Thursday, March 25, 2010

Playing in the Dirt

This layout is mounted on a background of purple cardstock embellished with acrylic paint. I love all these flowers that surround my granddaughter who plays in the dirt.


Some of the flowers are painted chipboard. Others were cut from printed paper. The word "DIRT," is created with chipboard letters that have a pre-glued surface that easily adheres to glitter.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Embossed Greeting Cards

I have a pretty good system for making greeting cards. They do not look homemade to the untrained eye (to a non-scrapbooker). I select two or three beautiful printed papers and combine them. Then I emboss a stamped design on some card stock by sprinkling embossing powder onto the wet pigment ink and then drying it with the heating tool. Then I affix the card stock to the layers of printed paper. Here's an angel from Christmas. I added both Stickles and Liquid Pearls to give even more bling to the embossed angel: