The Little Things by Meg Barker. Supplies Cardstock: Bo-Bunny Press; Chipboard: Scenic Route; Mesh: Magic Mesh; Stickers: American Crafts and Heidi Grace Designs; Transparency: Hambly Screen Prints; Adhesive: Adhesive Technologies, Inc.; Other: Paint, pen, staples and white letter stickers.

Design Technique: To create visual interest when layering accents that have a pattern like Meg Barker's circle designs, simply tuck one of the layers behind a photo and add the others layers on top.

Check out more of Meg Barker's work here.

This Beauty by Pam Callaghan. Supplies Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper and Die Cuts With a View; Patterned paper: Autumn Leaves (blue), Cosmo Cricket (red), Luxe Designs (green), Scrapworks (brown) and We R memory Keepers (leaves); Flowers: Prima; Stickers: Doodlebug Design; Chipboard: Fancy Pants Designs and Scenic Route; Rhinestones: Heidi Swapp for Advantus; Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0; Fonts: Adler and Ecolier-Court; Adhesive: EK Success.

Embellishment Technique: Create your own bracket using a computer program with lines. Type your text on each line and print out your bracket onto colored paper.

 Free Download! You can download Pam Callaghan's terrific bracket accent here.

The Joys of Spring by Stacy Cohen. Supplies Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper and Core'dinations; Patterned paper: Graphic 45; Letter stickers: BasicGrey and Making Memories; Paint: Making Memories, Tim Holtz and Shimmerz, Shimmering Products; Leaves: Prima; Ink: Clearsnap; Embroidery floss: DMC; Rhinestones: Darice; Liquid spray: Glimmer Mist, Tattered Angels; Wood fence: Michaels; Pen: Sakura; Other: Lace and flowers.

Embellishment Technique: To create the clouds on this layout, hand-cut your cloud shapes and temporarily adhere them into place on your layout to use as a mask. Spray the paper with blue Glimmer Mist to resemble the sky. Once the color spray is dry, remove the hand-cut clouds. Add texture with puffy paint and hand-stitch around the edges of the clouds.

Ride High by Kim Arnold. Supplies Patterned paper: Pink Paislee; Transparency: Hambly Screen Prints; Photo turn and tag: 7gypsies; Journaling sheer: Maya Road; Chipboard: Creative Imaginations and Pink Paislee; Letter stickers: Making Memories; Other: Twine.

Embellishment Tip: Create a personalized border using shapes hand-cut from patterned paper, like Kim Arnold did here with the circles on her page.

Check out more of Kim Arnold's work here.

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October 2009