Card Making Inspiration for Scrapbooking - Part 3

The inspiration for the windows at the bottom of this page once again came from my card making.  I bought my nested Spellbinders dies because they added such a nice touch to my cards.  But they make very nice frames for my scrapbook pages too!  I can find working with heirloom photos a bit challenging because I don't want to actually glue them to the page.  I use photo corners of some sort to hold them so they can be removed without damage.  This can get boring really fast if I'm not careful.  Spellbinders to the rescue!  I cut windows with my dies and then mount the pictures to the back of the page using REVERSED photo corners (i.e. sticky side UP).

Here is the companion page to the above:

It demonstrates something else gleaned from my card-making.  My teddy bear embellishments are made with techniques learned in making focals for my cards.  In this case, I used a punch for the basic shape.  The light colored bears were cut out of blue paper and then their faces, arms & legs were colored with chalk with some shadowing on the clothes created with a pencil. A bit of light blue stickles helps the shirt stand out nicely.  The dark brown bear was punched from both the brown AND the blue.  I then cut off the head, arms, and legs from the blue to form the clothes which I finished the same way as before.