Vellum-white, Over the
Moon Press and purple, unknown.
Fiber-Adornments
Clay-Sculpey, lilac pearl
Embossing powder-Embossing
Antiquities, tanzanite and Stampendous, kaleidoscope
Eyelets-unknown
Metal photo corners-unknown
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Stamp green
cardstock with the Leaf wood cut stamp using a Versamark pad.
This will be your right hand page.
2. Tear both sheets of green paper in a diagonal line. Adhere
green paper to green cardstock. The left page will have the white
vellum positioned first with the green paper on top. The right
hand side will have the green paper applied to the green cardstock.
Machine stitch around green papers on both pages.
3. Mat photos using white cardstock shaded with purple chalk
around edges. Photo corners are applied to top corners only.
Photos are then matted on the dark green cardstock.
4. Clay butterflies-
roll out a package of lilac pearl clay to approx. 1/8 inch. Moisten
Bugs-n-butterflies stamp on an embossing stamp pad and then press
into clay. Trim design with knife. Bake in 235 degree oven for
15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Moisten the outside
edges of the clay plaque on an embossing pad and sprinkle with
the Kaleidoscope embossing powder. Heat to melt. Be careful to
not burn the clay. Set aside.
5. Name slide mount- Tape off the right edge of the slide mount
stamp. Moisten the stamp on an embossing pad. Remove tape. Stamp
image on vellum. Apply tape to left edge. Moisten stamp on embossing
powder pad, remove tape and stamp image being careful to line
up the upper and lower edges of design. If you goof a little
it is easy to fill in the spaces with an embossing pen. Apply
purple embossing powder and heat. Add eyelets to each side. You
can hand stitched the name by printing the name out on white
paper and then trace the name by placing it behind the vellum.
Use and awl or needle to punch holes every 1/8 of an inch and
then backstitch using DMC floss.
6. Print journaling on vellum and then cut into a tag shape,
tear along botton edge. Apply hole enforcer.
7. Assemble page by adhering photos. Adhere slide mount name
plate and run fibers through eyelets. Secure fiber on back with
tape. Adhere butterfly clay plaques with glue. Place one on right
hand page and the second on the tag. Secure tag.
"Aspen
Leaf" November's scrapbooking
layout of the month is compliments of Design
Team Member Leah
Isaac
1. Tear butterscotch
vellum and adhere to brown paper for left page. Tear rust vellum,
stamp with aspen leaf stamp and brown ink, then adhere to brown
paper for right page.
2. Use aspen leaf stamp and wet in embossing ink pad. Stamp
3 leaves on the butterscotch, rust, and green vellum. Apply espresso
embossing powder. Apply heat to melt powder. Cut out leaf image
with scissors, leave one leaf on green vellum and tear edges.
Tear the striped paper for left page border. Cut another strip
for right page. Adhere striped paper to page. Cut a strip of
brown marayama paper and fray edges, adhere to striped paper
on left page. Adhere leaves on top of marayama paper using mini
glue dots.
4. Photo mats:
Using the falling aspen leaves stamp, apply brown ink to stamp.
Stamp on yellow cardstock. Apply ink and line up stamp so the
edges overlap, stamp again. Repeat process and stamp the whole
top of paper. Repeat process for rust cardstock. Cut cardstock
down to appropriate size for pictures. Using an X-acto knife
cut out leaf shape to hang over picture. Join the yellow cardstock
and rust cardstock to form one mat. Apply eyelets, insert raffia
and tie. Secure picture to mat. For right page mat: cut to appropriate
size and distress edges with ink pad. Adhere picture.
5. Journaling blocks: Apply embossing ink to falling aspen leaves
stamp, set aside. Adhere chipboard to cardstock in rectangular
shape. Apply embossing liquid to each piece. Coat with butterscotch
and ginger embossing powder. Heat until powder melts, immediately
apply second coat of embossing powder. Heat and repeat until
4 layers of embossing powder are applied. While the embossing
powder is still hot, press the falling aspen leaves stamp onto
the coated chipboards. If the print does not look right, simply
reheat the embossing powder and try again. When you are happy
with the design, let cool and apply metallic rub-ons to bring
out the pattern. Print journaling on transparency, trim to fit
chipboard. Tear vellum for journaling block and cut out corrugated
paper. Adhere all elements for journaling block and add eyelets
and raffia.
6. Assemble page: Adhere photos and photo mats. Secure journaling
block with metal clip along striped paper. Add cut out leaves
and green leaf accent. Apply rub-on letters (Fall) to left side
and right side (fun). Apply metal sayings using eyelet tools.
