Embellish it - make your own

Finally Thursday...and May is right around the corner. We are still getting random snow storms here -doesn't stick but still...depressing. My way to deal with stress or being stuck without a car is to do something crafty; so today I made a couple embellshments for my set of scrapbooking pages I have been looking at forever.

I really need to make some time to work on the kids first year scrapbooks - I am sooo behind. I HAVE to find a way to make it faster. I am considering digital but I think I need an external hard drive first. I don't know though - part of the fun is making somthing out of simple items like paper...it just takes a while.

Okay so my first embellishment it this monogram G. I cut a stencil with the Graphically Speaking cartridge with my cricut and painted the g onto kraft cardstock. Then I used a white pen to add the stitching and added the word girl - cut from the same cartridge (sorry my pictures are fuzzy I couldn't find a setting that would work for this stuff.)

I was going to have this in a different place on my page but I tried to draw a flower and it messed up - then I messed it up more by trying to punch a little flower and it ruined the bottom so my solution was to move it and have it pop out of the journaling.

Then I wanted to make a monogram A for her name. I got these blue chipboard letters on clearance for a couple dollars.

Yikes, that is a terrible picture - the point was to show you that they started out as blue. 

I got the A, mixed pink and blue to make purple and painted the a purple. I inked the edges with colorbox chestnut roan cat eye (I use this all the time and it is awesome). Then I added stitching to the A as well.

Then I wanted to decorate the A so I cut two slits around the leg of the A and tied a ribbon. I clipped the ends.

I had a lot of mistakes on this page but I tried a lot of things and it is better to try for the sun and land in the stars then not even bother to jump.

I jumped - tried some different techniques - some failed some succeeded. 

Here is the result: