Printers Tray Memories {with Hot Picks Stamps by Brenda Brown}

Hi everyone, it’s Brenda (Bumblebees and Butterflies) here with a small project but one that has a great deal of detail in the making of it. I started this with the intention of making it into a stamping project but as with many things that we make the muse took me off in a different direction and it became a different way to keep family photos together. I used a Tando mini printer tray that comes in separate pieces that you paint and put together yourself.

Paint the pieces of the tray with ‘chalk’ Fresco paint to seal them. Dry brush with ‘stone’, ‘chalk’ and ‘snowflake’ Fresco paint.  Apply ‘mermaid’, ‘inky pool’ and ‘chalk’ in separate places on craft mat and spray with water. Using the pointed end of a paintbrush, mix them up and then dip the pieces into the colours, dabbing and drying with a heat gun.  Using ‘hey pesto’ and ‘chalk’, lightly and randomly brayer colours over the top so that you can still see previous colours through.  I then mixed some ‘chutney’ and ‘taupe’ Fresco paints on my craft mat and used this to stamp the text (HP1304EZ) randomly over the backgrounds.

HP1304EZ

Split the frames, gluing two together and leaving one on its own. Using ‘cornflower blue’ archival ink stamp the background text (HP1304EZ) randomly over them. Add some crackle glaze and heat dry. Dab ‘inky pool’ and ‘hey pesto’ paint lightly over the crackle and rub back with a babywipe, add a layer of satin glaze and some treasure gold. Adhere the single frame to the front cover and stamp and cut out a sentiment or title (Ancestors Plate 3) and add a photo and metal embellishments.

Ancestors Plate 3

All the metal embellishments I have used started off as different types and colours so to unify them I dabbed/painted them with ‘taupe’paint and added some treasure gold to lift the raised areas and then dabbed them with distress stains and baked them on with a heat gun. This is a fabulous way to grunge the pieces and make them look old. I used ones I had in my supplies but PaperArtsy do fabulous Junkyard Findings and Vintage Trinkets on their website.

 Complete the inside frame with more photos and embellishments. For me the beauty in a finished piece is the attention to small details, for instance before I adhered the frame on the inside I added some shading on the frame edges with pumice stone distress ink to give the sections that little bit more impact.

 On the inside cover I used one last photo and designed a small collage to complete the trio.

I am sure this will become a treasured item in my family box as the photos are of my parents and two children many years ago. I love the way it turned out even if it isn’t exactly what I had in mind to start with

Thanks for looking; I hope you are inspired to create smaller projects to scrapbook some of those family photos. Have fun.

Brenda

A huge thanks to Brenda from all at PaperArtsy, what a wonderful keepsake this is. Those subtle layers of paint and stamping are a perfect backdrop for the vintage trinkets. 

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