-like look of this page.  A great way to give your project a homespun feel!

By lydiaink

DIVIDE UP YOUR PAGE.  Lydia has used the most simplest of design elements, the line, in an effective and clever way!  Washi tape serves as dividers for a pie chart, while serving also to give a small dose of extra pattern.

By Melinda Spinks

STITCH OVER IT.  The thinness of our favorite masking tape makes stitching through it a piece of cake.

Project Life lesson by Lisa Truesdell

MAKE A HINGE.  Lisa Truesdell uses washi tape to make a hinge for a tag; beneath a tag there is memorabilia and hidden journaling.  This gives her the ability to squeeze more in on a Project Life spread!

By adogslife13

HAVE FUN WITH IT!  This layout just looks like it was a blast to create, don't you think?  She's not only had fun with different patterns and colors by alternating the styles that come in a washi tape set (a great place to start!), but she's stamped on top of the tape, placed stickers and enamel dots on top all the while balancing her group of photos on the left.

What do you think? How will you use washi tape next?  Browse our selection here while our embellishment sale is still happening!

Focus on Photos: Scrapbooking with Filmstrips

Spring Snapshot by Lexi Bridges

In our digital age, it's not often we handle actual strips of film, but we love to scrapbook with this motif as it represents something we hold very dear to us - our pictures!  Our focus in May is on photos and today we're talking about scrapping with filmstrips.  Here are some inspiring ways we're seeing this icon used and some ideas you can try for yourself.

- CREATE CONTRAST and PLAY WITH COLOR.  The weighty black design of a filmstrip makes the perfect bold contrast against the Springy colors we see in Lexi's page.  Contrast creates interest; experiment with different colors and patterns and have fun!

Proof by jennimoc

- DISPLAY A SERIES OF PHOTOS.  A filmstrip is a perfect solution when you can't narrow down the photos you want to scrap.  Jenni directs the attention of the viewer to one photo in a series by placing a die cut circle over it.

Project Life spread by lorybucaria

FILL IT IN WITH GOODIES.  A column of windows just begs to be filled with not only your photos, but stamping, word stickers and other favorite embellishments.  (We actually see filmstrips used this way in many of the examples in today's post.)  We love how Lory incorporated it in her Project Life spread.

In Spr(i)ng by ankekramer

USE IT AS A BORDER The long rectangular shape naturally makes a great line element on a page.  Ankekramer uses it to anchor her photo and embellishments.

Vacation Diaries by Nancy Damiano

LAYER WITH A FILMSTRIP Nancy splits the strip in half and uses it to bridge the sides of her double-page spread.  She's placed it over top of two larger photos, tucked a miniature photo inside, and finally, layered her title over top of it.

Eyebrow Lift Gene by Jill Sprott

REPEAT IT Why not add another when the first one was so fun?  Jill Sprott uses the design principle of repetition to document her daughter's unique talent; not only is this approach pleasing to the eye, but it gives you more opportunities to play with your supplies as you fill in each "window."

Bring on the Sun by Laura ODonnell

Autumn Bliss by helpmeronda

 SET THE SCENE. Fill in your filmstrip with landscape photos or embellishments depicting the "where" in your story like we see in the card above by Laura ODonnell and the seasonal page by helpmeronda.

Ready to add a filmstrip to your next project?  Browse our hand-picked filmstrip favorites here:

Have you used a filmstrip in a project? We'd love to see!  Have a happy Tuesday, friends.

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See more on our May focus of photos by checking out our May Garden Girl project release and our inspiration board on Pinterest.  Play along with this theme for yourself by using the hashtag #2Peasfocusonphotos on Twitter and Instagram for your chance to win a generous prize pack (details here).  Have fun!

Scrap Mad Men Style

Any Mad Men followers out there?  The popular television drama series set in 1960's New York follows the life of creative director, Don Draper, working for an ad agency off Madison Avenue, as well as the lives of the people in and out of his workplace.  The show's styling and costuming are partly why a few of us here at the Two Peas office enjoy it!  If you like the show too, and are drawn to a retro 60's style, check out these products we have in the store:

Brand new to the store is Basic Grey's Hipster collection.  It combines a masculine color palette with all kinds of fun patterns that have a retro vibe, mixed with playful accents like casette tapes and mustaches.

October Afternoon's 9 to 5 collection looks as though their designers were watching this show while creating it!  And good news - many of these pieces we have on sale right now, some at 50% off.

Here's a look at a mini album Two Peas member jskahn created using this line:

And finally, Glitz Design's Cashmere Dame has bits and pieces you'll love if you enjoy this style.  It too is on sale now.

Check out how Two Peas member Gogo put this collection to work in a mini album here.

That's a wrap for today! Have a great Wednesday. :)

Shape Up Your Scrapbooking: Speech Bubbles

We've been talking about shapes all month; today's topic is an especially fun one - speech bubbles! Here's a look at how we're seeing speech bubbles show up in our scrapbook pages:

Mlepea records a conversation that happened the same week she created her page "Thoughts On." The white bubbles pop against a bold red woodgrain.

Lisa Truesdell tells the story of her 5 year old chatty son while working with the Twine + Ink vellum die cuts. She embellishes each one with a different mix of goodies.  See the video tutorial on how this page came together here.

Jill Sprott journals from her pet's perspective on her layout "There's the Rub."  She's hand-cut a piece of Amy Tangerine paper and ran the speech bubbles through her printer.

Jrench fills a large section of her background with speech bubbles.  On a second piece of paper she's printed her journaling on the shapes, and then cut them out and realigned them onto the original.

Chantalle Mcdaniel records her daughter's voice quite literally on her page "Say What?!" She's filled speech bubbles with the pronunciation of her daughter's vocabulary and then hid a voice recorder behind her photo.  

