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the 3 i’s
Marla used
upper
and lower-case
letter stickers to
spell
out
her
subtitles, adding to
the whimsical
and
eclectic
feel
of
her well-designed layout.
loved most
BY MARLA KRESS
supplies
CARDSTOCK, PAGE PROTECTOR, ADHESIVE,
American Crafts;
PATTERNED PAPER, LETTER STICKERS,
EMBELLISHMENTS,
BasicGrey
love letters
Marla and her husband, Nate, met when
they were in high school, 24 years ago,
and have been inseparable ever since.
Nate, a hopeless romantic, has written
Marla many love letters over the years,
all of which she has saved and cherishes
to this day.
Marla devised a clever way to include
one of those letters on her page,
partially exposed in a clear pocket
(how-to below). This particular letter
also came with an illustration of the
two of them that Nate drew himself,
and she included that on her page, as
well. Marla admitted that the illustra-
tion represented a time in their “younger,
cooler years!”
Marla took excerpts from the letter and
repeated them around the perimeter of
her central design, in a combination of
letter stickers and computer-generated
type. We thought it was a very cool way
to arrange her journaling and subtitles.
To create a sleeve to tuck her love letter into, Marla trimmed a
piece of patterned paper and a page protector to the same size,
then sewed the two together, creating a clear pocket. From the
top of the pocket, she inserted the letter that her husband had
written to her many years ago, folding it in such a way that you
can read some of the writing, but keeping the more private part
of the letter hidden.
Clear pockets aren’t just for letters. Imagine the things you
could stow away on a scrapbook page with one of these handy
pockets!