This is a really fun, shabby technique. Have you ever bought chipboard shapes and thought to yourself, “I wish there was more than one of this flower?”
Or . . . “I really love this chipboard mini-album, but I just don’t make mini-albums that often.”
Well, then I do have an idea for you!

I received this cute Maya Road flower mini-album in a kit I purchased. I’m not really a mini-album kind of gal, so I decided to use the flowers as accents on my page!

I cut off one sheet from the album and then soaked the chipboard flower in water for a minute.

Next I pulled the layers apart, so I had several flowers. Maya Road album pages are particularly thick, so I was able to get FIVE multi-layered flowers from ONE page!!! WOW!!!
Next I scrunched them up and shaped them and dried them with my heat gun. Here is what they look like.

I painted two of them with White Distress Paint (one is in the top left of the previous photo) and then coated them with a layer of Hi Ho Silver Blingz by Shimmerz.
Layer some other flowers and embellishments on top, and you have a darling flower embellishment for several pages! Yippeee!!! Love that!

And here is my page with my flower accent! Have fun! Just think of the possibilities!!! Cool! 

We are going to make our own paper lace border today …so get out some of your favorite decorative scissors, little punches, and border punches and start playing …..it is a fun way to use up all the little scraps of papers left over in your kit also 

First cut out a stripe of paper the size you want to use ….with either the decorative scissors or a border punch …

Then go back and use a small punch and add as much as you want ….

Just have fun with different strips of paper to make this fun lace border ….

Since the beginning of my scrapbooking days I have always tried to be a little different and keep it fun …so I will throw just about anything on a page …so I was about to cut into the new DCWV paper pack “Doodling Around” …and i looked at the front cover and thought ….” I could use that “…..so I started cutting into the chipboard front cover (since it was falling apart anyway) used the letter also and cut the upper right corner circle out too ….. and that is how I was thrifty today …and going a little green also ….

Glittered Letters

Today’s technique is more of a tip, but one that I LOVE to use. I am a collector of Alphabets, but sometimes I just can’t find the right color! So, instead of running out to buy something new I change the color with glitter. It’s so much fun and so easy!

Find a set of letters that you like the size and shape of. Coat them with a layer of Glossy Accents and then shake on your desired color of glitter. That’s it!

Allow to dry thoroughly and you now have the perfect set!

For this page, I LOVED the size of the letters in the July kit, but I wanted them to show up a bit more against the light background. I chose a light teal blue. I love how the title now stands out subtly against the light patterned paper and the sparkle imitates the water in the photos.

On this next page, I wanted to find letters in the same salmon pink as the background paper. I couldn’t find ANYTHING. So I used a set of hot pink Thickers and shook on some red-orange glitter. It came out as a perfect match! YAY!!! And I didn’t have to buy anything. LOVE that!

So, pull out those glitters next time you are looking to match something on your page and HAVE FUN!

For this Thrifty Thursday, I’m going to share with you a little secret….I don’t throw away stuff I should,
not when I can see it’s potential to be reused. And this is definitely the case when it comes to the negative space
left over from die cuts, chipboard, or stickers. In this instance, I’m going to show you how I reused a die cut
sheet to customize a photo mat.

I started with this die cut sheet from Lily Bee. It’s obviously been used. But I could still see its potential.

The way I decided to use it this time was to make a scalloped photo mat (especially since I don’t have a
Nestibilities system that would make one). So I just made my own.  I traced the scallops onto the CS,
and shortened it so that it’d fit my 4×6 photo instead of being square.

After tracing, I just handcut it out and used as I would any other mat.
And the great thing is, is that I can use these diecut shapes over and over again and adjust them to my needs!
So soooo easy, cost efficient, and “green” too!

Here’s my layout using my thrifty mat. I started out thinking I’d like it in green, but then changed my mind to red.

“Yum!”

I made a card today with the July kit and thought I would share it with you since it comes with something cool to do on other cards and projects. It’s actually a very simple thing, but very affective and pretty, so it’s worthy to share. What I am talking about is highlighting images, be it a printed image, or stamped image with Clear glitter pen by Sakura making them pop.

So I have a few pictures to show you. I chose to work with one of the pretty images in the July kit by Webster’s Pages.

Than I just outlined the whole image with the clear glitter pen.

I hope you can see the difference, it is kind of hard to take a picture of it, but I tried. Anyway, here is my final card.

And here is another close up.

Hope you like the card and if you don’t have this pen, you better grab it. I know Urban Antholgy has a few of them in stock, you can get them HERE.

Have a great day!

Eva