Okio B Designs: french book paper

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It's a bit of a rainy, miserable kind of day here. The kind of day when you don't feel guilty staying indoors. While the boys were busy playing this morning, I broke out some jewelry pieces and whipped up these two necklaces.

Each is backed with French book paper. Then I added some of these lovely religious images. For this piece, I added a little bling by way of the bead and rhinestone.

For the second piece, I just kept it simple - adding the red faux pearl and French wording over the image.

Sweet and simple. I love dressing up my dress forms with them, although I'm sure one day I'll actually wear one! =)

Jeanine

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I'm a firm believer that if life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. Case in point, my broken dress form peat pot.

I bought some rub-on transfers from Joann's a couple of weeks ago. Now, I'm no expert on rub-ons. I've only used them a handful of times. After rubbing for what seemed like forever, this transfer just didn't seem to be happening. So I kept at it.

I must have moved it while rubbing because it didn't exactly come out intact. As you can see, it looks, well, broken. Rather than toss the whole thing and move on to plan B, I decided it still had personality and potential. So I added some French book paper, a little flower bling and some shredded sheet music. To me, she's perfect now!

And these are a few more I did with a little less drama. They are in my Etsy shop.

I wouldn't say I've mastered rub-ons but I have it down to an inexact science.

Linking to Knick of Time Tuesday.

Jeanine

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Ikea has these sweet tart tin ornaments. I forgot to take a before photo but they had a red gingham pattern in the middle and red ribbon to hang them. I decided to give mine a Frenchy touch:

I used some distressed vintage French book paper for the centers. My Cricut didn't have the exact circle size so my circles are a little smaller than the centers.

Once I glued the paper in, I added some enamel number tags and some little pink rhinestones.

I switched out the ribbon with some twine for a more rustic look.

They come in a pack of four but my 5 year old appears to have run off with the other two. Once I find them, I'm going to make a couple more.

Jeanine

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My five year old picked out these paper mache stars at Michael's last week. I was really hoping to decoupage them using the tissue paper method, but - sigh! - it was not meant to be. The tissue paper got stuck in my printer not once, not twice but three times. And you know what they say about three times. Plan B:

I used some old French book paper and pages from the Romeo and Juliet book I got a couple of weeks ago. I covered each star with Mod Podge. Then I glued on the ripped pages from each book randomly all over each star.

While the Mod Podge was still a little wet, I added some flat glitter pieces (Martha Stewart Crafts). Once that was dry, I popped over to The Graphics Fairy and grabbed these two Victorian lady images. I added them to the fronts using Glue Dots.

Now, I am not calling these Xmas ornaments, although they will likely end up on our tree. For now, I'm calling them my Victorian lady stars. ;)

Jeanine

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We found these vintage salt & pepper shakers at a garage sale a few months ago. They are silver-plated and screw off to reveal a glass holder for both the salt and pepper. Really unique. I wanted to give them a Frenchy makeover:

First I added my favorite vintage lace with some hot glue. Then I added the metal picture holders to each one. I was thrilled that they actually fit into the existing holes.