I'm the Frosted Designs Guest Designer today

I am so excited to share with you my project today.   I am  thrilled to be invited by Barb Craft to be a guest designer at Frosted Designs today.   I have followed Frosted Designs for a few years now and have always found the Design team,

 the tutorials and the challenges very inspirational.  

I hope you enjoy my project as much as I enjoyed creating it so I could share with you today.   I love Graphic 45, shabby chic and vintage items so love creating shadowbox and off the page projects.     

This shadowbox from K and Company is 12 x 12 so each square is 4 x 6.  

I bought it at Target last year on clearance.  

Paper collection is Graphic 45 Secret Garden 

Angel, bridge, and shutters are Prima 

Variety of mosses from a bag from Michaels 

Flowers and leaves Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels  

Glimmer Mist Crushed Shells 

Prima and Tim Holtz Distress Inks 

Other embellishments, bud flowers, stones, tiny shoes, tiny tools and wood box from my stash.  

Yes I admit I collect goodies wherever I go.  

Little stones with words I found in miniature section you can find in craft stores.  

More info with closeup pictures  

Each page is like a little mini page but I also used items over in several squares to tie things together.  

The completed shadowbox

Here is what the shadowbox looked like before I started.  

Graphic 45 papers cut into 4 x 6 rectangles and 3/4 inch strips for sides.

The edge is also has strips of paper glued to it at 1 inch strips.  I started at middle of bottom and overlapped so  pieces did not peel on corners.  

I then sprayed lightly with Glimmer Mist Spray Crushed Shells and used a brush  to mute the white edges and let it sit over night.  

Closeups of each rectangle

Left top corner 

Each center rectangle is inked with brown ink and pop dotted for dimension.  

The roses and leaves are fussy cut from a second piece, inked and pop dotted.  

Used a punch for tag and added Graphic 45 sticker. 

Cherish metal word and bird nest from Recollections (Michaels) 

Top center 

Fussy cut girl, fence and flowers.  Then inked pop dotted,  Added shutters to each edge. 

Metal charm from Recollections (Michaels)

Hug Snug Schiff seam binding colored with Glimmer Mist 

Top right

Fussy cut roses, added chipboard, Prima beads, Prima bird and corners.

The butterfly charm I found in my stash.  

Bottom left 

Fussy cut flowers and leaves and added paper flowers.  They had a touch of pink but I inked them with Prima ink to make them pop more.  

Tiny shoes I got at a Recycle store near me.  They have tons and tons of stuff you can rummage through and use for projects.  

Butterflies Martha Stewart punch double layered for dimension 

Charm from stash 

Center bottom. 

You can see the moss and roses overflowing from top center.  

Fussy cut and added more inked paper flowers, 

Added key from $1 section Michaesl and G45 Chipboard 

Bridge and angel from Prima.  

Fence from miniature section or wood section in craft stores goes across two rectangles.  

Bottom right 

 I fussy cut birds and cage and pop dotted.  Added inked paper flowers and leaves, 

Tools and box are miniatures I had in my stash.  

Chipboard G45 and metal word Love from Recollections.

I hope you enjoyed my Guest Designer project and it will inspire you to try an off the page project. 

Thank you again to Barb for having me.  Also I would love for you to  check out my work on my blog Cricutcraftingrammyblogspot or on facebook.  Happy craftin!

Howdy Partner layout with Julie Nutting dolls

This is something I have wanted to do for awhile and it was so fun.  I love playing with Julie Nutting paper doll stamps.  This was the perfect picture to create a layout using my new bitty doll stamps.  

I have created little girls to match my granddaughters dresses but until recently there weren't any boys so this is the first time I was able to do a boy too.  

This is my grandson Micah 2 and my granddaughter Kenzie 4 

dressed up for Western day at preschool.  

I hunted through my stash to find papers that matched their clothes as much as possible.  

I am entering this in two challenges:  

                  Handmade flowers and recycled materials!
                                       Frosted Designs

The flowers are hand cut circles of paper and sewing patterns.  

For the  recycled part of the challenge I used the sewing patterns, 

veggie bag net, and grocery bag torn and rolled for frame.  

Die Cut challenge: Clothing

Stuck on U Sketches
The little girl stamp had fancy shoes 
so I cut boots out to match my granddaughters.  

The clothesline is a Silhouette die cut I cut three times.  

The title Howdy Pardner is also a Silhouette cut and I used a Martha Stewart punch for the fan.  I sprayed with Glimmer Mist, used denim ribbon from Michaels, tiny clothes pins, and cork embellishments.  

Thanks for looking at my project.  I would love to hear your comments.  

Happy craftin!