Announcing The Vintage Rose Emporium!

I am excited to announce that I have opened a shop on Facebook and will be selling craft supplies!  The Vintage Rose Emporium will be a place where crafters can find new and vintage items to create with at affordable prices and with excellent service.  Kits with vintage items are available and can be customized.  Holiday items are arriving now, so be sure to check us out at:

The Vintage Rose Emporium

Thank you all so much for your support with my new endeavor!
Crafty Blessings,
Kim

Shabby Chic Topiary

Hello crafty friends! I am so happy to share with you my 2nd project as Guest Designer for Shabby is Chic Boutique for June. This is my upcycled topiary tree, hope you enjoy it!

 

 

I started with an urn that I got at a second hand store. I applied a coat of gesso and then painted light pink, and then added a thin layer of white milk paint to. I hit the textured areas of the urn with rose gold Metallic Lustre. I then decorated the urn with some of the dangle laces, pearl trim, and a flower appliqué that I sprayed pink from Shabby is Chic Boutique.

 

For the topiary itself, I built it out of a Styrofoam ball that I covered with pink lace. I then glued the gorgeous foam roses from SCB all over the ball randomly. I added some of the pearl stamens from the store and some leaves from my stash.

 

 I gessoed a wooden dowel and then covered it with pink seam binding from SCB to hold the topiary ball. At the top, I added a piece of bling from my stash, organza ribbon, seam binding and rhinestone cup chain from SCB to hang down.

 

 

I had a great time making this and still have another matching urn that I am excited to upcycle.

 Thank you for looking!

 please leave a comment letting us know you stopped by and please check out Shabby is Chic Boutique Store on Facebook.



Crafty Blessings,

Kim



No Sew Shabby Chic Pillows

Hello Crafters, Kim N here today and  I am so excited to be the June Guest Designer for Shabby is Chic Boutique! I hope you like my first project, no sew shabby pillows.

 

 

The first pillow was built with fabric and part of a handkerchief. It was finished with pearl trim, some lace trims and I added lots of dangles attached with a pretty piece of bling. The back has a lovely round appliqué and a heart shaped pearl bling button. It was glued together and then stuffed with batting…easy peasy!

 

This next no sew pillow is a ring bearer pillow for a wedding. I used white satin as the foundation and added two exquisite laces from Shabby is Chic Boutique. The focal point is a foam rose backed with tulle trim, pearl trim, and feathers. Dangle lace, seam binding, and cup chain hang down at and serve as the perfect place to tie the rings.

 

  My final pillow is for a young girl to use as her Tooth Fairy pillow. Built with two shabby fabrics, I added a lace-covered pillow to store the tooth. Little details include gorgeous pearl trim, scalloped pink lace, a precious hankie and little butterfly. The back of this one is covered with eyelash lace and bow trim from my stash.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I created with the amazing products from my favorite store,Shabby is Chic Boutique. Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Blessings,

Kim



 

Vintage Rose Creations is now on You Tube!

Hello crafty friends!  It has been a while since I have been active on my blog and one of my New Year's Resolutions is to get back to it regularly.  So, I hope you will all check back here as I will be posting projects, updates, and tutorials weekly starting in January...yay!

The other exciting news is that I have started a you tube channel called Vintage Rose Creations and I would love for you all to stop by and show me some love.  If you sub me, I will return the favor and all positive comments are welcome!  Here is the link, check me out:

Vintage Rose Creations

I also want to take a minute to thank my wonderful crafty friends for their continued friendship, creative inspiration and encouragement and fun times hanging out...love you ladies!

I am looking forward to a New Year full of creative endeavors, good times, and friendship and want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from my family and me to yours and a Blessed and Happy New Year!

More coming soon!
xoxo
Kim

Creative Colors Challenge #29

Hi bloggers and crafty friends!  Today, I would like to share with you a card I created for the Creative Colors Challenge.  I would also like to invite you to participate in the challenge as well, check it out here:
Creative Colors Challenge

For this challenge, here is the inspiration photo:

We had to use pastel pink, pastel yellow, and pastel blue plus use design patterns from the photo.
The sponsor for this challenge is DRS designs 

 I used their awesome digi image as the focal point of my card.  Here is what I made:

I loved this image of Rosie the Riveter, so decided to give her a shabby chic make over.  I love that she symbolizes female empowerment too!  For the background, I layered pastel pink, then pastel blue and white striped Teresa Collins paper, then a floral print card stock, then a die cut made from white and pastel yellow card stock and finally added a white paper doily that I stamped polka dots on before adding the image that I colored ( and adhered with foam tape for dimension).  For the embellishments, I added small pink crystals throughout, yellow organza and pastel blue and white gingham ribbon to Rosie's bandanna, glued pastel blue flower trim to the sides and added some small pink flower buds to the bottom with more ribbon.  I layered the stamped sentiment in various card stocks and used foam tape to give it dimension.

I hope you like my card, thanks for stopping by and looking!  Have a wonderful day and don't forget to play along in this challenge with us!

Your Creative Colors Challenge Designer,
Kim

Shabby Metal Frame

Hi bloggers and crafty friends!  For this design team project for Creating With Details, I designed a shabby chic altered frame and matching gift tag using a photo of my daughter and some amazing supplies from Mai's store.  Hope you like it!

Here is a list of the yummy supplies that I used from the Creating With Details Store

Stamp Epiphany
Epiphany Proclamation Paper Embellishment
Scor Tape-1-4-roll
Surebonder Mini Glue Gun
Epiphany Bombshell Flowers Embellishment
Epiphany Cling Stamps
Epiphany Paper Pad
Prima Ingvild Bolme Picture Metal Frame
Black and White Flat Back Rhinestone
White Organza Ribbon
Cream Venise Shabby Chic Trim With Rhinestone-

The rest of the supplies are from my personal stash.  This was a fun project and easy to create using all of the great Prima supplies that Mai carries in her store. Thanks so much for stopping by, please take a moment and leave me a comment.

Key To My Heart-Altered Valentine Canvas

As Valentine's Day is approaching and is one of my favorite holidays, I am excited to share my altered canvas with you that I made for Creating With Details, I call it "Key To My Heart".  It was inspired by one that the talented Mai Larsen designed at Christmastime, where she turned the canvas around making the back the front.  This is my take on her concept, I hope you like it!

This is the front of the project:

This is back of the project:

You can hang this canvas on either side or even like you would an ornament so that both sides will show.

The items I used to make this piece from the Creating With Details Store are:

white-pearl-chiffon-rose-flower-trim
ivory-venise-applique
assorted-flat-back-rhinestone
surebonder-mini-glue-gun
silver-and-red-rhinestone-and-pearl-bling-embellishment-set-4
red-wheat-acrylic-spray
scor-tape-1-4-roll

All other supplies are from my personal stash.  Thank you so much for stopping by, please leave me a comment and have a wonderful day!  Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!