Family Plaque

When I first heard about this week's design team assignment at Paper Vineyard - to create a project with a recycling theme - I was a little bit intimidated.  But then I realized:  scrapbooking and crafting is all about recycling and repurposing!

In today's project, I am recycling and repurposing all sorts of the goodies I have accumulated.

The result is a family plaque:

Do you ever buy something at your local craft store just because it's pretty, or interesting, and you know that you'll do something with it... someday?  Well, I do that all the time!  This project starts with that type of purchase, a plaque that I picked up at Paper Vineyard several months ago.

I painted, glittered, and decoupaged the plaque, then fussy cut flowers out of the same patterned paper to decoupage them on as well for dimension. 

For the frame, I layered a chipboard die cut with patterned paper (all from Crate Paper), then traced the vine pattern with my Sakura glue pen and sprinkled with Elizabeth Craft Design GlitterRitz in several colors to get the bronze color.   I finished the interior of the frame with pearls before layering another chipboard element and the corrugated cardboard "f."






Ingredients:

Long French Plaque - KaiserCraft

Patterned Paper - Crate Paper
Chipboard die-cuts and frame - Crate Paper
Paint - Shimmerz Blingz in Hottie Pink

Glitter - Elizabeth Craft Design GlitterRitz

Letters -  JilliBean Soup and My Mind's Eye Lush (chipboard blue flocked and then misted with Shimmerz in Rockafella Blue)

Flowers - Petaloo by Flora Doodles and Prima Craftables (misted with Shimmerz in Bed of Roses)

Pearls - KaiserCraft and S.E.I.
Other - Tombow mono adhesive; Zots dimensional adhesive; Mod Podge; Sakura glue pen

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