Rethinking the quick page for quick gifts
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Merry Christmas, my ScrapMatters friends! What an honor to visit with you on this special day. Grab your warmest blanket, a cup o’ joe and let’s chat! 
Today’s Designer Showcase features a fairly familiar item – the quick page. Many of our designers have a wonderful bevy of them in the shop, so we are in good company. The best thing about quick pages is that you just drop your photos in, and tada, you have a beautifully designed page. I am nudging you to think outside the box a little and use the traditional 12×12 quick page in new ways, especially when you are dabbling in hybrid scrapping.
For today’s examples I created a few gifts for my daughter’s friend, Ashley. Hopefully her mom doesn’t see these before the birthday party! Those two have been friends for over three years, more than half their lives.
I took a quick page from Sunshine Digi Scrap’s Business Casual Quick Pages set:
Before I dropped a photo in, I placed the part of the quick page I liked on a 3.5 x 5 file, then positioned my photo. I added Ashley’s name by using the alpha set that accompanies this quick page set. I then printed it, cut it, and placed it in one of these acrylic frames:
I got this as a result – a really easy and neat little gift:
The second gift involved using a quick page from the Refresh 12×12 Quick Page Album, a collaboration between Andilynn Designs, SHARIng Creations, and Happy Scrap Girl:
Once I dropped my photos in, I resized the document down to 8×8, printed and cut it out. Then I sprayed the surface with a sealer spray so that the ink wouldn’t run when I put down a layer of Mod Podge over it. Once dry, I adhered the page to white foamboard and added some foam stickers and jewels for dimension.
Here is the second gift:
So, my dear friends, I hope I’ve encouraged you to try something with a twist. I’d love to see some of your creations!
