Hanging decorated clipboard class

Today I worked on the hanging decorated clipboard for the class coming up soon.

I attached the paper from the Pink Paislee Amber Road collection, inked the edges at the top of the clipboard with distress ink, then got out the Distress Embossing Powder for the edges.

It gave it a sort of gritty look, but doesn't flake off.

Here is a close up of the clip with alcohol ink. I used a couple of different colors.

I used pieces of rhinestone flourishes and ribbons then attached the wooden butterfly from KaiserKraft.

Magic Mesh used with the Distress Ink, adds a textured look.

In the class, we'll be doing this much earlier in the process.

On the butterfly I used embossing powders, Stickles, rhinestones, alcohol inks and the Sakura glitter pen

Hope to see you there!

Melanie

Thanksgiving 2 page layout

I've been wanting to use the Pink Paislee Amber Road line for a while, but when I saw

the beautiful fall layout Deanna created and showed on her blog,

 I was inspired to use it right now. Couldn't wait any longer.

First I used some Distress Crackle Paint Black Soot to add bark to the Maya Road chipboard tree. Then decided it was too dark for the look I was going for and softened it with coffee colored Shimmerz, later I also added some Distress Stickles and a little Flower Soft for a touch of color.

I cut up one sheet of the charcoal background paper and layered it on 2 sheets of Kraft Bazzill cardstock to ground my collection of photos.

Then, started arranging the photos and accent papers.

I used rub-ons for my title "Thanksgiving" and black chipboard numbers.

Along with strips of paper, I added velvet ribbons for dimension - love those colors together.

I chose my favorite photo from the collection to be set aside on it's own to draw attention to it, then added the accents and the rest of the layout title. I inked the tops of the corregated letters to really make it show up.

I popped the letters out of the graphic 45 diecut sheet for the main, accented photo.

Please excuse the shadow on that one.

Melanie