Vintage Scrapping

Teacher's Gift - Monogram Notebook and Note Cards

Teacher's Day Gift

 

Hello Everyone!!  Finally I will be posting some more things!  I have been so busy creating my mum website which I am so excited to say is now live at www.melzmumz.com  and making mum displays that I have fallen behind on my other crafts!  I do have a few things that I have been meaning to upload so they will be showing up here over the next week or so!!

 

This is a little teacher's day gift I made for my son's two teachers.  First I wanted to make them a personalized notebook.

 
I started out with two composition notebooks - the traditional black and white marbled ones.  First I cut a solid piece of cardstock to fit the front cover and the same for the back.  I kept it about 1/2" from the spine though since it is a little thicker there.   Then using my trust ATG I taped and taped and then glued down the base cardstock.  For the rounded edged I just used my rounded corner punch after I glued the base paper down. 
 
  
 
 

Next I picked the paper I wanted for the main image.  I and cut it about 1/2"shorter all the way around than the base paper.  Then I glued it down to the base paper.

 

For the spine I cut a piece of cardstock (same as the base paper) that was 4" wide.  Using my score board I scored at 1 3/4"and 2 1/4" 

 

Then I used my ribbon punch across the edge of both side of the spine paper and ran some sheer ribbon through it.   After running my ATG all over it, I carefully placed the spine in between the two scored lines and glued the paper down.  This way it had equal amounts on each side of the book and it covered where my base papers stopped.

 

This is the back view:

 

 

Using my nestabilities, I ran a piece of cardstock through cutting the label and then reran it through my cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  I glued it down to a dark piece of cardstock and trimmed it close to the edge.  I used another nestability for the flower shape out of mulberry paper and the smaller flower out of the same cardstock as the base paper.  The monogram inital was part of the paper stack I used - it is a piece of chipboad I glued down.  Added a few buttons in the printed flowers and that's it!!!

 

  I also wanted to make them some personalized note cards.

For these I used kraft cardstock base from Gina K paper (awesome for card bases!!)  Then after I cut a piece of paper almost as big as the card front (used same collection that I used for notebooks)  inked  the edges and glues down.  Cut a small piece of notebook paper and inked it to give it that distressed look.  Used an orange piece of cardstock behind the notebook paper and trimmed it close to the edge.

 

The just a note is a handmade stamp I bought on ebay I think for $0.25!!

 

The monogram initial piece is cut with a nestability flower shape and then embossed with same nestability.  Glued to piece of brown cardstock and trimmed carefully.   With the actual nestability sitting on top of the die cut, I used some brown chalk to darken the edge around where it was embossed.  The initial is from a set of inkadinkadoo stamps I got at Michaels.   The flower behind it was a fall silk flower I got on sale at Michaels for $0.99 for a whole bunch!!  They kind of looked like sunflowers, so if you pull one off the stem and pull the middle "eye" out of it - you get a flat silk flower!!  Glue it all down and you are done!!  I made 5 cards for each teacher with some kraft envelopes I got at a scrapbook convention in June.

 

 

Lastly,  I needed a cute bag to put this in - and these are really really easy!!!

  It was a plain white gift bag that you buy in sets of 10 or 12.  Cut a piece of card stock to cover front and one to cover back.  Ink edges and use ATG gun and glue down.  Cut another piece of cardstock 1/2" shorter on top and on side - that will give you about 1/4" shorter all the way around.  Glue it down as well.   The names I cut with my cricut.  Use my nestability to cut a little tag - punch a small whole through it and using the same ribbon I used on the books, tie it to the top!  See - told ya that one was easy!! 

  

Supply List:

Composition Notebooks

Coordinating Paper Stack

Ribbon Weave Punch

Nestabilities

Ribbon

Kraft Cardstock

Silk Flowers

Stamp for Sentiment

Solid Gift Bags

Optional:  Buttons and Mulberry Paper

 

 

Thanks for looking!!  Please feel free to leave any comments or ask any questions!  Have a great day!!!

Melissa

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You are Invited! Shaker Card

My first shaker card!

 

I figured out what I think is the best way to do these!  FUN FOAM!!  That thick foam in the kids dept at Michaels/HobbyLobby etc that is like .89 a piece. 

 

 

 

SUPER EASY!!!   So for this you will need a set of nestabilities in 3 sizes (or you could do this with your cricut and use 3 sizes).  First, cut a piece of the teal paper using the largest size nestability with the smallest size set in the middle of it.  I taped them down to the cutting board to make sure it didn't move.  Then once it is cut I glued it to a piece of white cardstock and cut around it - ran it through the cuttlebug with the smallest nestability to create the frame hole. 

