I am making a scrapbook for a classmate of my 6th grader’s who is relocating when school ends this week. She loves scrapbooks so I got all the kids in class (plus her current and former teachers) to each create a scrapbook page in a basic way that I then jazzed up. I’m on the home stretch.
I stumbled upon two really cheap finds at Big Lots to help me complete the project: a pack of 25 sheets of argyle 12 x 12 cardstock for $2 (I got 3) and this pack of chipboard letters (just one of each so a total of 26) in a "Polka Dottie Bikini" pattern (cute but didn’t work for my project) for $1! The chipboard says Cloud 9 Design but also that it’s by Fiskars. Letters when popped out are 3 1/2" high. Excellent quality of both items. I found them in the stationery aisle, not the aisle where the scrapbooks are (halfway across the store at my location). The paper was shrink wrapped in a pack of 25 and the paper is so thick and sturdy. I had to cut a 1/4" white trim off it by hand (paper cutter). Anyway, the point of this, besides sharing a steal and encouraging you to run to Big Lots, is that I tranformed the chipboard and it turned out awesome!
The girl who this is for is named Camille or Cami for short. She loves purple and the album has purple as one of its primary colors. I used SU’s Craft (pigment – sticky) Stamp Pad to change it from the orange-ish to purple. The photo is the three-step before & after. The middle letter is only after one coat of Craft Ink. I let it sit around air drying. Just now I stamped another coat which seemed to completely cover the orange and polka dots. I then sprinkled that with Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder and heat set it with my heat tool. Didn’t it turn out great?
I’m writing "CAMI" out on the front cover of the album. And all it cost me was a buck!
