New Shelf display

So a month ago I went down to visit my family on the Central Coast, while in the basement looking for the Tamale pot I had found the 7-up crate. The next day I was in mystical land that time has forgotten aka my Nana's Garage, in that fun time warp I spotted this little odd shelf, here's its journey.

All dirt and dust removed its a lot lighter of a wood them I originally thought, yikes!

I didnt want to deal with staining the wood so I busted out my distress ink pad in Walnut Stain and went to town. I carefully painted the slats blue (now matches my other display piece) then I glued the paper to the back.

I realized after I loaded this up with stamps that now my other display piece that used to hold all of these is now looking a little bare....what's a girl to do????

A little bird told me the Sacramento Scrapbook Expo is on this Friday and Sat, maybe I'll able be to find something there to help fill the empty space on that other display piece. :D

See ya later,

A little note for you

This is my first venture into using cardboard and I think I complimented it nicely with dainty stamps from SU.

I colored the cardboard with distress inks to give it more depth in color. Sadly I shot these at night and the full color isn't really coming through. I stamped all of these details in Frayed Burlap and then used colored pencils. I also added a bit of curling under the leaf and gave it a crease down the center to add to dimension. I also used the rounded end of a paint brush to give a bubbling up effect to the berries.

I really love those little berry branches, I layered small script over them and added a little distress inks to the edge of the card.

What I used on this Card:

• Plain white Cardstock
• SU: French Foliage, Le jardin botanique.
• Cardboard
• Distress Inks in Frayed Burlap, Antique Linen, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade
• Prisma Colored Pencils

Thanks for looking,

Vintage Book Wreath

I had seen these beautiful book wreaths all over the place and fell in love and when I saw that ScrapScene had a blog post featuring a tutorial for one I was totally excited. Sadly the original place that had the tutorial was down so I couldn't see it. Being the somewhat tech savvy chica that I am I looked it up on youtube and watched a few different various ladies doing the tutorials there. 


And here is what I came up with from those tutorials...

Isn't it adorable, I just love how it turned out! 

Products I used on this Wreath:

• Old book: this wreath used about 40 pages give or take
• Potpourri
• Hot Glue
• 6" round cardboard circle
• Tattered Angles Glimmer mist in Old Lace
• Leaf Stamp by Inkadinkado

Thanks for readin',

 p.s My MIL and I will be make a big...okay a giant version of this for christmas, I'll make sure to post pics of that, I can hardly wait!!!!

Sweet Noel

So I was in a little bit of a vintage Christmas kind of mood and thought I'd use use super cute stamp from Stampin Up.

I stamped this onto plain white cardstock, colored in the design with pencils and then used a lemon Zester to distress my edges before I stared to rip the paper. To get the perfect looking torn little curls I used my paper piercer to roll the paper nice and tight before lightly unrolling to give it that roughed up look. I also mounted this onto white cardstock that I colored with my distress inks. I also added a little touch of glitter to the top color because every Christmas card needs a touch of glitter right?

Things I used on this card:

• Plain white card stock for base card
• Distress Inks in Fired Brick, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap
• Prisma Colored Pencils
• K&Company Grand Adhesions from the BW Evergreen Medallions collection (scored these last season on clearance)
• Hampton Art A la mode Glitter in Red
• Stampin Up: Christmas Collage, For You 

Thanks for stoping by,

Bonjour Paris!

I was hanging out with a friend of mine when she gave me a quick card challenge. The challenge was can you take this bright colored paper and turn it into something cool and vintage looking. So here is what I created in a matter of minutes.

I'm not going to lie, when she handed me that bright pink paper to match the baby pink tag I was creating, I was a bit worried. She is a Stampin Up! demonstrator and she can color coordinate like nobody's business but pink on pink was a bit of a odd combo for me since I'm not used coordinating things in that way. It was a fun experience though and I'm getting totally hooked on Stampin Up! stuff now because of her :D.

Items used on this card:

Stampin Up! Stamps: Artistic Etchings, French Foliage, Cracked paint background is discontinued. 

Stampin Up! Cardstock: Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla

Distress Inks: Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany.

Stickles: can't remember the shade sorry.

If you'd like to buy any of the Stampin Up! products I used on this card you can visit my friend Tracy's site http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/tracysart/

Thanks for dropping,