Spring's Exchange

Diana mentioned in a previous post that she, myself and our friend Erica did a little Spring project swap with each other. Today, I would like to share what I made for the swap and show the beautiful projects I was given. This Spring banner was for Diana. I started with wooden craft sticks (shorter than a paint stirrer) and I traced them onto my patterned paper. I am not sure what manufacturer the paper is since it was a scrap, but I'm thinking it was Bo Bunny. Then I painted each stick with a vintage linen paint. While that was drying, I took my large alpha stamps from Technique Tuesday and stamped them on white card stock. I then cut them out and set aside. Once the sticks were dry, I adhered the patterned paper to them. I then sanded the edges with a Tim Holtz distressing tool. Once the paper was on, I just went about embellishing the way I thought Di would like it. I used various flowers, a little bling here and there, buttons, border punches and a Stampin Up butterfly stamp.

Now Di already shared this with us here on the blog, but it is so beautiful, that it deserves seeing again. She made this for both myself and Erica. Photo is courtesy of Erica at Zunky Chic. I just love this Di and I plan to put a pic of my girls on it this Spring!

When I made my project for Erica, I changed up a few of the details and color scheme. The paper is from Imaginesce.

Erica made me this lovely keepsake box:

How beautiful!!! And she also made me this double sided pendant.

Thanks again ladies for a wonderful swap!

~Julie

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