Showing posts with label Serenade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serenade. Show all posts

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Trash to Treasure


So, as I was drudging through a stack of photographs that I have stashed in various places and in different types of containers  (boxes, bags, original picture packing that you get it back from Walmart in); I decided I needed something to stash them in (at least some of them).  

I saw this sitting on my shelf and figured now was as good as anytime to be creative.

I found this book at a local antique shop and thought that it had a bigger calling than falling apart on a shelf.


And it was getting incredably close to the falling apart calling.


A couple hours (and several ideas) later this was the end result.


This is the front... I thought the cover was pretty and I wanted to leave some of it exposed.  All of the patterned paper is from Imaginisce Garden Party along with all of the jewel embellishments. 


I used some of the pages of the book to make the accordion flower (sorry I don't know the technical term).  The broach is another antique store find, the swirls are cut from Serenade, and the ribbon is from a local craft shop.



 



Now all I have to do is go find all the places I stashed my pictures... Lol  =-)

Olivia

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Another Layout! Yeah! Is there a such thing as blog stalking? Because I may have done that to see how others make these. Lol.. Just saying. Seriously though, I love seeing other's ideas and interpretations of projects and challenges.


For this page I used several different cartridges:
Dove: Winter Woodland at 4 inches
Branch: Serenade at around 2 inches
Words: Wild Card at 3.5 for Hope and 2.25 for Genesis
Scalloped background: Designers Calender at 8.5 by 11
The scalloped circle: Winter Woodland at 3.75
* I also cut the picture of the flower at 3.5 from Winter Woodland


The patterned paper is from K&Company and I believe it is called Faded China.  It is doubled sided and I used the same sheet for this page.






Thanks for stopping by

Olivia