Hey Scrapbookers! How to Use Dew Drops for Subtle Design Highlights

Hello Crafty friends and welcome to the blog! Shelly with you today, sharing a scrapbook layout that is the companion page to my last post. While my last post used Dew Drops as a design focal point, today’s easy layout uses Dew Drops to add subtle dimension and highlights to the colors in my layout. […]

By Shelly Hein-Simmons

February 19, 2023

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Hello Crafty friends and welcome to the blog!

Shelly with you today, sharing a scrapbook layout that is the companion page to my last post. While my last post used Dew Drops as a design focal point, today’s easy layout uses Dew Drops to add subtle dimension and highlights to the colors in my layout.

This is a pretty simple design – the punch comes from the angle of layout against the patterned paper and the subtle details of stitching and Dew Drops.

Let’s get started!

Supplies:

Original Dew Drops
Mini Dew Drops
Base – 12×12 American Crafts Textured Black Cardstock
Pattern Paper – Paper House Productions (trimmed down to 11×11)
Cardstock Stickers – Paper House Productions
Title: Stampin Up “Alphabet A La Mode” Dies
Journing Font: Albertsthal Typewriter
Photo sizes: (2) photo collage printed on 4×6 and (6) photo collage printed on 4×6 (used 1/2 of (6) photo collage) – photos printed with borders and then matted with black cardstock
Other: Machine Stitching
Clear drying liquid glue (I use Best Glue Ever by ScraPerfect)
Embellie Gellie (to place Dew Drops)

My process:

Print and mat photo collages – set aside
Print journaling on card stock (I print journaling on regular printer paper – then stick a piece of cardstock scrap over the top of that journaling and print again, cut out, ink edges – set aside)
Adhere trimmed patterned paper to black cardstock
Spend 20 minutes (maybe longer) arranging photos and journaling in different configurations – stand up – look – rearrange – repeat!

I decided on placing layout at an angle against the patterned paper paper – it really made the photos and journaling stand out against that busy background.

Once I had the matted photos glued down, I ran some machine stitching along the length of the paper designs – not across the whole page – just in groups of 3 lines.