American Crafts & Scor-Pal Scrapbooking Blog Hop
Today brings a little fun from the blog teams at American Crafts and Scor-Pal, with twenty-three brand new projects featuring American Crafts papers and embellishments and folding, scoring and pleating techniques that can be made with the Scor-Pal scoring board. (And a big welcome wave if you’ve just hopped here from Lilith’s blog!)
I am down to my last few sheets of the Campy Trails collection and there is no more where that came from: this line has now done its time and has been replaced by all the brand new lines, but I wanted to share at least one more Campy Trails project before I’ve used every last scrap. But how to include scoring in such a project?
My favourite scoring technique is the rosette or paper pinwheel (something Britta included in this five ideas with scoring post from the archives), but even I couldn’t quite put that together with what I wanted to create with this page. The beauty of a scoring board is that it is super-easy to get perfectly lined up creases so you can fold a box, a card or a design and have it come out just right every time… but what’s a girl to do with a scoring board when she likes to embrace the wonky? She ignores all the directions, basically.
I decided I just wanted to use the scoring board to create texture and dimension rather than something so rigid and parallel. I cut a wide strip of patterned paper and placed it on the board, then moved it this way and that, slightly angled to the right then the left and so forth. I did absolutely no measuring and just scored the lines until they covered the entire length of the strip then folded each one forward and backward to create some sort of folded mess, like if you asked an infant to try fan folding perhaps. And then flattened it all out on the table again, and placed foam squares behind the tallest points. From there on out, I added it to the layout like any other piece of patterned paper, but instead of a flat pattern, it’s covered in haphazard folds- and with the scoring board it took just a minute rather than ages of trying to fold back and forth by hand.
To follow the hop, head on to the next stop with Julie Koerber, who creates gorgeous hand-coloured cards. There are giveaways sprinkled all around the hop, so I hope you can find a minute to make the whole circle for projects and prizes.
Speaking of which – a little American Crafts giveaway for you right here! You know how this date stamp and this camera stamp from the new Dear Lizzy line are selling out so quickly everywhere? I have BOTH of them to give to a reader! To enter, leave a comment on this post. Easy! Entries close next Thursday at midnight UK time, and the winner will be posted on Friday.
Have a beautifully crafty weekend!
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