Vintage Flea Market Finds

Good Tuesday Morning!  Well I've had the opportunity of venturing out to a couple of Flea Markets the past few weekends with some friends and found some yummy little things here and there.  I found these sweet little strawberry wire baskets (that I just had to have) and then I found all of these beautiful vintage lace trimmings.  So I then decided that these little baskets would be so perfect to put these in and I absolutley love it.  These crocheted trimmings are just so old and wonderful looking and I can't wait to use them.

  I also found this beuatiful old tarnished dish that I knew I could fill with all kinds of little goodies....and I did just that.  I love these little wooden spools for some reason.  I know they are not all that vintagey but I still had to have them regardless.  And I just loved all of the ornate work around the top of the dish.

 Then I stumbled across these old, old vintage bottles that I thought would be so cute decorated with some old vintage labels of some kind with a little bit of bling and maybe some glitter....who knows, the possibilites are endless!  :)

Then last but not least, this beautiful little journal was given to me and another one of our Flea Market friends that went with us.  It is so that we may journal about all of our little Flea Market adventures and to jot down some of our creative ideas we might come up with and who knows what else.  It is the cutest little journal every and the paper inside is even more beautiful that I hate to even write in it...but I will.  Thank you Susan for this sweet journal and your sweet sentiment.  I look forward to many more adventures.  :)

I've also had the advantage of making a little something for one of the mom's in my son's former kindergarten class.  She just had a baby girl and I was of course more than happy to make her a little something to put in her room.  This was a little card I put together using some Graphic 45 paper, Prima lace, and some Crafty Secrets clear stamps.  I just love all the sweet, soft colors. 

 I can never resist using some seam binding and a little button attached with a tiny tag to finish it all off.

This little wall hanging is something that was created using the Crafty Secrets post card album kit and some of the embellishments that come along with the kit as well.

 I used some twine and wrapped that around with some buttons that were attached to the twine first.  Then just added some glitter here and there with some prima flowers off to the side and used some organza ribbon for the top so that she could hang it wherever she likes.  Until next time...I wish you all a wonderful week.

Here is a little paper bag that I had decorated to have the little vintage wall hanging go inside of.  I had a lot of fun creating this little bag by using some Melissa Frances vintage papers, some beautiful Prima Ribbon and some sweet little butterfly punches that I used from Martha Stewart.

I also used some rhinestone bling on the butterflies, some vintage seam binding and some little pearls. And there you have it!  :)  Easy peasy!!

Tattered Angels Vintage Mini Album

Good Friday morning everyone!  Well the summer is coming to an end and I am getting my little ones ready to start school soon.  I will miss not having them with me but will (try) to utilize the time I have wisely.  So here is the Tattered Angels mini album that I mentioned before in my last post that I was going to be working on and it is finally finished.  I love everything about this album and how it came out.  It is filled with all kinds of goodies and I hope you enjoy looking at it.  :)

In this album I used all kinds of yummy stuff beginning with some Glimmer Mist to cover the front and back of the album covers.  I then used my all time favorite Graphic 45 papers to decorate and embellish some of the pages.  There is also some Melissa Frances goodies, some Maya Road lace, and some of the Tattered Angels chipboard pieces from their various collections.  Most of them I painted, distressed and then added glitter to them.  Nothing is complete without some seam binding and some pearls. :)   I had a lot of fun creating this. 

  I try to remember that life is so very precious and fragile and to never take that for granted. So with that let your imagination and creativity soar and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!    

Father's Day Grunge Album

So here is a little something I put together that is a little more "on the NOT so feminin side" you could say.  It's a little more on the dirty and grungy side of things but I like this just as well.  I had a lot of fun making this and watching it transform in to something that my husband (and of course the family) will cherish for always.  This is my very "belated" Father's Day gift to him.  It is a little bit of everything but mostly all Tim Holtz.  I love looking back at these pictures and remembering how special each and every one of them are.  It also makes me sad to think of how quickly the time has gone as well. 

I created all the envelopes inside the album using the Graphic 45 core impressions cardstock so that I could tuck the pictures inside each one.  I also used the Tim Holtz papers as well as the calendar sheet to indicate the date of when each picture was taken with either a pearl on top of the number if not some other embellishment.  I also used some of the envelopes for tags that I could journal on and have the kids write sentiments on to their daddy.  It is definately stuffed with a lot of goodies but most of all wonderful memories to last forever.

  So I am off to hopefully share another album with you soon, this one is a girly one using some Tattered Angels and some more Graphic 45 papers and yummy embellishments.  Good nite for now!  :)

Maya Road Mini Vintage Banner

Hi there!  Well the summer seems to be slipping by so quickly and before I know it my son will be starting first grade and my daughter will be going off to pre-school...sigh!  They are growing up so fast and I wish I could just stop time for awhile...a long while.  I've had a little spare time to play around here and there so I made a little something to hang in my daughters room.  It is a chipboard Maya Road Mini Banner.  I used some of the most beautiful Graphic 45 papers that I absolutley love and decided to use these for the banner. 

I also used a little bling (of course) and some glitter.  The little mini chipboard scrolls are also from Maya Road and the little baubles are from Melissa Frances.  The rhinestone embellishments are actually buttons that I had found and of course nothing would be complete without some beautiful vintage seam binding and some vintage lace.  All the things that make my heart melt.

Melissa Frances Postcard Album

Hi there!  I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything lately, I've been busy with my children and enjoying our summer.  But here is a little album that I had put together for my daughters birth pictures to go in from a Melissa Frances postcard album kit that I have had sitting around for quite some time.  So I finally decided to make it come to life.  I also used a Melissa Frances Baby Ephemera Kit to embellish the inside as well.  I'm still not completely finished but wanted to give you a sneek peek at it.  Enjoy!

I just love everything about Melissa Frances, how everything has such a feel of nostalgia about it and how beautiful everything is.  You can so easily alter the ephemera and make it look even more tattered and torn.  :)  so much fun!

I also used some vintage seam binding (of course) and some prima lace here and there.  How can you not love that stuff.  I can never have enough of prima...anything!  hehe



October Afternoon "Apple" Chipboard Album

Hi there, well this is going to be my first actual post so I'm hoping it all works out. This was a little album that I had made for my son's Kindergarten teacher.  I enjoyed using all of the October Afternoon papers as well as all the little embellishments from Maya Road and some from Crafty Secrets.  You will quickly find that I love all things Shabby Chic and Vintage and I love to distress the heck out of everything as well as using lots of glitter, glam and a little Tattered Angels along the way.  I hope you will enjoy viewing my blog as much as I love creating everything.  Until next time....

This is also a little something I like to do along side my scrapbooking fetish and that is a little home decor.  This is an initial I created for a client of mine.  She wanted something to coordinate with the colors of the baby's room and I couldn't of been more excited when she told me "chocolate brown and pinks".  So with a little glitter and some added bling here's how it came out. 

Enjoy!

Sorry about the dates being on the photos.  I'll be sure to remove those from here on out.  :)

Hi there, here are some photos of some projects that I created for the scrapbooking store (Remember When) that I design for.  Theres a little Melissa Frances in there with some Prima note cards that I made in to a little album of fun things all tucked away here and there.  I just absolutely love these product lines.  I can never get enough!

 

Here is the little album that I created from the Prima note cards which like I had

mentioned before was so much fun to do.  And I just love using my sewing machine. However it still makes me a little crazy at times when it doesn't do what I want.  haha