Vintage Scrapping

Father's Day Clock

This is what I made for my husband this year.  Wanted him to have something he could put on his desk.  And since he loves the beach it gave me a perfect opportunity to use my new MUDD PUDDLES!!

 

I should have taken some pics before I started working on this, but I forgot so I will try to explain best as I can.

The main part of this is plywood.  It is a solid piece of plywood with the word dad cut out of another piece of plywood.  Before I attached the dad word to the solid piece, I put the pictures behind the opening in the letter "d" and covered the plywood with the paper I wanted to use which is by Authentique (this line is beautiful). 

 

Then I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in peeled paint.   A thick coating of studio medium to paste the paper down (keeps it from bubbling up).   The "clock" part is a working clock.  The battery holder is on the back and it is a hole drilled in the middle to attach it. 

 

 

 

Added some random pieces and then the Mudd Puddles!!!!  In the picture above you can see it at the bottom of the clock all the way across it.

Here is a close up of the bottom right corner.  This stuff is so cool, and I couldn't wait to use!  I got it this year at the annual scrapbook convention my mom and I go to and we both couldn't resist it.  This stuff when it dries looks like real sand - and look at the mini seashells - aren't they cute!!!  The mud puddles come in all kinds of colors and are a neat way to add texture to things!  http://muddpuddles.net/  this is their website if you want to see more of their stuff!

 

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!!

Melissa

Memory Notebook Present

So sorry it has taken me so long to post some of these things!   So this was a Christmas present I made for a very dear friend of mine with an exquisite name (gee.....it's really similiar to mine!)  I wanted to make something special and thought a personalized memory book would be perfect!

 I know I am not the best with the photos sometimes so I took multiple angle shots so you could get a real feel for it. 

 

First I measures and cut the paper for the front, back and to go around the binding.  The next step was to measure out where to punch the holes for the woven ribbon (so they would be equi-distant) and then used my ATG and glued the binding paper to the front and back paper (STILL NOT ATTACHED TO BOOK). 

 

Then carefully, I wove the ribbon through the punched holes until it was finished and tucked the last pieces of ribbon under and glued them down.  Now the next part is what is tricky, you have to slowly glue the front page down, then glue binding down, then glue back down.    Try to use something that won't dry too fast so you can move it around a little since this is one big piece you are attaching.  
Then set something heavy on it and leave it alone until it is dried completely.

 

 

 

 

 

Once it is dried, go back and ink the edges - I used the Tim Holtz distressed inks in fired brick for the distressing on this one.    Once I found the letter "M" I wanted to use on the front, I rubbed the Tim Holtz ink pad over it until it was the color I wanted.  Added some crystals to the top and bottom of "M".   Next I used my spellbinders nestabilities dies and cut the striped paper and backed it with black paper and cut an oval out of burgandy mulberry paper and then used a newsprint paper backed with black cardstock.   Ink each piece and then layer them using pop dots under the mulberry paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I made the little crochet lace flower by weaving over and under through the edge of the lace and then tying the two end together.   The little red rosettes were made from twisting ribbon and gluing them down.  

 

 

 

 

 

The last thing I did was I found a rub on that I thought would be perfect for the right corner:

Hope you like it!  I will try to work on making a step by step photo tutorial of how I make these books.  It was by chance that I started making them but they have turned out to be the neatest little gifts to make people feel special because they are so personalized!

 

Thanks for looking!

Melissa

We were meant to be - kindergarten pics

Isn't this cute!!

This is my kindergarten graduation picture and my husband's kindergarten graduation picture.  I felt like even way back then we looked like we belonged together :-)

 

 

 

Honestly this page was not much more than layering some awesome vintage style papers.  All of the paper came from a K& Co paper book that I bought at hobby lobby.  A couple of the pieces came from the Tim Holtz lost and found collection. 

 

The fate tag was a manilla tag that I cut a little shorter and using a Tim Holtz stamp I used the old paper distressed ink to make the background image.  The word fate was a rub on.  The metal flower is a brad by spare parts I bought at Hobby Lobby when they have their 50% off spare parts sale (great time to stock up on that stuff I might add!!!). 

 

The journal tag was made using my cuttlebug embossing plus label folder.  It's great because it both cuts the tag and embosses it in one pass.  Plus you can open the back of it while the tag is still in the folder and ink the raised parts (the swirly design on the tag).  Then I used a journal stamp and stamped the journal lines on it.   Took a spare piece of lace and tacked it up underneath the tag and used some fun foam to pop it up off the page.

