Paint sampler layout

Hi friends! Today I have a scrapbooking page to share, but with techniques that can be used for cards or tags too. 

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Seasonal products can often be used for other themes too, and most of the products that I used here are from Christmas sets. When I saw the pretty paint sample page among Tim Holtz Christmas Backdrops and knew I wanted to use the full sheet on something. A scrapbooking page was perfect for that. I picked a photo of my grandmother, my mom and a on or her friends. 

Start by applying embossing ink through Tim's Sparkle Fade stencil. Sprinkle with white embossing powder and emboss. I used watercolor paper as my base.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet and mist with water. Press the paper into the ink. Let dry and repeat. The embossing resists the ink.

Stamp the title letters with Tim's Sign Painter set on a ledger piece of Backdrops paper. I used various green and turquoise Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated inks. I forgot to include Surf in the photo. Die cut with Simon Says Stamp Sign Painter coordinating dies.

Die cut the poinsettia from Tim's Vault Festive Wreath set from shades of pink left-over inky or watercolored papers. Die cut some foliage from various scrap paper. The Simon Says Stamp Windswept Leaves were die cut from Mint cardstock.

Shape the flowers just a little and then glue in clusters to the layout. Tuck foliage in here and there.

The Sparkle Fade is such a pretty stencil and worked well with the distressed look of the embossing. I used stickers from Tim's Christmas Sticker Book.

Distress the edges of all the papers to add dimension.

The largest cluster is under the photo, to help draw the eye to the photo.

I am very fond of alphabet stamps and being able to stamp and die cut my own words. Having coordinating dies makes it even easier. There is a strip of Christmas Backdrops paper under the title.

Thank you for visiting!

Happy Christmas crafting!

Anna-Karin

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