NEW! Double Page Kit & Tutorial!! {The Scrapbook Diaries!}

So, I was sorting through all the pretty products deciding what I wanted to be in the next kit page and video tutorial that I make up for The Scrapbook Diaries.  Some of the papers Janene sent for me to work with are these gorgeous and unique papers from Poland called LemonCraft.  My Dilemma?  I didn't know which of the to settle on for this kit page, they are all so pretty!!  So, I finally decided on making this a Double!  2 Kit pages and 2 Video Tutorials to go with them!

One thing I really love about working for The Scrapbook Diaries is that Janene is always on the look out for the most unique and beautiful papers and embellishments in the market....I'm mean how cool is that chipboard frame/title? right? (the photo is of my nephew and his beautiful bride).

This kit also includes my Brick/waterdrop stamp set as well as one of my all time favorite Crafter's Workshop Stencils "Art Is"...I'm sure you've seen me use this one a LOT on my projects (you will sure find yourself reaching for this stencil over and over in future projects!)

Another fave for me, LOVE the Prima shabby-chic metal accents! 2 Tim Holtz distress inks and lots of fun fussy cutting elements from a Label sheet designed to coordinate with the gorgeous papers!

And as always, this kit includes a link so you will have unlimited access to a step by step video tutorial I made up on how to recreate this page for your own precious photo.

....And here is the second page kit and Video Tutorial I made up for this kit.  I used lots more yummy chipboard designs, blooms, metal accents and more! ....yes, that's me...one of those few times when we were on summer vacation and I had time to play with my hair.  I decided to use a curling iron on it that day, and my daughter insisted on taking a pic.

For this page I used the water droplet stamp from the stamp set I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries. Lots of fun chipboard and fussy cutting elements on this one.

I share a really fun finish that I used on this very cool cogs and chains chipboard (also included in the kit).....this page was a lot of fun to create! Here are a couple more close-ups of the page...

As you can see, lots of pretty accents included in this kit! Seen enough? You can order your's at The Scrapbook Diaries today! As always Janene offers the kit's in a couple of options (we know that some of you may have already got some of the kit items, like my stamp set in your stash, so she offer the Complete Kit or The Basic Kit)  All kit purchases include a link to the online Video Tutorial I created for each of these pages. You can pick up your double page kit HERE....the kit's sell out quickly, so grab your's while the gettin's good! (And as always, there are 2 fabulous BONUS sample page idea's made up by Janene included in the kit!)

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, and for the sweet comments and feedback.  Your kind words mean a lot to me! xo xo

Creating a Fresh Pretty Gift {With Maja Design}

Hello friends! I thought I would share with you all a fun little 'Thinking of You' gift idea.  I found this cute little unfinished wooden crate at my local Dollar store and thought I would use some of the fresh pretty patterns in the Maja Design papers to dress it up to create a candle holder gift set.
 



I used the 'Naturen doftar' paper from the 'Antligen' paper collection to cover the outside strips of the wooden crate.  I used a mixture of equal parts white glue and water to adhere my paper strips to the wooden crate.  I just love the sweet white dotted green paper for this, I think it gives the project an nice Spring feel to it.

 

For the inside of the box I used the pretty gingham design in the 'Kitchen Garden' paper from the 'Life in the Country' collection.  And for the middle/side walls I used the lovely script/floral paper that is on the reverse side of the Kitchen Garden paper.

 

For the front of the box I wanted to keep the clean lines of the box design so I didn't over embellish the box, I just added a few paintable Prima Blooms, a twine bow and a Dusty Attic swirl chippie (Elegant Swirls#13), which I painted white and edged with some brown chalk ink (Ingvild Bolme's Branch Bark).

I hope I've inspired you to pull out some of your favorite Maja Design papers and Dusty Attic chipboard to create a little gift to cheer a friend of yours!  You can find a wide variety of Maja Design Papers and Dusty Attic Chipboard at The Scrapbook Diaries.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I always appreciate and read all your lovely comments! xo

Heritage Tags {New Bo Bunny!}

So the ports in the USA are clearing products and I understand that the NEW Bo Bunny collections are making their way to all the scrapbook stores! Yay!  I had some time over the weekend to play with the New Heritage Collection, and made up a couple of tags.  This first one is a gift tag I made using some of the patterned papers from the Heritage 6x6 paper pad along with some of my favorite Vintage Double Dot cardstock.