 

Other than draping a key with a piece of ribbon from the corner, there wasn't too much more than that!

 

Hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day!  Thank you for looking!  Please let me know if you have any questions - I am always happy to answer them!

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

My Love

Card for my husband

 

Wanted to make something a little masculine but used the colors for the GinaK stamp tv color challenge.  I'm happy with the way it turned out because it made my husband smile :-)

 

First I used chocolate cardstock from Gina K as the base.  Then I cut a piece of white cardstock and rounded the corners and glued to front.  The teal colored cardstock is by coredinations.  I did the same with rounding the corners and then used my trusty little tonic distressing tool to shred the edges.  I used pure cocoa ink by memento around the edges and glued it down.

Now onto the tag:

 

To make the tag I used the fairly new cuttlebug embossing/die cut combo that they came out with this year.   I cut the tag on a white piece of cardstock and used brown chalk on the raised parts.  The word LOVE is a Tim Holtz stamp and I wrote the word My in front of it.  Then I took broken china distressed stickles and moved them around the edges of the card and used Cinnamon stickles on the words.  Piece of Brown twine around the holes and that was it!

 

Now instead of using pop dots on big items like this (because when I would mail them the middle of the raised image would kind of slump inward) I actually use fun foam.  You know the sheets of foam in the kids section of Michael's and Hobby Lobby that are .99 each - I cut a piece of those to fit the back and use crafter's pick glue to stick it on and then it is solid and sturdy and a whole lot cheaper!  Plus when I use the glue on the foam to adhere it to the card - it NEVER NEVER comes off once it is dry!

The mulberry flowers I bought at Michaels in a little package and the heart was in a bunch of trinkets I bought at a garage sale.

 

Supplies:

• 3 Colors of cardstock
• corner rounder, distressing tool
• cuttlebug label die cut/embossing folder
• stamp sentiment
• chalk, stickles
• fun foam
• mulberry flowers
• charm


Let me know what you think!!   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

The Godfather

Big Todd

This is one of my personal favorites! 

 

 

The paper line for this one is crate paper and it's called the prudence collection.  I got this in an entire pack at a sample sale and love the paper.  It came with a few punch out die cuts to match which is what is on the left side and bottom right corner.  I started with the floral base paper and took a solid piece of light blue paper and cut it in a rounded shape to fit the scalloped paper.  Then I sliced off the left side of it and water distressed the blue paper (getting edges wet and scrunching them).  Once that was glued down, I used a punch out from the collection (diamond shape border on left) and glued it down.  I went back with my crop-a-dile and punched holes all the way down in the middle and to the left of the strip.  With some black satin ribbon, I wove it through the punched holes and secured in the back.

 

 

Now this is what took the longest!   The flowers - I made each one!  I made them using my Tim Holtz tattered flowers die.  I made two from some of the blue scrap paper (the water distressed paper) and made two from some dark brown paper and one from a scrap piece of corrugated paper.  So when I make these, I ALWAYS run my paper through the Xyron and adhere it to some grungepaper and then run it through my cuttlebug.  For me this makes my flowers nice and thick and they hold their shape really well.    I did throw some pop dots behind the label so it would sit above the edge of the distressed paper and threw a paper clip on the top of it.  Then I secured the flowers around the picture.  I used some scrunched up tissue paper in between a couple of the flowers just to fill in and also used a metal flower accent in the middle of them.

 

 

 

The tag on the right was a basic manilla tag that first I stamped an old frame stamp using Distressed Ink Old paper.  Then using the Distressed Ink in Weathered Wood, I inked around the edges and stamped the Journaling frame in the middle.  I used Walnut Stain Distressed ink to stamp a frame around the hole on the tag and threw a rhinestone brad on there to hide the hole.  Once again I had to use pop dots to adhere the tag so it would sit above the distressed paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 Here you can see a little bit closer the main part of the page.  For the title I used some clay leters and chipboard letters and a strip of tissue tape (Tim Holtz) - this stuff is so cool!!!

  

 I hope you like it too and please let me know what you think - I love to hear your thoughts!

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

• Crate Paper - Prudence Collection
•  Black ribbon
•  Tattered Flowers Tim Holtz Die
•  Distresesed Inks (Weathered Wood, Walnut Stain and Old Paper)
•  Metal Floral accent
•  Tim Holtz tissue tape
•  Stamps
•  Random lettering

 

Thanks for looking!!

