Baby Girl Name Frame

     I know, it's another baby name frame sry, LOL! This one was for my sister's great niece's  first birthday. Ever since my sister's niece was born her father has called her monkey. Everyone calls her monkey and buys her monkey related stuff and she loves the huge collection she has. When she had a baby last yr it carried over to her, and now she is also known as Monkey. For her frame I decided monkey's was the way to go and thought a jungle looking theme would be kinda cool. I layered and layered different shades of green leaves. I had this green decorative kind of leafy stuff, sry I don't know the name of it but I used it in clear vases. It is stringy and I thought it would work well for vines. I cut all the stems off a few pieces and glued them on before adding more layers. Cut out two monkeys with my cricut and fancied them up a bit. The faces are Peachy Keen faces from the set that was made for the animals on the New Arrival Cart. Made the diapers out of felt, glued bottles in their tails and made the soothers from another stamp set by PKS. I cut a small rectangle piece of brown and made several cuts into it, folded the piece a few times and curled the strips  then glued on for the hair adding a flower shaped bling for a hair bow. Used glossy accents on the eyes, then added a tiny dot of white paint. Glued the letters to the "vine" that the monkeys are holding up across the frame. And added some tropical flowers from the "life's a beach" cartridge. 

The babies name is Tenley not Jenley, these letters were chosen and we didn't notice the T looks more like a J until I made it.....oh well, Mom didn't mind at all, as she loved the frame.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I hope I have given you the inspiration to create something fun. I hope your having a scrap happy day! :)
Cindy

How about another Baby Name Frame...

     Hello my crafty friend, how is your day going? Hope all is well with you and yours. I'm so glad you stopped by, because I wanted to share another frame with you. This one was for a little boy. When I was thinking about what to do on it, what theme to go with,  my sister said something about a frog and this idea just popped into my head. So much fun, I love his little Peachy Keen Face, those faces are awesome. If you don't own any PK stamps your missing out my friend. And I have both paper doll carts from provo craft for my cricut die cut machine. But for this little guy I only needed to cut his head, hair and hands. The outfit is a Jolee's sticker I got for $1.00, woot, I found a bunch more another day for 1.00 also and I bought them all. I think I have 7 or 8. when I run out I'll go back to doing things the hard way. LOL LOL but its sooo much fun.
     For the sticker I had to remove his arms and turn them around so the pattern would be on the outside, then I just put paper on the inside and coloured the red stripes on. The grass is my MS icicle punch cut twice and pop dotted. The wagon and dog are from the paper doll cart and the mason jars, I printed off the internet a small jar to use as a template to trace them. I used vellum and another vellum sticky paper over it, drew the lines and sticks and leaves. The lady bugs and butterflies and other bugs are from various sticker sets. The kitten in the wagon and the toad under it were chip board pieces I have from an old KC & Company set. The jar on the left side has hand drawn ants.  The wagon was cut three times, twice in red once in black. I cut the wheels off the black one, cut everything except the wagon bed itself off one of the red ones and pop dotted it up off the mason jars. I googled Radio Flyer to see what the logo looked like for the wagon brand and used a white gel pen to draw it on. The frame is a shadow box frame from Michaels.

 
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I hope I have inspired you to create something fun for somebody!!

Baby Name Frame....

    Baby name frames or decorated letters are quite popular as nursery decor these days so I thought I'd share one of my baby name frames with you today. The frames are shadow box style so you can add some dimension. My sister asked me for a name frame for a girl she knew that was expecting a girl and had chosen Mackenzie for her name. She didn't know much about what the nursery colours were gonna be or what the girl liked for decor. She only knew their was a baby registry at the local Toys "R" Us so I went and checked it out to see if I could come up with some inspiration on a background colour to use. In her list she had several large items like stroller highchair etc that has a pink and brown plaid material on it. I didn't have any and couldn't find one I really liked so I printed a pattern off my laptop. 

I used my Gypsy to design the cut out of the pink paper by putting a rectangle on the screen larger than the frame it was going in. I took two sort of a swirly shape and elongated them, flipped one and welded them together and cut. Laid this on top of the printed plaid paper and had my back ground for the frame. Added some flowers and greenery, a butterfly and the letters of her name and wah lah...done!

I made the flower by layering the different sizes of the Sunflower set two by spellbinders, inking them before removing them from the flower die. The leaves for this flowers were rather big so I opted for different leaves from Daisy Heads spellbinders set plus added some leaf sprays by Sizzix. A few tiny punch flowers and a butterfly off a pick in a pack of butterflies by "Craft" from the dollar store. They are plain wire covered with a nylon material and come in several different colours, I only had a pack of white so I added some stickles to the wings. The letters my sister picked out for the name didn't fit in the frame as it is only 7X9 so I cut these out with my Cricut. The letters (can't remember which one ) already have the hearts in the cut, and I had to  add some bling, because every girl needs some, so I glued in heart shaped gems. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my post today, it's the first one in a series of  baby name frames I have made and will make. I really look forward to reading your comments, so if you have time drop me a ling. Bye for now and have yourself a scraphappy day!
Cindy :)