Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013 - (Page 88)

Are you a tea or a coffee person? Between two small scrapbook layouts, nothing like a little break. So what? Do you prefer tea or coffee? What if these small clever mixtures of flavors also invited themselves onto your layouts in fact? Catherine and Carole offer you a taste of a scrapbooking version of these two comforting drinks. by Catherine Labeeu and Carole Maurin Very often, we are short of inspiration when it comes to making an original background or we simply do not have the right colors, including the neutral brown tones that suit any other color. Here are a few 100% recycling ideas which you can put into practice in the time it takes to make a cuppa... Tea and coffee « La pause gourmande (Gourmet Break) » by Catherine Labeeu Tea version? Known for hundreds of years in the world of textiles, tea dyeing is an ecological and rather inexpensive way to obtain shades of orangey-beiges, perfect for creating pretty backgrounds. On the practical side, it requires brewing time and material adapted for the purpose: choose a plastic or transparent glass container in order to see the color of the tea. A darkly-colored tea at the outset which 88 HISTOIRES DE PAGES - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2013 has been well-brewed will give an even deeper color. Pour boiling water over 2-3 tea bags and let it brew up until the liquid is totally cooled. According to the selected tea (black tea, green tea, rooibos...) the shades are more or less intense. Catherine chose here to tint a piece of paper in order to get a background with antiquated tones, in keeping with the black-beige-gold combo she wanted to COFFEE: Madame de Sévigné liked neither Racine nor coffee, which then was the new fashionable drink, and that she found overheating. Her words and actions being constantly under the microscope, it was easy for Voltaire to attribute her this sentence: « Racine will come to an end, just like coffee », which has never been found in her Correspondence with her daughter! TEA: in 1773 the British kingdom having to face heavy cash flow problems, King George III decided to significantly increase trade taxes against the colonies. Tea, one of the products whose tax was most outrageous, had become a symbolic point of contention between the metropolis and its colonies. On December 16, 1773, sixty Bostonians called the Sons of Liberty climbed aboard three ships laden with tea, dressed as Indians from the terrible Mohawk tribe. Between 6 and 7 pm, they threw 342 chests of tea overboard ... That was how the American colonists started their Revolution...

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013

Cover
Editor's note
CONTENTS
Rendez-vous
Letters from our readers
Let's play around with color - Tempted by transparency
Are you a beginner? This page is especially for you!
Readers' Idea Gallery - Summer activities - Combo
Tale of a sketch - Put the photo in the spotlight
Letter from our translators
Ideas
One page, three options
Matching decorations
Make-over session - for Christelle's and Emilie's layouts
U.S. tags - They are a must!
A mishmash of words
Honors go to photography
Graphic and stylish - Sew in your layouts
A mini-album with labels - to be downloaded on page 99
Techniques
A few little graphic rules - to adopt without delay !
Let's tame color
A background in 6 steps - Transform your patterned papers
Butterflies
Are you a tea - or a coffee person?
A background in 9 steps - Ink, paper, that's all!
A background in 9 steps - Flowers and colors!
A maxi-album - A floris't shop
Discoveries
We have tried out for you
Marseille - Provence 2013
Meet the artists - Delphine, Carole and Laetitia
It's on trend - Marine anchors
Scraptherapy - How about talking scraptherapy?
Rendez-vous on the blogosphere

Histoires de Pages - Let’s talk layouts / Issue #53 - SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013