Most of us remember our mothers on Mother’s Day, this year I dedicated the memory to my Great Grandmother. While I never met her, I did hear a lot about her and believe her to be an amazing and wonderful woman.
I have used a gorgeous Prima paper from the Printery range and incorporated a lot of found items from my stash. There are many new and wonderful trinkets and treasures on the market today as well, that would have been ideal. Look through your bits and pieces of stash and you’ll be amazed at what can be adapted to the current trends. Old will become new. I used some paper flowers (off our website) and stamped over them for an added effect as I thought they were too plain.
The film strip is a Tim Holtz die (awaiting stock at present) which I have cut from a piece of heavy card/light chipboard. This works well as it becomes an ideal medium for altering and decorating. To give it a grundgy historical look, I roughly inked it using a couple of inks that coordinated with the flowers. I then simply inked around the edges with a black for a little more definition. Chalk inks work extremely well and dry quickly.
The chipboard pieces I selected are from Scrapbooking n Craft (SNC) and are in the process of being uploaded to the website. The keys are from a set of keys and locks in various sizes. We have some exclusive designs coming in soon and are very excited about that. Once again, I simply inked the chipboard, then distressed it by lightly sanding it. This gave it a worn, used look. Appropriate for the vintage of the picture.
The cotton doily was spritzed with a light tea stain dye and a few pearls added to the centres of the flowers.
Hoping everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day and has some fabulous photos to scrap.
Happy Scrapping
