Embrace Brads

I love brads! Here I used them as decoration, a row of them and a single one on the sentiment tab. The flowers on the sentiment tab were stamped off on scratch paper once to lighten them up. Supplies: (all SU except where noted) stamps - Always, Simple Alpha (PTI) paper - ww, sky and celery dsp, sahara sand ink - chocolate chip, soft sky, certainly celery acc - vintage brads, chocolate taffeta ribbon

FTL 5 - Blooms and Baubles

The largest flower was cut out and attached with dimensionals to hang over the edge of the "box" of the main layer . Supplies: stamps - Beautiful Blooms (PTI), Hugs & Wishes (SU) paper - (all SU) olive, black, ww ink - (all Palette) l'amour red, landscape, noir acc - dew drops, black brads, polka dot brad

FTL5 - Butterflies

I strayed a bit from the sketch but have the same out of the box idea. I stamped the butterflies image (all one image) on My Minds Eye paper, then with a see through ruler penciled the box around the image up to the butterfly's wings on each side. I used my paper trimmer to cut 3 sides, then hand cut the top and around the butterflies. Supplies: Stamps - Inkadinkado, Papertrey; Paper - PaperTrey Stampers Select. MME dp; Ink - Versamagic Jumbo Java; Misc - brads, dimensionals.

Fall To Layout #5

If you struggled with the Out of the Box idea, here's a sketch that may inspire you! I find that this technique works really well with large flower images. However, anything that has a circular element would work well on here! So the "stem" part of the sketch is strictly optional! The smaller circles are brads or some other round embellishments- gems, eyelets, whatever you fancy! I've had this sketch stored in my book of sketches for quite some time now. Only when I sat down to put a card together did I realize how perfectly this dandelion image from gel-a-tins Big & Wild Things worked with it! It's always nice when you have a sketch in mind and find a stamp that totally works with it! Supplies: Stamps: Big & Wild Things (gelatins), Heartfelt Phrases (Verve) Ink: Pear Tart, Dandelion, Black Paper: Light Blue and Brown (Bazzill), White Accessories, etc.: Brads (Scrapbook Sally)

Outside the Box Friends

I received this stamp off from a friend. I placed my circle cutting tool (Coluzzle) ontop of the image and cut out the circle stopping at the girls' hair. I then hand cut around the rest of the image. The image was colored with watercolor pencils and an aquabrush, adhered with dimensionals on the yellow scalloped circle. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the side. Supplies: Stamps - Whipper Snapper; Paper - Amuse Kitchen 4 Bar Note, LI, PaperTrey Lemon Tart; Misc - Watercolor pencils, awuabrush, Gelly Roll Stardust pen, Coluzzle, Nestabilities, MS border punch