Relisted item - CheckBoxZ

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51195925/checkboxz
So totally cute! Check out how I’ve used them in the sample pictures.

Recycled Birthday Card

Cute little card I made for a friend of mine who was turning 60.  Some scraps of paper from the DCWV Green Stack and part of a flap from a cardboard box.  The “stamp” was actually a homemade rub on.  Next time I think I will not use it on such textured stock, as the 49 again part bled a bit & was hard to read.  But still cute… Hope you enjoy!

LO Share Sci Fi Freak

This was a little something I did up to have a layout about myself, it was in response to my daily journaling prompt. Paper was DCWV, flower is Prima, buttons & letters are Paper Studio, journaling Block is BenzillaDesigns, Journal BlockZ (found on my Etsy shop) and some ribbon & a slide mount cut in half.  I scanned the magazine covers, then printed out, as they were a bit too big & bulky to include the originals.

Mini Album Share - Being Dad

I tried something different with the pictures I took of the book.  Not sure I like them all combined together like this.  I think next time I’ll go back to doing it separately.  I had actually forgotten about making this one.  It is for my ex-husband, just of him & the boys together.

Supplies: Piggie Tales paper, Chip Chatter letters, Bazzill Basics brads, Dymo labels, Paper Studio flowers & buttons, 7 Gypsies stickers, Chatterbox rubons, Phrase Café stickers, smiley face paper clip I saw at the office store, the ribbon is actually a strip of old jeans.  I really liked how the pages were all different sizes and that the edges of stuff all stuck out from the covers.

Check out the new Journaling SpotZ and IconZ in the store

So I've been hard at work here, but not so fast at getting stuff listed.  I just finished listing the last of 4 new products, and relisted a bunch of oldies but goodies out on Etsy. I have been busy pulling out every supply I own & trying to find a home for it, either here or someplace else.  I am almost done. I want to get to the closet yet, but I am having a hard time finding my storage cubes anymore & do not want to pay massive amounts of shipping :(  So if you have any suggestions, drop me a note!

Congratulations card

Just a cute little way to say “way to go!” Bazzill Cardstock with MME papers.  File tab punch & Dymo labels.  The credit card is one of the fake ones (of course) that they send to you.  Wanting to make it more?  Use a gift card in its place.  Fits a standard CD envelope, another way to use re-use!

Warren Mini Book

A few years back, I lost a dear friend to melanoma. He was the music minister at church and quite  possibly the most awesome man I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. While I know he’s finally at home, he’s left behind huge holes in a lot of lives.  This For his daughters, I made them each a little keepsake book… His favorite color was orange, his favorite shoes were Chucks, and he was so full of the spirit.  His favorite thing to tell you good-bye was “Jesus loves you baby, and so do I”.

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Mini album share - Z&B

Z sometimes gets left out a bit on the whole scrapping thing, I suppose it is being the younger, or that fact that I work fulltime now, or something, but I do sometimes feel guilty for the fact his book is smaller or he has no minis of his own.  So I made this fir his birthday 2 years ago, when I was laid off….  It’s also weird to see how my studio has changed, but that’s another story….
I generally like 10-12 pictures total for the minis I make, not sure, it just seems to be a goodly number.  So here I have them laid out in the order I want them to be.

I then trimmed them to the size I wanted for the book, which was 4x4”.  The book is 4x6 made from scrap chipboard I have on hand.  I tend to save the backs of paper packs, notepads from work, or anything else that has the natural, non-bleached color.  If you are concerned about acid, spray them first.  I do not.  So here you see my stack of chip and the trimmed photos, still in order.

I used coordinating paper from a DCWV stack, the text paper has “friends” words on them and liked that since this book is about them growing together as brothers.

I tend to be somewhat methodical about  how I put everything together.  Here you can see I have the photos on the paper that will be that page, and I’ve started to go through and decide what embellishments I want to use for each page & have laid them out accordingly.  Notice nothing is adhered down, in case I change my mind.  Sometimes I make my own, which is what I’m doing here, I wanted a star & I didn’t have one, so I made it & then covered it with patterned paper.  I find it easier to embellish each page prior to adhering it to the actual page in the book.  I can see the flow better & it allows for no prongs sticking out….

Once I do start adhering to the pages, I find using a brayer or some sort of roller really helps squash down the adhesive to get a firm grip.  In this case, I know he’s pretty rough on stuff so it’s a bit more important.

