IT's the Little Things...

Good Morning,

I would like to share some of the little things that I enjoyed

about my Nature's Charm Front Porch Kit.

To start, the color scheme of this kit has all of my favorite colors.  

I have always loved shades of blue and over the years my 

fondness for green has grown.  So when I saw the papers

in this kit my heart fluttered.

Next, there are lots of textured items in this kit. I think

the addition of these things add so much dimension to whatever

you are using it on whether is be a page LO or a home decor item. 

One of the textures is a strip of muslin fabric.  I use the fabric in 

two ways, first to make a flower for this mini canvas.

I did the same gather technique that Elaine did with her

fabric flower. Click HERE to see instructions. 

Next I used a small piece of fabric for the sentiment banner 

on the 10x10 canvas included in the kit.

For this banner I pulled out my stamps to find a saying that would

work with my canvas.  This was a perfect one for the picture featured.

I cut the banner with dove tailed ends and inked around the

edges with some Shabby Shutters Distress Inks.

Archival Ink was just the thing to make sure that the ink

would not bleed into the fabric.  It's best to use an ink that is fast drying.

I was in such a stamping mood that I also added 

some stamped fabric to my Family LO.

After stamping the fabric, I carefully trimmed around using

sharp fabric scissors so that I would not snag any fabric .

On all of my trimmed items I ran a bead of Fray Check around

the edges to keep the edges from fraying.  

Then of course adding the little bit of Stickles Ice, Lemon Ice, 

 to the wing is just one of those "little things" that make

the finished project that much more special.

So what have you done with your 

Natures Charm Front Porch Kit?

Merry Creating!

Rhonda