Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop!

It's here!!!! YAY!!!!

Welcome to the Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop. 

You should have arrived here from Shelly's 'Cards by Shelly' blog. If you just happened to drop by my blog then please head to the Whimsical Wednesday blog HERE and start at the beginning of the hop.  There is lots of prizes and blog candy along the way! Plus the Grand Prize is a Gypsy!

For this hop we have all made banners and wall decor that will be sent to a nursing home to brighten the walls and the faces of the people living there. Read more about this on the link at Whimsical Wednesday. 


I decided to make a couple of easy lightweight 6 x 4 photo hangers that can hang on a door knob or a wall hook.

Great grandmothers, grannies, poppies, omas, nonnas, nannies and all forms of 'life experts' love seeing endless photos of the new generations. So I thought this could be an awesome way to make a photo display where photos can be changed easily and often. 

I cut seven frames from Storybook using my Gyspy to squash it into a rectangular shape, then I used a sheet of acetate to make the folder part where the photos will sit. 

The acetate sheet only comes half way up the back so that the photo can be pulled out and changed easily. 

 I then used the crop-o-dile to place eyelets in each side, securing the acetate and giving me something to thread twine through to hang.

I used a range of Cindy Loo characters using mix and matched colours. I got the inspiration for my colours from my mums Russian Dolls.  

I doodled over each frame with mixed colours and distress inked the edges. Keeping all the decorations to a minimum and simple so they don't distract from the photo focus.

I used acrylic twine to thread frames on in a balanced way and then covered a craft popstick to centre the hanging. Some gorgeous ribbon from Spotlight set the top of it off! 

What do you do with the left over length of acetate acrylic sheets? Make perfectly shaped minicheesecakes of course!

Then hang the lightweight display anywhere, and sit back, relax with some yummy cheesecake and watch the grandchildren grow and grow!

Thanks for checking out my 6 x 4 photo display!

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Check out these prizes from our generous Blog Hop sponsors!

Patsy from the Prairie Bird Boutique 
*Your choice of one bundle of Shabby Crinkle Ribbon

Babette from The Kraft Outlet 

The Kraft Outlet has generously donated their “Inspiration Play Pack”
This is a collection of The Kraft Outlet's top selling items valued at over $45. The play pack comes with 10 yards each of the red and brown baker’s twine, an assortment of 50 of the plain and grungy tags, an 8 sheet assortment of their cardstock and text weight papers, an 8 envelope assortment, one sheet of Kraft labels, a set of their vintage dictionary pages, 1 yard of black twill tape and a CD full of 100 graphics and backgrounds.
In addition the Kraft Outlet is offering 10% off all purchases made during the ENTIRE  month of July. All you need to do is enter the code JULY10 at checkout. 




Stephanie has donated the Grand Prize for this Blog Hop which is a Gypsy! In order to qualify for the Grand Prize you must leave a comment on each of the designers blogs. At the end of the hop please return back to the Whimsical Wednesday Blog to leave a comment saying that you finished the hop and left a comment under all our posts. The blog hop will run through to Sunday and end at Midnight.

PLUS!!! I'll be giving away some extra Whimsical treats! If you follow both Whimsical Wednesday and me, leave a comment here saying you follow both blogs, I'll give one lucky winner some Peachy Keen Boy Mates Faces stamps!   

Thank you for joining us for the Whimsical Wednesday blog hop. Your next stop is Amber at My 3 E Scrapbooking.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and all the brilliant DT work!