I used a flower die (Spellbinders, Rose) with some of the lighter papers in the 6x6 paper pad to make up my floral accent for the card. I added a frame from the Noteworthy (die cuts) pack, a little hemp twine, and I quickly had a fun little tag put together.

Bo Bunny Products used on this project:

Patterned Paper: Heritage 

Cardstock: Vintage Double Dot/Gingerbread

6x6 Paper Pad: Hertiage

Noteworthy: Heritage

For my second tag I went with the sweet wood grain patterned paper and combined it with Sweet Pear Double Dot cardstock.

I used one of my favorite Bo Bunny blossoms as a centerpiece for this tag, a bloom from the Clover Zinnia's package. The bit of brick mortar chipboard behind the bloom is a leftover bit from Dusty Attic.  I also accented with a butterfly cut with Bo Bunny's NEW Flutter dies. I used a little bit of 'Island Mist' Pearlescents on the butterfly as well as some of the new Glitter Pastes in 'Caribbean' and 'Wasabi'.

Bo Bunny product used on this Tag:
Patterned Paper, 6x6 Paper Pad: Heritage
Cardstock: Sweet Pear Double Dot
Noteworthy: Heritage
Flutter Dies
Blossoms: Zinnia/Clover
Glitter Paste: Caribbean, Wasabi
Pearlescents: Island Mist
Frosting Jewels (pearl flourish)

Hope you enjoyed my Bo Bunny projects for today, and hope that you will have these gorgeous products available to you soon at your local scrap store!  Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! xo

New Mixed Media Page AND Video Tutorial {Bo Bunny - Garden Journal}

Last week I got my big beautiful design team pack from Bo Bunny! I was so excited to see all the new gorgeous paper collections, one of my favorites being the new Garden Journal collection. So of course I had to dig in and play with this collection first thing!  Did you know that Bo Bunny now has metal dies that can help you create intricate and beautiful accents for your scrapbook pages and craft projects?  Today I made up this scrapbook page using a variety of the new dies, including my favorite new butterfly design to create accents and embellishments that help give a light, airy feel to the page. Here is a video tutorial I made up to show step by step how this page was made, including a really fun technique when cutting your dies that help release the paper from the die quickly and easily. Enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed this video tutorial and will feel inspired to try out some of Bo Bunny's new dies and mixed media products.  Here are a few close-ups you can view at your leisure...

One of the tips I shared in this video is how you get the cardstock to release from the die in a quick and easy way.  I don't know the science behind it but it works beautifully.  I found this tip on Pinterest a tip shared by Stampin' Up's Patty Bennett, and the basic idea is to sandwich your cardstock between a layer of wax paper and a layer of dryer sheet (yep, those pretty smelling little sheets you throw in your dryer, a fabric softener sheet).  So basically you have your die, the next layer is a piece of wax paper, then your cardstock piece, then a dryer sheet.  Then the piece of plastic that you use with your die cutting machine (I used the Quickutz Revolution for mine).  Just roll it through like you usually do, when you pull it out, the cardstock piece releases very easily from the die, and the tiny bits and pieces with pretty much fall out of the intricate little cuts.  I didn't have to use any tools to poke out my bits, they just fell out as I ran my fingers over the piece! It only takes a second to add the extra two layers to your cut out but it saves you tons of time trying to pop out those stubborn little bits on those intricate dies!

I also used one of the awesome NEW stickable stencils called Love on this page.  I took the clock design and using a palette knife laid down a thick layer of NEW Blush Glitter Paste to add this shimmery design to the background of my photo cluster.  I also used the Blush and Sugar Glitter Pastes on my Flutter die cut pieces to create these little butterfly accents for my page.

For my floral accent on this page, I combined the coordinating chipboard pieces for the Garden Journal collection with a Bo Bunny Daisy Blossom from the Blush packet.  I made a quick fun little nest using some Spanish Moss and a chipboard egg design from the coordinating chipboard for Garden Journal collection.

