Blinnies Creations

And tadaaaaa!!!! Herewith I proudly present:
another layout with a lovely picture of my grandmother from mother's side.
The photo was taken on occasion of the engagement of my grandparents. I have a similar photograph of my grandfather however that picture is badly damaged so I have to do some photo editing on that one... (to be continued :-)

A lot of stuff on this layout I made myself, such as the butterfly, the leaves and some of the flowers.
Exceptionally, this layout is not hand-stitched; this time I used the sewing machine!

Papers: Purple paper from "Old World Stack" (DCWV), green paper from paper pad "Classic K McKenna by K & Company

Flowers with white heart: Mulberry flowers

Butterfly made from grungeboard, crackle paint & distress stains

Key: K & Company

Ornamental frame cut with my cricut

Vintage pictures are from "Vintage Memories" (The Crafthouse Press)

Wooden letters bought on Etsy

Number tags: Paper Joy

Purple flowers and leaves I made myself

Purple flowers are made out of coffee filters

The tutorial for the leaves I saw on the blog of Paulien van den Bosch and just couldn't resist to try it myself.

It's just BRILLIANT! Leaves made out of toilet rolls! :-) (Environment-friendly as well!!!!)

If you want to try it yourself, here's the tutorial.

For flowers made out of coffee filters a lot of tutorials can be found on youtube
I just cut some flowers with the tattered flower die from Tim Holtz, sprayed with glimmer mist, dried them and crumbled them up a bit and that's it!

Butterfly tutorial: cut butterflies from grungeboard an apply a fair amount of crackle paint clear rock candy from Ranger. Once the crackle paint had dried completely, apply distress stains from Ranger.

Easy Peasy!