Oh my gosh!  Has it REALLY been a full month since I've posted here?!?  Well, yup, it sure looks like it. Yikes!  Apparently I've stayed plenty busy with other activities; September HAS been a good month!  (Many thanks to all of you who have had a part in that, btw.)    

So over the weekend I co-hosted our 2nd Scrap Camp. And immersing myself in preparing for the event renewed my enthusiasm to get back to work on that (shhhh!) now-5-year-overdue wedding album….. so I dragged it out again and got a few more pages accomplished.  It really IS fun to work on, but I'm such a SLOOOW scrapper!  Anyway, one of the pages I finished included this one – and I thought I'd share how I did the swirls up both sides.

I really had a vision of something "tone on tone" so as to have a little something in those boring blank areas, but I definitely didn't want something that would distract from the photo.  So this is how it turned out.  This is a right-hand page; the facing page also has these same swirls that echo the design element, too.

The process was actually very simple.  I started by die-cutting the swirl with the (sadly) now-retired "Swirly" Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die – from Basic Black cardstock.  Then I tapped a Versamark pad all over the swirl, then dumped on clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.  Then attached with 2-way glue pen, and that's IT!  I got exactly the tone-on-tone, glossy vs. matte look I was after!  Kewl!

And another big-deal accomplishment to report today; this morning I figured out how to "stitch" photos (er, "scans", actually) together in Photoshop Elements to accomplish creating this photo to post in the first place!  Yippee!!