 

Then I used the middle size nestability to cut a solid piece of the clear plastic front, and glued it to the inside of the teal/white frame. 

 

Next comes the fun foam.  Using the middle and smallest size nestabilities I cut a frame shape out of the foam and glued it to the underside of the the teal/white frame onto the clear plastic front.  This creates the depth you need to put the "shaker" stuff inside.  I poured some silver beads into the frame and covered the back with another piece of solid white cardstock cut using the medium nestability. 

 

 

 

This way it fits the foam frame perfectly and none of those little beads can escape.  The fun foam creates the perfect barrier!   I'll make another one soon and post step by step pictures with it.

 

The party and you're invited sentiments were some $1 stamps I bought at Michael's forever ago.  They were stamped on yellow vellum and glued to white cardstock as a base.   The party sentiment is inside the shaker base.

 

 

Hope you like it!  Have a great day and thanks for looking!!

Melissa

 

My Sweet Prince - Resist Embossing

Hello!

My apologies for being so neglectful with posting lately - seems like everything always happens at once!  I was down with pneumonia for a month and since then have been busy busy with my little boy.  I never knew being a parent would keep you so busy (a wonderful kind of busy) but makes me have a new found respect for my parents (who had 4 children) and friends of mine with multiple kids!!  So anyway - onto the posting :-) 

Today I wanted to first show a scrapbook page that I put a little bit of EVERYTHING onto. 

 

 

 

First I started with a blue cardstock base that was in one of my DCWV stacks (has a tone on tone background).

Then for the two side pieces a little bit of COLLAGE STAMPING (one of my favs!).   Using an ivory piece of cardstock fitted to the sides, I ripped the inside pieces off and used vintage photo distressed into to age the edges.  Then I took a pack of 7gypsies vintage stamps and used the vintage photo ink and stamped all over, taking care to overlap the images a little.  I glued along the inner torn edges underneath and attached some brown tulle the length of the paper - close up here.

 

 The tag/latch looking pieces on the outer edges are pieces of scrap paper that I coated with the Tim Holtz crackle paint (that stuff is so cool!) I just love the way it dries like that and looks like worn out leather.

 

The embossed piece which you can see in this close up was paper that was run through my cuttle bug using the iron works embossing folder with the vintage photo ink rubbed over the raised image.

 

 

Next I cut an ornamental style embellishment with my cricut and put it in the back ground as well (can't see much of it because it's kind of behind the picture).  I cut the "handsome" title from the same piece of paper using my cricut and the gypsy wanderings font.   The ornamental "sign" that the handsome title is laying on was cut from my cricut as well on a brown piece of cardstock.  Using the black soot distressed ink, I dabbed a sponge doused in the black soot ink all over the cardstock to give it that aged marbled effect.

 

The "My Sweet Prince" title is from a book of vellum titles for boys that I cut out and took a scrap piece of ivory cardstock, used my trusty little distressing tool to rough up the edges and swiped that vintage photo distressed ink pad directly over the paper.  Glued the vellum title down and adhered to the background paper.

 

Now to my favorite part!  This tag was so much fun to make!  First I have to say how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE tearing paper.  I think it has the most wonderful effect - especially when you follow it up with inking the edges. 

So the tag - yes!  Just a plain manilla tag (bought a hundred of them on ebay for like $5 ).  First using a ruler I cut a rectagle from the middle and cut the corner of the rectangle in a little further at an angle to give me something to roll back.  What I do to make the paper turn back like this is first, rub along the edge of the paper in the direction you want it to go.  Once you get a little bit of the paper rolling back, I use my paper piercer and roll the paper around it.  Believe it or not, it will stay that way.  Then I ink it like crazy!

 

But BEFORE all of that - after I cut the rectangle I used a floral damask rubber stamp (think it is by Hampton Arts) and stamped versamark on the blank tag, covered it in clear embossing powder and heated.  Then I used the vintage photo ink and rubbed over the embossed image and swiped the excess ink away with a paper towel and TADA! there is your embossed resist technique!  The close up below shows the shiny embossed detail.

I used a scrap piece of Tim Holtz Lost and Found paper behind the open hole I left in the tag to write the date on.    Used a vintage style button on the top and stuck it all down!!!

 

Hope you like it!  Let me know what you think!

