I had the opportunity to design and teach a class at my Local Scrapbook Store PaperCandy Crafts. I am so blessed to get to do what I love and get paid to do it. I chose the Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium paper line. Its got fabulous vintage graphics and the patterns on the papers are just so luscious. I fell in love with this paper on sight. I use the Tim Holtz Tattered Pinecone die to make pinecone for the top of the box. The Santa on the cover was just begging to be fussycut and dimensionalized. I love how he turned out. I added stickles to the ornaments on the tree. I popdoted the banner and the naughty and nice list. I curled the ends of the list to follow the lines the paper already had.
I added the chipboard elements to the side front of the box to add detail to it. I tried to keep it simple so it would be easy to store or give as a gift.
I added a peak a boo spot on the top of the mat for this page. I added an envelope with an invisible hinge to hold tags.
For page two I put a border on the bottom to hold vintage postcards that came in the paper line. The images on these postcards are fabulous. For page three I fussy cut the holly wreath paper to get a border for the top of the photo mat. I added an image on the side again using the invisible hinge. I put a chipboard piece on the top side of the photo mat.
On page four I went really simple and used a photo mat with a Martha Stewart border on the bottom with some green ribbon to hold some more of the vintage postcards. On page five I gave the page two photo mats and a chipboard frame from the collection. The top of the frame remains open and ready for a picture. I added a sentiment from the paper over the frame.
On page six I used a photo mat wrapped with photo corners in ribbon. I added a chipboard picture to the left side of the mat with bakers twine from Martha Stewart.
On page seven I added a photo mat a border strip which I tied ribbon to and added a chipboard element hanging off of. For page eight I added a facing photo mat and mirroed the border on the other side. I used a chipboard ticket saying Peace next to the stamped image border.
For page nine I used a border on the bottom with tinsel trim, a Tim Holtz stick pin, and a stamped statement from Close To My Heart. On the top of the page I used one of the chipboard frames and backed it with the tree from the Santa paper that was left over after I fussy cut out the Santa. I left the top of the frame open and ready for a picture but thought it just added a nice touch to have that tree peaking out of that frame. For page ten I used the music sheet paper, again making a pocket to hold tags. I added another border to the top of it using the Martha Stewart punch from previous pages so the album has cohesiveness.I added chipboard tags to the top of the paper tags and tied them off with ribbon that says Merry Christmas. I used a thin strip of ribbon to the center of the paper to follow the line across both pages for visual evenness. I love the way this album turned out.
On page eleven I added a holly print to the bottom and left it open to hold photo mats. I added a pretty border to the top of it and added some chipboard tickets to the bottom which I used red line tape on so you can stick something behind the tickets. For page twelve I added a photo mat made a border in the corner, used ribbon and added a photo mat on top of that. I hope you liked this album and stay tuned to see how the class went as I will post pictures.
So I have two full hours a day Monday through Friday where I drive my daughter and a friend to swim team practice to another town 20 minutes away. The economy being what it is I cannot drop them off come home and then go back to get them. So I take projects with me and fill up that two hours with my MP3 player and some alone time with my scrapbooking projects. The pool has tables in the foyer where I can spred out my stuff and jam to the music and work uninterrupted for two whole hours. Since I live in a house with 9 other people uninteruption is unheard of. Here is what I did yesterday with my time. I love the simplicity of the paper bag books and have been asked to do some for some of the kids on the swim team.
Over at Rubies Studio Maghan made a Christmas brag book and I wanted to copy it and show you my finished project. While she used squares for her cover I had all these coasters from Olive Garden that my niece kyped for me. We were there having lunch one day and I looked at the coasters and said I wish I had more of them because they would make a great mini album. Right behind me was this huge stack of coasters and we left with them. I dont advocate kyping the coasters while your in a restaurant so ask, more than likely if you have been nice to your waiter they will give you some. Anyways, last night while watching Megan make this really terrific accordian fold book it came to me that this would be a perfect time to pull out those coaster and use them. Meghan made her accordian paper a bit bigger than mine, I needed to make mine small enough to fit inside the circle. Mine is made at 2 1/2 inches while hers was 3. If you want to see the video she did, which is amazing, go over to www.aboverubiesstudio.com She is giving away prizes for the new launch of her website so comment on some of her posts and maybe you will win. Thanks for looking.
Ok so I follow a lot of blogs and wanted to share some of them with you. www.cricutchristmas.com I love this site and you will too. www.obsessedwithscrapbooking.com This site is the ultimate in resources. You have to check this one out. I love this one. www.aboverubiesstudios.com This one I just started following but she has a lot of really good info and does a lot of video's to go with the info. A must see www.aplaceformycards.blogspot.com is also a good for card makers. Deb you would love this one.
I am a stay at home mom to three kids with three kids already out of the house. I love being crafty and if you ask my 9 year old son what I do he says, "She scrapbooks"
