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Summer Treat – a scrapbook page

July 14, 2016

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Hi there and sunny summer time! It’s Riikka here from Paperiliitin blog guesting with another project! It’s great to be back playing with the Elizabeth Crafts Designs products! I consider myself a scrapbooker the most and love to use different mediums in my projects so I hope you are ready for some fun with paints!

In my first guest page the topic was my older daughter so just to be fair I wanted to have my younger daughter as the star of this page. My inspiration for this page was the die set “Banners”. When I started to look at the rounded banner it turned into an ice pop in my eyes and I thought to make a fun summer page.

If you want to follow my process, please look at the step-by-step pictures below.

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Let’s get going!

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1. Start by making a piece of patterned paper. Use freezer paper or a similar thin paper. Make a mono print with acrylic paints and the Gelli plate: Use “Bouquet” embossing folder to remove some of the paint from the printing plate, like a stamp. Also print a tiny piece of white cardstock; you’ll need it later. Remember to clean the folder with water soon after use!

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2. Adhere the 6×6 adhesive sheets to the back of your paper and then tear the freezer paper into pieces. Use a ruler as a guide so you get a somewhat straight but torn edge. Take a 12×12 sheet of the White Soft Finish Cardstock and use it as your background.

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3. Think about your composition and adhere the paper pieces to the background. Cover only a part of the 12×12″ sheet so there are white areas still showing. Use a variety of sizes and shapes of the paper pieces.

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4. Use the “Bouquet” embossing folder again like a stamp. Add some acrylic paint to your craft mat and use a brayer to get the paint to the folder. Then press the folder to the background thus getting an impression of the design. Stamp around the area where you attached the paper pieces.

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5. Use the folder like a stamp once more, this time using ink. Dab the embossing ink to the folder and then press it to your background. Repeat if you want to cover a bigger area. Use white embossing powder and emboss the design with it. Remember to clean the folder again!

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6. Now that the background is done, it’s time to concentrate on the design, photo and embellishments. Using the “Banner” dies and “Through the Lens Patterned Cardstock – Wood” cut several of the banners in the color scheme of your page. Make sure you cut a couple of the rounded ones with the wood grain pattern going lengthwise.

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7. Make two lines of banners using the cut shapes and some cotton twine. Glue the banners in place with the twine between the parts. Staple the lines in place so that they start from the edge of the background and run under your photo. While you have the stapler out, also make patterned paper layers behind the photo and staple the layers together.

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8. Attach your photo to the paper layers and then the cluster to the background using foam dots. Cut two “ice pops” from the patterned cardstock you made in step 1.  Compose the ice pop by layering the blue part on top of the wood grain patterned big piece and adhere the layers using a piece from the 6×6″ Adhesive Sheet. Voilá, you have created an ice cream! Attach the embellishments to your page using glue.

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9. Cut two sets of alphas from the embossing folders packaging using the “Alphabet 2 Lower Case” die. Compose your title on top of the banner lines with the letters dancing rather than being on straight lines. Glue the title in place.

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10. Stamp the word “Sweetie” from the “Just a Note” stamp set to your background near the photo. Also stamp a couple of ladybugs from the “Ladybug Quartet” set to a piece of white cardstock.

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11. Color the ladybugs using watercolor pencils and then cut the bugs loose and use them as embellishments. Scatter the bugs to the page and glue them in place. Add also a red and white flair button to the page.

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12. Using white and black pens to add small doodles and the journaling to your page. Think about the composition and how much text you want to add. I chose to draw lines to the left side of my page and added my journaling there.

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13. Finish your page with a couple of epoxy stickers. Use the same color scheme you have used throughout the page.

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Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you have found the steps helpful and the post interesting! I hope I have showed with this layout that there’s more you can do with an embossing folder than just use them with your die cutting machine! Until next time!

Xoxo Riikka

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Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Bouquet Embossing Folder
Clear Double Sided Adhesive Sheet – 6×6”
Soft Finish Cardstock White
Banners
Thought The Lens – Wood
Alphabet 2 Lower Case
Just a Note Clear Stamps
Ladybug Quartet Stamp Set

Other:

Printing plate (GelliArts – 5×7″ Gel Printing Plate)
Acrylic paints (Ranger – Dina Wakley – Lapis and Sky)
Embossing ink (Wow Embossing Powder – Clear Ulyta Slow Drying Embossing Pad)
White Embossing Powder (Wow Embossing Powder – Opaque Bright White)
Patterned paper (7 Dots Studio – Verano Azul – 6×6 Pad)
A flair button (A Flair for Buttons – Stripes 1)
Archival Ink (Jet Black)
Epoxy stickers
White twine
Foam dots
Black and white thin marker

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  • josetvdburgt July 17, 2016 at 8:28 am

    Love how you used all the supplies Riikka. Beautiful page!

  • Kirsty Vittetoe July 14, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    Such a fun page!

  • Kathleen Adams July 14, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Riikka, this is so cute and very clever. I’m sure your daughter loves it. I don’t scrapbook but my daughter does. However, many of your techniques used here would also make a great greeting card. Thank you for sharing this fabulous tutorial.

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