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Triple Boo for a Start

Although I have been playing with paper for decades, it feels like I am on a new journey.  I have found a love for die-cuts and card-making "things"...even though I have never been a "card person" or a "scrapbooker."  But hey, there are no rules!

For my first finished "piece" I present "Triple Boo's"!  



I definitely need to do some research on how to take better photos!  

Supplies:

Process:

  • I didn't really have any sort of project in mind when I started.  At first I just wanted to try cutting out the little ghost out of white card stock.  
  • Then I wanted to see what it would look like out of patterned paper.  
    • It didn't seem like the arms and mouth stood out very well, so I tried to shade around those parts with some watered-down ink.  I must have had some purple out somewhere...but not sure what it was.  I am pretty sure that it was a bit much!  ;o)
    • I cut out a flower from the same patterned paper and put it on the ghosts head.
  • Then I tried dabbing up the rest of the ink with the paper.  I loved the effect and cut the third ghost (far left) out with that.  She's my favorite.

  • At this point I pivoted to trying to organize and audit my craft supplies.  I came across the set of flower dies I had purchased months ago...before I even had a die cutting machine!  Those little flowers were more challenging to do than I thought.  I tried watching a couple of tutorials, but I think I need to practice more.  Since I already had the pattern paper scrap from ghost #2, I just used that.  And then I got the idea to put the flowers on the other two ghosts that did not have a head adornment yet.
  • Since that pattern paper already had little flowers on it, I fussy cut out two of them to give to 
  • Now I had three ghosties, and decided I needed to do something with them.  I pulled out some stencils (I had never used) and tried to find a yellow to match the pattern paper.  Actually, this might be the first time I've ever used any stencil! 



    I blotted a cotton ball scrap I had on the ink pad and used that.  Not the best tool, but it worked.
  • I thought I'd also use a watered down version of the blue ink on the stencil and just offset it a bit.  In hindsight, I wish I had just left the yellow.
  • I placed the ghosts on the background and painted on a bit of shadow with the same watered down blue ink.

  • I decided to try and "finish" it by giving it a border.  I hand tore strips of the same pattern paper and placed them as a frame.  
  • It felt like it still needed a little something, so I die cut "Boo" from the same set that the ghost came in and placed it under them.  
  • For a quick and easy display, I bought a little 6"x4" frame (Dollar Tree) and used some Magic Scotch tape rolled up on itself to attach it to the outside of the frame.  The frame is really just a stand that I can reuse!  (And hopefully the tape comes off the paper without any problems.)
Woohoo!  Three Little Boos!


It isn't nearly as polished as I would like, but by golly it was fun to make and it is done!  I did a thing!  And even documented it!









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