A Frame for Clara

{ok this layout looks all nice and groovy in blogger...who knows if it'll be like that when you're reading it...sorry if it's not}

I just finished up my frame for Clara. I am so happy with the way it turned out!! I really wanted to put picts in and I may still before I give it to Stephanie, but my printer is out of my photo ink cartridge right now, so I just went ahead and finished it for now. I made the smaller picture strip for the bottom part for 3 smaller picts and the top one will hold a 5x7. I just stamped the 5x7 area so it wasn't so blank and white...same with the Hollyhock squares down below.

Here is the front...I know I said this yesterday, but I really love the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl stack...I also got all of the matching embellies to go with it, but didn't use them. I used a ton of different products on this frame, so if there is anything that catches your eye that you are unsure of, just shoot me off an email and I"ll let you know what it was!!

Here is the back...I painted it in a glimmer white color first, then that didn't cover worth toot, so I went over it with this pretty green and then mixed the shimmery white and green again for a 3rd coat! Once it was all dry, I took one of my funky textured CTMH brush thingies and swirled it in CTMH Hollyhock ink first and then made all of the circle marks on the back of the frame and stand. I stamped a Heidi Swapp "All My Love" stamp and then added the date (CTMH Friendship alpha) and one of my personaled stamps to finish it off.

I finally had a chance to use my Shimmerz and I LOVE them {you can buy them at All That Scraps}!! Thanks Jennifer for the enabling!! Here is a close up of the letters...first I inked up some kraft colored Heidi Swapp chipboard letters with CTMH Hollyhock and then used Bubblegum Shimmerz on them. They turned out a bit darker than I had originally planned, but they still look really pretty...you can always go darker, but it's pretty tough to go lighter!! I used 2 flower shapes from a Doodlebug package of glittery alphas and just sponges CTMH Hollyhock ink on them and added a green Doodlebug glitter brad to the center.

Then I used a funky flourish shape, actually two of them to make the whole shape from Breezy Design. They are called Toppings, I used the Girls one and you can use glitter, flock or foil after you have out the rub on down....I chose pretty green glitter to go with the colors in my papers and then added some MAMBI rhinestones for fun!

I think that's all...oh, I tied some pretty white taffeta ribbon from SU and added two little bows to either side of the frame as well....so pretty and oh so girly!! Then her birthday info at the very bottom!! I hope Steph likes it!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly