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Nov 15, 2011

SYC Reveal & Challenge, plus a Chevron Tutorial!

Hi everyone! This is my first challenge as a member of the Design Team at Scrap Your Crap! I hope that you will join in on our challenge this month. For Challenge #59 we had to use 3 different colours of mist. Now, I’m not an expert with glimmer mist, so this took me FOREVER to get right! I created two layouts, I didn’t like the first one enough to use it. I also went through about 5 different tries on my background before I finally created something that I could live with! LOL! Needless to say, I put in a lot of mileage on my mists and I think that I gained some new insights. My number one insight is that I can’t mist a page without having to iron it flat afterwards. I don’t know how people are able to do it and keep it perfectly flat. I misted, let it dry a bit, then I ironed it with a regular iron on a dry heat setting with a sheet of parchment paper over top. It worked like a charm! I’m sure that there a million tricks on how to mist without needing to iron, and I’m equally sure that I wouldn’t be able to do it properly! LOL!

Anyhow, here is my layout. I hope that you will visit Scrap Your Crap and see what the rest of the DT created. They are a talented bunch of ladies! I’m proud to be among them.   Don’t forget to scroll down to the bottom for an easy tutorial on creating a chevron border.

I should also mention that I won most of this paper from Scrapbook Circle through a member of their DT, Nicole Nowosad’s Blog. So, again, thank you Scrapbook Circle and thank you Nicole! I love this kit! It’s fabulous!

 

 

No room for journalling? No problem, hide your journalling under a page element, or in a cute little pocket, like I did here.

 

Pop dots add interest and dimension to a layout.

 

 

Now, down to business … How to create a chevron border

1. Download my FREE chevron template in either PDF or JPG format, whichever you prefer.

2. Trim your cardstock or patterned paper down to about 4 inches X 12 inches. The border template is just a little bit more than 3.5 inches wide.

3. Set your printer to print on a custom paper size, in this case 4 X 12 inches. Every printer is different and there are hundreds of models out there, so I can’t feasibly put instructions up for this part. If you have difficulties find your nearest teenager and set them to work! LOL! They should have you set up in about 2 seconds flat.

4. Open the file and print it onto your paper.

5. Cut along the lines and apply to your layout!

… Now, if this is too technical for you, or your printer just won’t cooperate here are some alternate instructions:

1. Take a scrap piece of cardstock and trim to a 2 inch square. Cut in half along the diagonal to make two triangles. This is your template.

 

 

2. Grab the piece of cardstock that you want to create your border out of. It should be at least 4 inches wide. Flip it over onto the side that you don’t want to see (the bad side).

3. Line up the triangles like this and trace them out. Trace them in the same way all the way to the end of the cardstock. It will look something like this.

 

 

 

4. Turn your triangle templates the other way and trace them again off setting them from the already traced triangles by half. You will start to see the chevron pattern appear.

 

 

5. Cut along your chevron pattern. Do not cut through the centre line! You should end up with something like this:

 

 

I hope this works out for you! Let me know if you love, hate or are simply indifferent about this tutorial!

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