A Digital Freebie For You

Welcome to our blog and a long overdue freebie for you, apart from the free monthly kit. This is a little vintage style mini with 3 papers and half a dozen elements - great for a couple of heritage layouts.



You can find it here for a week or so - as always please do not share this with your friends - just direct them here, after all it is free!

How about some "vintage flair"~

Hi everyone!! This is my first blog post as a street writer for ScrapStreet!!!  I wanted to share this wreath I made a few weeks ago ~hoping it will encourage you to add some "vintage flair" into your art ~ what ever that might be~ scrapbooking, card making, altered art, crafts you name it.

I used Helmar products, Maya Road, Cosmo Cricket, Jenni Bowlin and Claudine Hellmuth plus a lot of vintage sass.  The flag is made out of old music paper.  The aluminum numbers were found on old telephone poles on our ranch ~ super cool find!!! 

and a close~up of the fabulous vintage buttons and numbers!!! My first call is up on the blog under fall calls ~ Here it is:In with the Old and out with the New~let me see your layouts with a fall theme using some kind of vintage clip art, ephemera (example~old milk caps, labels). Move that new stuff to the side~this is going to be fun!!!

Looking forward to seeing what you create!!!  by: Connie Mercer/Street Writer

Wednesday Freebie

Hi everyone, we have a quickpage for you this week. I love heritage style anything, so today we have a ready done page in PNG format.

Just pop your photo on the layer behind, position in the frame and there you are... a pretty vintage layout for your nearest and dearest.


You can download it here for the next week and then it will be gone. Enjoy!

How to Recycle and Alter Your Valentine Candy Boxes in 8 Steps

Hi, it's Julie Ann bringing you a tutorial today on How to Recycle and Alter Your Valentine Candy Boxes! It's easy and fun, and good for the environment too!!! These are inspired by Lisa Kettell.

SUPPLIES
To start, you need a few supplies:

• heart-shaped candy box
• liquid adhesive (I used gel matte medium, and I also really love Fabri-Tac by Beacon)
• pop-dots adhesive
• digi printables- vintage valentines vignettes: I Heart You by Tangie Baxter (Scrapbookgraphics)
• pen or pencil (for tracing)
• scissors (one with fine tip is preferable)
• vintage music paper or patterned paper of your choice
• crepe paper aka streamers
• flowers
• wing and jewel (Prima Marketing, Inc) *optional
• glitter
• silver pipe cleaner or garland
• ribbon
• hole puncher or Crop-A-Dile

TUTORIAL

1. Trace on wrong side of music sheet paper or patterned paper around the heart, and cut out. Adhere to the top of the heart lid.
2. Add adhesive around the edges of  the heart on the paper.

3. Gather and scrunch/pinch the crepe paper together as you adhere it to the edges of the heart. Go all the way around the heart in this manner.

4. Adhere silver pipe cleaner or silver garland in a heart shape over the edges of the crepe paper where it meets the music paper. I find Fabri-Tac adhesive works best.
5. Sprinkle vintage glass glitter over the project and it will adhere to the glue left over from the pipe cleaner.

6. Adhere the three cut-out digi printable hearts, overlapping, as shown above, using pop-dots for dimension.

7. Embellish with flowers, a wing on the angel, and a jewel at the bottom tip of the heart.

 

8. I punched two holes, one on each side, of the candy box - with my Crop-a-Dile (or you can use a hole puncher). Pull ribbon through and tie a knot. It's now ready for hanging when you put both sides of the candy box together!

And here are a few others I've made this year for additional inspiration..........

Have a blessed and creative Valentine's Day!!!
xoxo,
Julie Ann Shahin

Merry Christmas from ScrapStreet

and a very Happy and Peaceful New Year to you all. As promised here is a little treat for you at Christmas. Here are 6 plastic digi tiles in PNG format with vintage christmas scenes on. Use them on your last minute cards, gift tags, print them onto fabric or sticky labels or just pop them onto your layouts.



You can get them here. We hope you enjoy them and stay tuned to the blog as there may be a little New Year surprise as well!