Cinderella Journal Embellishment No. 2

Good morning

Today I am sharing a video showing how I created a windowed tag

to embellish my Cinderella Little Golden Book Journal

You will find full details in this video

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

 

Denise Boddey DT Four page album

Hi there

Today's post is about a mini album I created using Denise Boddey's

Day Dream Story Book paper range.

I have a video that I will add at the bottom of this post.

To create this album you need 4 sheets of 12" x 12" patterned paper.

The paper I have used is double sided.

If you make this album you could add as many pages as you wish

The papers I used are Dreams, Day Dream, Our Story and Princess for a Day.

For each page:-

score at 6" with the paper right way up,

flip to the left and score at 9" (this will be at the bottom of the page)

Select the paper you want for the front cover,

use glue to attach the back outside panel of this paper to the front outside of the next panel.

Continue doing this until all pages are attached.

If you prefer you could only glue around the edges of each page and create pockets between each page.

I cut a piece of patterned paper 1" x 9" to create the spine cover.

Next I used my corner rounder on the top and bottom outside edges of each page.

Run a small bead of glue along the outside edges of the pocket on each page.

You could run glue along the centre fold too if you prefer.

I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink and my distressing tool to ink around the edges 

of each page and pocket edges

I created eight tags to go into the pockets.

I used 300gsm white cardstock to create the tags, they measure 4 1/2" x 8 1/2".

The patterned paper has been cut to 4 1/4" x 8 1/4".

I inked the edges and attached the patterned paper to the front of the tag.

I added an eyelet to the top of each tag using my Crop O Dial and

added some white seam binding through the eyelet.

Using my Big Shot I die cut flowers using patterned paper and pale pink velum 

and Couture Creations CO724161 die.

I cut some leaves using Honey Bee's Lovely Layers Heart Vine and Uniquely Creative Little Leaves dies

Using Uniquely Creative Island Texture die and the same papers/velum I cut some background fillers

Other embellishments I used were lace and gauze/cheese cloth and Ali Lattice chipboard panel

You will see the embellishing in the video.

I hope you try making this little album. 

It is easy to make, a good size and can be changed and embellished in so many ways.

Have a great day

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Booklet for Cinderella Junk Journal

Good morning

I have created a Junk Journal using a Cinderella Little Golden Book

This project is a booklet to go into a pocket in that journal.

I have used two pieces of white cardstock measuring 12" x 8 1/2"

Fold each piece in halves one way, open the paper and fold in half the other way

this will give you a 12" x 8 1/2" piece that has four sections.

With the 12" edge at the bottom, cut up to the centre fold line on the short fold line.

Do this to both pieces of cardstock.

With the cut section at the bottom, fold so the two short edges are together.

Fold the two bottom sections up to create a 6" x 4 1/4" section.

Glue the double section along the edges to create a top loading pocket.

To join the two sections together apply glue to the top, bottom and one long edge

 to the back section of one booklet and attach this to the front of the other booklet.

I cut a piece of patterned paper 6 1/4" x 8 3/4" and wrapped this around the booklet. 

I attached it with glue, making sure there was no glue attached to the spine area.

I created tags using plain pink cardstock.

I added tabs that I punched from the same patterned paper I used for the cover, 

using my McGill File Tab 3" Punch

There are lots of areas for journalling in this booklet.

You can see how I created this booklet in my video

I hope you enjoy the video and attempt one of these booklets.

They are not as complicated as they sound in this post as you will see in the video.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks June Cyber Crop.

Good morning

Today I am sharing the layout I created for the June Cyber Crop at Mystical Scrapbooks.

The theme for this month is sketches and my layout uses this sketch

This is a nice clean open layout and here is my take on it

I added foil to the background by putting Deco Foil Transfer Gel through Dusty Attic's Criss Cross stencil.

Once that was dry I rubbed gold Fab Foil over the top of the Gel.

I used Cocoa Vanilla Daydream papers for this layout.

