Photo Tray

A few months ago, right after we lost my grandfather, I took a new Vicki Boutin class on the 7 gypsies printers tray. This is the result of that class:


This tray uses a ton of 7 gypsies product, along with some miscellaneous pieces from other companies such as pink paislee (sorry, but they were part of the class kit). My grandfather was a bee keeper, and bee keeping was his passion, so when I saw the bee in the bottom right hand corner, I knew that this had to be for family photos and needed to revolve around him (I ended up giving this to my grandmother for Christmas -- I don't often give away my crafty products, but I figured this was a special occasion!). I absolutely loved this project (and I've always loved Vicki's classes -- if you ever get a chance to take one of her classes, do it! They are worth every penny).
Then, I decided to recreate the project and make it different as a Christmas present for my Mom (who mistakenly believes that me making her something costs me less than me buying her something, but I love the fact she wants me to do this for her--it builds my confidence in sharing what I've done--so I let her go on believing :) )
I started with Tim Holtz alcohol inks on the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Collection:


I've never used alcohol inks before, probably didn't use them for what they were intended, but I LOVE the effect!!!!
Here is the completed project with photos:


In addition to Tim Holtz alcohol inks & the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Collection, I used letters from Pink Paislee & American Crafts Thickers for the title, Making Memories for the two ribbon embelishments, Tim Holtz clock, Pink Paislee die cuts, Prima flowers, bird & felt, American Crafts Dear Lizzy brads, Making Memories for the "S", Sassafrass cork die cuts, Glimmer Mist, Distress Ink, 7 Gypsies tray, and I believe the bee is from 7 Gypsies.
Hope you enjoy!
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Bring on 2011!

So sorry that this is my first blog post in so long. We lost two very important members of our family back to back this summer, and in all honesty, I just lost interest in keeping up on my blog. But I'm back, and one of my New Years goals is to attempt to post once a week.
Another reason for the long time in between posts was the newest addition to our family, our Bullmastiff, Boss!



This photo is with our cat, Tess in front of our Christmas tree -- before Boss destroyed $100 worth of ornaments (the first destructive thing he's done in the 6 months we've had him) and he & Tess began eating Christmas lights. Which after stepping on broken glass, and having no working lights, we spent about 4 hours on Boxing Day stripping the lights off our prelit tree. I will never buy a prelit tree again!

Well, I think that's it for tonight. I will have a scrappy post for you in the next few days!
Later