* Gecko Galz: Framed Pictures & Note Book

Hello!

At Gecko Galz we have been holding the annual Blog Hop. 
You can see my main post here and collect the free collage sheet that I used to make these projects.

  A set of framed pictures on stands:

I bought two wooden blocks from the craft store. I painted the inside black and the outside gold using Winsor & Newton Acrylic paints. The images were enlarged and cropped to fit the aperture. I printed two of each image so that the focal figure could be fussy cut, have the edges inked for definition and adhered (decoupage style) inside the frame. I had some die cut greyboard shapes that I cut apart to fit the top and bottom of the frame and I die cut some leaves from kraft card. I decided to heat emboss these with fine gold powder and glued them to the frame sides. I also bought some wooden craft spools and painted these gold and adhered them to the base of the frame to act as stands for the pictures.

 

 A decorated notebook:

My notebook was an ordinary paperback note book which I first covered with kraft card, making sure to sandwich a piece of ribbon between the original notebook and the kraft cover so that it could act as a closure. I chose some patterned paper from the Gypsy Market paper pack. I distressed the edges of the paper and the image and layered them onto the front cover adding some black mats. I spelled the word Journal with some alpha stickers and added a strip of daisy lace, popping a flat back pearl, which I coloured with Copic markers, into the centre of each. The words are from the Journal Toppers Kit. 

I hope you like what I made with the free collage sheet.

Head here to collect it.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges: 

Picture Frames
* Penny's Challenges #453 AG 28/10
* Bown Sugar #294 AG 30/10
* Corrosive Challenges #10 AG 01/11

* Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #116 AG 04/11

Notebook

* Crafty Calendar #Oct Autumn 28/10

* Crafters Castle # 22AG/Autumn 31/10
* Crafty Catz #480 AG  31/10

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