By Sara Naumann, Hot Off The Press
Layouts designed by LeNae Gerig
Techniques
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for a Dazzling Class!
Rule of Uneven Numbers
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Looking for a dazzling way to add techniques and new
products to your classes—easily? Here’s your answer:
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The Rule of Uneven Numbers applies to just about any craft,
Combine the latest papers with new specialty stickers, mix in from scrapbooking to floral arranging. Simply stated, it advises
five fast and easy designer techniques and you’ve got a recipe using an uneven number of elements on a card or layout…
for a great class! one, three or five accents are the most visually pleasing to the
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eye. Notice the three heart Dazzles™ along the edge of LeNae’s
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eating Page Titles photo? That’s a perfect example!
Page titles are a classic scrapbooking technique—yet they
are not often highlighted in classes. Designer LeNae Gerig Embellishing Dazzles™
created her simple, elegant page title by first placing the
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“Family” Dazzles™ onto her background paper and accenting as is, they get extra dimension when combined with three-
the “I” with a self-adhesive pearl. She attached the “moments” dimensional embellishments. Of her “Family Moments”
Dazzle™ to a narrow piece of patterned paper before placing layout, LeNae says, “Pearl accents just seemed to fit the theme
that below, to form a complete page title. Elegant—and easy! of these beautiful papers and charming Family Dazzles™. There
is no problem keeping the pearls straight when applying them
Teaching Tip: Look at LeNae’s Family Tree to the black Dazzles™ and butterflies, because the stickers
layout for another great example of come on strips of adhesive in rows. They are very easy to
creating a page title— peel off!”
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photo on one The butterflies are cut from patterned paper using the 15
spread (taking Butterflies & Dragonflies Template; the self-adhesive pearls
advantage of the are from Mark Richards. LeNae simply cut out the butterflies,
“Family” printed layered them onto the Dazzles™ flourish and added the pearl
onto the Heritage accents. Easy!
Backgrounds paper
as a subtle page title). She incorporated the same technique on her house Dazzles™,
On the facing page, she first layering them on purple cardstock, then trimming around
incorporated the page the Dazzles™ edge and adding pearls along the roof line.
title into her journaling
block to keep the page An example using Dazzles™ and three-dimensional accents
elements consolidated in combined is shown in her “Family Story” heritage layout. She
the center of the background placed flourish Dazzles™ on the background paper, and then
paper. LeNae’s other tip? highlighted them with sheer flowers. She also placed the clock
“Clip off the “s” to make Dazzles™ on navy cardstock and trimmed around the outside
“Grandparents” singular.” edge, securing them to the page with brads.
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