 Melissa

 

 

 

 

 

Saddle Up!!

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog!!  If you have a moment to look through some of the  posts - please let me know which ones you like best!  I value your opinions and suggestions!

 

Being from Texas I love Western Themes.  This was  an 8 by 8 page I did for a family album for my inlaws.  The base cardstock was from an all about boys paper stack.  Cut a piece of mesh for the background and then matted the pictures.  On the corner of the pictures I stitched little x's with twine (which makes REALLY BIG HOLES!).  Also stitched randomly on the top left and bottom right of the page.  The title and accents at top and bottom of page are rub ons.

 

The title has pop dots under it to give it a little depth.  Wound  a little piece of ric rac (???) in the mesh with a button and metal swirly doo thing.

 

Supplies:

• Western Style Cardstock
• Western Rub Ons
• Fabric Mesh
•  Twine and Embroidery Needle
• Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink

 

Thanks for Looking and have a wonderful day!!

Melissa

Distressing and Collage

Happy Tuesday!!

Today I am posting one of my personal favorite pages.  Funny how when you have no idea what you want to create but somehow you make something anyway!  My best pages usually happen that way - and when I think too hard, well, they end up looking a mess :-) 

 
 
 

 

This page started with a piece of base card stock from a paper stack by K & Co.    Then I took 3 random pieces of paper (2 patterned and one solid), tore them to the size I wanted and inked up the edges really well.   The green piece of cardstock I slid my Vintage Photo Distressed Ink across the top of it back and forth to give it that aged look.

 

The next thing was cutting a small piece of fabric (sheer liner) and wound it around a notecard that I cut out of a page from the Tim Holtz Lost & F0und paper stack where I journaled.   I used Scotch Quick Dry Glue underneath to glue the fabric and the card down.  Then layering the three distressed pieces of cardstock, I pulled out my trusty little sewing machine and did some messy random stitching (you will find that the sewing machine is NOT my strong point) :-) 

 

 

Under the green piece of cardstock I took 3 strips of sheer ribbon and glued one end down.  To hold the opposite end down I used some pewter looking grommets (or gromlets - I have no idea!)The little lion card and clock were cut from the Tim Holtz Lost & Found Paper stack as well and thrown in for accents.  Glued a little watch part down on top of the clock and stuck a couple of buttons on as well.

 

 

 

 
The sentiment was from a book of vellum sayings I had that were all baby related.  Once it was cut out I used little nail head looking brads to hold it down with a heart gem stone in the top right corner.

 

 

 Supplies:   

• Tim Holtz Lost & Found Paper Stack
• Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distressed Ink
• Sheer Ribbon and Fabric
• Sewing Machine for stitching
• Vellum quote stack
• Grommets
• Watch Parts
• Buttons


Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!!!!   Thanks so much for looking!!

 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

 

Anniversary Banner and Tuxedo Rose

Happy Anniversary!    So this is what I had been working on the past couple of weeks, however I couldn't upload it until today for fear my mom would see it.  Last night we celebrated my parent's 25th anniversary and me and my 3 brothers threw them a surprise party.  This was the banner I made for the party.  Sorry the pictures aren't great - they were hard to take!

 

First I cut the base with my cricut cartridge using beige cardstock.  I inked each piece with black soot distressed ink by Tim Holtz.  Then using the paper stack called Paris Nights, I cut triangles using my cricut as well.  The large circles were cut with my nestabilities large circle and then edges embossed with the same.  I cut the letters using my cricut gypsy wanderings font at a 5" and used pop dots to raise the circles off the banner to give it some added dimension.  Then I took black satin ribbon to weave through to hang the banner from and used rhinestone brads made by recollections that I bought at Michaels at each corner. 

 

These little additions were my favorite part!  I call them my tuxedo roses.  I always use either light cardstock with dark ink or dark cardstock with white ink to give it a sharp contrast.  To make the flower I use about 18 different size hearts and ink the edges.  Then you feed them onto a brad and scrunch them up - that's it!  The ink smears a little bit but I like the look it produces.

 

 

Here is one more look at the banner and please tell me what you think or if you have any questions!!  Hope you like it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and please leave comments!  I love them!!

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

 

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

 

Distressed Collage Stamping

This is a photo of Eli in his bouncer (which is the ONLY place he would sleep when he was a baby!). 

