Large card featuring wax/sanded decorative paper, a train over some ribbon and flagged strips

 Here is the first card I made with my fun papers.  I started with a large blue green card and added a piece of my hand decorated paper in red from the other day.  I added an embossed strip of red cardstock to the front edge and added some marks to the edge with a black fine tip Sharpie to add interest.    I added three little strips of blue green cardstock which had texture and marks made with the Sharpie.  I decided to add ribbon and therefore captured the ends below to half circle of black cardstock on each side which worked very well.  I added my paper pierced (pattern tracing tool) and layered train image (Clipartix) which has a scalloped edge on the bottom cut with decorative scissors which were also paper pierced.  I added an embossed line which I create with my scoring tool.    I added it to my card using 3D foam tape and then tied on a paper button which was sitting on my desk with a short length of ribbon.  Worked perfectly with my design.  Leaving off a greeting so it will be suitable for a variety of occasions.  Therese

Sanding and wax resist on plain solid coloured paper

Wanting a bit of a challenge and to do something hands on I decided to decorate some of my solid coloured sheets of scrapbook paper to give them a bit of a face lift.  I fount 7 sheets and played with those.  I waxed the first one with clear wax rubbed on the raised half of an embossing folder.  I sanded it next but that was not a good idea - all sorts of wax stuck in the sand paper.  I did it in reverse for the next sheets.  Laid the paper on the embossing folder (raised side) and sanded until I could see the pattern then laid this piece on the raised side of a different embossing folder and then rubbed on the clear wax.  Much better.  I then applied watercolour in a variety of colours which worked really well.  I left them to dry but being bit impatient I ended finishing them off with the heat gun which melted the wax and gave the papers a bit of a different look.  All in all a fun afternoon with some unique papers to play with.  I will be doing this again - maybe on decorated paper next time.   Therese