Art Frame DIY part II

In the last post,I showed you how to make your own awesome Art Frame without any wood,nails or  other heavy duty tools. This post is a follow up :)

Another frame,same materials with slightly different result

Second option with Canvas Flowers Stickers-you decide what you like best :)

You'll need-

A postcard 

Foam Board

XYRON Creatopia Machine 

Permanent Adhesive cartridge

XYRON  Patternz - Dots Embosser 

Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock

Sandpaper

Soft Pastels 

Fixative
Posca Markers
Strong Glue 

You start the same-tracing your postcard  around it's perimeter and then adding 1 to 1.5" all around to create the frame.

Cut out the middle and set the frame aside 

 Now we shall prepare the decorative coating of the frame
Set your Creatopia Machine with the embosser roller-I use DOTS pattern for this project

 Emboss the Cardstock 

 Very,Very cool ,ye

 Now sand the Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock  to reveal the core

 Now run the embossed /sanded paper through Creatopia again ,but this time with the permanent adhesive cartridge inside

 Glue the patterned paper on top of the already cut foam board frame 

 Fold the margins onto the foam board as if you are wrapping a gift :)

 Cut diagonal triangles inside 

 Fold them on top  to cover the ugly sides of the foam  

Cut the extra triangles and use them to glue the postcard inside the frame

 The frame is ready for decorations 

 Draw extensions to the flowers in the postcard-use same colours  and media if possible

 Add steams with ultra fine marker-I use PC-1MR Posca marker

 To add some additional  3D effect ,I use Little Yellow Bicycles -Naturals Stick Pins  -Wood Words
They are too precious to pass on

 Just pushing them inside the foam board (not something you would do easily if you were to use a wooden frame)

 Admiring the results :)

GORGEOUS Art Postcard by Anne Julie Aubry  " Girl at Poppies" 

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Art Frame DIY

You all know that I LOVE collecting Art Postcards from my favorite worldwide illustrators !

Some I buy...some I win in various blog giveaways and some I receive from my artists friends :)

  

I surely posted quite a lot of Art Frame projects where I showed you my own contribution to the beautiful art postcards and prints  I've collected through the years and this post is one of them yet again, but this time it's a DIY tutorial as well -YEY

To make your own Art Frame like this lovely shown here

Art Postcard by Minasmoke 

 you'll need-

A postcard 

Foam Board

XYRON Creatopia Machine 

Permanent Adhesive cartridge

XYRON  Patternz - Hearts Embosser 

Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock

Sandpaper

Soft Pastels 

Fixative
Posca Markers
Gel-a-Tins Stamps
Strong Glue 

To begin with replace the cartridge in your Creatopia Machine with an Embossing rollers in the pattern of your choice -I choose the Hearts pattern for this project because the flowers in the postcard have a heart shape to them :)

Now run your cardstock through Creatopia 

 AWESOME  already and I haven't done anything special yet ;)

Now take your sandpaper and rub it on the Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock to reveal the core 

 See how the core is now revealed-really cool feature of these speciality cardstocks

O.K, after finishing the cardstock treatment,we are ready to cut the frame out of the foam board
Just place your postcard on the board, trace it and cut the desired height and width  of the frame

I cut the foam board with my roller knife-I don't mind if the edges won't come out straight and neat as we are going to glue our heart embossed cardstock on top anyway

Now you need to change back from the embosser rollers to your adhesive cartridge and run the cardstock through Creatopia

Place the cardstock  glue side up and the foam board on top

Fold the excess cardstock inwards onto the frame

Do it for all the sides

Now we have a ready frame with glue in the middle to put our postcard in

I also cut 4 narrow strips from the same cardstock and glued them inside to cover the sides of the foam board

And now the artistic part of the Art Frame begins :)

Grab your pastels and start colour  the embossed hearts to create flowers replicas 

When you finish drawing flowers ,add some shading like in the original postcard and some hand drawn  lineart poppies 

And if you have some stamps you think will  work great with the theme of the postcard,don't be afraid to use them as well :)
I have the sweetest Honey Bear set by Gel-a-Tins  which worked fabulous with my art frame-
I used the Butterfly,Bees and Daisies seen on the bottom right corner to compliment my hand drawn flowers

To finish the frame,you'll need a thingy to hang the frame from on the wall

I used the opening tab from a Soft Drink can as my hanger device ;D 

Glued it in place and TA DA

(How awesome is the back of the frame haaa )

 You have a ready to  hang frame  

On the wall with it's friends:)

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BoBunny & XYRON Blog Hop Scrapbook Page layout DIY

On April 2010, me, hubby and our oldest daughter ,Sierra (3 at that time) came to visit our family in the US and attend  a wedding of my husband's relatives .