I did sand the edges of the pages.  For this I just have a foam sanding block that I use.  I like it because it will fit to the contours.  I just keep wrapping new sandpaper around it as I need to.  A glue dot will keep it together.  Also nice because I can adjust the grit as necessary.  This is the cover, and you can see my practice journaling in the background too.

The last step is to punch the pages & bind it all together.  These things do have a thickness maximum so sometimes I have to do the picture page separate from the core page. And then in this case I just used a scrap of a binder I kind of like the incomplete look.

So here you can see it all together….

Love is in the Air

June is, after all, the wedding month, so to celebrate here are some cards made up from scraps leftover from my altered letter project…
Cardstock is Bazzill Basics, paper is Basic Grey, Stickers are Art Warehouse, I think, and of course a couple of Dymo labels.

     

Altered Letters

 

This papier-mâché letters I found at Jo Ann’s, they are kraft colored and about 24” tall and just begging to be altered.  The M I did after I moved back home, but the R below I did while the ex & I were still together for our mantel.  The stamping didn’t quite turn out as dark as I wanted so I went back over it with a sharpie & then put another coat of mod podge on it.  I also did a J for a friend, but I can’t find the picture of it now…

The B is just of all the nametags & whatnots he’d collected from all of his meetings & events.  I left the straps as I thought they were cool.  I also had some leftover badge holders that I thought would be cool to stick some pictures in.

New Mini Book Share

This is a mini book I made for my old pastor and his wife on the birth of their son.  Many, many products used, I’ll try to remember them all…

Ribbons are mostly Offray, letters are Chatterbox, W R Memory Keepers & Paper Studio, paper is Li’l Davis or Scrapworks, I can’t remember…

Stickers are Bazill Basics & 7Gypsies & brad is Bazzill Basics, clip is one I found at Office Depot.

Flower is from an old lei I had, the center is an Ice Dot from KI Memories.  Stickers are MAMBI & 7Gypsies.  Brad is Making Memories.

Jellishment by Doodlebug, Sticker is Pebbles, Flower Prima & a Bazzill Basics button.

Dymo tape, sticker from Creative Imaginations, Thread by MAMBI, Brad is Making Memories again.

Miscellaneous buttons, the duck and the celestial shapes were just things I picked up & a stamp I don’t remember…

Prima flower, Making Memories metal tag, American Crafts rubber tag, Offray ribbon.  And the photo squares were just white ones I found at Michaels or Hobby Lobby.

Mini Album Share

This one was for my other brother….

Many, many products…. Offray Ribbon, 7Gypsies tape, shaped clips, Dymo labels, Paper Studio letters, Daisy-D’s Paper, Bazzill Basics Cardstock

Paper Studio Flower, Bazill Basics Chip Topper, MAMBI Threads

Junkitz Label, MM Tag, Bazill Basics Brad

Creative Imaginations Sticker, 7 Gypsies Tape, Phrase Café Sticker

Treat bag tie, felt pumpkin, Junkitz license plate, felt tree, resin santa ornament, DCWV metallic tag

7Gypsies 97% complete stamp, ribbon, MM trinket & tag, flower from lei

There are a few unknowns in there, but I think you get the idea.  Thanks for looking!

Mini Album Share - for my brother

This is a little mini album I made for one of my older brothers a couple years ago. It is approximately 3x5 in size.

So many products!  Scrapworks Paper (entire album), Offray Ribbon, Paper Studio, Chatterbox & Creative Imaginations letters, Paper Studio flower & Bazzil Basic cardstock & brad.

MAMBI threads, MM brad, another Paper Studio flower, I think that is a 7Gypsies Sticker & for the life of me I can’t remember the stamp!

Paper Studio star brads, MM sticker & brad, another MAMBI thread.

7Gypsies 97% Stamp, felt pumpkin, Doodlebug star button, treat bag bat twisty, Bazzill Basic brad, Scrapworks rubon & a flower from a VBS lei.

Bazzill Basics chip topper, Paper Studio flower, KI Memories Ice Cube, 7Gypsies sticker, button.

I think that is a Scrapworks rubon, paper clip from Staples, Patch from MM.

Photo Corners & Chip Topper.

No journaling, doubt he’ll add any either, but lots of room for the person who would….