Multipurpose Spring Stickers

But, first, let's see how we make our scrapbooks spring to life with stickers from andrea grossman, from mrs. Grossman's paper company. She's here to show us these wonderful spring-themed wedding albums. Welcome, andrea. Thank you. Well, you have something that i-- i'm just learning about them today, and i am in love with this idea of graduated pages. They're a lot of fun. Here is the example that we're gonna make today. Yes, this is it. Okay, and it's called "graduated" because-- because the pages are different lengths, different heights, so that you have this whole beautiful spread, and then each page has its own individuality. I see, it's graduation, so, here is the first page. Is this what you're calling "page one" ? We call this page one. Okay, and page two-- two, and page three. And, oh, even the backs are beautiful. I just can't wait to learn how to do this. Well, it's so simple. Would you like to know how ? I would like to know, how would we start ? Easy, first of all, you get your photographs out, and you choose the colors from your photograph, before you ever get your favorite color of paper out. On this particular sequence of photographs, i thought the pink and the soft lavender and the soft green were appropriate, so i chose those three colors. Now, i'm going to start by cutting my pages and decorating them. Now, when you use this technique, you'd think you start with page one, but, no, you start with page three because page three is going to have your largest element on it. And then you'll be cutting away from that element to add the elements in front. If you start in front, you'd start covering things up, and you'd just have to figure out what to do at the end. Oh, you might end up at the end, and you wouldn't have a page big enough. Yes, we're gonna have a happy ending this way. That's the sorta thing i would do too. So we'll start with page three-- so we're gonna start with page three, and we're just gonna decorate it very simply with this beautiful florentine laser-cut sticker, this is the paper whispers, i love these stickers. They look so dainty, but, you know, they're very tough. So we just put it down, take a little minute to get it centered and looking good on the page, it looks beautiful already. I know, look at that ! Oof, i love it, i love it, i love it, you pretty, little thing. Now, that's pretty, but i think it would be even better if i chose one of these soft colors to accent it, to give another color to the page, so i'm gonna choose one of these pink slivers. Now, are they called "slivers" ? That's 'cause, look at them, they are slivers. Oh, that's a great name. Isn't that great ? Yep, very descriptive. So they don't make a lot of commotion, but they're very beautiful. So i'm just gonna place that under, so i have a little bit of green showing. And i'm just gonna very carefully run that across the page, so it's like a nice, little border ? Isn't that lovely ? Oh, that's wonderful. And then i can cut off any excess from the back. So, now that, you did that page three ? So that's page three, now, to make page two, i want to see exactly where i want that page to fall, so i put the edge of the page up against here. I want a little green to show, so i'm gonna measure from here to here, and then cut page two in my paper trimmer to that size, and then i'll decorate page two-- now, here's page three, and two, and even one. Right, and this is page two, where we just again put that very soft paper, keeping our color scheme going. And we decorated the top of the page with stickers coming off the page, so that when they lay-- but now how do you keep this from sticking to this beautiful thing on the back ? Well, like this. We have mirror image in our mind, you know ? Oh, you know, that's right. I've used them for, like, hanging elements, but it never occurred to me that you could decorate the fronts and the backs of the pages. We have to because when it's in the book, you want it to look beautiful from the back too. Oh, that's great. And we do have the mirror images, so you can actually do that very simply. Now, i noticed that on page one, well, i'll go back to here, to this finished one, page one, you have this wonderful label in the bottom, now, is this also a sticker ? That certainly is, but it's backed by some of the green paper from page three. See how we're keeping our color scheme ? So we've cut a small piece of paper from page three, of that stock, and put one of our beautiful paper whisper labels over it, like so, and i finished it with a little rose from the same sheet with the other roses on them. And that's our title, the date of the wedding. I see, and that's where you've, like, journaled inside ? Oh, it's absolutely gorgeous. So, page one, let's see page one over here. Now you can see the whole sequence, and, again, we very carefully measure and cut by the way we want page one to look on top of page two... It is so beautiful. ... And page three. And i noticed on this one that you even cut the page protector, so that you don't have the extra plastic up here. This is beautiful. Now, this is for a spring-themed wedding, but i noticed that you've done the graduation pages over here from the side, and then look at this, i love this wonderful journal, from a vacation to greece. Is this not the coolest thing ? Look at this. It's so wonderful. Oh, andrea, i just can't thank you enough. I am excited to go home and try this.