Prior to the wedding I had picked up this heart shaped collage frame at Michael's. I figured I would do a gift for the newlyweds with some of the pics from the wedding. As you can see the frame is divided into four sections with fixed dividers. Since the wedding was at the ocean I wanted to commemorate that fact in the background. So these are the supplies I started with, the collage frame, some beach scrapbook paper, jewels, mini envelopes, flowers, and other accents. When I first picked up the frame I knew I would have to cut the paper to fit each section. I had precut a blank paper pattern to play with the sizing of the sections. When I finally got the patterns to fit nicely in each section I had to decide how to cut the paper. I wanted the word beach to be somewhat visible on the frame. The word beach is at the bottom of the page and obviously that wouldn't fit around the curved bottom of the heart frame. I took the patterns from the top of the heart and used them on the bottom of the scrapbook paper. The word BEACH was divided and even though the divider falls in the middle of the word, I still feel it looks very connected. I then took the patterns for the bottom of the heart and cut those sections from the top of the paper with the waves on them. I'll be honest, I bought extra pieces of the paper because it took a couple of times of cutting the shapes to get them nicely fitted in each section. 
Once I had the paper glued in to the frame I started playing with all of the accent pieces to see how I wanted to lay out the design. One of the examples I saw for this frame was to put the couple's wedding vows in envelopes in the design. I found these cute little scalloped edged envelopes in the Martha Stewart section of Michael's and decided to ink them up to reflect the colors of the wedding which were brown's and roses. I used Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink and inked the envelope and the card insert. I printed their vows on the computer with a small font. In order for it to fit and still be readable I had to use both sides of the card. I had these beautiful pink scroll letters and added their initials to each envelope. I added pearls and brown gemstone schwoopies above and below the envelopes, lovely brown flowers with jewels in the center, and a pair of doves in the lower right corner.
Latrel Smith took a beautiful picture of Kyle and Dana praying together and I wanted to highlight that picture. I put it up in the upper right corner of the heart and added a small brass cross over the picture and a set of doves from Jolee's and a pretty jeweled heart with schwoopies next to it. In the bottom left of the frame was one of my favorite pics of the kids. They are facing the camera with Kyle's arms draped around Dana. It is a beautiful shot of them and they look so very happy. I added some more of the pretty brown and rose colored jeweled flowers and more schwoopies to finish it off. All in all I think it turned out beautifully. The finished result is shown below. The kids were very excited when they received it. I sent it to them with a couple of other items in the box. This was on top and the first thing they came to...they didn't finish going through the box, they called me right away! I think it was a hit!
Until next time, Imagine, Create, Enjoy.