The yellow/orange paper is Daydream - Sun Shower

I cut it to 5" x 12"

The grey spot is Daydream - Garden Variety

I cut it to 7 1/2" x 6 1/2"

The rainbow paper is Sunkissed - Summer Lights

I cut it to 2 1/2" x 8 1/2". I cut a fishtail into one of the narrow ends.

The tag was cut from Daydream - Stepping Stones.

I cut the tag using Uniquely Creative Tags, Tops & Tails die.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Sizes 662667 Alphabet die.

I attached the title with glue and coated it with Glossy Accents.

The photos were matted onto black cardstock.

Cardboard was attached to the back of the photo matt before it was attached to the page.

Final touch was to add a scribbly border to the page and the patterned papers.

Here is my video.

I hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

One Page Wonder for Denise Boddey Designs

Good morning

Today I want to share a great little one sheet wonder using 

Denise Boddey Daydream Story Book - Dream

Cut your sheet into 2 pieces 6" x 12"

Score each piece at 5" and 10"

Use a corner rounder on the two corners of the 2" section

Use double side tape or glue to attach one of the 2" sections 

to the outside front of the second piece applying tape/glue to two sides and the bottom.

It is easy to see this process in the video which is below

I used my Crop-O-Dial to add an eyelet to the 2" section on the right hand end of the folder.

I threaded ribbon through the eyelet and wrapped it around the album

 a couple of times and tied a bow.

I made an assortment of embellishments for this album

I used 

Craft Barn Primrose Die

We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board

Martha Stewart Score Board

Die-namics Just the Ticket die

Finniss Dies - Invitation 1 die

Denise Boddey Chipboard Arch

You can see how I used all of these things to decorate my album in my video

This is a fun, easy project and I hope you will try it out.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Until next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks April 2022 Cyber Crop

Good morning

My layout today is for the April Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks. You will find the crop here.

This month the theme is colour palettes and for this particular challenge you can choose any colour you like but your project has to be monochromatic, meaning you can use any number of shades of your chosen colour with a minimal amount of black and white.

I have chosen pink for my colour.

I have chosen Uniquely Creative's Serendipity patterned papers to use today

I started with white cardstock for my background

I added Modelling Paste coloured with Starfish Glimmermist through TCW Two Hearts stencil.

This added a lot of pink to the background and minimised the white.

I splattered the background with Artiste Spritzing Ink in Black Night, Glimmermist Cherub Pink and Glimmermist Iridescent Gold

The final addition to the background was random stamping using Versafine Onyx Black Ink and Kazzaz Reason Season Lifetime, Kaisercraft Grid and Kaisercraft Numbers stamps.

I cut two strips of deep pink and two strips of pale pink cardstock to 1/2" x 12, inked the edges with my Versa Color Black Ink cube and attached them to each other with the light pink on top and about 1/4" of the dark pink showing above it.

I added a torn strip of pink washi tape to each of these strips and a pice of pink glitter washi layered on the first washi tape.

These were attached to the top and bottom of my page.

Time now to start with my patterned papers. 

I cut:-

Serendipity - Adore - 10 1/2" x 2"

Serendipity - Providence 1 1/4" x 12" and 3/4" x 12",

I used the floral side for the 1 1/4" piece and the woodgrain side for the 3/4" piece

I inked the edges with my black ink cube

I used double sided tape to attach these to the centre of my layout, layering them on top of each other, widest paper on the bottom working up to the narrowest paper.

I also added two small strips of the glitter washi so they will poke out from 

behind the photo when I attach it.

I am using a 6" x 4" photo, I have filed around the edge of the photo with an emery board before attaching it to a 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of the dark pink cardstock.

To give my photo some lift I have added a piece of sticky backed craft foam before attaching it to the layout slightly above centre.

To embellish my layout I have fussy cut a doily from Serendipity - Carefree and selected several items from Uniquely Creative's Gums & Roses Creative Cuts pack.

I have inked the edges and attached them to my layout

The title is a tag from the Creative Cuts pack, I have added some pink ribbon and attached it to the layout with sticky backed craft foam behind it

Here is my process video if you would like to check out

Don't forget to check out the Cyber Crop, they are always fun and there are prizes to be won.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Mystical Scrapbooks March Cyber Crop

Good Morning

The layout I am sharing with you today is for the March Cyber Crop over at Mystical Scrapbooks

The theme this month is Mood boards and the mood board I have used for this layout is this one.

