I am the August Guest Designer for Vintage Plum, an online scrapbooking kit club. Here’s one of my projects with the Fashion Forward kit, along with the blog post I made for them.
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When I received the Fashion Forward Kit in the mail last week, I KNEW I wanted to make some type of wall hanging with it. I just love vintage and the colors match my living room/entryway.
I wasn’t sure what kind of base I wanted to use, so I stopped at Michael’s. I found this little wooden mosaic holder for less than $2 and knew right away what I would do with it! I painted it white, then used some crackle paint glaze and topped it off with black paint. The result? An awesome, distressed home for a collage!
The crackle paint technique gave it a wonderful, shabby feel.
I used some of the Graphic 45 papers and die cuts for background papers, along with part of the Luxe rubons. Don’t be afraid to cut up those border rubons! You’ll get more use out of them that way!!!
Then, I cut out a dress form from the Vintage Plum paper, layered it with foam tape and inked edged cardstock. I layered this on top of one of the Hambly frames to make it look like the dressform was in front of a mirror.
I cut out one of the ladies from the Graphic 45 paper, and along with a couple of flowers and added a star Jenni Bowlin sticker from the alphas sheet.
To create a way to hang it up, I used a tiny drill bit to make a hole, then used some thin floral wire along with some ribbon to finish it off.
