Family Tree Layout

Several years ago I had plans to make a wood purse.  I picked up these mini metal frames from Michael's and added black and white photos of my family to them.  The plan was to decorate the outside of the purse with the frames and some metal plates with sentiments on them.  It's became one of those projects that I never completed.  For many years I've had these picture filled frames just sitting around waiting for me to create something with them. 

 

I came across this paper from Prima Marketing Inc.  The colors and tones were perfect to create a layout using the frames. 

 

I layered the frames attaching some with pop up adhesive. 

 

 

The letters for Family Tree were originally grey, so I used a sponge to cover with brown ink to tie it in with the paper and frames.

 

 

Supplies used:

Patterned Paper - Prima

Metal frames - Michael's

3D letter stickers - American Crafts

Brown ink - Close To My Heart

Pop up adhesive

Glue dots

Paper trimmer

Scissors

 

Thanks for looking ~ Michelle

Music To My Ears Layout

It's the end of January and with that means that the scrapbook club at Craft Warehouse starts meeting again.  I look forward to this every month, you get to see new product, learn a new technique, see some friendly faces and get a new page challenge.  At the last meeting we weren't given a specific challenge, so we weren't required to use anything specific on our layout.  This worked out well this month as I recently joined a facebook group called the Bossy Scrapper.  This group is given a specific list of items that need to be included on your layout in some way.  I'm glad I found this group when I did as it provdided me with the inspiration to create this layout.

The requirements from Bossy Scrapper were -

1. metal element

2.distressing

3. chevron

4. matted photo

5. the color yellow

6. popped embellishment

7. four patterened papers

8. stitching

I managed to include it all.  For the first time I actually used a sewing machine on my layout.  I love how it turned out.  The paper is from Bo Bunny's Love letters line.  All the paper is distressed with an edge distresser, though it's hard to see, then inked all the sides.  You're Music to My Ears and the fussy cut heart are "popped" up with pop up adhesive.

Thanks for looking ~ Michelle