paper folding

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This is my mom and dad celebrating their first Easter as a married couple in 1966. They were pregnant with me and spent the day with family in Pennsylvania. In this shot they had just finished dinner at Nana and Papa’s house. I love their sweet faces.

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Several years ago I made a layout using a folding technique taken from a Cathedral Window quilt design. The page is called “The Lord God made them all,” and I loved it enough that I decided to scraplift myself for this one. I wanted to let the folded design steal the show, so I kept the rest simple—just a stamped title and a tiny blue butterfly. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Spring Bloom stack.

We all have certain techniques that especially catch our eye when they’re used on a layout, and for me paper folding is one of them.

I seem unable to pass up a closer look at a page with folds! So to add a little extra dimension and personality to my page I incorporated a faux quilting folding technique into my design. If you want to see more details about creating this look, I have a tutorial in an older post for a layout that uses the same technique.

For my 11th birthday in 1977 Mom and Dad let me have a slumber party with a few friends: Jill Trzaska, Renee Poplik and Margaret Wissman. One of my fun memories from this night is when we performed a song-and-dance routine for my family (bottom photo). We called ourselves “The Oreos” because of the plastic Oreo party favor necklaces we all wore. Pretty clever, eh?

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The products on this page all came from the November Back Porch Memories kit and are from American Crafts’ “Shimelle” line. I created the title on the Silhouette and designed it to incorporate the record die cut from the kit as the O.

Note: I’m submitting this to the Paper Issues “Let’s Get This Party Star-ted and Par-ty Hear-ty” link party.

Plan on being my favorite always

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Birthday sleepover

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