I have used the colours for my inspiration, although I used paler tones of the pink and mauve.

I have also added gold to the mix

 I have used Studio 73 - Timekeeper patterned papers for this layout.

The Pink background frame is plain cardstock

The 11 1/2" patterned paper that is layered on top of the pink cardstock is the Clock Keeper paper.

I have used my TCW Tile Texture stencil to add Deco Foil - Transfer Gell Duo 

to the whole background. I let this dry and then rubbed foil on top.

I used two foils for this, one is a blue/purple mix that I have had in my stash for approximately 20 years,

the other was Gold Fab Foil.

I was really happy with the mix of the two foils.

From the Feathery Friends paper I fussy cut the large image that takes up the right hand edge of the page.

I inked the edge of it with my black VersaColor ink cube, added cardboard to the back then used liquid glue to attach it to the layout along the right hand edge of the page.

To embellish the page I fussy cut seven tags from the Tag & Shapes paper,

inked the edges, added a black eyelet using my Crop-O- Dile 

and threaded some black & white Baker's Twine through the eyelet.

I have used two 6" x 4" photos and a 1 3/4" x 1 3/4"photo.

I filed the edges of the photos with an emery board before attaching them

so some mauve cardstock leaving a very fine border.

The photos and tags were attached to the page using double sided tape.

I attached two tags to the bottom right of the page.

One is flat on the page and the smaller one has some cardboard behind it to raise it a little.

From the Memory Maze - Criss Cross Hearts chipboard set I chose one of the open hearts and one of the small solid hearts and added gold foil to them

The larger heart was attached on top of the two tags at the bottom of the layout and the small heart was attached to the bottom left corner of the bottom photo

The title comes from the Dusty Attic - Mini Captions #1 chipboard pack

I have heat embossed this using Versamakrk Embossing Ink and 4 coats of black embossing powder.

Here are a few closeup photos.

Here is my process video.

I hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Design Team layout for Off the Rails Scrapbooking's January 2022 challenge

Good morning

The challenge over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking this month is 

Re-use, Recycle & Repurpose.

I have interpreted that as using items from my stash that have been there for many years.

You will find the challenge here.

The photos on my layout are of my Mum taken while we were celebrating her 89th birthday

in December 2021

The chipboard frame has been in my stash for so many years 

I have no idea where I got it or what brand it is.

I have given it a coat of Gesso then sprayed it with Tattered Angels Chalkboard spray in white

and when that was dry I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmermist in Iridescent Gold.

The patterned papers are from a 12" paper pad by DCWV called Love & Grace.

I purchased this pad from Spotlight a few years ago also.

I used Art Glitter glue to attach a patterned paper to the back of the frame

I trimmed the background patterned paper to 11 1/2" square

and attached it to a 1" white cardstock frame.

I took this to my sewing machine and stitched a row of zig zag 

and a row of straight stitching around the edge of the patterned paper

The frame was then attached to the background using my hot glue gun

The two 6" x 4" photos were attached to the layout using foam squares so they sat flat over the frame.

To embellish the layout I cut a 3" x 4" cut apart from one of the sheets of patterned paper,

cut the top so it looked like a tag, then heat embossed around the edge of it

with embossing ink, fine gold embossing powder and my heat tool.

I used my Crop-O-Dile to add a gold eyelet to the tag.

 I threaded some sheer gold ribbon through the eyelet.

Using Woodware's Mini Garden Spray stamp, I stamped and heat embossed

the flowers onto white cardstock. I used the same gold embossing powder.

I fussy cut these flowers.

I used my hot glue gun to attache the tag and the flowers to the layout.

The tiny embroidered flowers and leaves were another item from my stash and had been given to me by my Mum. I loved the idea of using them on this layout about her.

I added a coat of Wink of Stella to the flowers. Unfortunately I picked up the white one instead of the clear one and instead of giving my flowers a nice sparkle I managed to dull down the gold detail of the heat embossing.

