Okio B Designs

My husband had some old clipboards tucked away in the garage.  I found them over the weekend and decided to give them a French-y touch.  Here is the first one I did: First, I glued some sheet music to use as my background.  Then I hot glued the vintage lace around as a border.  The little white frame is from Michael's but I scored it at a garage sale for 25 cents.  I used a...

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I've been cleaning house since last week.  Prepping for our upcoming garage sale.  I keep finding little odds and ends here and there that slipped my mind.  I had a stack of ordinary dollar store lunch bags and decided to spruce them up a bit: I used some patterned crafting scissors to cut off the tops of each bag.  Then I distressed some French poetry pages and glued them to the front of each bag....

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I came across a stash of small dollar store matchboxes I bought over the holidays. I love when I find something I completely forgot about.  It's like getting something new without having to spend any money.  I've really been admiring the matchboxes that Petite Michelle Louise and A Little Bit French make.  Thank you ladies for the inspiration for these: All of the images are from the Graphics Fairy (thank you, Karen!).  I simply printed them...

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