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New car scrapbook layout:Using a vintage image as a centerpiece
Paul's first car was a family cast-off. It got him back and
forth from high school and then promptly died of exhaustion.
When he bought his first real
new car, it was a day for
celebration - and a page for the car scrapbook.
We found a vintage image that seemed to sum it all up. The
photo, circa 1900, showed a young boy proudly at the wheel of his "Tin
Lizzy". With that photo as a starting point, we gathered
a local road map,
Paul's own photo behind the wheel of his new Pontiac, and photocopies
of the necessities (his car keys on a fuzzy pink rabbit's foot key
chain, and the ever-popular pine air-freshener) and created this
scrapbooking tribute to the pride of ownership!
Materials
 Vintage image (Free PDF download).- Scans or color photocopies: car keys on a ring
and a car air freshener.
- Background paper: plain 12" X 12" background
paper; local road map,
trimmed to 12" X 12".
- Matting paper: red, black and yellow.
- Embellishment: pink fake fur, 1" X 3".
- Journaling pen.
- Glue stick or other non-acid paper adhesive.
- Decorative-edge scissors.
- Small scissors, like manicure scissors.
- Scissors or paper cutter.
Instructions
- Adhere road map to plain background paper.
- Adhere vintage image to black matting paper.
Trim the edges
of the mat with decorative scissors.
- Adhere photos to red matting paper and trim to
a 1/4" border, leaving 1
1/2" on one side for journaling.
- Cut out keys and air freshener as silhouettes
with small scissors.
- Adhere silhouettes to yellow matting paper.
- Cut pink fake fur into the shape of a rabbit's
foot key fob.
Glue it to the matted key ring photocopy.
- Trim the yellow and red mats leaving a 1/4"
border.
- Journal the who, what, when, where, why on the
photo borders.
- Arrange the matted images and photos on the map
background, and glue
them in place.
Tips
- When cutting out silhouettes with fine detail,
two techniques will help. First, hold the scissors at a
45-degree angle toward the back of the paper to reduce the white edge
that will show. Second, move the paper as you cut, not the
scissors.
- Whatever you do, don't glue an actual air-freshener onto your page.
You will regret it.
- There are many different kinds of scrapbook
covers and bindings, so you
will need to adapt your page design.
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