A Creative Journey: Beautiful Frame

It's time for a new Designer Challenge on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog today. For March it's all about Framing it. With this month's challenge in mind, I set out to create a Scrapbook Layout inside of a picture frame that you can decorate with in any area of your home. You'll want to make sure to read below as I have a tutorial for you so that you can re-create my Beautiful Frame at home. Make sure to read all the way down to the bottom of the post as I have some information on how to get in on a fabulous giveaway from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

To start, die cut the Happy Frame out of patterned paper from the Wood Effect Paper Pack four times. Create the four strips by folding on the score lines and then shape them into long strips. You'll need to adhere one side of the patterned paper and adhered to the flat side of the strip to create the strip.

Cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock that measures 7 1/2" x 7 1/2".

Adhere the strips together to create the frame. Make sure that the square end gets attached to an angle end. Continue to adhere the strips until the frame is created. Adhere the piece of 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" White Soft Finish Cardstock to the back of the frame. Set your frame aside.

From the Under the Sea patterned paper Pack, take out the watercolour colour anchor piece. Cut a piece that measures 6 3/4" x 6 3/4". Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

With the Under the Sea Paper Pack still out, take the patterned paper piece out with the triangles. From the Stitched Squares, die cut the 5 1/4" stitched square and the 3 3/4" stitched square out of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper pieces. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 5 1/4" Stitched Rectangle Die from the watercolour anchor patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4" Stitched Rectangle out of the Dot patterned paper from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Die cut the 3 3/4" Stitched Square out of the Dot patterned paper. Distress the edges of the patterned paper pieces. Ink the edges of the patterned paper pieces using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Take out the 3/4" and 1 /2" Stitched Fishtail Banners. Die cut the 3/4" Stitched Fishtail Banner twice from two of the patterned papers from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Die cut the 1/2" Stitched Fishtail Banner from one of the patterned papers from the Under the Sea Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the banners. Ink the edges of the banners using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Celebration Flags die, choose one of the flags. Die cut the flag twice out of patterned paper from the Under the Sea patterned paper pack. Ink the edges of the flags using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4 3/4" Stitched Square out of the Anchor patterned paper from the Sea World Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4 3/4" Stitched Rectangle out of the Sea Animals patterned paper from the Sea World Paper Pack. Distress the edges of the patterned paper piece. Ink the edges of the patterned paper piece using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Use the 4 3/4" Stitched Rectangle die to die cut the photo out.

From the Amazing Beautiful Die, die cut the Beautiful out of White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Adhere the large anchor watercolour patterned paper piece to the inside of the frame.

Adhere the 5 1/4" Stitched Square triangle patterned paper piece 1/2" from the right and 1" from the top of the frame. Adhere the Sea Animal rectangle piece 1/2" from the left and 1 1/4" from the bottom of the frame.

Foam square the 4" Dot patterned paper stitched rectangle 1/4" from the left and 1/2" from the top of the frame. Foam square one of the 3/4" stitched fishtail banners to the top of the triangle square. Adhere the remaining banners slightly on the dot patterned paper stitched rectangle. Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the anchor stitched square 3/4" from the right and 3/4" from the top of the frame.

Adhere the 3 3/4" triangle patterned paper square 1 1/2" from the left and 1" from the top of the frame. Adhere the dot patterned paper square 1" from the right and 1 1/4" from the bottom of the frame. Adhere the photo to the 5 1/4" watercolour anchor stitched rectangle. Foam square the 5 1/4" watercolour anchor to the middle of the layered patterned papers.

Adhere the Beautiful sentiment in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. To finish the frame, adhere the two flags to the top right hand corner of the frame.

Here are a few close up photos of the Beautiful Frame.

Here's the finished Beautiful Frame.

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For today's challenge Elizabeth Craft Designs are giving away a $20 Gift Card to use on our website to 3 winners.

To enter simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge post and tell us What Elizabeth Craft Designs dies or stamp sets would you use to frame something on a card, scrapbook layout of home decor item?

We will select 3 lucky winners in a random drawing

The winners will be announced on Friday, March 23rd on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog.