Stealing Babies!!!

Okay, so despite what the title of the post suggests, I didn't steal the whole baby...and really not even the picture.  It was sent to me by this little cutie pie's parents.  (No children were harmed and no laws were broken in the making of this project)!!!


The bulk of the materials for this project came from the Scraps of Elegance "Lisa's Love Letters".  It's been a few blog posts since I talked about how much I love the papers from Blue Fern Studios...but I FLIPPING LOVE THEM!  They're so heavy and have absolutely gorgeous designs.  Also included in this kit were some great papers from the Prima "Epiphany" collection (one of my favorite collections, even though I say that every time I discover a new collection from Prima).  I had a few scraps leftover from my previous project, I started with those to match them up. 

I knew I wanted to use an actual frame piece rather than layering the photo onto paper, but I didn't have any frames that I thought matched the look I was going for.  Never fear...way back in my hoard stash I had this super thin super cheap paper frame that perfectly matched the size of picture I had printed.  Since I knew I was going to use a lot of medium to color it, I wanted to "toughen" the thin frame up.  So I experimented by covering the backside of the frame with gel medium.  Once it had dried, the frame felt sturdy enough for what I wanted to do with it.  After some mist, paint, distress stain, and a quick white wash with watered down gesso, I used a Heidi Swapp stamp and covered with another coat of the gesso white wash.  The finishing touch was to tie some Fiber in knots around the corners of the frame.  You can see a close up below.  The awesome butterfly was from a previous SOE kit, but as always from the super talented Renea. 

 

 

Here is another close up of another corner of the frame, along with a little texture work on the background, some lace, and some of my paper layers.

Finally, for my flower clusters/close ups.  The jeweled flower came from "bling" hoard drawers, but most of the actual flowers came in the kit.  I also used one of Renea's butterflies that was included in this kit.  The little silver key can be found at her Etsy shop as well.  The "LOVE" resin piece is from Prima.  The vine heart is from the previous SOE kit, "Renea's Charm".  :)

 



 

 

 So there you have it!!!  Thanks for letting me "borrow" your kid for the day, Jacob and Loni!!! 

 

Love,

mel