Paper Girls Challenge #8 Use up your chipboard stash

 

My post is up a little bit late but I thought since I had company in town I'd better take care of them. Our challenge for this round is to use up your chipboard stash and I liked this bracket/ frame so I thought it would be fun to stain it with some of my Tim Holtz distress stain - broken china. I love that color. Here's a little picture of my process of staining my chipboard. Easy peezy. 

I traced a piece of paper with the inside piece from the chipboard frame and glued it on with my Tombow multi liquid glue. It's perfect for chipboard.  Lastly I added some little accents of washi tape to the photo to pull the blue back in and tied some hand dyed seam binding for that final touch.

Paper Girls Challenge #7

I just loved the sketch by Charity for this round of the Paper Girls Challenge. I was flipping through my stash of printed photos and I found this one of me when I was pretty little - between 1 1/2 - 2 here. I thought it would go great with this paper by My Mind's eye the Bright Side. The orange, teal, and olive green are reminiscent of my childhood without being overpowering.

I cut a large flower shape with my cricut for the bottom portion of the sketch and used the lovely textile print in brown. Then I outlined the flower with Manderine twine from the Twinery. I quilled a camera because I really wanted one on there and I decided that it would be fun to try my hand at it. The rest of the embellishments are October Afternoon from various lines: Sidewalks, 5 & dime, Sarsaparilla and the flour pack from Farmhouse. I really mixed it up. The little pin flags are Girls Paperie.