Scrap Skills: Using Hexagons

Hello to all Chelle’s friends and fans! It’s Cheryl, again, ready to look at some hexagons. I remember when  I bought my first hexagon template for a paper scrapbook project. I had to be oh so very careful tracing the pattern onto my page or the pattern would slip, and then my hexagon patterns wouldn’t line up evenly. Digital scrapbooking hexagon patterns are SO much more user friendly! Chelle’s Creative Team members have been playing with hexagon shapes and have some awesome pages to show you.

First, Carol used some really large hexagon shapes stacked as mats for her very special photo, then she used some smaller ones as paper accents around the page. This is a great way to add the various patterns and textures of the papers in a kit without using the old standard rectangular shapes. I love how she anchored some of them with little buttons and clusters around the page.

Kayla also used hexagons filled with the paper textures and patterns from the kit she was using (which happens to be Chelle’s latest Berry Berry Blue kit). Kayla has her hexagons in an interlocking pattern that seems to anchor all the pieces of her page together.

Chelle has a product called CU Hexagon Layered Patterns that are the most versatile and easy to use, if you want a super quick way to get lots of hexagon shapes on a page. Jenny has made a page with some of these layers to show you one of the hundreds of possibilities of uses for them. I love how she slightly overlapped the layers of hexagons filled with paper. It’s a unique way to make a background for her clusters of flowers and frozen treats from the Beat the Heat kit.

Finally, Erica used just a couple of hexagons to accent her page. She stitched the shapes to her page and put the date on one. I love how she mixed the pattern papers from Love Grows on her page.

Feel like using some hexagons with Chelle’s kits? I hope you’ll share your pages in the gallery at Scrap Orchard. If you use any of Chelle’s products, tag your pages with #chelle or #cc. I’d love to see them and leave you some love!