Frosted Designs - ideas for using doilies on your projects

This week's Friday challenge at Frosted Designs is to use doilies on your project.   Doilies have been a popular trend in papercrafting for awhile now.  You can find paper and crocheted doilies, and even doily stamps from various manufacturers.

For my page, I used a square paper doily that I bought as part of a package at a local party supply store.  I laid the doily in the center of a piece of kraft cardstock and then misted over it with Mr. Huey's white mist.  Then I cut off one corner of the doily and tucked it under the bottom of my photo, and topped it with a piece of polka dot transparency and a blue ribbon bow. 

 

We'd love to see your project this week, so join in the challenge and link your project to the Frosted Designs website.   You could win an awesome prize from this week's sponsor, Graphic 45.

Frugal Finds @ Practical Scrappers - toothpicks!

I have to admit that I never would have thought of using toothpicks on my scrapbook pages, so I thought it would be really interesting to work with this challenge.  I started with 10 toothpicks, and painted them white.   Then I used my Cricut and the George & Basic Shapes cartridge to cut a 3.5" star from patterned paper and from cardstock.  Layering the two shapes added a little bit of dimension to the image.  The star was adhered to the top LH corner of the page, and then the toothpicks were adhered with micro glue dots to outline the star.  One end of each toothpick was clipped to fit the star edge.

The photo of my nieces at our annual hometown 4th of July parade was placed in the bottom RH corner to balance the star.   I added some misting with white Mr. Huey mist, and then used a mask and Ranger pearl paint to add a few stars.