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Hello everyone!! Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's day! I did, simple and quiet. Went to church with my kids and had lunch out. It was a great day! :) Anyhow for todays post I created this album of ME!!!Yap all five pages about me! :) Just about covered the important stuff that matters in my life. :)
I used the Clear Scraps Acrylic Wave Album, Flower Embellishments, Decorative Frames , and Clear Accents Hears Embellishments. Other supplies used are Pink Paislee, Jenny Bowlin, Graphic 45, Hampton Art, Heidi Swapp and The Twinery.
Thanks for stopping by.......until next time
Clear Scraps has an incredible collection of small Expressions titles (like Splash, Happy Birthday, Meow, Love, Laugh, and lots more) They're perfect for all types of layouts and cards. But they also have the larger (some longer than 12") Expressions titles (like Memories, Together, Family, to name a few). In the past, I've used several for Home Decor items - where the finished project size isn't determined by a 12x12 piece of paper - here are a few:
Across a string of banner pieces:
Diagonal on a Home Decor frame:
But sometimes the word is perfect and you need it on a layout or an album cover that it just won't fit on. That's when you have to get a little creative and MAKE it fit. In order to get MEMORIES to fit on this 12x12 Top-Load album cover, I had to cut all the letters of the word apart and overlap them. Before I glued them all down on the cover though, I used alcohol ink to colour them and then outlined them all in a gold-leaf marker so that even overlapped, they'd stand out as separate letters and be legible.
Looking forward to seeing some of your creative ways to use these large Expressions titles.....share them with us on our facebook page!!
Thanks,
Hello everyone! It's me Adora! Today's project is this wall hanging I made using a page of the Clear scraps 7X7 Scalloped Album and Acrylic frame embellishment. I think it makes a great gift, but I am keeping this one :) I will make some more though :). I attached a big clip to hold the square frame that holds the small pad of daily verses I found at our local Christian store. The clip is so you'll have a choice of what ever you want to display. It could be quotes, or maybe a photo.....whatever tickles your fancy. :)
As for technique; alcohol inks and pink paislee papers for backing. Then top it with vines and flowers by Prima.
By the way this is one of my favorite verses. It truly speaks to me....
Thank you all for stopping by and checking us out here at Clear Scraps....until next time
Hi there, Tonya here to share with you today. My project is this adorable little bird wall hanging...
This was made using the chipboard XL Bird Shapes (yes, Clear Scraps isn't just acrylic. They make the best chipboard on the market if you ask me!).
At first I had planned to hang them in a vertical straight line. Then when I took a break while making them I had them stacked on my desk in almost this same arrangement. They made me think of a cute little family of birds all nestled up together. Obviously I decided to stick with this arrangement and I think it turned out really cute!
On the biggest bird I hadded a swirl of yellow pearls to give the idea of a wing.
Then on the "momma" bird's beak I hung a little 3 dimensional banner.
Then for the little birdie I cut out three vellum wings and layered them to give the effect of feathers.
All other products are from the Miss Caroline line by My Mind's Eye.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Tonya Dirk-Clear Scraps Design Team
Good Monday morning everyone!! It's me Adora, hope you all had a great weekend, refresh and ready to tackle a brand new week! This week I definitely need want to scrap more :). For today I will share this layout I made of my daughter's family. For me scrapping a small picture is always a challenge, I am all for big photo and lots and lots of them, it seems easier to create/work on a layout with my photo as the focal point. So this layout is the opposite, I use the Clear Scraps Acrylic Large Experession - Family to be the focal point of my design and it worked. So with the right stuff there is a place for small single photo on 12 X 12 page lol!
Here are the wonderful supplies I used; Clear Scraps 12 X1 12 Acrylic Sheet, Clear Scraps Expression-Family, My Minds Eye Paper, Pink Paislee Paper and 7Gypsies Stickers. Note: I cut the work "Family" to fit into my layout.
Thanks for stopping by and checking us out here at Clear Scraps........until next time!!
Hello everyone!!! Hope all is well....I just have to mention how beautiful the weather here in Seattle! The sun is up and that's all that matters :) . Perfect for Spring break, hopefully it will stay thru the rest of the week! So, today I will share with you these bookmarks that I made! I'm sure you have readers in your family. These always comes in- handy all my nieces and my daughter are serious readers, my 2 boys not so much - but they can read! lol!! Here is what I made.
I used Clear Scraps 12X12 Acrylic Sheet, you can easily make at least 6 bookmarks from it. I cut 3 pieces of 7 X 2 then punch a whole on one end for ribbon (later) and now their ready to be embellished. Note; The best and only kind of glue to use with acrylics is the Zip Dry Glue.
One way of emebelleshing is by using paper. Cut 2 paper with the same size. Adhere these papers on both sides of the acrylic. Smear some color on the bookmark and Clear Scraps Expression Clear Word-Faith with Stazon ink pads.
This is the fun one. Alcohol inks are always fun to used with acrylics specially if you love colorful projects. The backing paper is by Pink Paislee-Indigo Bleu and stickers by 7Gypsies.
And my favorite .......embellished with Acrylic Dress Form ! I use Pink Paislee - Christy Tomlinsons Designs and Hambly transparency.
Thanks for stopping by .............until next time!!!
Hey bloggers Rita Barakat here!
Spring is in the air and color is everywhere!
Especially in this clear butterfly album !
OK well maybe just blues and yellows...
The butterfly on the left is the back of the cover.
Using gesso directly on the acrylic made for some really fun textures;
then I added color!
I had so much fun using gesso, stencils, paints and Gelatos!
Here I had fun with iredescant medium!
(Then color!)
All of these pages would provide great backgrounds for a mini album,
an art journal, or even just the way it is!
And the back cover!
This was a happy accident- I started one way then changed
and went a different way...
Actually a few pages in this albumwere happy accidents!
Which just goes to show , sometimes you just have to run with it!
Here is the album I used!
I hope this inspires you to go create with some color!
Hello ladies, Adora here today to share with you a project I made using Clear Scraps Cast Acrylic Deco Frame and "Create" Acrylic Expressions . I love that this is cast acrylic, it's perfect for this type of project!!! It looks good :) hanging by my scrap space window and it was so much fun to make. Here's a brief how to: Using sizzix texture folder and big shot tool, I run the word "Create" on it and then smeared several colors of Stazon ink pads. Traced and cut the shape of the cast acrylic onto my paper, layered it with textured cardstock and pattered papers. Once I feel happy with how it looks I adhere it under the cast acrylic, using Zip-Dry Glue. This type of glue is the only glue that will work well with acrylics. I then smeared Stazon ink pad and dab some paint on the edge of the frame. Then I attached the word "Create" and the flowers on top of the the acrylic frame. Pretty easy right, anyone can do it. :)
Other supplies used; Bo-Bunny Paper, Prima flowers, Tim Holtz Pain, Stazon Ink Pads, Sizzix Big Shot.
Thanks for stopping by...............until next time!
