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Hey again, Mandy here.
I am on a roll making my own scrapbook embellishments. I just love making a pile of embellies which I can reach for, rummage through, and find something suitable to add to a layout. This is what I got up to recently...
First of all I created the circle wordart on my computer (using Microsoft Office Word). It took some fiddling about to get exactly the right size so that when printed out, each circle of words fitted nicely inside my 2" circle punch. This is what the sheets look like printed out on different cardstock...
Here is the pdf file to download and print them yourself. Just check your printer doesn't helpfully adjust the print size in any way! Download Circular Word Art for 2 inch punch
Once I had my printed sheets I set to work punching out a pile of 2" circles with the wordart and an equal amount of 2.5" scallop circles. I used dark brown chalk ink around the edges of the circles...
For the middles I used everything from buttons & brads to crochet flowers and stamping!
In the photo below I used 'Saddle Brown' STAZON to stamp text onto a pink silk flower...
I really like layering when it comes to embellishments so I dug out a 1" circle punch and after stamping onto vintage bookpaper, punched this small circle to layer ontop.
I also did some simple stitching with embroidery floss onto felt circles. Here are some of my favourites...
The large yellow brad (on the top right below) has been stamped with brown STAZON and a text stamp...
If I decide I need a particular colour or specific words for a layout I'm making, then it wouldn't take too long to make up one particular scallop embellishment, but for now I have a pile to reach for!
Bye for now.
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