I thought I had already commented on this. Guess it's a good thing I decided to double check! lol I so enjoy scanning your layouts for the 'recycled' item(s) before reading your description. I have to say, the denim & drawer liner are absolutely perfect on this page!! And I love those butterflies, too. They are my favorite embellishment on this page!
Ok, I am in awe of your design and items! I have had a strip of non-skid drawer liner in my 'need to figure out what to do with this' basket for over a year and I love that you used yours in such a gorgeous way! Who knows, I may just pull that strip out and put it to good use (giving you inspirational credit, of course!) :)
You are OFFICIALLY the queen of recycled projects. This one is AMAZING. The butterflies alone would qualify it as totally inspiring, but the belt and then DRAWER LINERS? I'm just floored.
Awesome LO! Not odd ball items at all! I am always recycling this kinda stuff! I have about 30 books with odd ball stuff! I just can't post them all! LOL! too much work! LOVE this!
wowza - so much here to look at. You've outdone yourself with all of the recycle and up-cycling. I think the denim butterflies are my favorite embellies. AWESOME job here.
I don't know how you do it - use such off the wall items and come up with the most perfect LOs, but you do! This page is fantastic and compliments the picture wonderfully.
Does your creativity have any boundaries??? This is fantastic and that belt and the denim is SO, SO cool, along with all the other recycled items you used! And what a handsome young man. No wonder you married him.
This. Is. Awesome!!!!!!!! You've created the perfect masculine page with your recycled & nonscrappy materials and amazing design!!!! And I'm not laughing at the paper choice; isn't it amazing how some of the most gorgeously feminine collections contain papers that work so well for the guys?
Pick my jaw up from the floor...this is so creative! I love how you think outside the box with your materials. My favorite is the Wrangler Jeans Co. patch with the belt and belt loop. Too cool! And that your son is wearing a shirt that your husband wore almost 40 years ago is incredible.
Wow! I am totally blown away by the materials you have used. You are so unbelievably creative. Love your masculine colors. Ironic that the paper is portrait of a lady but is so perfect with the denim blue. Those butterflies layered with fabric are to-die-for. Love this!
LOL, I always love to see what fun items you have added to your projects and this is the winner. I can't count the number of recycled things you used and used so beautifully. You do such amazing work and the results are always gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your process with us.
Okay, where do I begin?...Most of you know I use oddball items on most of my layouts. Well, this one will be entered into a few challenges but the most significant will be the Recycle and Reuse challenge. The requirement was to use at least 25% of recycled items on your project. Well, I can honestly say that very few things on here aren't recycled, one of which is the background paper, and please don't laugh because it is from Graphic 45's Portrait of a Lady collection!! I know, you can't help but laugh, right?! I felt it was the best paper I had to go with the background in this picture I took of Sam in his senior picture photo shoot; taken at Lake Wenatchee. It is my favorite. He is wearing his dad's western shirt that was a few years old when I married him nearly 36 years ago!
I used two different drawer liners (the beige and off-white), denim, Wrangler patch (drawer liner and diecut denim underneath), jeans buttons, and belt, all from Sam, loop from Dan (my youngest)! The brown sueded fabric was some I bought to cover a footstool that Sam made me in high school, a door facing plate (under Loved) that I embossed with copper embossing powder, the reddish colored pieces, metal leaf and gold oval were all pieces of earrings from my sister. I also embossed the edges of those. I used old Scrabble tiles for "Sam" and embossed around the sides and edges also. Drywall tape given to me by my husband. Leather strip through the Loved plate is also from Sam's old houseshoes. Buttons I've had in my stash for a couple of years. Oh, and I can't forget about the acorns we picked up in our yard a year or more ago. I had to glue them back into their husks as they had fallen out.
The flourishes are some I die cut for a different project that I never used and I rubbed a bit of TH Bundled Sage on them. The frame I used on the picture was one I cut a long time ago also and never used. The lacy leaves were antique gold colored and I embossed them with Ranger Verdigris (beautiful stuff!) and Hampton Art's copper embossing powder. The flakes are Stampendous Frantage mica flakes.
I thought I was finished with this a couple of days ago but then came up with the idea of adding a couple of butterflies. I decided to use the large and small TH dies and layer them with the denim and brown fabrics. I also die cut two large one using TH packaging from his Ornate Plates to give them stability, gluing them all together. I then used a new Versamark Watermark Pen and heat embossed the edges with the copper embossing powder and added some liquid pearls to the centers. I love how they turned out!
For the Use Your Stamps challenge I stamp embossed the lattice on the left under the metal leaf and the phrase on the right "I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck"!
Thank you so much for visiting my gallery! I hope you are inspired by this layout to try some oddball items on your projects!
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