Customizing Your Embellishments

Greetings crafty friends!  I'm up on the Moxxie blog today with a fun page featuring Moxxie's "Fish Stories/Happy Camper" collections.

Ever have an embellishment that you just love and want to use, but it doesn't quite work for your project the way it is?  I have that happen too. Here's an example from my project today that I absolutely loved and wanted to incorporate.

This super cute wooden frame:

My photo collage did not fit under it nicely, so I just cut it apart.

I thought it worked nicely as a dock or fence accent here.

I had some "Lure Me In" paper scraps left from my last project and I decided to cut the word "Fish" and the large fish out and layer them into the design.  To add interest I did cut each of the fins to add some texture.

The sweet little owl was cut from one of the Happy Camper Punch-Out die cuts.  I added Glossy Accents to his eyes and perched him with foam dots on a piece of the rope die cut from that same sheet.

The beige flourish die cuts were the last elements that I put in place. They really help your eye move through the title work and around the page.  

Ingredients Used:

Fish Stories Collection - Moxxie

Happy Camper Collection - Moxxie

Kraft Cardstock

Diamond Stickles and Glossy Accents- Ranger

Enamel Dots - Theresa Collins

Chesapeake Circle - Memory Box Die

Brown Bling - Want2Scrap

Mocha Mama PowderPuff Chalk Ink - Quick Quotes

Other:  Wood Alpha's, Sewing Machine and Thread

Thanks so much for stopping on over today!

~ Rhonda