I picked photos that had some nice details that were otherwise lost in a larger image when printed at 4×6. Use the scraps from cutting out the centre of the stamped frames to cut three photographs to a size that will sit nicely behind three frames. Be completely impatient and refuse to wait for the larger droplets to dry, and enjoy the feeling of living dangerously throughout the rest of the creative process as a result. I used gold lame color shine spray by Heidi Swapp and Studio Calico Mister Huey’s spray in Dark Calico (that one is on sale at the moment if you’re looking for a dark neutral shade, by the way). Use the spray tube and an eye dropper to splatter mist on two corners of the page to form a diagonal line. Exhale happily that this step had significantly fewer opportunities to derail for another twenty minutes. Your choice.Ĭut the grid paper to frame the frames, ink the edges, and attach it to the centre of the kraft cardstock background. Attach with adhesive that allows for things to be moved about – or just be way more graceful than I am and not knock the frames onto the floor six times while you’re trying to figure out the rest of the design. Kirsty’s pages often remind me to use all that grid paper in stash. Transfer the frames – in that much pondered order – to a sheet of neutral patterned paper. Then spend the next twenty minutes wondering why that took twenty minutes to decide. Spend twenty minutes moving the patterns around in a grid until finally settling on this arrangement.
Then cut out all those frames with scissors. …three times on each of three patterned papers, for a total of nine frames. I put it together with a sheet of kraft cardstock and scraps from my February Best of Both Worlds kit.įirst I stamped the Polaroid frame in brown dye ink… I’d been using the word stamps in that set a lot more than the image stamps in this set, so Kirsty’s page quickly reminded me how easy it would be to make something lovely with the Polaroid-style frame. That beautiful scrapbook page tutorial by Kirsty Smith went live at just the same time when the Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic stamps were sitting on my desk. Oh, how I love it when inspiration comes along at just the right time.