Charming

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***

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Feather Collector #849009

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – More Roses Please #849108

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper – Traveling Tickets #849092

Prima Marketing – 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***

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – Dark Romance #637866

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Flower Embellishments – This Place #637903

Prima Marketing – Midnight Garden Collection – Ephemera 1 with Foil Accents #636043

Prima Marketing – Resin Collection – Resin Icons in Wood Box – Gears #573348

Creative Embellishments – Laser Cut Chipboard – Heart Flourish

***Mediums***

Prima Marketing – 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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