For me, there is nothing like an upcoming event to light a fire under me to complete unfinished projects.  We had my hubby's family over on Palm Sunday for an early Easter celebration.  I've had these two Definitely Decorative rub-on's and the frames in my closet for a while.

Supplies:

119427 Our Attitude Toward Life-Black (9 3/4" x 7 1/8") $15.95

Retired Designer Series Paper

116155 Laundry-Black (8 1/4" x 9")  $8.95

Retired Designer Series Paper

These are so easy to make.  First, I cleaned the glass and applied the Definitely Decorative rub-on to the glass.  Then I put the Designer Series Paper inside the frame.

At our townhouse, we had a huge wall in the master bedroom.  I hung 8 x 10 frames with baby pictures, graduation pictures and wedding pictures of our children and my hubby and I.  At our new house, we don’t have a big enough wall anywhere to put these frames.  So, I took all the photographs out of the frames and made black & white copies of the photographs I wanted to use.  I decided to make six 8"x8" scrapbook pages with these photographs that I will hang in our new master bedroom.  I have an old window frame that was painted white with red crackle paint showing through.  Since, I didn’t want to get rid of this window frame, I decided to paint it black and put my six scrapbook pages in it.

The finished project, which I adore!  The "family" metal sign at the bottom is from a craft store. 

Scrapbook Page 1:  This is me.

Scrapbook Page 2:  Our wedding day and 26 years later at our daughter’s wedding.

Scrapbook Page 3:  My handsome hubby.

Scrapbook Page 4:  Our sweet son.

Scrapbook Page 5:  Our children’s weddings.

Scrapbook Page 6:  Our darling daughter.

Do you want to see how I adhered the scrapbook pages behind the glass panes?

Pop-Up Glue Dots worked very well!

Supplies Used: 

Cardstock:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Basic Gray, Bride Specialty, Brushed Silver

Ink:  Basic Black, Going Gray, VersaMark

Stamp Sets:  Wonderful Favorites, Vintage Labels, Elements of Style, Holiday Blitz, Only Ovals

Punches:  Scallop Square, Eyelet Border, Wide Oval, Medium Jewelry Tag, Modern Label, Pinking Hearts Border, 1 3/4" Circle, 1" Circle, Full Heart, Star, Large Star

Sizzix Products:  Big Shot Die Cutting Machine, Lots of Tags die cut,  Two Tags die cut, Scalloped Heart Embosslits Die

Ribbon:  Whisper White Organza, Black Gingham, Basic Gray Taffeta

Accessories:  Filigree Designer Brads, White Gel Pen, Mat Pack, Paper Piercer, Clear Rhinestone Brads, Basic Jumbo Grommets, 5/15" Neutral Jumbo Brads, Clips Assortment, Metallic Eyelets, Silver Brads, Heat Tool, Metal Edge Tags, Silver Embossing Powder, Black Embossing Powder, Clips Assortment, Metallic Eyelets, Pop-up glue dots

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My daughter had two matching frames for her daughters’  first year baby photos.  One of the frames recently was broken.  So she decided to make her own.

She used Designer Series Paper for the background; 104401 1 3/8" circle punch for the photo’s, 105090 Word Window Punch for the months, 112530 Circle Scissors Plus for the large 1 year photo, 113490 Baroque Motifs stamp set (large swirl), retired Simon lower chipboard letters (other letters printed from the computer), 114889 Scallop Oval punch, 107305 Large Oval Punch and miscellaneous buttons.

These turned out so well.  Great job Melanie!

Here are two Definitely Decorative Decor Elements projects my daughter recently did.

She put the Chalkboard Decorative Sign above their telephone.  It is available in three sizes:

119664 Decorative Sign 13 3/4" x 15 3/4"  $14.95

119665 Decorative Sign 17 7/8" x 20 7/8"  $18.95

119666 Decorative Sign 23 1/2" x 26 1/2"  $29.95

Use any chalk to write on the image.  Clean using a chalkboard eraser or a damp cloth.

She adhered "Our Attitude Toward Life" Decor Element on the glass part of a gold frame.  Because of the reflection on the bottom of this frame, I don’t know if you can see that she added some brown rub-on’s also to the glass part of the frame.  This looks very striking on her dark blue wall.

This Decor Element is available in five colors:  black, basic gray, chocolate, kraft and white.  It also comes in four sizes:

9 3/4" x 7 1/8"  $15.95

13" x 9 3/8"      $17.95

17 3/4" x 12 3/4"  $19.95

25 7/8" x 18 5/8"  $21.95

I was going through my craft boxes and found this little 3"x3" frame.  I just can’t seem to leave frames alone.  I have to alter them!

Here it is after I altered it.

Supplies used:

100712 Brushed Silver Cardstock, 101910 Shimmery White Cardstock, 113694 Heart to Heart Punch, 116630 Modern Label Punch, 101227 1/16" handheld punch, 109131 Silver Embossing Powder, 102283 VersaMark Pad, 100005 Heat Tool, 109109 Vintage Brads, 104430 Dimensionals, 113439 Big Shot Die Cut Machine, 115963 Finial Press Embossing Folder.