Five Things to do with Wood Veneer by Wilna Furstenberg
We all have some wood veneer in our stash. I think I have more than most people and when I was thinking of doing 5 things with one product, wood veneer shapes came to mind. Working smaller projects for this post, I found that I can pay more attention to details. In the end, I love the mood board that I created. This will also work wonderfully for a project life page.
My idea with creating this visual mood board is to focus in on little details. I wanted to treat each little wood veneer as the main attraction of the page. I will explain with every part, just how I did that.
In my stash, I found these whimsical little muslin drawstring bags. And I stamped it with the “handle with care” stamp using some big brush pens (You can see how I use those in this in the mood to scrap video on 2peas). The centre piece is a wood veneer butterfly that I embossed with gold. I literally (as with all the embossed wood veneers used in this project) pressed the butterfly into the versamark pad and sprinkled some embossing powder on and heat it up. The little embellishment is from the Maggie Holmes collection by crate Paper and it completed the little bag perfectly.
This little page is a perfect example of something you can add to project life, in a mini album or as a card. I layered my photo on some mint green paper (from Studio calico’s sundrifter collection) and added the wood veneers with my hot glue gun in a little row. I used a 7 gypsies stamp and black ink to stamp on the wood veneers and you can see the lovely texture it created. To add some softness to the card, I punched a hole at the top and bottom and threaded a organza ribbon through it.
This card consists of a Maya Road envelope and some tags I added at the top. I stamped the tags with the same 7 gypsies stamp and gold embossed the wood veneers to match the butterfly from the little bag. The feathers is embossed with pink and layered over an american craft sticker and some Maggie Holmes paper from her new collection. I love how pretty this piece turned out. It’s simple and complex all at the same time. This will make a beautiful feature on a scrapbook layout.
This card can be a mini album cover. I layered the wood veneer pieces (these hearts are from lawn fawn) between layers of tulle fabric that I stitched down on some Lucky charm paper. Sometimes less is definitely more. I love the splash of green that I cut with my silhouette cameo. The flair button is by Evalicious.
This card is simply layers. I layered stickers and a tag, some chipboard words and a chipboard hart. And on top i used a fern wood veneer that I painted white with gesso and a wood veneer frame that I embossed with a glitter pink. I finished it off with the same organza ribbon that I used on another card.
This tag is also one of my favourites. I used a wood grain big roller stamp (from Glitz) and embossed it in white on a tag. Then I added the flower wood veneer that I painted white and coloured with different colors gelatos. (you can see how I use gelatos in this video2 on 2peas) For a finishing touch I added the organza ribbon.
As you can see, there are so many ways to dress up the wood veneer pieces. I loved playing with them in such a whimsical way, thinking of creative ways to use them on each little layout. I hope this inspires you to look at your wood veneers in a new and different way.
| Wilna Furstenberg is a South African Canadian that lives in Saskatchewan Canada with her husband of 22 years and 3 girls. She has been a designer in the scrapbooking industry for 8 years and have been on various Manufacturer Design teams and have been published in a various scrapbooking publications. At the moment she focuses on growing her Photography business and she is a garden girl at 2peas in a bucket. Her recent Artclass workshop on 2peas has been very popular and she is working on artclass 2 coming out in the fall. You can find her blog at: www.wilnaf.com and follow her on twitter and Instagram# . |  |
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