 

 

As always, thanks for looking and feel free to leave comments or ask me any questions!

Melissa

Celebrate Gift Box

This was a creation on a day that my husband said "Take a break and go craft".  I sat in my room looking at stuff feeling overwhelmed and couldn't pick what pictures I wanted to use.  So I thought "well, Melissa, make something different" and this is what came out of it!

 

I used my cricut and the cartridge tags, bags, boxes and more to cut the box out of patterned paper.  Once I put the box together, I cut a panel out of scrap paper and adhered it to the box.  I had just gotten the irock tool and was anxious to use it so I glued some rhinestones on the corners.  The main label was punched with an ek sucess label punch on ginak luxury paper.  I glued it to a scrap piece of the patterned paper and carefully cut an outline.  The celebrate sentiment was an old $1 stamp I got at Michaels ages ao.  The Token is part of the Tim Holtz collection and I punched a hole and tied it on with some ribbon.   The ribbon flower was made using this ribbon rose tutorial that I love!  Lastly after all of this, I didn't have anything other than white tissue paper so I got out the Vintage Photo distressed ink and using the foam applicator dabbed some ink all over it and tada!

 

Thanks for looking!!!!!

Melissa

Paparazzi!

 
 
 This is a page I did of my son being silly.  But all the photos made me feel like Paparazzi so what better paper to use than the BoBunny Mamarazzi Paper line ! The background paper, the tag in the left corner and the tag in the middle top of page are all part of the line.  The gate in the background was cut out with my cricut and so were the oranamental side pieces framing the bottom pictures.  

 

This close up of the top left corner shows that I curled the corner down to reveal paper behind it and added a couple of buttons.  Now what I do when I am peeling corners, etc, I only cut a small piece of paper to use behind where the corner curls down instead of a whole piece of cardstock.  Saves paper that way!

 

 

 

 

 

In this picture you will see the ribbon/trim used to mat the picture.  I used brads on the corners to keep it from unravelling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you like it!  Let me know what you think and as always thanks for looking!

 

Melissa

Home Sweet Home

So Cozy!

 

This shows the CRAZY snow we got here in Texas in late February this year.  It was so much fun and we haven't seen snow like that here in over 20 years!!

 

 

The main page for this was in a paper pack by DCWV that I got at Michaels a long time ago, but I loved how the edges "frame" of the page is flocked and fuzzy!  So first, I cut the house with my cricut - I think it was the Heritage cartridge.  I used some chalk to darken the roof a little and backed the windows with pale yellow cardstock.  I matted the picture with brown cardstock and glued it to the middle of the house.  I didn't want to cover up any of the flocked frame on the paper, so I pulled out the craft knife and cut where I wanted the house to tuck into and glued it all down. 

 

At the top of the page, I used a plain manilla tag and using the Distressed Ink in Old Paper, stamped a background image on it then took a journaling stamp and used memento cocoa ink to stamp it.   I don't know about you, but the Old Paper Distressed Ink is just the best!  I love how when you use it, the slight color difference is more significant than using watermark and it gives paper such a wonderful aged look without making it look too busy.  The key was glued on there, and the wax seal is actually glue!  I stamped an inital A into the hot glue while it was still warm.

 

 

Here you will see that I took a silver piece of satin fabric and glued it behind the chimney for "smoke".  Then digging through my stash I found these old floor plan stickers.  I slapped them down on some grey cardstock, distressed the edges and used some metal eyelets on the corners with a little bit of twine to run it through a jump ring.  I slid the jump ring over some pretty brown sheer ribbon and once again cut the corner next to the flocked edge and tucked the ribbon behind it.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Melissa

Christmas Card 2010

Merry Christmas!! 

This is our Christmas card I made this year.  It took me a whole day to come up with this one! I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to go for and started with the wreath.  Finally after much trial and error, this was the final outcome.

 

First off, all the paper I used for this is GinaK Pure Luxury Cardstock - it's just so awesome!  I started with a dark green as the card base.  The size of this is 3" by 5".  Next I cut a piece of white cardstock for the front of card and one for the inside of the card.  The red door was cut using my cricut and gypsy.  I used the plantin schoolbook cartridge on my gypsy for a rectangle and copied and resized it until it cut the sizes I wanted.  Once cut I used Distressed Ink in Fired Brick around the edged of the red door and around edges of panels to give it a little depth.

