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D e s i g n e r :   Lisa Damrosch
http://www.lisadamrosch.typepad.com
Hi There! I’m Lisa Damrosch. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my husband Matt, our soon to be 6 year old son Todd, and our senior citizen Labrador, Huckleberry.  I am a Real Estate Broker and Kindergarten mom. I’ve been scrapbooking seriously for about 10 years now and can’t imagine my life without it. I still love everything about this hobby and find myself just as excited to get to my scrap space as when I first started. I am thrilled to be able to share my love for scrapbooking through my classes at Big Picture Scrapbooking.

I had a blast playing with Fiskars products this month. I have never used a squeeze punch before, and as I played with it, all I could think was, “where has this been all of my life?” I love how easy it is to use and the scalloped shape has endless possibilities. I loved it so much that I punched lots of squares for this layout. Once I started punching I just didn’t want to stop. Thank you so much Fiskars for the opportunity to play with your products! 

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Instructions (Print version)

1 .  Trim a 12” x 12” sheet of patterned paper down to 11 3/4” x 11 3/4” and mount onto 12” x 12” cardstock.
2 .  Punch scalloped squares out of two different patterned papers and adhere them in color blocks.
3. Mount photo onto cardstock and frame with border stickers.

4 .   Use threading water punch to punch two sides of a cardstock strip and apply chipboard letters for title.
5. Frame epoxy letter stickers in chipboard bookplate and use epoxy rain stickers as “brads”
6. Cut strips from cardstock and use border sticker along bottom edge of each piece for journaling.
7. Sand chipboard hearts and use to accent title and journaling strips.
8. Machine stitch two corners opposite patterned paper squares.
 

S u p p l i e s : 
F i s k a r s :  Extra Large Scalloped Square Punch
F i s k a r s :   Threading Water Border Punch
F i s k a r s :   Rotary Trimmer
Kimberly Poloson: Black polka dot flocked paper and epoxy alphabet
H e i d i   G r a c e  :   patterned p a p e rs , printed chipboard alphabet, photo décor border stickers, punchboard add on hearts and bookplates
C l o u d   9 : Rain Dots epoxy circles  
O t h e r :   c a r d s t o c k ,   t h r e a d