Crafty Individuals June Challenge...chosen by little old me

VINTAGE MEMORY ACCORDION BOOK

I feel very VERY honoured to be part of the design team for Crafty Individuals, and to have been asked to choose the challenge for June. I love anything vintage and romantic, so have set the criteria as 'VINTAGE, USING AT LEAST ONE HEART'. Pop over to

http://craftyindividualsblog.blogspot.com/ for more details on how to enter and see more inspirational entries.

I decided to make an accordion style book out of beer mats, the finished piece is shown above. Below are the beer mats after a coat of gesso and acrylics, lots of little 'blank canvas' ready to work on.

I added a letter on each page to spell out 'VINTAGE MEMORY' when it's open. Here are the individual pages with a few details.

V....overstamp beermat with CI-116 crackle. Create a grungeboard slide mount, emboss and colour with Distress inks. Add lady image CI-264 to the slide mount, colour with chalks. Finish off by adding some lace, sentiment and letter from Sizzix Vintage Market alphabet.

I....Stamp lady and clock , sorry, not sure of this number as it was one of my first ever wooden stamps from Crafty Individuals. Colour with chalks and cut out. Add the lace then cut out a butterfly from a CI image book and ad to tag along with a clock from CI-255. Using glossy accents, add a curtain ring over the clock and fill with glossy accents to create a glass effect. Set to one side to dry. Add a sentiment from the clock plate.

N.... Overstamp with CI-182 large swirl. Cut out an image from a CI image book and edge with a pink dabber before adding it to the beer mat. Add faux stitching with a ranger white gel pen and finish off with a hand made heart shape.

T....Stamp The image, again not sure of the number as its a wooden stamp and colour with chalks. Stamp again and cut ut th butterfly and word and mount them using 3d pads to add dimention. Add some pearls as shown.

A....Overstamp with CI-309 birdsong. Use a border punch on a CI square frame and colour with a pink dabber and distressing ink. Stamp 'love' from CI-256 and add as shown. Finish with lace and pearls.

G....Create a heart, cut out an image from an image book and mount as shown with a word from CI-156 and a few flowers.

E....Overstamp with text CI-161. Stamp the ladies from plate CI-174 and cut out three of them. Colour with chalks and add to mat as shown with a flower in the centre.

M....Stamp and cut out a border from CI-156, colour, cut in half and add top right and bottom left as shown. Stamp CI-069 girl with wings colour with chalks and punch into an oval shape. Add a flower and sentiment from CI-156.

E....Create a hand made heart then stamp with CI-302 postcard. Colour to add interest. Add lace at the bottom combined with a border from CI-156. Embellish with a key and flower.

M....Create a postcard from CI-307 and add some old text. Stamp, colour and cut out lady from plate CI-139 Queen of Hearts andadd to postcard. Add the postmark topped with a punched butterfly.

O.... Add old text to the left of the page. Create a corrugated heart and stamp and cut out a further heart from plate CI-016. Mount as shown. Embellish with a flower, leaves and words from CI-139....

R....Create a text butterfly add to centre of page. Cut three girls in a row from previously stamped CI-174 and colour with chalks. Add as shown and highlite with stickles and liquid pearls.

Y.... Add a torn strip of music to the centre of the page. Stamp CI-189 Old fashioned Girl, cut out the words then make a heart template. Draw around it and cut out the girl image. Add to page and place the words inside a bookplate.

Finally create a slide mount, emboss and paint with dabbers. Stamp girl image from CI-148 Floradora, colour with chalks and add to the slide mount. Add to page and embellish with a butterfly and word 'sweet' also from CI-148. Finish with pearls and stickles and bind together with ribbon as shown when dry.......

PHEW....If you have followed that lot you deserve a gold star!

ALTERED BOXES

My sister was throwing out a tiny box and I thought I'd alter it in a style to suit the vintage with at least one heart Crafty Individuals June Challenge.

Very simple to make, paint and distress the boxes, line with old text and add string as a hanger.

Create a couple of hearts and paint with distress crackle paint.

Embellish with CI images, curtain rings and glossy accents as in previous project and leave to dry.

Finish off by adding rusty keys, flowers, ribbons and words from CI-258.

Quick and easy.....

But very effective. I feel a couple of classes coming along very shortly.......

I do hope these projects have inspired you to enter the challenge over at Crafty Individuals Blog? There are prizes for the winners so why not have a go. I' look forward to seeing the entries.....

Sue x