Altered Frame - "A Vintage Little One"

Let me just go on the record to say that I should be married to Graphic 45. Well, at least dating it..LOL. I'm madly in love with their paper. I love the vintage feel to ever piece of paper they make. I have lot of this collection and love playing with it. I used the "Little Darlings" collection on this frame. I was digging around in my stash and came across some of the pink paper in this collection and had to play with it some how.  Then I eyed a Dollar Tree frame that I had that would go perfect with the images that were flying around in my head. 

I love creating in front of my Ustream fans. They help motivate me to play around like this and have fun. They will keep me going for hours. I could sit and create for them all day if I had the time! 

The frame I used is from the Dollar Tree. These are adorable little frames and they have many styles to choose from too. People often walk by these frames and say ewww...that looks cheap. Well, give it to me and I will bring it to life and have people saying wow...that looks pretty. Don't ever judge a frame by its cover..LOL. 

While you are at the Dollar Tree walk on by their floral section. The ferns that are sticking out on the side of the flower sprays are from Dollar Tree too. You get a lot on one stem. They make great fillers in your projects. I love using the ferns in my vintage projects. We have some Victorian homes in Norfolk, VA that have lots of ferns hanging from them. I love that look of them hanging from the large front porches. 

On this frame I used Petaloo flowers, which is another favorite of mine. They are nice to me and allow me to purchase wholesale from them for my kits for my classes. Unlike some others that I dare not to mention! I love the velvet mini blossoms that they carry. It's a nice mix of flowers and they are great for adding that different texture to your sprays. Of course I make paper flowers too so I added a few to the frame. I actually have a tutorial on one of the flowers that are on this frame. You can find in on my YouTube Channel. It's called the Ruffled Roses using your McGill scallop punches. It's a very easy tut. 

I love using a mixture of things to add to my sprays. Buttons are my favorite to use. Sometimes I will add them to the centers of flowers and I will tuck them in between the spaces in my sprays.

I also used some Spellbinders on this project. The mix foliage dies and the "label four" Nestabilities. Love Spellbinders, they have all types of awesome dies to create with. 

Hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend! Don;t forget to join my crowd on UStream so the next time I do a random show like this you will be notified!

Enjoy your holiday!

((HUGS))

Anna

It's Giveaway Time....

As some of you already know I do Ustream shows called "Girl's Night" and we always have a really fun time creating on the spur of the moment! My friend Kristy thought it would be fun to see me alter a vinyl record. I have never really thought of altering one before and thought it would fun.

At this show I was playing around with Scraptastical Kreations "Garden Splendor" cutting files.

I used several of the files that are in that set to create the flowers, leaves, and stems.

The paper line I used was from BoBunny "Gabrielle" collection.

Both flowers are also made from that line of paper.

I have had a lot of people ask me what do I do with the projects I make for the Ustream shows. Well, some one suggested that I should have a giveaway with some of the projects I create. So, I thought it would be fun to find a new home for this altered vinyl record. Don't get me wrong I love this project but I have several more I will be making ;) for the holidays!

You might be asking yourself right now, how do I win?

Well, there are a couple of ways to enter this giveaway!

-For one spot you must leave a comment on this post and be a follower.

-For a second spot you must re-post this on your Facebook page or blog with a link back to this giveaway.

Please leave a comment for each of the spots.

I will be picking some one randomly so the more spots you have the greater chance you will have to win!

I will pick a winner at random on Wednesday Oct. 12th @ 3pm EST

Good luck!

I hope every one has a fun and creative week!

Tea à la mode

As you have seen lately I have been creating some of these flower sprays for Christmas. This was the latest one I created. I'm so addicted to making these now! I have a bunch more that I will be finishing up here soon to post.

I did a Ustream show last night on how to alter a empty tea bag box. I wasn't planning on doing a Ustream show and it was very last minute. I thought it would be fun for people to see what I was going to do with this box.

At our house we are always making tea, hot or cold. I have been recycling these boxes a lot this summer. Well, yesterday I finished up another box of tea and when I was getting ready to throw it out in the recycle bin, I stopped and a light bulb went off! I thought this would be a very cool box to alter!

So I took it back into my craft room and started to look at it and spin it around, to try to figure out what I was going to do with it. I thought it would look cute to dress it up with some holiday embellishments. I had a lot of the Melissa Frances paper from an order I placed many months ago, so I thought I should try to make a dent in the pile.

I covered the outside of the box and the inside of the lid with paper. I left the inside of the box bare since no one was going to see down inside of it. I wanted to fill that part up with tree garland. I then went back and added some paint around the edges and trimmed the sides with pom-pom trim. Then I had fun decorating it. I added one of the flower sprays from above to this cute box. I also added one of my snowflake ornaments to the inside of the lid. I made a few more paper flowers for the inside. I attached some ribbon to the bells and tied them to the bow I had made.

As you can see it turned out to be a cute recycled tea box! These would be perfect to make little gift baskets with. You could fill the inside with some bath products or some home made bake goodies too! The ideas are endless for filling these pretty boxes as gifts!

Here is a close up of one of the snowflake ornaments I list in the store. I will have a large selection of these in the coming weeks.

Here is a view of the flower spray I used in the corner.

Remember, these don't have to be just for Christmas! These are also great to decorate for any holiday or occasion. Since fall is near you could add some fall decor with some small pumpkins and a scarecrow sticking out it. Dress it up for Halloween and make your own personal grave yard. Add a few tomb stones and gray Spanish moss, with a few crows. So as you can see here again is another great project to create some thing fabulous out of an item around the house!

I hope every one has a great Labor day and keep checking back here for more of these simple projects!

Ustream Show "Girls Night"

I usually do "Girl's Night" Ustream shows on the Saturday nights that I don't have scheduled shows. I like these shows the best. We always have a lot of fun chatting and letting them pick what I create :) or show them! Well, this night I had to show off the mini hat box templates on "Ooh-la-la Vintage Treasures" blog, because I made some thing other than a box! I made a top hat from the template. I was so excited and like the girls saw that night I had rush through putting it together and it looked all junked up with glue. I did however show them how we can hide our mistakes..lol :)
I covered the outside with the wallpaper pieces that you can find in their store too!

I made this hat from the template pieces

1 - Large Bottom

1 - Small Top

1 - Strip double measured width of the small bottom band

I was very easy to put together!

You can find the template here:

Mini Hatbox Template