Mixed Media Baby Frame for ScrapBerry's

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I've created a sweet mixed media baby frame featuring lots of fabulous ScrapBerry's products including cut outs from the darling My Little Star Collection.

 I made this frame for a friend, so I tucked in one of our little granddaughter's newborn photos to photograph it. Can you believe she's already a year old? Time flies by all too quickly!

Close-ups

A sweet floral cluster filled with gorgeous ScrapBerry's flowers. The adorable onesie is fussy cut from the My Little Star Collection New Arrival Tag page. I've also tucked in a sweet polymer rattle from the Kids' Fun Set and centered a Fairy Tale Resin Flower on the butterfly.

I heat embossed the gorgeous Dusty attic heart with white embossing powder then with glittery holographic powder. Then to add a bit of grunge, I rubbed shadows onto the heart with Finnabair's Rose Gold Wax.

Here I used more gorgeous Scrapberry's flowers. I softened them by dry brushing with white gesso, then added sparkle with bits of chunky glass glitter and prills. The darling rolling horse is from the Kids' Fun Set and you can see the pretty Versailles Resin Chrysanthemums. The pram is also cut from the My Little Star Tag page.

The Rose Garden Polymer flower flourish was just perfect to center the stamped and embossed  sentiment. I rubbed the edges lightly with the same color ink used to stamp the sentiment for some soft color. Lot's of texture here with lace, crackle, prills, microbead, and Finnabair's Glass Glitter and Art Stones.

This sweet butterfly is from the Elegy Butterfly Polymer set. I brushed it with gesso, then colored with mist and Finnabair's Art Wax.

The frame was brushed with gesso, then spread with crackle paste and allowed to dry over night for the cracks to fully develop. Crackle has a way of flaking off for me, so I thinned down some PVA glue with water and brushed with it over the dried crackle and set the frame aside to dry once more. The frame was randomly brushed teal and pink color sprays to settle into the cracks, then lightly dry brushed with metallic paints in similar colors over their coordinating colors - ie pink paint over the pink mist areas. Once dry, I lightly dry brushed with white gesso to bring out the texture.

ScrapBerry’s Supply List
My Little Star Collection ~ New Arrival 1 Tags (SCB220607307B)
Kids’ Fun ~ Set of polymer items 2 (SCB26001011)
Kids’ Fun ~ Set of polymer items 3 (SCB26001012)
Elegy ~ Set of polymer items - Butterfly (SCB26002103)
Rose Garden ~ Set of Polymer Items - Garden 1 (SCB26001018)
Versailles ~ Set of Chrysanthemums - (SCB250001088)
Fairy Tale 1 - Resin Set of Flowers - (SCB25002018)
Paper Flowers ~ Gardenia - Pink (SCB290103)
Paper Flowers ~ Gardenia 5cm - Sky Blue (SCB290115)
Paper Flowers ~ Cherry Blossom - Violet (SCB300207)
Paper Flowers ~ Cherry Blossom - light-Rose (SCB300202)
Paper Flowers ~ Stemmed Lily - White (SCB290403)
Paper Flowers ~ Stemmed Lily - White & Pink (SCB290403)It
Cherry Blossom Stem ~ Pink (SCB280704)

Other ProdLiucts
Cardstock ~ White - stash
Dusty Attic ~ Lace Border #1
Dusty Attic ~ Mini Heart Border
Martha Stewart Crafts ~ Stickers - Lace Butterflies
Lace Remnants ~ Stash
Prima ~ Finnabair - Art Basics: Soft Matte Gel
Prima ~ Finnabair - Art Alchemy - Metallique Wax: Rose Gold; Vintage Gold
Prima ~ Finnabair - Art Ingredients - Mica Powder: Vintage Pink; Gold Opal Magic
Prima ~ Finnabair - Art Ingredients - Glass Glitter: Pearl
Prima ~ Art Ingredients - Art Stones - regular and mini
US ArtQuest ~ Prills - Tu-Tu Pink
Liquitex ~ Gesso - White
Liquitex ~ Matte Medium
Viva Decor Croco Crackling Colour - Transparent
Ranger ~ Perfect Medium
Clearsnap with Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx - Chiffon
WOW ~ Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White
Ranger ~ Embossing Powder - Holographic
Ranger ~ Embossing Powder - Clear
Lindy’s Stamp Gang ~ Starburst - Tainted Love Teal; Tibetan Poppy Teal
Heiddi Swapp ~ Color Shine - Teal; Primrose; Blush
DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics Acrylic Paint - Peacock Pearl
Plaid ~ FolkArt - Metallic Arylic Paint: Rose Shimmer
Martha Stewart Crafts ~ Micro Beads - Kunzite
Ranger ~ Letter It - Clear Stamps: Baby
Poppystamps Die: Theo Butterfly (Memory Box)
Helmar ~ Premium Craft glue; Craft & Hobby PVA Glue; Scrap Dots

Thanks for stopping by!!

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Beautiful ~ ScrapThat! November Kit

This morning's snowfall has melted away, but left a hint of the winter to come. I have one final layout from the gorgeous November ScrapThat! Kit to share with you today. It was really a joy to work with this amazing kit featuring Bo Bunny Serenade and full of so many wonderful embellishments.

This photo of Rachel and her bridesmaids taken before the wedding is one that really caught my eye. I talked with her about it over Thanksgiving and found out that it is a shot that Rachel suggested to the photographer. I love how the girls look like they are having so much fun peaking out from behind the columns. 

"Beautiful" 

~Using the MK, EAO, & FAO Kits ~

I used Amy's gorgeous November Sketch:

Tips and Techniques:

Corrugated Board ~ You can see the corrugated board layered behind my photo. I have so much fun with this household item. Whenever I get some packaging that has the narrow little corrugation, it goes into my stash. Here I used a foam brush to lightly apply some black paint to the top ridges of the corrugation and edges. When dry, I applied some Ranger Rock Candy Crackle Paint for some great texture. 

Hand Stitching ~ After the paint was dry on the corrugated board, I used my handy piercing tool to create stitching holes around the curved edge along with some x's.

Misted Rock Salt Chipboard ~ My tutorial for the grungy finish on the chipboard door can be found here.

Curled Vine ~ The jeweled Prima leaves came with brown wire stems, which I pulled off to create the vines in my cluster. I wrapped the wire around a narrow metal bar for making wire coils, but anything like  a knitting needle, or paint brush would work. 

Flowers ~ The November ScrapThat! main kit included this gorgeous WOC poppy and the sweet little white poppies. The Flower Add-On Kit included the amazing Prima Gracie vine and lovely Cabaletta blossoms in white, black, and Grey. I layered some of the black tulle under the red poppy.

Punched Frame ~ I needed a different size frame than my punch set would allow, so I punched it larger, trimmed the ends and overlapped the ends resulting in the lovely corner.

Chipboard ~ I simply used some metallic paint on this Dusty Attic Holly piece to tuck under the flower cluster.

Distressing ~ Of course I used my Distrezz-It-All to distress all the straight edges.

My sweet friend, Helen Tilbury, is having an amazing give-away on her blog, Scrap Addict. It is international and open to everyone. You just need to be one of her followers. Her work is amazing, and you will enjoy following her gorgeous work!! Look what all she is including in her package:

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~