Tuesday 26 April 2011

A Step by Step LO #5

for this LO I have use P/P left over from other projects
You will need
1 piece of cardstock
Scraps of P/P
Lace
Pearls or Rhinestones
Alphas
Glimmer Mist or Kindi Glitz
and some flowers
(I have used flowers from Kathies last flower tutorial)
you can find it HERE
Ink
tape
glue

#Step 1
Spray your flowers with Glimmer Mist or add a little sparkle to them with Kindi Glitz
set aside to dry

#Step2
cut your P/P
The brown piece is 13cm x 17cm
Distress edges
Small stripe 2cm x 23cm
Punch one long edge
(if you don't have an edge punch tear this edge)
Large stripe 6cm x 24cm
tear along the bottom edge
cut the last 2 pieces 12cm x 16cm and 9cm x 5cm
distress the to along one 12cm edge and the 16cm left hand side edge
one the smaller piece distress along the 9cm right hand side and the top edge
Ink all edges

#Step 3
(sorry that this photo is on it's side but that's how blogger insists on loading it)
stick down the piece of P/P that you have punched an edge on then stick a 28cm piece of lace over top of it with a couple dabs of glue

#Step 4
stick down the 12cm x 16cm and the 13cm x 17cm P/P's
so that they look like this

#Step 5
stick the rest of the P/P's to look like this

#Step 6
add you photo

#Step 7
add some flowers pearls and Title
You have completed a simple LO


You can add more embellishments to you LO
and it will look something like this

I have added a strips of P/P down the left hand side top and right hand side
I punched a border along top and left hand side pieces of P/P
I then embossed a chipboard swirl with Tim Holtz distressing powder and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist and added some pearls
I added an extra flower bottom right hand side and a couple on the chipboard swirl and some leaves to the flower sprays which I inked and glimmer misted

LO all done


I just couldn't resist I had to add a bit more



I've added another flower to the spray on the left hand side and a small embossed swirl on the bottom of the spray
I couldn't resist adding a bird cage and little birdie up the top on the left

The LO is now completed


If you do have a go at this step by step
Please leave a comment letting us know so that we can hop over to your blog and leave some love

Happy Scrapping

Lexie

8 comments:

Kathie said...

Love it heaps Lexie.....gorgeous flowers and another amazing LO...love the scroll...
xoxo

Lisascrappymum said...

Stunning as usual Lexie!

Anonymous said...

Stunning, Amamzing... Job well Done LExie!!

Kylie's Creative Place said...

Amazing as always Lexie:)
Love what you did with your flowers. Realy like the embossed chipboard also.
Stunning page xox

Lizzyc said...

wow this looks great! i love the end result!! thanks for sharing!

Elisabeth Helland said...

nice result! and a very detailed tutorial! TFS

Heddie said...

Great tutorial Lexie, I would like to use it for a group at
Gilburn if that's ok with you. xx

lexie said...

Heddie please do.... I feel very honoured that you would want to use this LO...oxo