{Colour Challenge #48 Eastern Blooms Scrapbooking Layout}

I found these colours very easy to work with!  Honestly, anything with Chocolate Chip comes together quickly, though.  And I am lovin’ the new In Colours!

Keeping with the Eastern Blooms theme for the week, that was the main stamp set used here.  I used every single stamp in the box!

There are four different ways of using stamps on scrapbook pages here: 

1.  Create your own background image.  How often do we need a specific something or other to go with our project and can’t find just the thing?  Here’s a very easy way to just make your own!

2.  Create an embellishment strip with embossing.  I embossed those Chocolate Chip vines onto Whisper White card.  I tried it first on Baja Breeze, but it was just too “heavy” looking.  So another technique is to emboss onto Whisper white and then just sponge on ink, giving a much softer, textured finish.  I’ve left some “whiteness” here, too, to add to the effect.

3. Create your title and embellish a tag.  Just a little bit of the Kiwi Kiss was all that was needed here.  The small tag on the left hand side was also stamped.

4. Cut out your image and add a 3D embellishment.  The arrangement of flowers in the corner add that final visual texture that changed the page from same old same old to “finished”.

I am taking bookings now for May for Stamping Classes – Layouts, cards, and off the page projects available.

Supplies used:

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Happy Everything, Basic Phrases

Colours:  Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip

Other: Word Window Punch, White Taffeta Ribbon, brown thread, Pretties Kit