Stamp away on the paper and on scraps to cut

I often try to use Daisy White or Colonial White paper for base pages.  You have to dress the paper up a bit.  One way is to stamp on the paper around the border.

You will notice the flower on the outside of both pages.  I love that Close To My Heart has stamps that match with the paper so you can continue the theme throughout album pages.

The other way is to stamp on the paper but also to stamp on scraps and cut them out for the pages.

On this layout, I stamped the edges of the left side as well as stamped flowers for embellishing.  If you look closely, I used the 2nd generation method.  This method is that you stamp and then stamp again without reinking.  I did that with the flowers and the leaves.  I mixed them up and they look really great together.

I used one of the pocket cards from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.  I used the cut out flowers as well on the page.  You can make another of the same card and flip it for the other side.

You may also notice I used White Twine over each of the photo mats on the bottom and the pocket card,  You can also use gold foil and shimmer trim as decoration on your photos but since I only had paper saying "photo", I will wait to put it on later when the photo is present. You can also put it on the corners of the photo, on the top section or on the sides to help embellish the photo and the page.

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Gold Gold Gold

With the #HappyTimes paper there were gold stripes and gold patterned flowers.  Close To My Heart has shimmer trim, foil and glitter paper that can help bling up pages.

The gold stripes on the paper is really neat.  I didn't have the gold glitter paper but used the silver at to cricut a shape.  The Close To My Heart glitter paper really works well on the cricut!  I then used the gold foil tape to make a border on each of the papers.  I used the Gold embossing powder to stamp some flowers on the upper right paper and then added the color with the water color.  When you use the water color, you need permanent ink or embossing powder so your lines won't be washed away.

I could also have said "Teal Teal Teal". I used gold stripe paper.  I used the teal glitter paper for the circut shape here.  I used a 1 inch punch on the glitter paper scraps and then cut them in half to make a border.  I also used the teal shimmer trim on the bottom.  I used gold foil up on the corners to finish off the triangles.

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Water color

 The #HappyTimes paper has one sheet that is an outline in teal of flowers.  The layouts above have a top 1 1/2 from that paper which I did water color on.  The layout below has a 6x8 photo mat (that is because you can use 4x6 or 6x4 photos on it).  I only water colored what you could see and only then some of the flowers.  The one above because it is all showing is more colored than the bottom which has only the edge showing.)  You can do your own stamping and then water color.  It is effective not to color everything but just give a hint of color

You can make your own border and photo mat by taking stamps which are in outline form.  Close To My Heart has stamps that will work well for borders:

 Close To My Heart also have stamps that you can stamp on the page or cut out:

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Remember if you are using water color, you need to stamp with StazOn ink or some permanent inks otherwise the watercolor will smear using watercolor ink.  #HappyTimes

Embossing folders

Embossing folders are something that you can use in a variety of ways.  In my upcoming album workshop, I am using ink IN the embossing folders.  You can put it on the side with indentations (lighter shade) and then after embossing you can just take a darker ink pad and rub over the embossed features.

The Close to My Heart embossing folders are 5x7 which can give you a great mat.  I was trying to make more pages so I did my mats 4x6 so I could get more out of a sheet of paper.  It just means that you will have to trim down the 4x6 photos or print them smaller to leave an edge around the mats.

Here I used colored paper for the mats so the embossing shows up when you use sandpaper.  You can also use chalk or sponge the raised portion to give it added pizazz.  Have fun with the dry embossing techniques! #HappyTimes paper.  Check out my website for purchasing embossing folders and shop for more great creative things : barbarapagekell.ctmh.com

Embossing folders

Embossing folders are something that you can use in a variety of ways.  In my upcoming album workshop, I am using ink IN the embossing folders.  You can put it on the side with indentations (lighter shade) and then after embossing you can just take a darker ink pad and rub over the embossed features.

The Close to My Heart embossing folders are 5x7 which can give you a great mat.  I was trying to make more pages so I did my mats 4x6 so I could get more out of a sheet of paper.  It just means that you will have to trim down the 4x6 photos or print them smaller to leave an edge around the mats.

Here I used colored paper for the mats so the embossing shows up when you use sandpaper.  You can also use chalk or sponge the raised portion to give it added pizazz.  Have fun with the dry embossing techniques! #HappyTimes paper.  Check out my website for purchasing embossing folders and shop for more great creative things : barbarapagekell.ctmh.com