Designer: LeNae Gerig

Fabric is the latest trend in paper-crafting, from twill accents to fabric stickers. Designer LeNae Gerig used the latest fabric stickers to embellish and journal this heritage layout.

Teaching Techniques:

Peeling fabric stickers from the backing: When working with fabric stickers it’s important to remember the stickers are printed on a woven fabric with a grain and will distort when pulled or stretched from opposite corners. When removing the stickers from the backing, gently peel from the top to bottom or bottom to top, peeling both sides at the same time—not peeling from one corner diagonally to the next. This prevents distortion.

Placing fabric stickers: When placing the sticker on a surface, hold it at the center and carefully place the bottom edge first.

Altering fabric stickers: Achieve a vintage effect by fraying the edges of the fabric stickers. Use your fingers to gently pull a few fibers from the edge of the sticker. The more fibers you remove the longer the frayed edge becomes.

Covering a slide mount with paper: Glue a slide mount to the white side of the patterned paper and trim around the outside edges. Use the X-acto knife to cut an “x” from corner to corner in the center of the slide mount. Fold each of the resulting triangles back, securing them to the backside of the slide mount and trimming any excess.

Supplies:

• patterned Paper Pizazz®: Brown Leather
• patterned Paper Pizazz®: Tan Catalog
• brown and black cardstock: Part not in database (may have been discontinued): #4102
• light ivory cardstock: Part not in database (may have been discontinued): #4101
• The Creative Touch Heritage Fabric Stickers
• The Creative Touch Tag Alphabet Fabric Stickers
• Paper Pizazz® Part not in database (may have been discontinued): #4350
• Cardmaker’s™ Gold & Silver Mini Brads
• Cardmaker’s™ Classic Ribbons
• black ink pad
• X-acto knife and cutting surface
• fine tip black pen
• Mini Zot

Instructions:

1. Cut a 3 1/2” wide strip of Tan Catalog paper. Edge the long side of the left with black ink. Glue the strip of the right side of the Brown Leather background paper.
2. Cover three slide mounts with Tan Catalog paper. Apply black ink to the outer edges of each slide.
3. Cut two 1/2” wide strips of black cardstock and glue them to the top and bottom of the page as shown. Mat the photo on light ivory cardstock, leaving a 1/16” wide border, then on brown cardstock, leaving a 1/8” wide border. Mat again on black cardstock, leaving a 1/16” wide border. Glue the matted photo to the page as shown.
4. Journal onto light ivory cardstock. Mat with black, leaving a 1/8” wide border. Use the X-acto knife to make 2 small cuts at the top of the journaling and insert a brad into each. Place the “Father” and “Mother” tape-style word stickers at the top. Use the black pen to write “&” between the words. Glue the journaling to the page as shown.
5. Glue the slide mounts across the bottom black strip as shown. Place a car sticker inside each slide. Cut the ribbon into four 3” lengths and knot the centers of each length. Glue a knot to each slide with a Mini Zot. Place the number tags to write the date at the top of the black border, using the knife to poke a hole for the brads as before.
6. Fray all 4 sides of the “Keys to the Past” sticker and the bottom edge of the key tags. Adhere the sticker to the page as shown. Glue the remaining knotted ribbon length to the sticker tags as shown.

Teachers: The new fabric stickers offer a whole new dimension for paper crafting, at a terrific value for your students. Each collection includes a variety of themed tags, faux ribbons, definitions and words printed onto real fabric—you get texture and dimension, without losing detail and rich color. These sheets measure 8.5”x11” and retail for $4.99 each.

8”x10” Themed Fabric Stickers

Birthday Stickers
Autumn Stickers
Summer Stickers
Tag Alphabet Stickers
Baby Stickers
Floral Stickers
Alphabet Stickers
Spring Stickers
Heritage Stickers
Gingham Letter Stickers
Winter Stickers
Travel Stickers