Bo Bunny Product used in this project:

Patterned Paper: Garden Journal/Sketch, Wonder

6x6 paper pad: Garden Journal 

Sticker Sheet/Garden Journal

Chipboard/Garden Journal

Glitter Paste: Sugar, Blush

Stickable Stencil: Love

Dies: Flutter Dies, Ornate Frame, Lattice Frame

Glimmer Spray: Bronze 

Blossoms: Blush Daisy

Wood accents: Iron Works

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I hope you enjoyed my project and video tutorial.  Your kind comments and feedback always make my day! xo

Favor Boxes with Template {Bo Bunny Double Dot}

If you are like me, you love a quick and easy project.  This favor box is so easy to make from an 8 1/2" x 11" paper....not cutting, just a few easy folds.  I have lots of that pretty Double Dot paper from Bo Bunny, (I have a love of dots!!) so I grabbed a piece of Mint Double dot 8 1/2" x 11" piece and scored it as follows.....

Score at the 3/4", 4 1/2" mark, 6 1/2" mark and 10 1/4" mark.  If you are like me and only have the Score Buddy (meant for cards)....I just measured in 3/4" and 4 1/2" from each side edge. Now turn on the  8.5" side and score as follows

Score at 2 inches in from each side.  Then you will want to mark 4 angles....measure 2" ALONG the edge from the two center marks.  Now draw a line from your mark to the inner corner as shown....score this line.

I personally found it a little hard to score the angle line so what I did was brought the point of the middle fold up to meet the edge of my side fold and then used my finger to make the angle fold.

I opted for the dotted design to be on the outside of my box, so I added 4 strips of 2 sided sticky tape to the four corners of the plain side as shown above.

Once you've applied your sticky tape, bring the two sides in, it will look like the picture above. Now bring the two side flaps up and you have formed your box....

It will look like the pic above!  Now the fun part....decorate!

For one of my boxes I used an edge punch and cut a scallop edge across the top.  I added a band of green cardstock (BoBunny Clover Dot) to hold the top together, and added some hemp twine, burlap, strip of lace and a die cut Shasta Daisy (Cheery Lynn Designs) and some leave cut from the Clover paper.

For my second box I used some left over paper I had from the Primrose collection (that collection had such pretty dot papers and butterflies!!).  I fussy cut a few butterflies from the patterned paper and cut a Fanciful Flourish from Bo Bunny's Clover Dot paper.

Hope you enjoyed today's project and that you give this easy-peasy favor bag a try the next time you want to give a good friend a little gift!  Thanks for stopping by my blog today! xo 

I Couldn't Resist Another {Maja Design and Dusty Attic}

Hello dear friends! Yep, I'm back again today to share another canvas I made using some older bits of my scrapping stash mixed with some beautiful Maja Design papers. As I explained yesterday, I had recently been browsing on Pinterest and found this artist out of Singapore, named Grace Ciao, who makes fashion designs out of real fresh flowers....I  thought the artwork was beautiful but at the same time thought it sad that they could not last being that they were made from fresh flowers.  It got me to thinking about some very large Prima blooms that I had bought many, many years ago when I first started out scrapping....

Remember these?  I realized that they would be perfect to make up some lovely couture canvas designs.  Yesterday I shared one canvas that I made out of one of the other flower petals (also shared a video tutorial on how I made it as well).  Today I'm sharing another canvas using some pink/cream petals from my stash.

 



I used a variety of papers from the Maja, Vintage Summer Basics and Vintage Spring Basics collections. I used the center of the 'March 1st' paper (from Vintage Spring Basics) for the body of my couture figure as well as the pretty Daffodil images in the corners of the paper for my canvas background.  In the center of the canvas I used '1910' from Vintage Summer Basics, and then cut out a heart shape from '1909-bs' also from the Vintage Summer collection.

