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The friendship scrapbook page:Let your photos interact with vintage imagesMillie remembers the day well. She had just given birth to her second child and was half awake when they moved her into a hospital room to recover. The woman in the next bed, equally wrung-out, smiled wearily and said, "Tell me honestly. Do I look as bad as you do?" In a moment, they were both laughing, and Millie's lifelong friendship with Bea was born. Millie and Bea's forty years of loving friendship deserve a special friendship scrapbook.Their families used to spend summers together near Atlantic City, and we found many beach photos of Millie and Bea. We chose a 1967 snapshot and a 2007 photo that show how they still love to laugh together. We completed the timeline with a comical vintage image of two young bathing beauties in their striped bathing dresses. We dramatized the "then and now" theme of the page with a favorite technique; creating backgrounds that reflect the images. For the vintage half of the page, we created a simple pin-stripe design that matched the vintage bathing dresses. On the other half, we sponged and painted an oversized leopard-skin pattern, just like Millie and Bea were sporting in 2007. Materials
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Cut
18 1/2" strips of light blue paper. Glue them
diagonally, evenly-spaced, across the white
background paper, at least halfway across the page. Trim
off the excess strips around the outside with scissors or a
paper cutter.
Cut
two rectangular pieces of sponge, about 1" X 1/2". Tear off
little bits of sponge on the long side of one and on the small end of
the other, to make the edges ragged. Sponge a random pattern
of small and large shapes with brown paint on a diagonal half of the
yellow paper, using the side and end of the two sponge pieces, to
imitate leopard skin. When the brown paint is dry, dab black
paint around the shapes with the paint brush. Let it dry. 