Polystyrene circle base and Lemon Craft Silence Papers

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When I was sent this polystyrene circle base, at first I thought, "what does Julie expect me to do with this", so a little treat of white chocolate put me in a head space to create a picture perfect scenery using the Lemon Craft Silence paper collection, which is just so pretty.

This project required some fussy cutting, and you know I am not a huge fan of fussy cutting, although my patience with this didn't wear thin, and I actually enjoyed it, maybe it was the combination of pretty papers, coffee and yes, as mentioned the white chocolate :-) 


Firstly I started by tracing the circle base on one of the papers that already had a slight pink tinge through it, and then added more pink using the Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink, this really made the paper pop.

Once that was done, I added a strip of paper on the bottom of the base to add some colour.

I then added some Webster fabric ribbon found in my stash that was just perfect for this project. I added a strip at the top of frames, a gate strip, and fussy cut the words for the bottom of the piece - Life's Portrait - Pure Smile, Today.

Using my mini circle stencil, I dabbed the stencil using distress paint in black soot, and a little squeezed lemonade.


Once that was completed, I decided which embellishments and words I wanted to use and started to fussy cut these from the beautiful Lemon Craft Collection

I then started to place these around the circle, using modge podge glue and dimensional to adhere the embellishments on to make some pop up.


Once everything was placed down, I added some stickles in ice glaze and some pearls in black and olive green to finish it off.




I love it! Picture perfect :-) 

You can find all the products I used from Scrap of Your Life and if you can't find what you need, message Julie and she will source it in!

Happy Crafting

Michelle xx

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