 

I always feel that the Maja papers are beautifully complimented by Dusty Attic chipboard, in this case I used a new chipboard design called 'Elegant Swirls #3' to top my canvas. I used a stencil called 'Butterfly Collage' that was designed by a lovely and super talented friend of mine, Janene Meyerowitz (yep, that's right, owner of The Scrapbook Diaries) to make the wings behind the figure and to add the lattice design in the corners.  I used the 12x12 stencil for this, but she also has this gorgeous stencil available in a 6x6 size as well :)

Running down the side of the canvas I used a Dusty Attic chipboard piece called 'Branch #3" that I just gave a coat of Gesso and inked with some Ingvild Bolme 'Moss Garden' chalk ink, and some Branch Bark ink by her, as well.  In the bottom right corner I added a corner chippie from the DeVine Frame Set (Dusty Attic).  The dress design was made entirely of a couple of the petals I had from an old, old Prima box.  (I'm sure you can use petals from just about any silk/fabric flower you have in your stash).

 

I sketched out a couture figure to create my canvas design and saved the page as a template.  Just right click on the photo and 'save image as' to your computer if you would like to try using my sketch for one of your projects.

If you are looking for Maja Design papers as well as Dusty Attic chipboard, Janene at The Scrapbook Diaries has loads uploaded to her online store (how's that for one stop shopping! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I really do appreciate all the lovely comments and feedback! Happy Scrapping! xo

New Use for Old Stash! VIDEO TUTORIAL {Shimmerz Paints and Dusty Attic}

Hello my dear friends! Do you ever look at your pile of old stash that you've had building up over the years and think, what will I ever do with this item?  Years ago when I first started out scrapping I had bought some LARGE Prima blooms, I think I might have used one or two of them on a page but these blooms are seriously BIG, lol.  I finally found a fun way to use them!  I had been browsing around on Pinterest and saw this artist from Singapore named Grace Ciao who does her artwork with real live fresh flowers.  I thought her artwork is really beautiful but thought it's sad that the blooms will die (I think she takes photos of her work and uses those).  Anyway, it got me to thinking that it would be fun to use those old fabric petals that I had in my stash from those many years ago to create a fun mixed media style canvas.  (You can use any fabric or paper flower petals for this project, I was just happy to find a good use for my old stash! :)

I was also looking to use this months (February's) Inspiration Board from Dusty Attic....so I gathered together a few of my favorite Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and colors from this palette from my Shimmerz Paints, and got to working.  Here is a step by step Video Tutorial I put together on how I made this project...enjoy!

This project was a lot of fun to create!  I began by quickly drawing up a figure, which I then traced out onto a piece of neutral color paper.  Here is a copy of my figure, just right click on the photo and 'save image as' to your computer, then print out for your own use...

Here are a couple close up shots of the canvas. ...

I used Tombow adhesive to apply the petals to my project but on hindsight think I would use a different fabric/craft glue (like Aleene's) for this next time....I feel like the Tombow seeped through the fabric of my petals and left a bit of a subtle stain. (I will definitely be trying this out again! :)

Here is a list of the basic products I used to make this canvas:

Dusty Attic Chipboard:

~ Corner Flourish #3

~ Elegant Flourish #3

~ Feathers

~ Bookman ABC Set

Shimmerz Paint Products:

- Tuscan Sun Spritz

- Treasured Hymn Spritz

- Pumped up Purple Coloringz

- Razzle Dazzle Berry Vibez

- Don't Be Suede Vibez

- Have a Grape Day Texturez

- Marooned Over Miami Texturez

- Coral Me Crazy Dazzlerz

- Ruby Lost Her Slippers Inklingz

- Miner Miner 49er Inklingz

NOTE:  Be sure to get a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product (in the color of your choice) with your next Shimmerz order by mentioning my name in the Instructions to Merchant part of your order!

You can now shop for Dusty Attic Chipboard directly from their online store (open to both wholesale and retail), here  Dusty Attic Website

You can also find Dusty Attic in the USA at these two fine online shops....

The Scrapbook Diaries

Moments of  Tranquility

If you would like to play along in this months Inspiration Board Challenge be sure to link your project at the Dusty Attic blog, there is a link in the top right hand corner.  It's fun to play along and have a chance at the AMAZING $100.00 Gift Certificate to the Dusty Attic Online Shop!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, your sweet comments and feedback make my day! xo