Serendipity Squares Reprinted from Linda Volrath website With the cost of good paper constantly on the rise, I
feel compelled to save every little scrap leftover from my projects. After a
flurry of activity, that pile of leftovers grows into a mountain. What the
heck do you do with a mountain of paper scraps? Make serendipity squares! |
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4. Once I've sorted, I grab a glue stick, one pile of
scraps, and a piece from that solid cardstock pile, and go to work. I tear
random pieces of scraps, and glue them down, covering the background paper
completely. The glue has to dry before I can move on to the next step, so
it's either time for a little more cleaning, or I can move on to another pile
of scraps and do the same collage process to set up another set of squares. |
5. Along with the big pile of scraps, I've usually got
some dirty stamps waiting to be cleaned. I've seen people do this part of the
process different ways, but for me, it works best to do a layer of stamping
with dye ink and a background stamp of some type, to help tie all the different
pieces of paper together. Here, I've chosen a postcard stamp, and some blue
Fresco ink, and stamped all over my scrap collage. |
6. Next, some shine. I grabbed an Asian text stamp and
some silver Brilliance ink, and stamped here and there, then threw some
pewter embossing powder on it. Unlike the previous layer of stamping, which
completely covered all the papers, this one just sort of fills in some visual
empty spots. My collage used lots of solid papers, so here's one more
layer of stamping and embossing, this time with a big rose leaf stamp. 7. The last step is cutting. I cut both one inch and inch
and a half squares from this piece. The smaller squares are great to decorate
standard quarter sized cards. Big squares are good to throw in an altered
book layout, or onto a deco page. |
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