 

 

 

The next thing you see is the wreath.  This was cut on my cricut using the christmas cartridge.  I cut the main wreath and then using the shadow feature cut another using a darker cardstock.  Once these were glued together, I used a crackle stamp and with some versamark stamped on the front of the wreath and heat embossed the crackle design with some clear embossing powder to give it texture.  Punched holes to create the bow and added some bling with the irock tool.  Use a few pop dots behind it and tada!  Looks like it's hanging on the door!

 

 

The door knob was cut using the sentiments cartridge with my cricut.  Of course it came out a little gunky so I used the walnut stain distressed ink and a foam applicator and coated it until it was all brown.  Then used a small round brad as the knob.

 

The Merry Christmas sentiment was an old stamp I had.  I used my ek success label punch to create the sign and it also had the one for our name plaque.  I backed them with green cardstock to make them look a little more substantial.

 

This is the inside of the card.  The holly stamp is an old clear acrylic stamp I have and the Happy Holidays is by Hero Arts.  I used memories black dye ink to stamp images and then used my copic markers to color the holly.

Supplies:

• Cardstock (heavy weight)
• Cricut (Plantin Schoolbook, Christmas and Sentiments Cartridges)
• Label Punch
• Crackle Stamp, Sentiment Stamp for front of card and inside of card, Holly Stamp
• Ribbon
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Brads (for doorknob)
• Markers 
• Pop dots

Let me know what you think!  Thanks for looking and have a happy holiday season!!

Melissa

Lil Stinker!

Happy Halloween!!!   In honor of it being Halloween I though I would upload one last Halloween page.  This was actually a really easy quick one  I did in a whole book I made for my in-laws earlier this year.

 

 

I used a black piece of cardstock as the base.  Using my Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge and my Gypsy I took a pumpkin, duplicated it twice and flipped one and welded them together.  I also cut a vine using my cricut.  I used the opposites attract cartridge to cut the title lil stinker and added copper stickles to the title to make it sparkle. 

 

 

 

Used some brown chalk on the stem and around the edges of the pumpkin to give it some definition and tada!  There it is!

 

 

Hope you like it!  Let me know what you think and thank you for looking! 

Melissa

 

Becoming a Pirate

This is my favorite of the three!

 

These were pictures Eli's Aunt Mandie took of my brother, Kolby and I trying to get Eli dressed for Halloween. 

 

 

 

When I started this page, I wasn't quite sure where I was going with it, I just knew I wanted that boat on there.  So instead of it being on there, I made it come through the page. 

 

 

I cut a big hole right where I wanted it to be and then sat the boat underneath.  I started tearing the edges back until the boat was completely exposed.  Using the vintage photo distressed ink, I darkenedit to look like it was burned.  Then I added a fleur de lis chipboard piece, inked it in walnut stain distressed ink and embossed it with walnut stain embossing powder (NOTE:  if you have not used these powders before, know they are not like other embossing powders - ask me why :-)  they don't change color as noticeably therefor I kept using my heatgun on it until I burned a hold through my powder plate - only took a day to get the smell of burned plastic out of that room - did have a hard time explaining that one to my husband).

n For the pictures, I used a piece of corrugated board and my trusty distrez it all tool to the edges, glued it down on top of a piece of netting.  The "brads" are pieces of paper that I ran through the cuttlebug using my new embossing plus folder for tags.  Then I handstitched the corners of the photos to the tags and pinned them down with brads.

The word pirate was cut out using the black letter cartridge on my cricut and the word becoming was cut out using the gypsy font.  The piece of chipboard that the word becoming it sitting on was inked with faded jeans distress ink, then I painted over that with white acrylic paint.  Once it was dry I sanded it down until it was just right!

 

Supplies:  Patterned paper, corrugated board, mesh fabric, distressed inks, gypsy font and black letter cartridges, chipboard

 

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment!  I love them!

Melissa

 

Learning to Trick or Treat

This one means so much to me!  Last year, Eli was a pirate for Halloween, but being that he wasn't quite two, it was the first time he was able to walk up to the door and ring the door bell or knock.  It was so fun watching people's surprises when they opened the door and there was a miniature pirate!  So I called this one learning how to trick or treat!

 

 

A few close ups here.  First is the spider.  I used the October 31st cartridge to cut it.  Then to give it a little more pop, I bent the legs so it would actually stand up on the page.  Added a few distressed stickles to make it crunchy and that was it!  If you look closely at the orange web underneath it, it is actually printed on the paper, however I used the crackle paint in rock candy to texturize it a little. 