There are many ways to incorporate speech bubbles on our projects - fussy cut them, stamp them, use premade die cuts or stickers.  Many of them are perfect for card sentiments too!  Here are a few of our favorite speech bubbles; shop our entire selection here.

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Check out our Pinterest board, this month's featured selection and our most recent Garden Girl project release for more on the subject of shapes.  Play along with us this month and tag #shapeupyourscrapbooking on your favorite social media platform for a chance to win big (details here)!

Shape Up Your Scrapbooking: Hexagons

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We've looked at triangles, arrows, geotags and pie charts so far this month.  Next it's hexagons!  Here's a look at how the Peas have been scrapping with this shape:

Small hexagons break away from die-cut patterns cut into long vertical blocks on this page by voneall.

Lisa Dickinson fills hexagon openings with patterned paper while leaving others blank.

The hexagon stickers by Teresa Collins on this page by staceymichu make it easy to build a pattern.

Jill Sprott cuts the shapes in halves and stitches them together on this page about her daughter.

And finally, a grouping of hexagons is pleasing to the eye, but a strand of them is nice too!  Gavinsmum took a simple approach to using the shape on her page "Wanderlust."

Shop hexagons in the store here; you'll find them show up in masks, patterned paper, stickers, tape and more.  Have fun playing with this geometric shape for yourself!

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Check out our Pinterest board, this month's featured selection and our most recent Garden Girl project release for more on the subject of shapes.  Play along with us this month and tag #shapeupyourscrapbooking on your favorite social media platform for a chance to win big (details here)!

Shape Up Your Scrapbooking: Pie Charts

 

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Happy Pi day!  We could not resist presenting pie charts in today's post with it being Pi Day!  Kevin, one of the developrs here at Two Peas, brought in pie for the occasion.  I will be indulging in a slice shortly after the drafting of this post.  Here are some super cool layouts using pie charts!

We love how this trend can illustrate the "data" of our lives.  Madeline has done just that on her layout documenting a day in her son's life.  We love her use of patterned paper and the "key."

Angsandy assembles a pie chart with twine and a circular die cut made up of text.

This icon can help tell the story of how we prioritize and divide up our time.  Christin Drumheller tells the story of how she strives for balance on her page here.

Garden Girl Lynn Ghahary used the answers her sons replied with when she asked them what they were grateful for as the basis for her pie chart construction.

Both Kristina and Janna included pie charts on their layouts for this month's shape-themed project release.  See their pages here and here.

Include pie charts yourself by browsing our selection here.  A few of our favorites:

Check out our Pinterest board, this month's featured selection and our most recent Garden Girl project release for more on the subject of shapes.  Play along with us this month and tag #shapeupyourscrapbooking on your favorite social media platform for a chance to win big (details here)!

Shape Up Your Scrapbooking: Geotags

Geotagging, the process of marking photos and other media with a location, has become very popular with the rise of social media.  Naturally, the trend is not left out of the paper crafting world!  As we look at shapes this month, we could not skip over geotags - we love how this icon tells the 'where we were' part of our stories.  Here's a look at how we're seeing it used in scrapbooking:

Garden Girl Nancy Damiano labels each of her polaroid-framed vacation photos with a geotag and a label of where they visited.  See how this layout came together on video here.

Airport photos and travel-themed embellishments connected to twine are linked from a geotag on this page from margrethe.  The accent shows despite the many places this scrapbooker goes, her journey starts and ends with home in Norway.

A tangerine-orange geotag pops against a grey background on this simple layout by rockermorsan all about her beloved city.

Scrapnyata dots her "i" with a geotag on this layout that features a college campus map.  Clever!

Looking to add geotags to your project?  Browse our selection here!

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Check out our Pinterest board, this month's featured selection and our most recent Garden Girl project release for more on the subject of shapes.  Play along with us this month and tag #shapeupyourscrapbooking on your favorite social media platform for a chance to win big (details here)!

If You Like...

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If you like a neutral color palette and designs that are reminiscent of days gone by, you'll love the versatile Etcetera collection from Fancy Pants.  These black, cream and white elements with an underlying theme of vintage and typography can go right into your supply stash of "basics" you'll reach for again and again.

Browse the Etcetra collection here, and check out all that's new from Fancy Pants here.  Happy weekend! 

Shape Up Your Scrapbooking: Arrows

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This month we're shaping up our scrapbooking!  Let's take a look at one of the hottest icons we're seeing trending in papercrafting, fashion, home decor and more - arrows!

Arrows can help give a sense of movement to our projects, and work as a design element that brings the viewer's focus to a specific point.  Here are a few examples:

Janna's recent In the Mood to Scrap video tutorial is dedicated to arrows.  She uses a variety of them to frame her subject.

The grouping of arrows arranged on this card by Laura Craigie lead your eye to the sentiment.

The arrow lines on this layout by sarahak create spaces to showcase many patterned papers.

The alternating arrows on the background of Lexi's layout here create a sense of rhythm, while the kraft shapes bring attention to the colorful title, Bang!

Looking to add arrows to your projects? Browse our hand-picked arrow favorites here, and browse the entire arrow selection here.

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Check out our Pinterest board, this month's featured selection and our most recent Garden Girl project release for more on the subject of shapes.  Play along with us this month and tag #shapeupyourscrapbooking on your favorite social media platform for a chance to win big (details here)!

If You Like...

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If you like 60's inspired florals and prints, a rainbow of Spring-y colors and trendy arrows, triangles and more, then you'll love the Daphne's Closet collection from Lawn Fawn:

See this collection as well as other new items from Lawn Fawn including stamps and dies here!

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