
Thanks for stoping by today! It's my turn to host the Friday Focus at Frilly and Funky, and this week "seasonal" Alterations (Dies and Texture Fades) are discounted in Linda's shop, The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I've used the Sizzix Halloween Texture Fades - Backgrounds & Borders set.
I started with a piece of paper that I wanted to jazz up a bit with some inking and stamping. This little guy is almost fifteen years old now... the days are long but the years are short!

I ran a small piece of the green paper through my Vagabond (any diecutting machine will work) with the Fade, and I wanted to point out how helpful it is to use a shim. On the left is one I cut without a shim, and on the right is one cut with one:

Big difference, right? This paper is so thin that the Fade cut through in places, showing the white core. A shim is just a little cushion that makes for a slightly softer and smoother cut. I usually just fold a piece of leftover printer paper into fourths and put it right behind my patterned paper.
Remember that with the Fades, you can use just parts of them as well as the whole. The one I used has twelve words as well as the number 31... lots of possibilities. I often use scraps to get just a part of a Fade. Here I went for the '31' section and you can see my shim sticking out a bit beneath the green paper:

I decided I wanted more contrast for the page so I went with orange instead, and added some text paper and a black mat. After distressing the edges, I cut a window to fit my picture, making the Fade into a frame:

Back to customizing my paper, I used Tim's spiderweb mask with black soot distress ink, and then cut another strip of the green paper and ran my distress ink pad directly across the raised edges to make those letters pop:

I added the 'trick-or-treat' strip to the bottom of the paper and cut a Mini Ticket to use as a journaling spot for the date. I colored it with different distress inks and embellished it with a metal charm, one of Tim's file tabs, a ribbon scrap and the year (diecut from the Sizzix Typeset die). After stamping a black cat, I added some Dusty Attic barbed wire chipboard, painted with Ranger's black paint dauber and attached with Tim's Tiny Attacher.
Thanks again for the visit. Be sure to stop by Linda's shop to see all the Seasonal Alterations on sale (including Halloween, Autumn, Winter, and Christmas.)
I'll link this to the Halloween theme at Paper Issues and the Dies/Punches challenge at Simon Says Stamp.
Hope you have a great weekend!
Marjie
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