This page,
featuring an image of my granddaughter from last July (all credit goes to my
daughter-law and her wonderful photography skills) is the last of the projects
that I created with the February Kit from Tres Jolie.
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To recapture the
look of the photo, I started by cutting the More Roses Please paper into strips
of varied widths that I roughed up the edges with a Distrezz-It-All and adhered
to my base. Next, I used a blending tool and a stencil to create a “screen” under
my photo.
The chipboard
piece was given a thick coat of gesso and immediately covered with embossing
and heated (a trick I learned from Rae Moses). When the powder was set and
cooled, I sanded here and there and applied distress ink over the entire piece
to give it a worn look.
I matted my
photo with a lot of layers of cut-outs and ephemera and scraps, first lightly
distressing and inking all of the edges to give everything some definition and
dimension.
Time to
embellish: I used most of the flowers that were left over, along with some
fussy cut leaves, to embellish the “Charming” resin gear that I selected for my
title.
As a last step,
I added a few flowers and leaves to the upper corner to mimic the single leaf
in the upper corner of the photo.
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*****Supplies*****
***Paper***
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– Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Feather Collector
#849009
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– Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – More Roses Please
#849108
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– Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Traveling Tickets
#849092
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– Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Rose Receipts #849023
13 @rts – Aqua
Flora Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Countless Love #616528
***Embellishments***
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– Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – Dark Romance #637866
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– Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – This Place #637903
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– Midnight Garden Collection – Ephemera 1 with Foil Accents #636043
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– Resin Collection – Resin Icons in Wood Box – Gears #573348
Creative
Embellishments – Laser Cut Chipboard – Heart Flourish
***Mediums***
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– Finnabair – Art Basics – Clear Gesso #961466
Ranger –
Embossing Powder – Antiquities – Verdigris #EPJ37569
Ranger Ink – Tim
Holtz – Distress Ink Pads – Mini – Walnut Stain #131325
***Tools***
Stampers
Anonymous – Tim Holtz – Layering Stencil – Burlap #THS007
Zutter –
Distrezz It All – Electric Distressing Tool
Tonic Studios –
Tim Holtz – Paper Distresser
Ranger – Mini
Ink Blending Tool - Round
***Other***
Duncan
Enterprises – Aleen’s Original Tacky Glue
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As always, I
want to thank you for peeking into my blog; your visits mean a lot to me.