 I started with a base patterned paper by My Mind's Eye (which you will find I use lots of their paper) and found another patterned paper that looked like a page from an old catalog, distressed the edge with Walnut Stain distressed ink and glued it down diagonally. 

Next I cut out the luggage from a paper that was in a paper stack by K & Co and glued it to the bottom. 

The flowers are by prima, were stacked and jazzed up with a rhinestone in the middle. 

The acrylic tag is by tim holtz.  I used the alcohol inks in caramel and latte with the alcohol ink applicator and dabbed them on, blended it with some alcohol ink blending solution and let it dry.  Once dry I selected a pattern from a DCWV paper stack I had and cut it out.  Used glossy accents to adhere the acrylic tag to the pattern paper.

In the next photo, you will see the lace is just a strip of crocheted lace that I glued to the top of the page and sewed some random wood buttons at the corners.

 

The tags were made with two standard manilla tags and the main tag with journaling was actually cut from a jolee's parcel package and inked with walnut stain distressed ink.  The two manilla tags were first stamped with Distressed Ink in Old Paperwith a background stamp.  Then I used multiple stamps from 7 gypsies in  and Walnut Stain Distressed Ink.  Then I inked the sides and corners to give it that old look.  Took about 5 minutes to make those tags!Aged mahogany Distressed Ink

 

Supplies Used: Cardstock from my mind's eye and K&Co.  Solid cardstock by papertrey inc, tag from jolees parcel package, prima flowers, tim holtz acrylic blocks, tim holtz alcohol ink in caramel and latte, misc stamps

  

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

Melissa

 

Fatherhood

This is the day our son was born when his Daddy got to hold him for the first time.  The base paper for this is a floral patterned paper and a solid piece of yellow cardstock.  I tore the yellow cardstock diagonally and then used distressed ink in walnut stain to ink the edges.  A soft grey cardstock was used to mat the photos.  The tool I used to distress the photo mats is the tim holtz tonic distressing tool. 

 

 

The tag was created with the grey cardstock with a silver piece of vellum over it.  I stamped a journaling image with memories black dye ink on the vellum and handwrote the sentment.  Two snaps were put at the top and I fed a piece of ribbon through them and tied to the back. A jumper ring was added to the ribbon and key to hang the journal frame from.

 

 

 

The square flower was three different size square pieces of paper that I crumpled over and over again.  Then I took the distressed ink pad and swiped it over the crinkles, stacked them and added a brad.

The sentiment was printed on a piece of vellum and attached to the cardstock.

 

 

Supplies: solid and patterned cardstock, Walnut Stain Distressed Ink, brads, snaps, metal key, journaling stamp, vellum and ribbon  

 

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

Melissa

Peeled Wall paper

I call this my peeled wallpaper!

Once again I am using My Mind's Eye paper (definitely some of my favorite paper).  But to create a distressed Wallpaper look, when I tore it I made sure it tore thinly the further it went into the main piece of paper.  This way when I inked it, it really took on a peeled look.  On the picture below you can see that I used  a piece of burlap to back the photo and added some silk florals to the left with a crystal swirly thing (my descriptive terminology) on the right.

 

 

On the top left, I used a journal card from My Mind's Eye with some of the favorite things written on it.  I added a little glitz with some stickles and stuck in inside one part of the tear.  I used some foam stickers behind it to help prop it up a little like it was stuck in the wall.  The paper flowerwas from another tutorial I found I found on splitcoast stampers (this is a great resource!click on link for tutorial) and distressed the edges before I wound it up.  Used some glossy accents to hold it down and TADA! 

 

These tags were so much fun to make!  The smaller one underneath was stamped with a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamp in Fired Brick Distressed Ink and aged around the edges with Vintage Photo Distressed Ink.  I added a little metal filigree with some glue and set aside.  For the big tag I used a big background stamp that had dictionary style writing on it.  I stamped this with versamark and used clear embossing powder over it.  Heated it up and let cool.  Then I used Vintage Photo Distressed Ink across the embossed tag and used extra on the corners to age it.  Then I took a paper towel and wiped the ink off the embossed image and the image just pops out!  Little bit of ribbon and a knot at the top and glued them to page! The metal filigree was on clearance at jo-ann fabrics in the jewelry isle.

Supplies: My Mind's Eye paper, manilla tags, Embossing Powder, Distressed Inks, Burlap, Tim Holtz Lost & Found collection paper, ribbon

 

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

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