*Note* I used a baby wipe to wipe over the flowers a day or so later and luckily removed a good amount of the white

The title is heat embossed chipboard numbers. 

I have used the same embossing powder I used 

for all of the other heat embossing.

I have used Art Glitter glue to attach the title to the bottom right of the frame 

Here is my process video if you would like to watch this layout come together

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

 

Three Christmas cards using Uniquely Creative's Holly Jolly papers

Good morning

Today I am sharing three more Christmas card.

These cards are in the more traditional colours and I have used a 6" paper pack of 

Uniquely Creative's Holly Jolly Christmas.

All three cards are 5" square and have been cut from 240gsm smooth white cardstock.

All of the papers on these cards have had their edges inked using a black ink cube.

Let's start with 

Card No. 1

I have cut the red plaid paper to 4 3/4" square and a piece of white cardstock 4 1/2" square

I placed my white cardstock on my Scoreboard and scored every 1/8" 

for about an inch to add some interest and texture to the panel.

The circular tags and the sentiment are from the Creative Cuts pack.

I used my Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles Large die

to cut two matts from Core'dinations Rouge cardstock to back the circular tags.

I punched a hole through the cardstock and threaded some white crochet cotton through the tags.

These were then attached to the card front with some scrap chipboard behind them.

I placed a red brad in each of the hole in the sentiment before attaching it to the card. 

The final touch was to add two clusters of 3 Picket Fence Moonshine sequins

 to the sentiment for a little sparkle.

Card No. 2

I cut a piece of the Rouge cardstock 4 3/4" square, 

a piece of Gold mirror card 4 3/8" square 

and a piece of patterned paper 4" square

 and attached these to my card front.

I fussy cut an assortment of poinsettia and holly leaves from one of the patterned papers,

shaped them with my flower shaping tool

and attached them to the bottom curve of the wreath on the patterned paper.

I used my Memory Box Snowflake Ornament die and gold mirror card

 to create a gold ornament to attach at the centre top of the patterned paper. 

Before I attached it though, I added a short length of metallic string in gold

and tucked the end of it behind the patterned paper layer.

The sentiment was cut from one of the patterned papers and matted on some of the Rouge cardstock.

I added a small piece of chipboard to the two end of the sentiment before attaching it to the card front so it would sit level over the metallic string.

The sparkle for this card was created by using 

Scrapbook.com's Pop of Colour in Glittering Champagne

in the centre of each of the fussy cut flowers.

Card No. 3

I had a change of heart during the creation of this card.

I cut the patterned paper to 4 3/4" square, 

distressing the edges using my Distress Tool before inking them.

The 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock received the same treatment to its edges.

I used Kaisercraft's Christmas Tree mini stencil and Mont Marte Modelling Paste

 to add a textured tree to the white cardstock.

While the stencil was still in place I covered it with Spellbinders Sparkle Dust Glitter.

This gave me a beautiful sparkly Christmas tree BUT it got lost on the white cardstock.

The sentiment is a Rub On that I have applied to white cardstock 

and matted on the same patterned paper I used as a layer on the front of my card. 

This was attached to the front panel with craft foam behind it.

I also added craft foam behind the patterned paper of the front panel before I attached it to the card base.

I used a fine black pen to draw a scribbly boarder around the white cardstock panel and the sentiment.

I still felt that the tree was getting lost so I placed the stencil back over it and added a coat of Pops of Colour Glittering Gold. This did the trick and the tree is now a stand out embellishment.

Here is my process video

Thank you once again for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

KS4U August Mini Album

Good morning

A quick post today to share with you the flip through video of the mini album I made using my DT supplies from KS4U.

Flower alert - there are a lot of hand made flowers in this album.

I have used Basic Grey's Indian Summer 6" paper pad to decorate this album

The flowers were made using Cheery Lyn B311 Chrysanthemum Strip

and Couture Creations CO724161 Flower dies. 

The leaves were cut using Uniquely Creative's Little Leaves die.

The chipboard was given a coat of White acrylic paint and then sprayed with 

Docraft's Spritzing Ink in Gold

Here is my video

Hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie