So I stumbled upon this new website the other day and Im officially hooked. Shade Tree Films makes videos for special occasions, and WOW do they do a great job!! The editing is fabulous. All the angles, music, the story…all I can say is the best work I have ever seen. Check out their wedding stories, I’m sure you will love them!
Thanks for the great work Shade Tree Films.
Many of you may remember this post where I showed off my new “full of potential” frame I bought from Goodwill. Well here is the final product! What do you think?
Here is the original frame.
I spray painted it black,
added some pictures, and…
Vuala! My new pride and joy!
Have you ever wondered what to do with old greeting cards? Maybe its just me, but I have a really hard time throwing them away. Well I recently ran into the biggest card bombardment of my life…I got married. We received a mountain of cards, and I knew there was no way I could keep them all. I decided to keep a select few (ones that wrote a sweet note inside/ something worth reading again) and cut up the rest. Wedding cards usually have great love poems and really cute pictures. I store all of my “scrapings” in a box for easy access when doing projects. They are super useful when scrapbooking of making collages. Click here for an example of a wedding collage where these cutouts were used.
My sister in law, who just happens to be my best friend (yes…best friends married brothers…I know, I know…dream come true!!) made me this photo collage for us as a wedding gift. She used our wedding invitation as a focal point and collaged around it. I absolutely love it!
So when I received another friends invitation in the mail, I knew I had to make one for her too. I hope she loves hers as much as I do mine. I found this frame at Goodwill for $0.99. After I took it all apart, I knew it had great potential.
I glued a 1inch thick piece of Styrofoam to the back of the wedding invitation, then glued it to the center of the background. This not only made it a focal point of the frame but gave a neat 3D / shadow box look. I then surrounded the invitation with pictures of the couple and the engagement ring. I also used different cutouts with quotes and cool patterns on it. Her wedding colors were Lilac and Brown so I tried to keep that as my color template throughout the collage. After I had completely covered the background with pictures, I put the frame back together. This project was super simple and a lot of fun!
I’m still new at this tutorial thing, hence not many pictures. The project is pretty self-explanatory but I will try to do better on my next project and give you more pictures.
