Tutorial-Decorative Photo Corner Overlays

In this month's Mini Creative Kit there was a set of yellow overlay photo corners with flourish designs on them.  These can be easily recreated with transparency paper, Staz-On Ink, and/or paint.  They can even be dressed up a bit with glitter and rhinestones!  Here is an example...

Supply List:
Staz On Ink (or other similar ink pad)
Stamps (flourishes, corner designs)
Glitter and/or glitter glue (Stickles)
Rhinestones
Transparency Paper (Clear Paper)
Acrylic Paint

Step 1:
I use 4x6 photos often when I scrapbook, so I cut a few pieces transparency paper down to 4x6.

Step 2:
Either using the acrylic paint, or ink pad, ink up your stamp and stamp your image on the transparency.  The stamp will slip and slide around if you are not steady, so you might want to try a test stamp first on a scrap piece of transparency.

Step 3:
After the ink/paint has dried, turn the transparency over and rub glue over the back side of the image, sprinkle on a small amount of glitter and tap off the excess. (Or use Stickles and rub it around with your finger to create a thin film of glitter.)

Step 4:
Turn the transparency back over (right side up) and add a few rhinestones to the front.

It's that simple!  Here are a few photos of some that I made tonight.  I made 2 Decorative Photo Overlays and 2 bracket journal blocks. 

Acetate Glittered Embellishments Tutorial

The "inspiration kit" comes with a great little acetate heart, which they have embellished a bit using glitter.  It is used on this card.

Re-creating the embellishment using stamps...
We found this tutorial for "a glitter with acetate tutorial" from the Scrappychick blog. 
And another "glitter and acetate tutorial" from the scrapnstamp blog.

Re-creating the embellishment using Stickles...
Here is a tutorial for using your stamps and Stickles.
Re-creating the embellishment using rub-ons...

Bethany came up with this great tutorial...
The Heart Art Acetate is such a fun embellishment and pretty easy to recreate.  For my version, all you need is rub ons, glitter, glue and transparencies (I used leftover bits from a laminating project). 

I put the rub on on the transparency and  then cut out around the lines.  Then I turned it over and put a thin layer of glue on back and sprinkled glitter.  All you have to do it let it dry and you are ready to go!  Super easy!

Counterfeit "Maya Road Transparency Doily" Tutorial

We have done some research, and found a fun and simple way to counterfeit Maya Road's Transparency Doilies. 

Betsy Veldman put up a great tutorial for creating doilies (using stamps) on her blog called Paper, Scissors, Superheros.  You can view the blog post here, it is called "Build a Doily". 

Meridy's "Build a Doily" on transparency paper.

To make your doilies look more like the Maya Road ones, rather than creating doilies with colored ink, as Betsy shows us in her tutorial, use Black Staz-On Ink and stamp them on recycled acetate packaging or a transparency sheet.  And there you have it...WARNING: you can get addicted to making these little pretties!!!

Another option is to cut a doily using you Cricut, Silhouette, or other die cutting machine.  Or grab a real small doily and ink it to be any color you would like.  Both alternatives are very simple and quick!