New Year's Eve ...

well ladies, here in Canada it is officially New Year's Eve and depending what part of the planet you live on you may already be in 2009. As promised, we'll be posting the three remaining inspirational tutorial posts from the 12 Days of Scrap-Mas and announcing the two winners of our boxing day RAK. First up - our design team member Amy's awesome tutorial!

Scrapbooking can get a bit pricy when all the papers, ribbon, adhesive, and other fun embellishments are added up. When creating projects and cards I love to make my own easy and fun embellishments that I can add to my work. It gives the piece more detail and a unique touch. Since layered accents are hit a right now, here are two different embellishments you can make to spice up your projects!

TUTORIAL ONE:

Layer Ribbon Embellishment Steps:
1. Gather materials: Ribbon; flowers, buttons; adhesive (hot glue works really well); scissors
2. Tie two bows with coordinating ribbon.
3. Overlap two bows at the center and adhere together with adhesive.
4. Adhere a flower or button at the center.

This is card I made using this embellishment technique:

TUTORIAL TWO:

Layered Circle Embellishment Step:
1. Gather materials: scrap pieces of patterned paper; decorative edge scissors; epoxy stickers; foam squares.
2. Cut four different sized circles using scrap patterned paper and decorative edge scissors.
3. Layer the circles (largest on bottom to smallest on top) and adhere together with foam squares
4. Adhere epoxy sticker on top.

This is a card I made using this embellishment technique:

Thank you Amy for that tutorial. It's great.

Be sure to swing by again in an hour or two, when we post yet another 12 Days of Scrap-Mas post. If you haven't completed the December challenges yet you have until 11:59pm EST to get them in and qualify for the Scrapbook Deals 4 U prize kit.