Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Wooden Spool Wreath

Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Wooden Spool Wreath

I do love the Graphic 45 papers and the Botanical Tea theme is so lovely.  The papers and tags were perfect for this wooden spool wreath I did in honor of my Mama, Celia and my Aunt Rosemary.  I saw this idea online and loved it!  The older wooden spools came from my Mother-in-law.  Here are my aunt and mama below when they were little girls playing at tea parties and doing all the other things little girls like to do.  They both are beautiful seamstresses and love to do needlework with embroidery and cross stitch.  And they are the best of friends.  A very special thank you to Katie Waltemath for her inspiration of her wooden spools wreath at http://kwaltemathdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/02/graphic-45-design-team-2012-audition.html

Aunt Rosemary and Mama, Celia 

Graphic 45 By the Sea Cottage

Graphic 45 By the Sea Cottage Shadow Box

This Victorian cottage style shadow box was given to me by my mom years ago.  When I saw Graphic 45 had offered the beautiful papers, "By The Sea", I thought it would be fun to decorate the cottage with the papers.  Hope you enjoy viewing these images.  I thoroughly enjoyed painting the shadow box and especially adding the G45 papers.  The tiny treasures inside the cottage are sea shells and coral collected while we were stationed in Okinawa, Japan.  Each piece of furniture and trinket have a special memory attached. 

 

Graphic 45 Little Darling's Fan Photo Album

Graphic 45 Little Darlings Fan Album

This is my first album I made using the Graphic 45 Little Darlings paper.  I just love this line of paper Graphic 45 offered a few years back.  I've had it in my stash for awhile now.  My daughter's sister-in-law had a baby boy this past week and since we are going to give her a baby shower, I thought I would make an album for her mom to put all of her grandchildren's photos in. I had a lot of fun making this album and I would like to thank the Graphic 45 designers for all their beautiful projects and ideas they've shared over at g45papers.com.  A special thanks to Ginger Ropp for sharing her inspiring video tutorials on how to make an album along with the waterfall photo holder projects.  

 

The album came out a little thick so I added a ribbon to either hang it on a wall or it can be set upright on a table. It resembles a fan. 

 

 

For a great tutorial on how to make one of these waterfall photo display and the album, go to Ginger Ropp from My Sisters Scrapper on Youtube at the following link.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLbHLZUAPeo

Ginger Ropp's Easy Instagram Waterfall Mini Album

I found Ginger Ropp's awesome tutorial video over at Graphic 45 the other day and just loved it!  It is so easy to follow.  Her directions are explained very well.  I hope you have as much fun as I did creating these darling mini albums from her video.  They are great for Instagram photos.  She explains that in her video.  Enclosed at the bottom of this post is an insert to put inside the album and give as gifts that you may copy and print if you'd like.  Simply open the image and right click on it.  Click on "save image as" and there you can save it to your computer to print off later.  Here is the link to Ginger's video.  
http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2014/12/graphic-45-handmade-gift-guide-day-three.html