Wedding Scrapbook Page - Hearts & Posies

My husband and I were married in a big red barn on a cool rainy day in August of 2010. Despite my countless hours of crafting since then, I have yet to create my wedding scrapbook. My photos were taken by the talented duo at Treehouse Photography and they are something that I will always treasure.

While I had my Hearts & Posies stamp set out for last weeks post, I decided to finally start my Wedding Scrapbook. 
 

Supplies Needed:

• Stampin' Up Hearts & Posies Stamp Set
• Stampin' Up Loving Hearts Stamp Set
• Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Sizzix Dearly Frost Embossing Folders
• Stampin' Up Embossing Powder - White
• Stampin' Up Designer Series Paper - Love Impressions
• DCWV Foiled Elegance Stack
• Stampin' Write Markers
• Darice 8 1/2" x 11" Botanical Cardstock
• Dry Adhesive - I used 1/4" Wonder Tape
• Fiskers Rounded Corner Punch
• Stampin' Up Striped Grosgrain / Satin Ribbon in Pretty In Pink 
• Stampin' Up Dimensionals
• Embossing Heat Gun
• Scissors & Paper Cutter
• Exacto Knife 

Directions: 

• Use a piece of the plain Kraft Paper from the DCWV Foiled Elegance Stack as a base to create a 12" x 12" scrapbook page. 
• Cut a piece of decorative cardstock/paper to 6" x 12". I used a piece of light pink embossed paper from the Stampin' Up Designer Series Paper - Love Impressions. (I saved the cute "All You Need is Love" half for a future project.
• Attach decorative paper to your base page using adhesive of your choice.
  I used 1/4" Wonder Tape.
• Cut a piece of coordinating ribbon to approximately 13 1/2". Lay the ribbon across the seam where the two papers meet - you'll need to have enough excess to adhere the ribbon to the back of the page. I used a scrap of a 5/8" Striped Grosgrain, but the following ribbons would also look cute.... 5/8" Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon, Kaisercraft Lace Pack in Natural, Hero Arts in Pink.
• You now have your base page completed - time to pick out some photos. I chose three related wedding photos - all taken while my husband and I were sitting on a fence with a rainbow in the background after the storm had passed. (Rainbows on your wedding day are lucky, right?)
• Create mats for your photos. My photos were all 4" x 6", so I cut my mats to be 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" to give a uniform 1/8" border around my photos. I made two mats from a page of Kraft Paper from the DCWV Foiled Elegance Stack and one mat from Darice Botanical Cardstock. I rounded the edges on my mats and photos using a Fiskars Corner Rounder Punch, but that is just a matter of preference. Spend some time moving your photos around the page to find the placement that you like best. As you can see, I decided to move the picture of our feet to the bottom of the page because it is more logical and flows better.

• Using the same techniques as shown in the Valentine's Day Card with Detachable Heart Magnet Post, I created an embossed heart frame. I embossed a piece of pink paper from the Darice Botanical Cardstock pack using the Sizzix Dearly Frost Embossing Folders, glued it to the heart frame, and trimmed around the edge. 
• For my other page embellishment, I stamped and embossed the four square stamp from Stampin' Ups Loving Hearts Stamp Set using a Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad and Stampin' Ups Embossing Powder - White. You can see from the photo that I had to do this twice because I didn't ink my stamp evenly the first time. After the embossing was finished I trimmed the paper down to a square shape.

•  I used a Stampin' Write Marker in Creamy Carmel to color the large heart stamp from the Loving Hearts Stamp Set and stamped it on a piece of white scrap paper. I cut out the heart shape and attached it to the center of the four squares using Dimensionals. 

And there you have it, a very simple but cute page for my wedding scrapbook. (Did you notice the rainbow?) I will be adding more pages throughout 2013, so check out the tag "Wedding Scrapbook" to see all posts.