Materials…

• Cardstock
• Karen Foster patterned paper
• Inkpads
• Pen
• Poster paint pen
• Heidi Swapp , Lakeland chipboard alphabet
• Large gems
• American Crafts chipboard arrows
• Art Impressions star stamp
• Embossing powder
• Sticky foam pads

To create…

1 Print and trim your photograph to the desired size. Add a single line border using a white poster paint pen.

2 Cut a large circle from the dark blue cardstock and a medium and small circle from the lighter blue cardstock. Ink the edges of all of these with dark blue ink and add a doodled border with black pen.

3 Layer the three circles and photograph onto the Karen foster paper. Add the outer disk of the Lakeland chipboard ‘R’ to fit within the small circle, overlapping the other layers. Lightly dab the centre with the blue ink.

4 Add the rest of the title using the Heidi Swapp chipboard letters. Dab these lightly with the blue and red inkpads. Add chipboard arrows and doodle along the edges of all the chipboard pieces with black pen.

5 Draw circles onto the base paper to look as if they have been layered below the others. Trim the whole laid-out corner out of the Karen Foster paper and add a black doodled border to the circular edges.

6 Lay this piece onto Mustard cardstock, displaced slightly from the corner, and mark lightly with pencil where you want it to go. Remove it and stamp the star image a few times so it will peep out from behind. Sprinkle with the black embossing powder ant set with the heat gun.

7 Re-attach the layered piece and add a doodled border in line with it around the whole layout. Stamp and emboss the star onto the Harvest Stripe patterned paper, cut out and attach to the corner of the layout with sticky foam pads.

8 Add a circle of red gems around the letter ‘R’ disc and another around the focal point of your photograph.

Project by Rachel Burgess. Originally published in Scrapbook Magazine issue 30.