Tutorial - Scrunching Paper

Supplies needed:
1. distressing tool (optional)
2. ink with blender (optional)
3. spray bottle with water
4. heating tool (optional)
5. lace (optional)
6. double sided paper for the top (preferred)
7. paper for the bottom

Ink and distress the edges (optional).

Use your spray bottle to spritz around all the edges of the paper you are going to scrunch. Use your finger to blend and spread the water and let the ink run wild.

Going back to the first edge of where you spritzed, use a pinching motion to scrunch the paper. Depending on how much scrunching you want, move your pinching around like a zig zag motion, you may add more water if you need to for the effect you want.

Here I am bending back a fold that was slightly torn. I like to show off both sides of double sided paper.

I use a low heat setting so my paper won't fly away, to dry around the edges and it makes the paper stiff. Air drying works too, but takes longer.

I use my blender to apply more ink to all the creases made from scrunching.
(optional)

I cut up pieces of lace to place behind the more scrunched up areas for a nice effect (optional). Then glued it all down.

Never To Be Forgotten ~ Scraps of Darkness

Here is the first page I have made of my mom since she has passed away in December. I used the beautiful Time Flies kit with bits and pieces from previous kits. This page will be submitted in the Book of Me Challenge for Jan 2011 at SB.com. Her death had the greatest impact of my year for 2010. I wanted to make a page that would hold some journaling of my heartache. So that envelope holds : "The Ironies of Your Death" How angry I was at God for 'taking you away from me' when you were diagnosed with cancer. Then at the end I pleaded with him to take you away, so you wouldn't have to suffer anymore. It feels like I hardly got to have you in my life, that you were taken too soon. But I was fortunate to have you in my life, as long as I did. I miss you so much and I know I will never see you again. But then, when my journey is over here, we will be together again. This picture of my mom was taken in 1957.

Here is the envelope that holds my heartache. I inked and stamped it with script. I used some cut outs from the Lost and Found Collection to decorate it as well.

Here are many of the gorgeous flowers from Scraps of Darkness. The J is a symbol for my mom's name, Judy.

Here are some of the different layers I created.

Wildcats-Class of 2007 ~ Scraps of Darkness

I used the August Midnight Garden kit to make this page of my niece with her senior pictures. I liked using the owl since it ties to graduation and intelligence. I kept with using white and black and red which were her high school colors. My Mind's Eye Meadow Lark papers went perfectly with my color theme.

I colored in the owl with a red pencil. Those flowers were made by my friend Tab. Awesome right!?!

I cut the mascot, title and class motto from her graduation notice/card. I love using real scraps.

Back in Time ~ Scraps of Darkness

Another totally terrific kit!! This one is December's Time Flies addition. I love these papers from Kaiser Craft and 7 gypsies. I thought this vintage photo of my great grandparents would work beautifully with this designed sketch by Mandy included in the kit. The photo was taken in the early 1920's. The Prima flower and alphas were from my stash.

I tried adding more clocks under the flower to add to my theme of time. Love these feathers.

Our 1st Noel ~ Scraps of Darkness

I made this page using the Midnight Garden Kit from August. This lo is also entered in 2 challenges at SOD, their Darkest Side Challenge and Holiday Technique Challenge. Some embellies came from the new December Kit, Time Flies...the star, bow and silver ribbon. The reindeer, title, flower and beads are from my stash. These are my girls in Dec 2002.















I decorated these trees using beads.

This beautiful flower was made by Veronica. I Added the silver leaf behind it.

Joy

This is a page I made to frame for my family's White Elephant gift exchange ( I better watch them fight over it or else lol). I have some amazing friends who contributed to this lo. Thank you so much. This is almost all of us at our annual family Christmas party in 2009.

I really tried to do something different, so I did some wet distressing and added some lace to some corners. I made my own garland with ribbon, candy canes and bows.

The gold leaves, I cut from a big arrangement.

The reindeer is an ornament from the dollar store.

The presents are ornaments, that I cut in half and rearranged to fit better on the page.

Genuine Rebel ~ Scraps of Darkness

Here is more of the November Rain kit. I had to make a rebel looking page with these papers for my son. I used the monthly sketch for this design. I changed it up quite a bit, making it more masculine than feminine to go with my theme. My son at Chuck E Cheese in June 2010.

I cut this skull out of the grunge paper, inked it with different browns and black. Then I used the crackle accents to finish it off. I also used the stamp on the grunge paper. I used a lot of my gold stars, which some I hot glued into the bottle caps.

I misted my TH letters with Slate, and added a my swivel chain with token as part of the title.