Santa Shadowbox guest designer Kerry Lynn The Santa shadowbox is made with a vintage photo mat and is sitting on an end cap from a vintage player piano roll. St. Nick peeks out to see who’s been naughty or nice this year in hopes he can deliver presents to those within his gaze. So, this…
Cupcake anyone? guest designer Kerry Lynn (This may very well be the cutest thing we have ever seen!) The cupcake stand is made with a vintage embroidery hoop. I mounted vellum inside the hoop and then applied a cut circle of the number rubbings, in other words, the rubbings were put on as a…
Christmas bags Paula Cheney Fabric bags for Christmas treats and small gifts. Here’s how I did it- Cut a piece of muslin fabric (for a small bag – 7 x 10″). I chose two 7gypsies clear stamps Nottinghill and the new Venice stamp. Use the script stamp from the Nottinghill set to stamp the fabric…
It’s all about the trays today! Family Picture Tray Peg Hewitt We love this Photo Tray from an artist halfway around the world in Australia. Peg has taken, what started as a white Photo Tray (not to be confused with the Artist Printer’s Tray that has 12 small squares) and made a very clever, almost window-like…
Friendship Tea Rachel Carlson In the spirit of holiday entertaining…every year I make my friends “Friendship Tea”. This year I decided to put the tea in an extra special tin just for holiday giving. Although it was VERY hard to cut my favorite Barcelona paper – Manresa but I took one for the team –…
Holiday Gift Tags Rachel Carlson I KNOW you are still wrapping presents, you are, YES you are. I LOVE tags, I just do, all kinds. 7 Gypsies makes it so easy to alter an already printed tag for some vintage holiday paper packaging. OR you can have them on standby for those last minute gifts…
Little bird wall hanging guest designer Kerry Lynn I used another book cover for this one. It’s a great size for this project. The large flower is a rosette I created using vintage piano roll paper {i hoard this stuff}. I layered the rosette, a Christmas tree light reflector and then a metal clock (Vintage…
Gypsy Necklace guest designer Kerry Lynn As far as we can remember we have never had a piece of jewelry featured on the Gypsy Journal… until today! I made the necklace with vintage chain and pieces from the 7gypsies crystal Princesca kit. For the spoon charm, I drilled a hole at the bottom and added…
Renee has two great ideas for making Christmas decorations with store bought frames. She also uses the same monogram stamp set we showcased earlier in the week for the product challenge. Easy is good… on Dec 16th. Christmas Frames artist Renee Camacho I purchased several photo frames at Pottery Barn last year during their after…
Artist Printers Tray Sorry…we hope you saw it when it posted because it’s now out for publishing. Congratulations Kerry Lynn!