Trim Organizers

Hello everyone! Mary here with two more trim organizers. I did one awhile back (click HERE if you want to check it out!) and realized one was not enough for my happy stash of lace. These boxes are quick and easy to put together! Once the boxes where assembled, I painted them both on the inside with brown acrylic paint.

Both boxes were covered with paper from the KellerKurtz & Company paper stack, lace and box feet from Tim Holtz. For the button borders, I first applied gesso. Once the gesso was dry, I embossed both the button border in the above picture with Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel by Stampendous. Once cool, pink twine was inserted into three of the buttons.

For the button border in the pictures below, I started out the same way. This time while the Aged Ivory was still in it's melted state, I added some sprinkles of Aged Rose Embossing Enamel and applied heat.

While the border was cooling, I worked on the five loose buttons (these are included when you order the button border!). I left the chipboard in it's natural color and just applied Walnut Stain Distress Ink to the outside edges. Pink twine was then inserted into all five. When the border was cool, I glued them onto the button border.

 

Now all I have left to do is put my lace on the paper covered cards!

Gina's Designs Products

Trim Organizer

Button Border

Vintage Sewing Themed Altered Cigar Box by Nancy

Hi everyone, it's Nancy here!  Today I am sharing an altered cigar box using papers from digital files that I have printed myself.  This coming August,  the Gina's Designs team will be participating in a cross promotional using digital designs by Kitty's Scrap Post.  We were excited to find out that in addition to each of us picking our choice of a digital  kit to work with for our August projects, all of us received the French Seamstress Kit as an extra bonus.   When I saw this gorgeous French Seamstress kit,  I just knew I had to combine the papers with Gina's sewing themed chipboard shapes.  A match made in Crafty Heaven!

 I'd been wanting a box to store my vintage Czech glass button collection and other sewing related collectibles I have accumulated, so I dug out this cigar box from my stash, and went to work.  I'm so happy with the way it turned out.  The box measures 7" x 7.5" x 4" deep.

I began by covering the box both inside and out, even the bottom got papered.  The best thing about digital papers is that you can print them as many times as you want to.  Just look how pretty the images are in this collection!

After the box was papered, everything got two coats of matte Mod Podge so the box can be wiped clean with a wet cloth.  Several techniques (as described below each photo) were used to decorate the chipboard shapes.

The dressform on the top of the box was embossed with Stampendous Shabby Pink Embossing Powder.  Closeup view of the top below:

Aren't the papers gorgeous!  In addition to the dressform, I simply added a few Recollections flowers and fabric leaves.

On the front of the box I added more chipboard shapes and a few buttons to blend in with the button print on the paper.  Here the chippies were painted with Folk art acrylics.  Metal bookplate by Recollections and metal feet by Tim Holtz were painted with gesso and green acrylic paint.

On this side of the box I added the button border from Gina's Designs, and embossed it with Stampendous Shabby White, Pink, and Blue alternately.

On this side, I added a skeleton clock and clock hands embossed with Stampendous Shabby White embossing powder.  The chipboard clock mimics the clock and clock hands design on the paper.

On this side, I added scissors and another dressform.  The dressform is embossed with Shabby Blue, and the scissors with Shabby Marine (handles) and with a brass color embossing powder for the blades.

Here's a view of the inside! I'm all ready to add my collection of buttons and things!

Closeup of the inside lid.  On these shapes,  I have painted first with Gesso, stamped with a script stamp and then inked with pale pink and pale blue inks from Recollections new Vintage Romance collection of products.

Inside of the box at the bottom is another gorgeous design from the kit.  It was so hard to decide which paper to use on the top!

