Today's paper designers clearly don't actually scrapbook.We have all done it, picked up that beautiful scenic paper or a frame type style that lends itself to being a single side page, bought it, and then realized it is practically unusable for a two page spread because they don't make a right side page for it. You hate to cover it up because it is pretty, or you hate to use it because although it matches your theme, let's face it some of them are downright impossible to match for the second half of the layout. They almost always have a title you love or something that inspired you when you bought it, (in some cases years ago) But they sit and rot away in the back of your stash.
I had to laugh at my scrap pal Wanda when she saw me take this paper out to use it with these photos. "You are not really going use that?" she questioned me. I smiled. "Yes and just wait until you see what I have planned for it." I had found inspiration in the colors and "spotlight" on the paper. It was all in the placement of the pieces. All in the cutting it to bits, and all in the embellishment of the once nearly discarded paper.
I cut it strategically to show the parts of the color in the paper that I needed to blend with the girl's dress in the photos, saving the electric looking title to match the ticket stub, (which I forgot to actually place on the layout) Then I dressed it up with stickles, and used my other embellishments to cover sections of the paper I did not want to show.
Also note that I used some really old holographic art paper to cover the chipboard brackets and behind the acrylic tag. Something so obnoxious, I never thought I would use it, but used in small bits it made the page!
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