Vintage Scrapping

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

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

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

 

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

Falling for FALL

I love this page! 

Most of the leaves and letters were done with a Soft Spoken package of stickers, but the thing I like about this is weaving the ribbon and the vellum tags.  The tags were so easy, I used a rub on sentiment on top of vellum.  Then I put the vellum on top of some striped patterned paper and cut the two together so it matched up just right!

Supplies:  Patterned paper, ribbon, leaves stickers, vellum, rub on sentiments, eyelets 

  

 

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

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

Ransom style lettering

This one was a real quick one.  The letters were made using various rub on alphebets and then cutting them out and using foam dots to pop them off page. 

In the next photo you will see a closer up view of the framed picture.  I actually used some scraps from a fabric store - this was the sewing pattern paper you adhere to the fabric to cut out!

I love trying to find new uses for things!

 

 

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

Ribbon Frame

   

This is my husband and I at the Biltmore Estates. 

The main reason I am showing this one is for the "frame" around the picture.  When I framed the picture I left about an inch and half of paper around.  I then cut lines where I wanted to weave the paper and fed the ribbon through and tied at the bottom.  That was it!

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