Week 5: Stripping

Scrapbook Soup airs on PBS and has several seasons available on DVD as well as a few instructional videos on youtube. One show explains how to finish a page in about 30 minutes using a technique called photo strips.

The idea is to view a 12 x 12 layout with a large 4 x6 grid - either vertical or horizontal. By starting at the edge of your page, place photos until the page is covered.  Marking the grid isn't required.  Scrap paper or washi tape may be used to fill in any open spaces.  Or they can be used for titles, text, or embellishments.

 I used a photo strip in the lower half and Mosaic Moments to complete the upper half.

Here are some close ups of the embellishments used in this layout.
An epoxy sticker,
a Creative Memories (CM) sticker strip,
and CM letters on a stamped image of piano keys fill the last two inches
of middle photo which was a 4 x4.

Embossed stamp image cut from blue paper used as an embellishment.

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This page uses the horizontal photo strips for the entire page and one section is left for a journal.

I punched out the restaurant's logo from their napkin holder, inked the edges and matted it.  Using pop dots, I placed it over the spoon and the green washi tape.  The utensils in the layout were stamped on scrap paper, cut out then inked along the edges before being added as embellishments.




I noticed this Kiwi Lane Design layout uses a vertical photo strip with a different approach.  Looks like it could be a fast layout to recreate with the right mix of patterned paper.

More about this layout can be found at Geocaching