Scrapbook Page Elements

I have recently been welcomed into a Scrapbook Elements Swap Group in the United States. There are many talented American SU! Demonstrator's who take part in these swaps and I can't wait to receive my first swap elements! I do believe that I am the only SU! Canadian demonstrator within this group.

Posted here are my first Swaps that I designed for one of the current swaps. I was to create border strips for the swap theme 'Spring Magic'. There are certain colours of cardstock, specific stamp sets and other "rules" that you must follow. The colours used here are: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron. I used StazOn jet black for the outlined images. All of the papers, inks, and accessories used must use these colours. I have done quite a bit of masking within the images to achieve many different 'layers' of images. Stampin' Write Markers were used to colour the leaves and a blender pen using stamp pad ink was used to colour the images.

The butterflies were first stamped on the main border cardstock. I stamped additional butterflies on scrap cardstock. I used 2-Way glue to each wing then applied Dazzling Diamonds glitter. I then cut out each butterfly and attached just the 'body' of the butterfly ontop of the butterfly which I stamped on the main border cardstock using sticky strip which I cut into fine strips. You can see in the second picture that the wings are then slightly bent to be raised off the page. A pink bead from the bead duos was glued using Tombo Multi Liquid Glue to the 'head' of each butterfly. A brad was put in the center of 3 of the flowers and it was put through all layers of the cardstock for additional reinforcement of the layers.

Other details: smaller corner rounder to the 'inside' corners, certainly celery ink sponged to the edge of the whisper white cardstock which 'touches' the certainly celery cardstock to help blend it in.

Stamp sets: Embrace Life, and Garden Whimsy

Happy Scrapbooking!

Stacey

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