altered frame x

hiya , yay look at me with 199 followers , I am so grateful to all of you for following me and for commenting and returning to see my crafty creations, I love visitng all your blogs too for inspiration and just for a good aul nosey ...lol



now here is a really ugly damaged 1 euro frame that was destined for the bin , but I could see some potential in it and I decided to save it from the landfill and give it some lovin x  sorry I was too excited about this project and have no BEFORE pics:(

first off I lightly sanded the frame to give it a "key" then I added anitas's tacky glue all over the front of the frame and lay i onto a 12x12 piece of paper so the fancy side was facing the table (believe me I have done this the wrong way round before !) then I let it dry before attacking it with my craft knife and cut around the wavy edge and into all those little fineky frames , now I was not neat at this at all but that is the look I was going for !:)

so I attacked it again but with sandpaper this time and roughed it up a bit , next came the tim holts brushed corduroy ink pad and I  lightly went over all my rough edges to make them POP  .then I just went to town and added the handmade paper flowers , I just adore the tiny map ones in the botton corner

...tooooo cute and simple too .when all my embellies were on I got some gold glitter on my finger and just rubbed it around randomly touching on the flowers too for some sparkle

and hey presto , a unique altered aged vintagy frame for my beautiful niece Hannah x

tfl girls and till later
happy crafting
xmaggiex