My suitcase

The other one is for me!  I'm going to put all the little photo books and things just for fun that I have made in it.  I guess you could say it's my keepsake suitcase!  I used paper from My Minds Eye, Lost and Found and the Elegant Edges cartride for the frame.  I inked the whole outside before I started and boy is that messy!  It looks reall old though and I like that look.  I used chalk ink in brown and a little pink and blue also.  The bits and pieces around the edges were just things that I liked from some of my assortment of papers.  I did ink the edges of everything which is quiet time consuming but worth it, I think.  I forgot to put the picture of the end of Sophia's in the first post so it is here now.  Hope you enjoy looking and will give this project or a simular one a try.  Happy crafting and God bless you.

Sophia's keepsake suitcase

This is a special keepsake box for my newest grandaughter.  I found the suitcase at Mangelsens.  I used Elegant edges cricut cartrides for the frame and Kate's ABC's for the little girl and flowers and butterflies.  It was a lot of fun to do and I know it will be special to her when she gets older.  Oh, I did spray the whole thing with clear spray to protect the paper design.

New and lovely ideas from another

I just came from a blog where Julie had taken old silver spoons and altered them with glitter, ribbon, pictures of roses and other things.  I fell in love with them and will have to give it a try.  Those ladies at craft secrets are the bees knees!

What happened?

I don't know why these pictures are sooo big!  Sorry because that makes them out of focus.  Really weird but I really don't know what happened.

I spent my vacation

making these two books and tags.  I used Lady Coutore stack from Michaels for the Fashion book.  The other book was made with My Minds Eye glittered roses paper.  I love that paper because of the bling and the old fashioned look it has.  Each of the tags in the fashion book have differant things on the back of them and I used old buttons and strings of pearls and pearl headed pins in it.  I used the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge to cut the shapes.  I hope you enjoy looking at my creations and make some for yourself.

Here is my third frame.  It was really a fun project since I tried out using sepia tones.  I had the pictures printed and then found the paper at Hobby Lobby to use for the background and the scrolls.  The frames have three layers from Elegant Edges and the scrolls were cut from copper colored glitter paper.  I used Serenade to cut them.  It's quiet a challenge to figure out the frame sizes but worth the effort.  It might be easier if you are better at math than I am!  I hope you will get some ideas of your own and take off making your own treasures!

After a long week at work I took a whole afternoon and did my second frame.  This one I also used Elegant Edges but didn't do quiet as much frilly stuff since it has my grandson in it.  I cut the initals with Storybook and used flowers and a train engine to dress them up a little.  My goal is to get all the pictures into three or four large frames instead of eight or ten smaller ones so I'm trying to do families.  I have ten grandchildren so it'll be a challenge!