Choose to Shine | Punches | Sarah Costain

Sarah here today with my layout using punches.

I don't own all that many punches, but for some reason I have about 6 different sized star punches!! So that was my starting point for my layout.

I applied clear gesso to my page which was a night sky scene from a kit by Thompson's Crafts available here. The gesso helps my page withstand any mixed media I throw at it.

I punched out various sized stars from mirror card and the left over trimmings from my photo. I added these on top of a silver texture paste and spray background.

To frame my photo I matted it on more mirror card and added a glitter embossed frame.
I cut apart words from another paper from the kit to create tiny word stickers and quotes.

Some sweet kawaii stickers, nuvo drops and sequins added more sparkle to my page to finish it off.

You can check out the video process over on the UKSA YouTube channel here.

I hope you will dust of those punches and give this challenge a whirl!!

Have a Happy Scrappy day :)

Sarah

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Snow | Sarah Costain | Stamping

Sarah here today with my take on this months challenge using stamps.

I decided to create a stamped background so hunted out all my small snowflake clear stamps from various companies old and new.

First I stamped and embossed with clear embossing powder to create a resist surface on my watercolour paper.

Using Brushos in 2 blue tones I created a slight ombre effect to my background. The snowflakes were a little lost so I added more on top (once dry) with white embossing powder.

 Using dark blue distress ink I added a blended border around my page.

I layered blues toned papers, vellum, gauze and ephemera to create my photo cluster and balanced it with a small cluster at the bottom of the page.

For a finishing touch I added gems, glitter white snowflakes and splashes of ink.

You can check out he process video here 

Thanks for joining me and have a happy scrappy day :)

Sarah

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