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Custom Page Pebbles

By April Staker
Hot Rod Scrampers
Advanced Scramping Team Designer

Supplies

•    Swirl Sampler Stamp Set (TAC)
•    Daisy Delight Stamp Set (TAC)
•    Black Watercolor Ink Pad (TAC)
•    Dew Kissed Chalk Pad (TAC)
•    Green 12" x 12" Cardstock (Leaving Prints)
•    Rose 12" x 12" Cardstock (Leaving Prints)
•    Blue 12" x 12" Cardstock (Leaving Prints)
•    Yellow 12" x 12" Gingham Paper (Leaving Prints)
•    Purple Flower Print Paper 12" x 12" (Leaving Prints)
•    White Cardstock 8½" x 11" (TAC)
•    Glossy Accents (Ranger)
•    Terrifically Tacky Tape (Art Accents)
•    Watercolor Pencils: Straw Yellow, Deep Cadmium, May Green,
      Grass Green, Smalt Blue, Ultramarine, Silver Gray, #14 (Derwent)
•    Blending Pen (Tombow)
•    Computer Font Bradley Hand ITC & 2 Peas Crazy Pooch (Both
      downloaded off internet)
•    Tag Punch (EK Success)
•    Sheer Ribbon, Blue & Purple (Offray)
•    Stapler & Staples (from the desk drawer)
•    Paper Trimmer (Fiskars)
•    Scissors (Fiskars)
•    Mini Glue Dots (Glue Dots Int'l)
•    Scrapbook Mounting Squares (3L)

Instructions:

1.                Cut your cardstock, photos and paper to the following dimensions

Green Cardstock:
            6" x 3"= Title Block
            (2) 1” x 4"= Photo Mat Accents
            11½” x 6”= Color Block Strip
            Scraps for tags

Yellow Gingham Paper:
            5½" x 11½ "= Color Block Strip
            ½” x 6”= Accent Strip/Journal Block
            11½” x 6” = Photo Mat
            Scraps for tags

Rose Cardstock:
            ¾” x 6”= Accent Strip Mat
            6” x 2½”= Tags

White Cardstock:
            3½" x 7"= Title Block Mat
            5” x 5”= Photo Mat
            (2) 5¼” x 4¼”= Photo Mats
            Scraps to stamp on

Purple Flower Print Paper:
            4½” x 7¾”= Photo Mat
            2½” x 2½”= Tags (2)
            4½” x 4½”= Photo Mat
            4” x 2¾”= Photo Mat

Blue Cardstock Scrap:
            2½” x 2½”= Tags (2)

Photos:
            4” x 4”= Top Right, Title Page
            4¼” x 5¼”= Bottom Left, Title Page
            2½” x 3½”= Bottom Middle, Title Page
            4” x 5¼”= Bottom Right, Title Page
            (2) 4½” x 4”= Left side photos on second page
            4” x 6”= Main photo on second page

2.                Ink the Easter Egg Stamp with the Black Ink Pad.  Stamp four times onto the White scraps of cardstock (must be a heavyweight cardstock).  Color the image using the Watercolor Pencils and the picture as a guide; use the Tombow to “paint” the images in.  I typically just color around the edges of the image and then use the blender to pull the color into the middle.  If you color the image in solid it will be much more vivid.

3.                Repeat Step 2 using the Flower Stamp three times.

4.                Print your Title onto white cardstock.  Before you print change the colors of the letters you want to make into page pebbles and make the other letters white so that they won’t actually print.  This allows you enough room to make your pebbles.

5.                Reverse the Title’s colors- the page pebble letters will be white and the others black.  Add a space between the page pebble letters and the others so there will be enough room to fit your page pebble.  Print this onto the Title Block. 

The Technique:

6.                Using the Glossy Accents, make a circle of the glue around the letters you printed in color on the white cardstock.  Fill this in with more of the Glossy Accents.  Repeat this for the flowers and the eggs you colored.  You can make the Glossy Accents follow the contours of the flowers or make a circle around them.  I did some of each.  Allow this to dry (it may require overnight depending on how thick you filled them.  If you want more dimension, add more layers of the Glossy Accents as they dry until you like the thickness.  You do need thick cardstock for this technique.  The cardstock will warp as it would with water on it.  The thicker the cardstock the less warping you will have.

7.                Print the journaling on the top of the Yellow Photo Mat/Journal Block.

8.                Cut the Title out.  I freehanded an arch on the top and bottom and then connected the sides.  I attached the title to the white mat and then freehanded the mat, also.

9.                When the Page Pebbles are dry you can gently peel them off.  The top layer of the cardstock will stick to them.  You can also cut around them if you prefer.

10.           Stamp the large Daisy randomly on the Green Cardstock Color blocking piece using the Dew Kissed Ink Pad.

11.           Punch two blue and two purple tags with the punch.  Adhere these to the Rose Cardstock and cut around the tag to make a mat.  Use scraps to dress the tags up a bit.

12.           Assemble the pages as shown.  Use the Mini Glue Dots behind the Page Pebbles.  Staple the ribbon to the tags to keep it in place.

 You can use the Page Pebbles for anything now!  Use your stamps or your computer to create fonts and images you would like to use as a page pebble!  The possibilities are endless and this is soooooo much cheaper than buying the packages at the craft store. 

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