Vellum tips and ideas

Vellum tips & ideas
1. Use as a card overlay.
2. Make a vellum shaker.
3. Use as a mat – tear edges or cut with decorative scissors.
4. Dry embossing – stamp on paper, place under vellum and "trace" with stylus.
5. Reflection technique – stamp on vellum, then turn it over and upside down, stamp again. Looks like a reflection of original image.
6. Use white ink to stamp snowflakes on white vellum.
7. Stamp on front of vellum, color with bright markers on the back. Gives an opaque look.
8. Do powder embossing – excellent powder choices are white, gold, silver.
9. Make These Items From Vellum To Add A Special Accent To Your Page or Cards:
· Princess dress
· Snowman / snowballs / snowflakes
· Frosting on a cupcake / cake
· Windshields for cars
· Glass front for an oven door
· Lenses in glasses (use brown for sunglasses)
· "Rose" colored glasses
· Mermaid tail / scales (green)
· Pool / Lake / Beach water
· Waves (layer three blues - cut or tear)
· Sand (layer three browns - cut or tear)
· Raindrops or puddles (light blue)
· Leaves (spring or fall colors)
· Flowers and flower petals, dandelion
· Clouds
· Fish / fins for fish
· Wings: Butterfly, bee, dragonfly, fairy, angel
· Squares for ice cubes (white)
· Flame for candle (orange)
· Circles for bubbles (white)
· Light bulbs
· Christmas lights / Christmas balls on trees
· Lamp shade, window shades
· Sheer curtain / shower curtain
· Table cloth
· Bug jar / flower jar
· Aquarium glass
· Baby bottle
· Ghost
· Wedding dress / veil
· Confirmation or baptism gown
· Smoke
· Blue birds
· Berries
· Lightning
· Jewels
· Fire
· Lips
· Ladybugs
· Rose petals
· Bruises on paper dolls for boo-boos (purple)
· Seaweed
· Critters: Frogs, caterpillars, snakes