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Cluster Connection

{all about clustering on your LO!}

CLUSTER CONNECTION {by Angie aka nun69}

{if you have any stamping or inking or distressing to do to any of your embellishments, you should have done them already , if not it just may take you a little longer to do while you are making your LO}

1. get all of your items together, make sure they coordinate in some fashion or another

2. get your picture/s {this can also be step 1 and vice versa}

3. now decide if you are going to mat your pictures and do that first…then play around with placing your pictures on your page leaving enough room to “cluster” down in the corner {either corner works, I used the left} 

4. now place your flowers in the corner {I only used 2 big flowers, but you can use as many as you want}

5. now place your word art/quote down {until it looks right to you}

6. now you can place a border {totally optional}

7. now place your large alpha or title above your border. {I added a ribbon to my “a” before I completed my LO…so if you want to add any bling/ribbon/etc to your alpha/title feel free to do so now!
8. now place a flourish or swirl of some sort up the left side behind your top big flower
9. now place your journal box beside your alpha and under your border

10. now place another flower or embellishment beside your journal box

11. now place small journal words up the left side of your page {also optional}, you can also add small little quotes {I added the heart, “dream” tag, and crown}
12. add a little journal quote or some other small embellishment under the flower in the very far corner. I also went ahead and added a bracket behind my journal box and orange flower

13. add your brackets to the side {before and after your journal strips}, I actually pop dotted my brackets to give them some depth…but it’s optional…I also pop dotted “beautiful and “dream”

14. now I am going to add some more smaller flowers {prima flowers} with brads…just randomly placed…

15. then I added a few of the garden brads and plain brads, again randomly…

16. then I journaled with a white pen on my journal box

17. and you can then go and add some swirls, dots, and just doodle wherever you would like on your page {again optional}…

18.  and VOILA! You have a very nice page with a little bit of clustering! Hope you had fun!

About the author ...
Angie became part of the Digital CT in May 2007. She loves digi scrapping and has really not found a favorite designer because they are all great! She is inspired daily by ALL the great work done here and posted in the ACOT gallery. She also has 4 beautiful kids that you will see VERY much of in her LO's. Especially little Abby Lou!

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