Day 245: Dedication Page

Today I worked on my Dedication page.  I wanted to dedicate my album to the Lord, and I have been trying to come up with the best way to do it.  This paper was the reverse design of the paper I used for my Baptism page, and I thought it was pretty, and there was space on the right for me to journal this prayer to the Lord, so I decided to use it as the page background. It works out well because the Dedication page will be the first page in the album and the Baptism page will be the second page.  The prayer was copied from Sharon Sheridan's book, Pages of Faith:  The Art of Spiritual Scrapbooking, with a few modifications. I used a journaling pen from Creative Memories to write the prayer and the Bible verse from 1 Corinthians 10:31 along the stem of the branch supporting the upper bird. I underlined words I wanted to emphasize with gold Smooch paint by Hampton Arts . The "faith" embellishment is from Me and My Big Ideas.

Day 16: Embossing a Background

From the time the kids were little, they have always blown the fluffy white dandelions off their stems and made a wish. I took photos of them doing that and tonight I was working on my daughter's scrapbook page. Using VersaMark ink, I stamped several of Penny Black's "lace flower" stamp on white vellum. I poured white embossing powder (Stampin' Up!) on the blooms, shook off the excess, and then poured green embossing powder (Stampin' Up!) on the stems, shook off the excess, and then heated with my heat tool (Stampin' Up!). I really like the effect. It looks like the dandelions are blowing around in the wind, and the vellum adds a softness to the page I like. I still have more to do on this page, but it is late, so I will get back to it tomorrow.