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By Cardmaking & Scrapbook Layout Contributor, Peg from the blog Peg’s Crafting Corner.
The New American Crafts Neapolitan Dear Lizzy Collection is so scrumptiously fun that my imagination went wild when I received it. I am so excited to share some of the fun new things in the line with all of you! I know once you see it you’ll have to have it. I heard recently the colors of this line being described as candy coated and after hearing that I knew the perfect picture I had to use to create this layout.
Many years ago, I went to school and became a Certified Chocolatier and had this picture of one of my chocolate pieces lying around waiting to be scrapped. After hearing the comment about the colors in this paper line I knew I wanted to use it to go with this picture. Think of all of the fun pictures that you have waiting to scrap yet and you will soon find that many of them are just waiting for the new American Crafts Neapolitan line, too!
The New American Crafts Neapolitan Dear Lizzy Collection Used Here:
Often striped paper just isn’t the look we are wanting on a layout, but it could be and we just don’t think about it. Turn the striped paper so the stripe runs horizontally. This will always give your layouts a new and creative look because we often don’t think of turning a striped paper in a different direction. The pastel stripes in the Neapolitan line make it fun to do that!
I love the new Ruffle Paper in the line. It can be used as a whole sheet for the background of a layout or trimmed down like I did here and used as an embellishment strip. It is easy to use in a paper trimmer and can be trimmed as long or wide as you want it. How fun is that?
I used my Martha Stewart Scoring Board to score the Ruffle Paper every 1″ and then folded peaks and valleys so that it would stand up off the paper to create a raised dimensional look. I added two strips of wet glue on 2 of the peaks and glued my picture which was adhered to the dotted paper from the Cheerful Notes sheet.
I punched a circle from the Sparkling Smiles Vellum sheet and put one of the fun matching brads through it to create a layered look and to fill an empty spot on the layout. I love that the paper punches so easily and the additional look that is added by using the brads in it!
The stickers are fantastic! There are so many different sayings and pictures to add just the right touch to any card or layout. I had no trouble finding a saying that would work with my chocolate shoe picture. In fact, I had trouble deciding what one to use so I included several and by adding one of the tags (you get 12 in the package) it allowed me to add more stickers.
I can’t say how much I love the letters. The whimsical cursive letters are perfect for titles or whatever you imagination dreams up! The smaller foam ones add a sharp contrast to the cursive ones to make a statement. It just doesn’t get any more fun than that!
The new American Crafts Neapolitan Dear Lizzy line is so much fun all you will want to do is to create with it and not do anything else!
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