 

 

Here you can see the tags I put at the bottom of each step saying 1, 2 and 3.  I used a metal frame.  Stamped the number on a piece of cardstock and fit it into the frame.  Then i used Ranger's Crackle Accents and filled the frame.  Once it dries it automatically has this cracked look to it.  Pretty cool, huh!  The little spiders webs in the corners I drew with some white acrylic paint.

 

Supplies:  My mind's eye paper, crackle accents, metal frames, black and orange cardstock, mesh ribbon, stamps, october 31st cricut cartridge

 

Thank you for looking and please feel free to leave a comment!  I love them!

Melissa

 

 

 

Captain Half Beard

HAPPY NATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!!

Yes, I'm serious!  It really is (believe it or not!) So in honor of talk like a pirate day, I did three pages of my son last halloween who was, yes you guessed it, a PIRATE!  This first page's main attraction is the pirate boat I created.  This was done mainly with my cricut with the life's a beach cartridge.  I used the hide/contour button on my gypsy to hide a few parts of the boat.

In this picture you see the boat a little closer.  This was to show how the sails I made using canvas material and "shredded" the edges to make it look worn.  I also took some Distressed Ink  in black soot to weather them a bit.  The title Captain half beard was cut with my cricut cartridge Black Letter and the skulls were cut with my cricut life is a beach cartridge.  The Halloween title was stamped with an Inkadoo stamp I bought at Michaels and the stickers were by Jolee's.

Hope you enjoy it and have a happy talk like a pirate day!

 

 

 

Thank you for looking!  Please feel free to leave comments!  I love them!

Melissa

 

Schoool Class Pic using Felt

This is my husband's favorite!

First I started with a piece of cardstock I picked up in a little store in Fredericksburg , TX.  The feel I wanted for this was the age of the kids, so as I was throwing away some trash, I was breaking down a cardboard box and thought - hey this would work!  I cut a piece of the cardboard out and used it to back the picture.  Then I took a piece of blue cardstock and pasted it onto the cardboard and ripped the bottom off.  I love tearing paper - it adds such a neat effect and it is so simple!  The glue, pencil, crayon and scissors I cut using my cricut with the locker talk cartridge.  Tore a piece of green scrap paper and stuck it behind cardboard with a rub on saying.

  

The next thing was the library card.  I wanted all the kids names on this so Eli would have it when he grew up (funny thing is I don't know half of these kids so I had to ask my 2 year old son what their names were!) So I took a library card and wrote each kid's name on it in different ink and different hand writing so it would look like they each wrote their own name as if they checked out the same book!

 

After that it came time to put it all together. I ran a blue piece of cardstock through my cuttlebug using an embossing folder and threw on some stickers that are by jolees.

  I still felt like it needed something else to reflect the age.  So when I started throwing things together I grabbed a piece of felt and folded it like the corner of a blanket and tucked it behind the picture.  It finished off the page for me!

BTW that is my sweet boy on the far left in the red shirt - isn't he the CUTEST!!

 

Supplies: stickers by jolees, cardboard, library card, vellum, felt, cuttlebug and embossing folder, patterned and solid cardstock

  

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa

Cheerleader Picture

For this one I cut the title "Cheerleader" from a decorative paper I picked up at Michaels and distressed it by inking around the edges with adirondack sunflower ink and used distressed stickles at the top.  Also cut a piece from the same page, distressed it and added it underneath the picture.  I used a strip of navy mulberry paper and punched a star for the left side and cut a star from some patterned paper with my cricut.  I also cut some flowers using cricut out of the navy paper and patterned paper and crinkled them up, stacked them and used a brad to hold them down.  The tags I cut with a sizzix and then used gold vellum paper on top with yellow fibers wound through the tag opening. The pompoms were made with yellow and navy ribbon.  I got this tutorial on splitcoaststampers.com on how to make the ribbon puffs (see tutorial in link).

Supplies: mulberry paper, misc patterned paper, adirondack ink pad for distressing, ribbon and brads

 

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa

Flocking and Glitter

 

SOOOOOOO  I have to laugh everytime I look at this picture.  Because it is so sweet and at the same time so funny because our son loved to come into our room in the middle of the night and kick the covers off of us and snuggle up to use our body heat.  So this picture is the norm around here and one morning I decided I just had to have a picture of it to show him someday!

One more thing to mention is the main part of this cardstock is part of the MY MIND'S EYE UNION SQUARE collection that was just released a couple of weeks ago.  This line is so beautiful and I was just chomping at the bit to get my paws on it.  This is the first page I've made using it so I hope you like it!

