Kellso Collage

A very girlie D.T. project!

I knew right away what direction I had to take once I saw this paper from Melissa Frances.  It is ultra feminine, and beautiful.  Without hesitation, I pulled out Eden’s hospital picture, and got to work.  With so many soft patterns and colors, I decided to make the page look like a quilt.  Here’s the technique I used:  I cut the paper into squares to form the ‘quilt’-  Each square was 4×4 inches to cover a 12×12 sheet of scrapbook paper with 3 rows and 3 columns.  I sprayed each square with water, and gently crumpled the paper to give it a well-worn fabric look.  After highlighting the wrinkles with Bundled Sage Distress Ink, I glued the squares down onto a larger piece of paper, fixing the lace edging in place as well.  I did some stitching along the edges of the squares to ‘quilt’ them in place, and I made this process go much more quickly by pre-punching the holes and then just following the holes as I sewed.

All the lace, from the flower to the edges of the page, are from an old shirt I was ready to part with.  But, I couldn’t let the lace go without putting it to some good use!  The flower was inspired by another online tutorial, and it was so simple-  just cut circles out of the fabric in varying sizes, and singe the edges!  My flower is a bit over-singed, but I was happy with the results.

I also put together a quick mini book to give the Melissa Francis products more of a chance to shine.  The pictures doesn’t show the fun scalloped edges from one of the papers I received, but I wanted to put every piece of the material to good use!   All of the papers and embellishments are available at Mystic Paper!  All the hard work of the Design Team is on display, as well-don’t miss checking out Holly and Sheri’s blogs to see their Melissa Francis projects from this month.

Today is the perfect day to update my blog with this project, because Eden’s newborn picture was taken exactly 3 years ago-  Today is her birthday, and we are so glad we have this girlie girl in our family!   Happy Birthday, Eden!