We landed at Chicago,spent a week there. Then flew to Cancun ,Mexico for a week .
Got back to Chicago and flew to NY for another week
It was so much fun (even with a little kid on hand :D ) and we took like hundreds of pictures ,but when we return home,I have never found the time to even print all these amazing photos ,not until today :)

Thanks to the  XYRON & BoBunny Blog Hop Challenge I finally have the chance to make a scrapbook of our trip !
I went  through all the photos of our journey and while browsing and reminisce, a photo of Sierra with surfing boards at the background caught my attention ...I remembered seeing a similar backdrop and an overall feel of my photo in one of Bo Bunny's Back to Backs Reversible Heavy Weight Papers...
I went to check my stash and as I was going through the BEAUTIFUL BoBunny "Key Lime"  collection ,I saw this PERFECT page for my first scrapbook !!! A Key Lime  item #14501814
It's colours and the tropical feel of the page was all that I was looking for and so,I started to assemble a collage-I'll show you how I did it

You'll need a-
 Bo-Bunny 12x12 heavy weight cardstock from the keylime collection
Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock in Blue,Yellow and Jeans

Silhouette Cutter

Sanding paper

XYRON Creatopia Machine with permanent adhesive  

5 different Bo-Bunny NoteWorthy die cut journal pages #14513862
Key Lime Trinkets #14506853
XYRON Tape Runner

Key Lime Jewels #14507856

Imaginisce ABC Sticker Alphas Sheet #400127

Imaginisce "childhood Memories" Sticker Stackers #400135

Naturals/ Little Yellow Bicycle  Canvas Alphas 

Your photo 

To begin with,choose the 12x12 you like best-consider similar colours or theme to your photo
I went with the   12x12" Key Lime 

I'm going to make this page according to the scrapbook layout kit #41249 by Silhouette

, but will tweak it a bit

I chosed a  Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock to construct my layouts with

First of I cut a 4.5X6.5"  Cardstock in blue to set the base

Then I add a 5.5X5.5"  yellow  Cardstock cut in folder shape from the silhouette kit above
See how all the cardstocks I use have a similar colour scheme to the chosen background sheet

3rd piece would be in Jeans colour ,hand torn  to 5X5"  rectangle  .

I wanted to give this last piece a bit of body and interests ,so I wrinkled  it good and then sanded it  to receive a wave like design-COOL !

Now it's time to glue them all in place...And there is no better way to do so than 

run the cardstocks through your trusty  Creatopia Machine

Glue all three one on top of the other and continue decorating with the Imaginisce sticker letters

I use my Aristo ruler to place the letters in straight line 

and another word made from the same Imaginisce sticker set  :)
 + canvas brackets  stickers from the Alphas set by Naturals 

decorating...decorating...decorating...

I know the original layout I'm basing my page on, uses a different type of camera and the shape is available in the kit, but I had this adorable polaroid Sticker Stacker Camera by Imaginisce ,so I decided to use it instead 

 also added two arrows on the left side of the camera

Now lets not forget  that we are mostly girls in the family, so some bling is a MUST

The layout sketch shows us that  we need to stick some jewels in a half circle near the folder on it's left side...

For easy and accurate applying of the half a circle ,I'm using a round object I had on hand as a template and Bo Bunny's jewels stickers

Here you go :)

Looking lovely 

To decorate some more,I'm adding the journaling die cuts-

First off ,run the dies  through your XYRON Creatopia Machine to make a sticker out of them   

Then glue them in place

Some on the bottom of the page...and some on the top

I switched the heart from the sketch with a beach ball 

And the heart sketched on the  folder ,with  a cute little Key Lime Trinket which I glued on with my XYRON Tape Runner on top of the yellow folder  

The project is complete :)

Now you have yourself an AWESOME scrapbook page to glue your photo in

Sierra-3 yr. old- Cancun ,Mexico Apr. 2010 

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