Another 7 Gypsies Photo Tray Wall Hanging

I love these photo trays. They are such a sentimental and creative gift. Whoever thought of them is a genius! This is the one I made for my sister using Dear Lizzy and Close to My Heart Mayberry paper. 

The dress and overalls hanging on the clothesline are from the Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. I cut a thin strip of brown paper with scissors to look like a rope and then found images of the clothing I liked from the cartridge. The socks are from the Cricut Country Life Cartridge. I placed tiny buttons on the overalls from Lasting Impressions. The "Love you, Doll" sentiment is a stamp from Papertrey Ink. 

Notice the miniature Scrabble tiles that spell, "Sister." I just love those!

Aren't the cupcake brads adorable? I also like the metal "forever friends", "sister", and "true friends" metal plates. 

The handle has some cupcake printed ribbon tied it it. :) 

Hope you enjoyed!


Love,
Sheenie

I'm Alive! New Project! 7 Gypsies Tray Idea

Hello! After a 3 month break from blogging, I'm back! Sorry for the lack of posts, but I moved from sunny Arizona to the east coast. Most of my scrapbooking supplies have been packed up for months! And with everything that goes along with a move, I haven't had time to craft! :( I am so happy to have all of my things in order and to finally get back to my hobby. I've missed it so much.


My family was here for Christmas and I hadn't finished making gifts for my mother and sister. Don't worry, they received plenty of store bought items on Christmas day, but I wanted to make something special. It was my absolute last night to finish this project (their flights departed at 6am), so I stayed up until 3:30 finishing these 7 Gypsies Photo Trays. What a crazy night! I am sad that the coloring on the photos is a little off, but I didn't have any natural light to work with at 3:30am! Haha. I finished these gifts just before I had to drive my family to the airport. Whew. Oh, and of course I took photos of them opening their gifts to scrapbook later. They may not have been happy having their picture taken so early in the morning! *Only a true scrapbooker would make such a request. 


Here is the tray that I made for my mother:

 The colors of the project are actually red, white, gray and black, but appear more cream colored in the photos. You can use your imagination, right? :) My mother thought this gift with some of my favorite childhood photos was very heart-felt.  

Initially, I wasn't sure how I was going to find pictures small enough to fit inside the tiny windows. A good solution was printing wallet-sized photos at Costco for the larger windows. For the very small windows where a wallet sized photo was still too large, I simply did not crop the photos on a photo editing program first. This allowed me to use my paper trimmer to crop the photo. This allowed me to get the images small enough to fit, especially on full-body shots. 

I will post my sister's gift tomorrow.

Love,
Tashina