I decided to accept ErikaÂ’s Diva challenge to go thru my stash and dig out some things I havenÂ’t used in a while from multiple companies.
This is one of my favorite pictures of my son with his daughter (MY granddaughter! [grin])about to come down the slide at the pumpkin farm. My son and DIL just bought a new house, and I’m going to frame a copy for my granddaughter’s new room which has some of these colors in it. I used a variety of things I’ve had around a long time: some of the dp, primas I’m been hoarding, the alpha stickers (why don’t they give you apostrophes with those sheets of letters??—I had to cut off the tip of the capital Q to make this one!)
This page took quite a bit of time, because I machine stitched some of the squares on my sewing machine, then had to hand place and adhere all of the squares. I drew a rectangle the size of the photo on my white paper as a guide since the photo couldn’t go on until almost last! The two photo corners I built up by punching multiple layers (using scraps) and adhering them on top of each other. I inked the edges of the two larger flowers, and the center is a letter *J* (for the two in the photo—named Jaycie and Jason!) which I got with a bunch of other stick-ons in Mike’s $1 bin last fall. I picked up the little heart brads recently for some Valentine’s projects.
I’m very happy with how this turned out— I hope my son and DIL are too!
Date: Monday, January 21, 2008 GMT Views: 1373
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Ink: Only Orange, Rose Red (both on larger primas)
Accessories: Alpha stickers, primas, brads (3 different brands), letter circle sticker (Punch Studio), photo corner punch, paper trimmer, various adhesives
Techniques: machine stitching, edge distressing
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2 - Time consuming
Registered: February 24, 2006 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 519
Mon, Jan 21, 2008 @ 2:13 PM
All of your hard work and time paid off b/c this is a fabulous page! I love the squares, the sewing, the white space (literally!). What a treasure for your granddaughter and son.
This is beautiful. It is always so difficult to know what to do with all your odds and ends. I save absolutely everything, but never seem to use any of my leftovers. My scrappy friends are planning a weekend scrap to do just that. No new sheets of paper, just all our leftovers and bits we have had in boxes forever. Will post what we come up with but thanks for the inspiration.