Small Painter's Tray

I was shopping at Michael's the other day and found this little Painter's Tray from 7 Gypsies and had such fun decorating it.  I used paper from Graphic 45's Ladies Diary and Botanical Tea, some from my mountain of scrap paper ( it's insane how much scrap paper I have!).  I added a pretty ribbon that I've been keeping around for just such an occasion and finally found a use for the odd bit's of jewelry.  This is a very forgiving project, you really can't go wrong with whatever you use.

A lady's diary

I made this with my sister who also made one and we crafted via Skype. This took slightly over a year to make as we only worked on it when we could do it together. We followed a tutorial that I found on YouTube and I will have to look up that information and post the link to the tutorial here. We used the ladies diary paper packs and stickers from graphic 45, a variety of embellishments that we both made and bought, buttons, lace trims, decorated paperclips and our cricut.  I am not actually using this as a diary but rather it will be a photo album, with photos of all sizes put on the many different mats that we made.  (I found the link, click here.)