I’ve been watching home decorating shows on TV lately and noticed the trend this year leans toward a rich brown mixed with a cool turquoise. I just love that look myself and thought I would recreate it in my scrapbook pages with this month’s gorgeous Cocoa brown Grid Paper.
But one trend I would like to challenge this month is the trend to take our Grid Paper and cover it top-to-bottom, side-to-side with photos. We all love cutting up our photos into one-inch squares and making beautiful, creative pages with Tami Potter’s Mosaic Moments system. Let’s face it; even my husband is enamored with my mosaic pages and if he had his way, he would be in my craft room right beside me building mosaic scrapbook pages. But first of all, he has no time, and secondly, I don’t want him in here gunking up my tools and using up my favorite papers and adhesives. And there’s even a thirdly – I don’t want him to know how really easy this is!
But let’s think what else we can do with our Grid Paper this month. On my Purrfect page, I cut some of my pattern paper with the one-inch square punch, and covered the areas of my Grid Paper that were not covered by photos. I next used the square punch to cut 4 squares, corner-rounded two sides of each square and arranged them into flowers. I really like the layered look of these and they were so easy to do.
On my next page, Capture the Glow, I took one favorite photo of mine and cut it into a grid, placed it onto the center of the Grid Paper, then trimmed around the photo leaving an 1/8 inch margin around the photo. This was then placed onto a piece of patterned paper and decorated the traditional way. I think the effect is striking.
Tami has tons of ideas in her book 'Designing Photo Mosaics and More' on how to use the Grid Paper in ways other than complete photo mosaics. So, though making a full-photo mosaic will always remain our favorite way to use Grid Paper, there is so much else that can be done. It really is only limited by our own imaginations. I hope you find inspiration in these two pages I’ve shared today. And if you come up with a page that uses the grids in a unique and different way, I would love for you to share it with me. Leave me the link in the comment area so I can visit you and oooh and ahhh over your fabulous grid creations.
