$3 Thursday – Love frames

I know at least one of my readers will be happy to see that I’m finally sharing a non-card craft.  She’s been asking me for about two months what I’ve been crafting besides cards.

I found some great ornate mini frames at an after Christmas clearance sale and knew I had to pick them up as they would be perfect for a valentine display.

I really am surprised that there were any of these frames left but maybe most people were only looking at them as picture frames and didn’t have a use for such small frames.

Lucky for me I guess.

This really isn’t much of a craft as the great damask background was already in the frames.  I picked out four frames, (Well those of you who really know me know that I picked up more than four of the frames, more crafts to follow I think.)  and love stickers from my supply.

You may be lucky enough to find these or similar frames at Michael’s, where I bought mine at.  I think they have similar ones in the bridal section two for $3.

Edit:  I was at Michael's last week and they had these same style frames in their dollar bins for $1.50 each in bright, spring colors and also in some more muted colors that look antique glazed frames. 

I originally planned on die cutting some letters out but then I remembered that I had these letters in my stash.  I even remember buying these stickers last year for only a dollar.  I bought them at Target which usually had a good selection of seasonal embellishments for only a dollar.

Since my stickers were layered and I wanted them to stand out I just stuck them to the front of the frame.

Seriously I did tell you this was hardly a craft at all.  I think the hardest part of the ‘crafting’ was getting the frames out of the plastic bags.

If you attempt this hard craft project you might want to take the plastic, not glass, insert to cut down on the reflection but it does make moving the stickers around easier since you don’t have to worry about ripping the paper.

I’m hoping to be able to take the stickers off and change the letters to make new words to display seasonally.

I have more of all but the white frame so I can create longer words.  I’m thinking I might display either bliss, create or inspire for in my crafting area.

In the end I’m in love with my Ornate Mini Love Frames as they are now but can’t wait to update them.

Supplies:

Mini frames                $.45 each

Love stickers            $1.00

Total cost:   $2.90

I found my frames on clearance but you should be able to find similar frames for around a dollar each.  Look beyond the frame color if you don’t like the color as these could easily be spray painted another color.  I thought about using identical frames but liked the different colors and shapes of these frames, they screamed valentine to me.

I’d love to hear from you if you make a similar craft inspired by this one.

June

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 Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

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Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design

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More mini love cards

I had so much fun making the first batch of mini cards I showed yesterday that after making a few more standard size cards I went back and made more mini cards to use more of the mini card bases I have.

Most of the cards I made have the lovebirds on them but a few are a bit more generic and would make great tags for gifts.  I expect to go to an anniversary party later this month and think one of these tags will be a great gift tag.

 

I used a bit of glitter to accent a few of the hearts.

I ended up making 19 mini cards.  I’m not sure if the package only had 19 cards or if it had 20 and I used one of them in the past.  Or more likely, I might have taken one out searching for inspiration, never found it so added the card to my scrap box.

I actually have two more sets of these mini cards in my stash and now am sure that I’ll find a use for them soon.

 

June

Mini love card set

While I was crafting with the paper kit I recently bought I decided to make a few mini cards.   I had some red and blue card 3” cards that matched the papers.  I usually don’t make mini cards but since I had them from a grab bag I thought they would be fun to make with some of the papers and accents from the paper kit.

I like the simplicity of the mini cards.

Rhinestone accents and be fairly expensive so when I check for larger pieces that can be cut into smaller accents.  The one about was 1/3 of a larger accent.   

I think these mini cards would be great as gift tags, lunchbox notes or as a small thinking of you note to a loved one.

Most of the rub-ons were a inexpensive find. They were from the dollar section of Target. If you watch you can really get some fun accents for only a dollar.

What projects are you working on right now?

 

June

Love Me Do cards – day 4

I hope you are not getting too sick of cards from this paper kit but here are two more. 

This is another card that doesn’t scream valentine to me, it could be used for many occasions.

I tried some stitching but as you can see the machine I used doesn’t like zig zag very much!  It likes to skip stitches but I think it just adds to the unique, handmade character of this card.  You can just concentrate on the cute ribbon and pin accenting the flower.

I’m not exactly sure what Love Me Do is suppose to mean but it didn’t mean I wasn’t going to use the accent on a card. :)

Again I cut out my own accent and even layered it a bit to add some dimension to the card.

 

June

Love Me Do cards – day 3

Here are a few more valentine/love themed cards.

I cut out another balloon and a heart to create a few more accents for this card.

I added a bit of glitter bling to the accents to help them ‘pop’ off the card.

I love the look of banners on cards and other projects so I decided to stamp a few on this card. 

The stamps were purchased at the same time as the paper kit for a whole twelve and a half cents for three stamp! They were marked $.25 but everything was half off that day. Another deal I couldn’t pass up and add to my supplies.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

June

Love Me Do cards – day 2

Here are a few more cards I created with the Love Me Do paper kit.

I loved the die cut elements from this pack, they are the perfect accents.

I did add a bit of glitter to the wing along with some sheer ribbon behind it to bring a bit more movement and texture to this card.

I made my own die cut for this card – I cut out one of the balloons to create a focal image for this card to compliment the flower accent and ribbon.

I love the bling on this flower, it looks like it was picked just after a rain.

June

I’m back….

I can’t believe it has been two months since I’ve posted anything.  It was an unplanned departure from blogging over the holiday season.  I was just not doing much of anything crafty and didn’t have the inspiration to blog about anything.  I think there were even weeks when I didn’t even search other blogs to see all the crafty inspiration out there.

I hope you all had a great holiday season and your new year is starting out well.

After the holidays I found some great deals on some papers and finally sat down last night and made a few cards.  For the next couple days I’ll show you some cards I made from this paper kit.

It is called Love Me Do from My Mind’s Eye.  I got it for only $2 so how could I pass it up?  Well, as you see, I didn’t pass it up.   So far I made 8 cards and only used a few of the papers and die cuts from the pack.  I did use a some ribbon, flowers, pin, glitter, ink and stamps from my supplies.

This die cut was just about all this card needed but I added a bit of bling to make it stand out a bit more.

The pearl sprig was from the bridal section of a local discount store.  I but them down a bit so the strings were not all the same length.

I had this flower in my supplies, I added a bit a blue ink to help it match the papers just a bit more. 

I slit the anchor to put it around the center of the flower for a simple card.

I love this paper pack and knew immediately that it would make great valentine cards.  I love the non-traditional blue and yellow colors with the red.  I think they make great valentine, just because or even anniversary cards. 

What do you think, would you send these cards for something other than valentines day?

 

June