A Vintage Artistry Look for our Garden Harvest
If you live in a cold climate, the gardening off-season has arrived. It’s a great time to scrapbook your previous year’s garden while you pass the time until spring planting arrives!
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Supplies:
49 and Market Vintage Artistry by Katie Pertiet
Laws of Nature
Tim Holtz For Stamper’s Anonymous stamps - Spring Sprung or Stitch
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink:
Bazzill Smooth Cardstock
Craft Knife
pencil
I’m not someone who can just ignore the presence of a large design element in a patterned paper! So I started this layout by positioning my photo to take advantage of the large floral spray in the upper right of this 49 and Market Vintage Artistry paper by Katie Pertiet.
There was some significant white space on the left side of the photo. It seemed like the perfect place to put these Tim Holtz Quote Chips that I love.
Next up I went for some paper embellishments. The block I put under the photo is exactly why I don’t usually stick things down until the end, because sometimes I like to add layers! The stitching on that block is stamped and heat embossed. If you don’t have that particular stamp (it is very old but still available directly from Stamper’s Anonymous), you could get the same effect with your sewing machine.
The envelope element is from a cut-apart sheet of ephemera in the Vintage Artistry collection. I used my Fiskars micro-tip scissors to carefully cut it out. Once I had the edges how I wanted them, then I inked them lightly with Hickory Smoke to give them an aged finish.
I also used a craft knife to cut a slit along the envelope opening, and inked that edge as well, since I planned to insert my journaling into it
To continue the ephemera theme, I grabbed my Field Notes stamp set and some brown paper scraps. A little bit of stamping created my own vintage-looking labels!
I also added a very subtle text stamp to the background below the envelope. The Old Paper Distress Ink matches the color of the large floral element on the paper almost perfectly, and makes the text from the Vintage Artistry stamp look like part of the paper!
For the finishing touch, I made my journal block out of another piece of the Vintage Artistry paper. I inked the edges with Old Paper and inserted it into the slot I had cut into the envelope earlier,
Oooh, one last thing…did you notice the little touch I added to the envelope? I wrote “radish seeds” in the corner in pencil to mimic homespun seed storage! After writing it, I used my finger to smudge the pencil so it would have a more aged look.
We put so much work and love into our gardens. Of course we enjoy the harvest, but scrapbooking the experience helps us remember the memories for years after the vegetables are eaten!
