Hurricane Irene has passed with no further problems. So today I did my errands and had to stop by the local scrapbook store. I'm behind on the "new stuff" curve and am just starting to play with Glimmer Mist. I'm working on scraping a 4th of July page and wanted to try something different. I saw an idea on Cricut website for the Word Collage cartridge and wanted to give a try.
However, I wasn't very successful. What the picture showed was a flag background with chalked letters for 4th of July. I tried different ways to create a stencil - I used poster board then vinyl and just didn't work. The size I was trying to do may have a lot to do with that. I'll have to do some searching online to see how others manage this trick. I wanted the "negative" so I could chalk the words onto a background I made using Glimmer Mist.
What I did instead was make my background with Glimmer Mist -- Red Velvet, Snow Queen and Bell Bottom Jeans. I sprayed onto white cardstock I had in my stash. I had gotten CRI-
Kits Gel Pen Holder & Pens and decided to give them a try. Wow!! They worked great. I'll be using them on more of my projects. I did get all the colors available.
I think this looks pretty good considering it's not what I was trying to do. Sometimes what I end up with works better than what I was trying to create. But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to keep trying to do the stencil idea. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to do a 8 x 8 mini album or just a two page layout but I'll post my project when I'm finished.
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