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Tropical Travelogue

Altered Umbrella 
'Escape' 

Hello dear G45ers! 

Sharing an Altered Umbrella featuring the gorgeous

Tropical Travelogue Deluxe Collector's Edition! 
Love the vibrant colors in this collection they 
are so pretty and gives you that tropical beach feel. 
Perfect for a Tropical Island theme!

Herewith the Supplies and Instructions you 

may use to recreate such a project:

G45 Supplies used:
Tropical Travelouge DCE
Square Tag & Clock Die
Large Tag, ATC Tag & Flower Die

Other Supplies:
Umbrella
Silhouette (optional)

Various other dies

Watercolor Paper
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Chipboard Pieces

Ranger Embossing Powders White & Tea Rose 

White Eyelets

Black Paint

Heavy Body Gel

Glossy Accents

Rhinestones and Flat Back Pearls

String and Sequins 
Ribbon

Cut 16 pieces from the collection sheets and adhere
them with heavy body gel. Back and front. Leave to dry.
I used my Silhouette (optional) as a guideline
 for the shapes. I cut them using a 
random umbrella picture.

Tip: Cut the pieces from scrap paper first to make 
sure they fit the umbrella. 

Adhere the rhinestones with glossy accents, leave to dry.
Paint the handle and inner piece with black paint.

Cut a few die cut shapes
 (leaves, flowers, butterflies, doilies)

using the G45 dies and various other dies
 from black cardstock and the collection sheets.

Cut a few flowers from black cardstock and 
collection sheets. Layer the small flowers 
onto the black flowers. Add a flat back pearl to 
the centre of each flower.

Tip: Only add a dab of glue to the middle of 
each flower so that you can curl the sides 
up giving the flowers some dimension.

Cut 2 flowers from watercolor paper and
 run them through your die cutting machine
 using the dots embossing folder. Randomly 
colour the pieces with colorbox inks.
Tip: Ink the edges with black ink. 
This will make the colours on the flowers pop.

Heat emboss the chipboard pieces with 
embossing powders.
(I removed the title from the arrow).

Add eyelets through the holes of the chipboard 
pieces. Add ribbon to the handle of the 
umbrella and a one chipboard element.

Some more photos...

Thanks for stopping by! 

Happy Papercrafting! 

Tanya