I hope you like my project, and be sure to visit us at Gina's Designs, and also check out all the gorgeous digital paper collections at Kitty's Scrap Post.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Vintage Seamstress Shape Set

Button Border

Dressforms 1 Shape Set

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape set

Skeleton Clocks

Clock Hands Shape Set

Other:

Digital Design Papers by Kitty's Scrap Post

French Seamstress Kit

Theme Shadowboxes by Gina, Kim and Deann & Clipboard by Heidi

Hello Everyone! Today we would like to share our Themed Shadowboxes by Myself, Kim and Deann.  I have created a Bee Themed Shadowbox and used the chipboard pieces that come with each of the shadowboxes. Remember if you look in the store for the Themed Shadowboxes to check out the second photo in the link so you can see what chipboard accessories come along with each of the different themes.  I created the look of "honey" by using Glossy Accents mixed with a little Butterscotch Alcohol Ink.

The background of my Shadowbox is from our Freebie Friday Set, and you can find the link to that Here.

Gina's Designs Items Used

Bee Themed Shadowbox

Other Items Used

Free "BEE" Friday Set

Flowers and Lace from my Stash

Glossy Accents

Butterscotch Alcohol Ink

I hope you enjoy taking a look at our Themed Shadowboxes, and will give them a try yourself!

Now over to Kim to share her Shadowbox.

Hello Everyone! I would like to share with you my version of the Themed Shadowboxes. I have chosen to use the Sewing Theme Shadowbox. I am an avid sewer and wanted this to hang above my sewing table. I have done it in soft pinks, blacks and ivory colours to match my room. The Themed Shadowboxes come with their own shape sets, so it makes it convenient to have all your pieces ready when you go to make your shadowbox.

Here is a close up of the Sewing Machine which comes with the Shadowbox set. I have covered it in some lovely Bo Bunny Paper, and embossed the needle and hand crank to give them a metallic look. you can see on top I have added a tiny spool and some vintage lace. Behind the sewing machine is one of Gina's skeleton clocks to finish this section off.

Here you can see a close up inside the box. I have used the scissors and dressform from the shadowbox set, along with some vintage pattern paper in the background, some wood letters and laces from my stash. You can also see some spools from my sewing stash I have used to place a tiny metal sewing machine on and have surrounded the shadowbox with Gina's new button borders, I love these! I have also cut some of the roman numerals from the skeleton clock and embossed them and placed them around the shadowbox as well, I don't waste any of this gorgeous chipboard lol!

And finally, you can see at the top of the shadowbox I have used one of Gina's new Scribbled Line pieces. This one looks like a bow, so I embossed it and had it coming from the needle in the sewing machine, so it looks like thread flowing out from the machine.

I really hope you like all the different styles of shadow boxes Gina, Deann and I have created. There are several styles of these to choose from, so something for everyone, and its so great that you get the shape set with it!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Gina's Designs Products Used

7 x 7 Sewing Theme Shadowbox

Skeleton Clock

Button Border

Scribbled Lines

Other Items Used

Stampendous Embossing Powder, Aged Silver, Shabby White, Shabby Pink

Bo Bunny Porcelain Rose Paper

Laces from Lavish Laces and Suhafuaha

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Metal Sewing Machine, wood letters, vintage lace, pattern paper and spools from my stash.

Good morning all :) Deann here.  For my Shadowbox I made the Toddler Boy Theme.

I stained the box with Distress ink , black paint was used on the tracks and train pieces . I added shiny gloss to the tracks. I hand cut the clouds and inked the edges. For the paper I used the Breeze paper from MMI. 

To make the hill for the choo choo to climb ,I scrunched and hot glued Burlap ribbon . The train pieces are glued to long pieces of wire and they were hot glued behind the burlap hill.

Thanks everyone for taking a peak !

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Gina's Designs products used -

7x7 Themed Shadowbox Toddler Boy

Heidi here today, showing off a cute little project from Gina's Designs.  It is kind of fun because it is quite different from most things  It is about 3-4 inches in size and a nice little gift for someone in your office with a special inspiration. The little kit comes with the board, the little tag top and the clip- easy peasy to put together and decorate!  

Gina's Designs Product: 

Miniature Clipboard

Chip Clip Assortment