Paper Mash Up

Paper Mash Up

Hi There!

Brrr!  Autumn has arrived -

Chilly mornings, warm and

sometimes sunny days.

We shall soon have to

light the fire in the evenings

......now where did I put

that rug.................?

Helen Chilton is with us

today to show us what

she has made with those

bits of paper........

"Here are some Christmas decorations 

using paper scraps from my 

(very large) scrap stash!

Cut the shapes out of mount board.

Then get out your paper scraps - 

I've chosen greens and blues for my tree

Cover the back with a larger piece..

....and then lay your chosen scraps 

over the tree shape. 

When you're happy glue them down with a glue stick.

Then flip it over and trim the edges - 

much easier to do it this way than try to 

trim each individual scrap to fit.

The end result is this. 

I've used torn and cut edges on mine.

Here are the four shapes 

all in different colour ways:

After that I did some stamping and embossing 

in silver or gold tinsel embossing powder.

 This is a Woodware stamp which I chose 

because it has lots of different patterns on it

 - very useful.

Here you can see that I've stamped 

fairly randomly:

For the edges I used the more textured powder - 

Stampendous Frantage Embossing enamel 

in either aged silver or aged gold.

After that it's time to embellish using ribbons,

 braids, bells, beads, buttons, sequins....

whatever you've got."

......and here are the final four:

The Star

The Tree

The Bauble

The Stocking

Products Used:



Woodware clear stamp:
Paper scraps
Stampendous Stamp n Stuff Tinsel embossing powder:
Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamel: 

Woohoo!  We're on our way

to preparing for that December

Celebration......  Thank you Helen!

Whatever you celebrate in December

there's bound to be some decoration

involved and Helen's technique really

does lend itself to every occasion

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx