by amykant ~ July 9, 2008
Hello everyone! I am so excited to be a part of this awesome vintage site! I only have a few images available right now (CLICK HERE) but trust me, I have some awesome ones in the works.
Here’s my new friend, Edith. You can download her here.
I made a home for Edith in a cute, altered 4.5 inch square frame I bought at Michaels really cheap.
I reduced the image to be 4×6 inches and then printed it on tan cardstock. I cropped the printed image to 2.5×2.5 inches, and attached it to a thick piece of cardboard with my Zip Dry glue and sprayed with a crystal clear glaze (Krylon).
I set the image aside and grabbed the frame. Using Therm-o-Web mounting adhesive, I attached some Pink Paislee Paper to the frame. I trimmed edges with my craft knife.
Using a variety of my vintage-inspired stamps, I stamped the frame with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain. The distress inks are great for vintage-inspired products. I have them in almost every color!
After stamping the images, I inked the edges of the frame using a couple of my colorbox inks.
I attached some Basic Grey fibers around the inner frame and then cut a one-inch thick piece of a striped Pink Paislee Paper. I attached it to the frame in the upper corner, after inking the edges with the Distress Ink.
I topped it off with a couple gold leaves and a K & Co embellishment. Finally, I put the photo of Edith in the frame. And, viola! a cool, inexpensive wall decoration! I plan to make a group of three frames with photos of some of Edith’s friends, and hang them in a vertical row on the wall.
In addition to the image of Edith available here at Fairy Davis & Friends, I even have a cute little freebie for you! Click here to check it out!
Supplies:
Frame: Michael’s
Paper: Pink Paislee (Office Lingo )
Ink: Colorbox, Distress Ink
Stamps: Hampton Art, Rubber Stampede, PSX
Leaves: Decorative Accents
Fibers: Basic Grey
Adhesives: Thermoweb Mounting Adhesive, Zip Dry Paper Glue
Embelishment: K & Co.
Image: www.fairydavis.com
by admin ~ July 9, 2008
The design team over at Pink Paislee is participating in a blog hop to celebrate a week of sneak peeks of their latest product releases. Visitors to the design team blogs can leave comments on each blog they visit for a chance to win one of 12 prize packs. If you would like to learn more, check out the Pink Paislee blog for more details.
Pink Paislee design team member and Fairy Davis contributer Tammy Tutterow made this cute project using Pink Paislee’s new Vintage Moon collection and our Umbrella Girl image. To help celeberate the release of this new line which we think looks great with vintage images, we have added Umbrella Girl to our new “Trinkets and Treasures” freebie section.
To download the free image, add it to your cart and go through out check out process. Don’t worry, you won’t have to pay anything unless you add other items (which we won’t mind one bit!). Once you complete the checkout, our system will give you a download link. It is that easy. Once you download the image to your computer, open it in your favorite photo editing program, resize it, print it, and then get to crafting! It is that easy.
If you would like to know more about PInk Paislee’s new products and this great Vintage Moon line, we encourage you to check out their blog. While you are there, you might as well join in the blog hop for your chance to win some great stuff!
by admin ~ July 8, 2008
shopping, scanning, editing, and posting. Whew! We are simply exhausted from it all!
Our exhaustion is good news for you though because we have added a ton of new content to the site, including a new section that includes FREE image downloads! I am actually taking a break from loading goodies in the store to post this, so be sure and check over the next day or so for additional new goodies.
And lastly, we are thrilled to add another contributor to the site, Amy Kant. Amy shares our addiction and love of all things vintage and is so excited about sharing her collection of vintage photos here.
To see what is new, click here.
To see what is free, click here.
To see what Amy has added, click here.
Did I mention we have been shopping? Oh my, we have found some simply amazing vintage goodies to share with you. Now just to find enough time in the day to scan and clean them up a bit. We promise, if we can ever get caught up with them all, you will totally flip over what we have to share!
by admin ~ July 3, 2008
We are having some blog issues. We are working on making things display correctly. In the meantime we have turned off a few sidebar functions to hopefully get things running smoothly again.
by admin ~ June 8, 2008
We added quite a few new images tonight, including the one above. I love this photo so much. I am not sure what I love about it the most, the lovely bride, the handsome groom or the bride’s amazing bouquet.
In addition to this photo, we also added several other photos featuring some sweet babes and girlies and quite a few blank postcards, which are great for printing and using for journaling.
You can see all of the new goodies by visiting the new products section of the store.
by admin ~ June 2, 2008
Fairy Davis and Friends is now on Twitter. If you Twitter, we would love to be friends with you!
You can find our Twitter page here: https://twitter.com/fairydavis
We will be adding a Twitter feed to our sidebar here on the blog soon so you can quickly see what we are up to.
by admin ~ May 27, 2008
We have been really bad bloggers here at Fairy Davis. If you have been checking in with us to see what is going on, we apologize for letting you down. It seems that we have been so with behind the scenes stuff and trying to get the word out about our site, that we have neglected the blog a bit.
One thing we really want to do is share with you links to really amazing artists and sites on the web that share our love of vintage images.
First up, Make a Moo or Two. What are Moos? Well, think ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) but in a skinny format. The site offers challenges with different themes for each week. The samples from all of the contributers are absolutely amazing and so inspiring. Each one is truly a small work of art!
by admin ~ May 3, 2008
Fairy Davis and Friends is thrilled to welcome Vintage Studios to the boutique! Vintage Studios offers digital designs for use in traditional, hybrid, and digital scrapbooking and papercrafting projects. We are thrilled to have Vintage Studios as part of our team and are sure you will love their deliciously shabby vintage creations. The Vintage Studio designs are offered exclusively through Fairy Davis and Friends and can be found in our boutique here.
by admin ~ April 27, 2008
Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! We are finally open!
We are so excited to have everything working and set up in our cart program. We are finally beginning the process of adding products. We have huge collections of photos and images to add so it will be a long and always ongoing process of adding new things to the boutique. You will want to check in often as we plan to add new products every day this week!
by admin ~ April 21, 2008
I know it seems like forever since we posted! We have been so busy behind the scenes putting the finishing touches on our cart program in order to open. We are really close to having all of the parts of the site ready to launch before the end of this month. Please keep watching here for word on the official opening and please continue to tell your friends about us.
