layout instructions for 7 going on 17 by Lesley Cooper

Instructions for You – 7 going on 17!

You will need

1 x 4×6 photo (horizontal) and 2 x 4×3 photos (portrait)

Core Colour cardstock – Gibraltar

Core Colour cardstock – Reflecting Pool

s.e.i – Oasis Alphabet stickers
Making Memories – Tiny Alpha stickers

Collage Press – Jackson Lodge Journaling Cards

Amy Butler – Die-Cut Cardstock Ephemera

Amy Butler – Lotus Faded China – Full Moon

Amy Butler – Lotus Tea Box – Tree Peony Flat Paper

Lotus Tea Box – 12 x12 Embossed Butterflies Die-Cut Paper

Take the Gibraltar cardstock for your background.

Trim the photos so they form a 4×12 strip across your cardstock. Take the Reflecting Pool cardstock and cut a little higher than your strip of photos to allow a thin border around the photos. Adhere photos.

Cut a piece of the Full Moon patterned about 3 cm taller than the Reflecting Pool strip. Adhere your matted photo strip onto this to leave an even border above and below. Mount this onto your background cardstock.

Adhere your title using the SEI stickers. Outline with black pen and then remove and restick the alphas slightly out of line with the letter outline.

Add subtitle / journaling with the tiny alpha stickers.

Use Amy Buttler ephemera and butterflies and the journaling cards to embellish.

Note – distress and ink edges as desired.