I don't buy glittery "gold" items often (really ever) so when I wanted to do a page with gold embellishments I didn't have any to choose from. Especially letters. To make my own letters I chose yellow ones and put stickles on each letter. To dry I lightly stuck them to my stamping block. They dried pretty quickly (by the time I was ready to use them!). You just need to be careful not to bend them too much. My yellow alpha stickers had a very smooth and slightly glossy surface, so when I bent the stickers to put on my layout the stickles flaked off one letter. I reapplied the stickles when I was finished with the layout. I also covered the butterfly at the top with stickles.
For the background I didn't have exactly the right color to mists my white paper with. So, I mixed 3 colors (Tattered Angels Spicy Mustard, Mister Hueys Custard and Artso Gold) into one of Rangers mini misters. Yesss...I got the color I wanted-not too brown-not too orange!
Most of the time my paper gets bubbled or wrinkled from the alcohol inks or mists I spray on it with. To help reduce this I use washi tape and tape it very tightly to a piece of chip board. You can use any flexible surface that's small enough for you to hold. I then bend it, spray it and lastly blow dry it (with my hair dryer). Depending how much you saturate it, it shouldn't bubble too much.
I used strips of scraps from my stash and some AC Glitter Strips. I turned my photos black and white and made them smaller in Monkey Pic (awesome free photo editing site). Hope this inspires you to use your stash in a different way too!
Happy Creating,
Melissa
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