DT: Kingston Crafts – spring shrink plastic

I’m back to using the spring themed shrink plastic kit from Kingston Crafts for my design team projects and this time I decided to a whole set of the cute flowers to use as embellishments for a scrap page.

This was the project part way through…

I had decided to create strips of the everyday cardstock for the main background for the page. I then distressed the edges to expose the white core and created a basket weave as it went with the theme of the photo (my daughter as a 6 month old sitting and playing in the ironing basket!). The everyday cardstock is two toned with one side slightly lighter than the other and this worked perfectly for creating some additional but subtle tones to the background.

I mat the photo with white and then a panel from the Summer collection papers and some strips of orange.

I decided to place the woven strips on an angle and then the picture to the bottom right then created a scatter of the flowers from top right to bottom left. I had coloured the flowers with my stampin write markers in a mix of the orange and pinks to bring in a bit of bright contrast. I then dotted the yellow and orange glitter glue across the same diagonal.

I also added in just a few larger spots of the red glitter glue once the first lot had dried as I wanted some larger bits of sparkle.

Next I worked on the title for the page and went with basket case as it just seemed fitting – I used the everyday cardstock and die cut the letters and stacked them. I decided the yellow ones needed more definition to stand out (I had originally thought they would go under the photo in the white space but changed my mine to put them onto the woven pieces). So I inked them lightly with the coral ink and this helped bring them out. The orange ones for case didn’t need the inking as they already had enough contrast.

I then decided to take some of the patterned paper I had used under the photo and die cut some little leaf sprigs to sit behind the flowers. This just added a little more pattern and texture and helped connect the flowers across the page.

I then added in my journaling and called it done!

With all the woven panels and those cute shrink plastic flowers I didn’t think it needed much else and the important part is of course it was another story told and preserved – which is what scrapbooking is about for me.

Happy crafting!

Catherine