Okay, so you should have your papers and pictures ready to go for your layout. Let's talk about creating chipboard elements for your page. I have put four chipboard elements on my layout. I will share two of them with you today plus the steps I used to "dress them up." I hope you looked for some chipboard elements that you wanted to use on your page too.
For my plain chipboard piece, I first painted it in white acrylic paint. Then I covered it in Shimmerz. After letting that dry, I used the Memory Box Butterfly Collage {E1060} stamp to stamp on top of the paints for a fun look. Notice, I only stamped the script portion of the stamp. I avoided the butterfly because that was not the piece of the stamp I wanted to use here.
Now you are probably wondering why I did not paint a portion of this flourish. I am going to cover that end in Memory Box Poppyfinch paper. You can see that I have already traced that piece onto the back of my paper. Then I cut it out, and adhere it to the chipboard. I usually use a glue stick and my brayer to make sure it sticks well. Here is what it looks like with that end covered in paper.
Now it still doesn't look great yet. I then used my Basic Grey file set to sand the paper edges down for a smooth edge. Next I inked those edges for a nice finished look. Here you can see two of my elements finished. The stamping, filing, and inking really give the chipboard a nice look not to mention I now have embellishments that will match my layout perfectly!
Now your job is to figure out how you want to use your Memory Box stamps and papers to dress up your chipboard elements for your page. Get those all created, and I will share my finished layout next post! Enjoy!
Beautiful elements, Patters. I never would have thought of painting/stamping & covering with paper. Thanks for the great tips. I'm really loving your tutorials.
Posted by: Stephanie | 03/26/2009 at 05:06 AM
Super fun elements, love the way they look. regards XsueX
Posted by: Sue Beaton | 05/07/2009 at 05:58 PM