  

I cut the title using the lyrical letters cartridge on my cricut.  Then on the word "Warmth"  I covered it with versamark and stampin up's heat and stick powder (which there is no other that works as well for this in my opinion).  Once I heated it up to where it was super sticky, then I quickly poured black flocking all over it and let it dry.  Hard to see in the picture below but the word Warmth is actually "fuzzy"

 

 

 
 The piece of cardstock under the photos I pulled from a K & Co paper Stack and tore around the edges then used Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Aged Mahogany for added color.  Took a piece of kraft cardstock and inked edges to use to journal on.  Then the word Daddy was cut out of red cardstock and used red stickles to add some glitz.

 The Good Luck Brand tag I made using a Tim Holtz acrylic FRAGMENT and used glossy accents to glue it to a piece of paper.  I used caramel and ginger colored alcohol inks to distress the front of the tag and aged it with some blending solution.  Wrinkled up some scraps of paper and glued them down behind the tag and PHEW I'm done!

 

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa

Homecoming Floral and Ribbon

 

For this I used paper from K & Co but to save some paper, when I cut the main layer a little short and used an edger along the bottom, I cut a strip of paper and attached it to the back to make it a full 12 x 12 without using another whole piece of paper.  The blue shape I used Accent Essential cartridge on my cricut to cut.  I put another strip of paper in the middle and then attached the picture.  For the title I stamped a cream colored piece of cardstock by GinaKdesigns.comwith a Paisley stamp with Tim Holtz distressed ink in Old Paper.  Then i stamped the title with some Inkadoo stamps. 

 I felt like it needed something more so I used a plain cream colored satin ribbon and used a hole puncher to punch holes on each side and wound the ribbon through.

The black letters were by Recollections in a box I picked up on clearance at Michaels.  Added a few paper flowers and PRESTO! loved the outcome!
 

Tell me what you think!!

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa

Extreme Distressed Edges

 
 This is one of my personal favorites!  I believe this paper is by K & Co and th brown cardstock is by Core'dinations.  I layered the three and stitched on the right side of the page.  On the bottom, I cut where I wanted to curl the paper back and used my paper piercing tool to "wrap" the paper backwards around it to get the paper to curl as if it was peeling away.  Then I used black ink to add a tarnished finish to the curled paper.  This is the same method I used to curl the paper around the photo, I just curled inward instead of outward.  Then I used a piece of vellum on top of patterned paper and used a rub on saying on the vellum. The Day you were born title I cut with my cricut and then used some distressed stickles to give it a sparkled but worn look.  The key is hanging from a piece of ribbon and I wound some random fibers around the top of the key.  Hope you like it!

Vintage Baby Picture

This picture was taken at the hospital the day after my son was born.  The photo is in black and white (just so you know your eyes aren't playing tricks on you!)

  I used a soft floral base paper from a K&Co paper stack.  Then the burgandy paper was cut from my cricut machine using the accent essentials cartridge (just a basic shape). 

I was inspired by the idea of a locket and so created the picture "frame" from kraft cardstock that was inked all over with Tim Holtz distressed ink (I LOVE LOVE LOVE these inks) in aged mahogany with a touch of walnut stain on top.  Then I stamped the leaf image with versamark using a stamp by hero arts and embossed with martha stewart gold embossing powder.  I took an small piece of crocheted lace and glued it around the outside of the picture fram.  The hinge I picked up at Hancock fabrics and used glue dots to hold it down. 

 

 In this picture you will see a close up of the flowers poking through the paper.  I punched a hole through both layers of paper and rolled them back exposing both papers.  I then took the flower buds off a silk flower and glued them on top of each other filling up the hole to look like they were coming through the paper.

This picture shows the distressed linen page I created for added effect under the photo.  I used a piece of white glossy paper, stamped the french script using rhubarb color from adirondack inks.  Once that dried I used Tim Holtz distressed ink in vintage photo to "age" the paper.  Once that was dry then I used the Tim Holtz sandpaper and scratched the photo up and down and then side to side and tada - there it was!  The accents were cut with my iron works die in my cuttlebug with kraft paper and then inked the same as the frame above.  I used a left over piece of cardstock, tore the edge, ran it through the cuttlebug with an embossing folder (damask) and then used old paper to ink on the raised parts and put it all together.  I used lace trim around my son's photo by attaching it around the back with ribbon glue.  Hope you like it!

  

Thanks so much for looking!  Please leave comments - I love them!

Melissa