'Life at 38' Step by Step layout by Ingeborg Dijkstra

List of materials:

• White cardstock
• Black pen
• White pen (American Crafts)
• Clear Stamps Flowers (ProvoCraft)
• Clear Stamps Doodled Flowers (KaiserCraft)
• Clear Stamps ’All about me’ (Technique Tuesday)
• Thickers Vera Taffy (American Crafts)
• Black inkpad Jet Black (Stazon)
• Rhinestones (KaiserCraft)
• Glitter Glue (Kindy Glitz by Derivan)
• Correction Tape (Pritt)
• Alphabet Clear Stamps

Techniques and instructions (click on the picture above to see more details):

1. To create a white border I used correction tape on all four sides.


2. I outlined the white strip with black pen.


3. I coloured a pattern of pink onto the correction tape and added the number ‘38’ with stickers. I outlined the stickers in white.


4. I stamped the word ‘life’ onto a white sheet of cardstock.


5. I doodled a ‘funky border’ in pencil (hard to see on the picture, sorry). I also stamped the word ‘at’.


6. I drew random curls on each side of the paper.


7. I added a ‘double line’ around my doodled border to create more dimension.


8. A close up look at the double doodled border.


9. I traced the outside doodled border on a thin sheet of 12x12 paper.


10. I cut around the lines to create a mask.


11. I used different stamps with suitable words and images to create a unique background.


12. Using the hand cut mask I stamped all around the page.


13. I removed the mask to reveal the background.


14. I used pencils, markers and pens to colour the images.


15. Using a craft knife I cut a slit in one of the corners.


16. The slit is only a few centimetres long.


17. I tucked one of the corners of my photo under the slit.


18. I used different stamps for my journaling block.


19. I added some more stamped images to embellish the page.


20. I added rhinestones to finish the page.