WOW - New Year's Eve 2019.......I'd like to say a huge thank you to our Creative Team for all the amazing crafty inspiration over the past year. I haven't attempted all the projects that I planned on trying out but rest assured they are on my To Do List (aka Pinterest boards)
2020 is bringing a few changes to the Team. Some of our current CT girls are staying on..... and we have two new faces joing the team. Who might they be? Be sure to keep coming back to the blog to find out.
Tomorrow is the start of a new year and we'll still be featuring Monthly THEMES...... so you still get to sing along with me for the whole month (haha) and each of our CT girls will get to open their own personalised 'CT Kits'.... or rather.... Evil Enabling Boxes! These will include my Core Products for the month as well as a few products chosen by each CT member. So their boxes will all be different... but the same. And again all products in the girls' boxes will be discounted for the entire month!
We're planning a beautiful start to a great new year, so be sure to pop back in tomorrow for our January Theme reveal and to meet the first of our new CT girls!
Hello everyone. Today I wanted to share a little album I made to keep yearly Christmas memories in. I really like how it turned out so I think I can make one for birthdays and other occasions too.
To start, I cut out my outside cover and insert as shown below.
Next, score all the pieces as shown in the image below.
Fold along score lines.
Glue the two smaller pieces together as shown below.
Next, I cut out the patterned paper and covered the pieces.
Attach the left spine of the smaller piece to the spine of the larger piece.
Next I made a pocket to fit into the smaller insert.
Cut a piece of card as shown below.
Score as shown below.
Then cut away the pieces coloured in red.
Fold along the score lines and snip away the flap to fold into place later.
I find it easier to add the patterned paper first before making up the pocket.
Glue the pocket onto the insert.
Next I added some ribbon for the closure on the front and back.
Hello Everyone, hoping you are all getting into the Christmas Spirit.
After watching and helping (slightly) Sammy, my grandson, create and make his Christmas projects for Aunty Vera this month; I just couldn't help myself and could no longer stay in the background and NOT make something from this month's items from Aunty Vera.
So, there was a little of the gorgeous papers left from Echo Park's A Cozy Christmas Collection and I just had to make myself a personal junk journal out of it....and also score another point for "Santa"...lol lol !
I wanted a simple put together journal so I used a rather large yellow envelope that I purchased at a 'cheapo' / discount store near where I live. The envelope size is 13 inches by 9 inches. I measured out the center and marked a half an inch either side which gave me an inch spine for my journal.
I appologise for not taking any progress photos as this project was a very spur of the moment project but there are quite a few of photos of the finished pages.
Once I had folded the envelope with the inch spine, I covered the outside with a sheet of the A Cozy Christmas paper that had the stockings on it. It is so festive and made a wonderful outside cover. As the patterned paper is only 12 inch by 12 inches, I centered it on the envelope and glued it down. Then used a complimentary plain piece of paper to cover the front and back edges to hide the rest of the yellow envelope.
I used my sewing machine to zig-zag around the edge of the cover. When I placed the front edge piece on, I left the inside edge unglued so I have a lovely little pocket right on the front of the cover. Here I can place a large tag when I finally decide on what kind...lol...
I collected a range of my papers and put together two signatures each containing twelve pages each. The papers include, coffee dyed papers, graph papers, tracing papers, old book pages, and music sheet pages. I placed them randomly together into a signature.
I wanted to reinforce the spine, so I used an inch wide by 9 inch strip of the Graphic 45 Chipboard sheets I had left over from my previous projects.
I glued a strip of calico over the spine strip and then hand stitched both the signatures onto the spine covered in calico before I then glued the spine in to the cover.
I then covered the front and back inside covers with more of the Echo park A Cosy Christmas Collection and then I had fun decorating the pages with the wonderful ephemera and cut outs included in the collection.
Back of cover
Below are pictures of the decorated pages in the journal...
Front inside cover
Back inside cover
Decorated pages in the journal
I made some tags and journaling cards to place in the pockets and tuck spots throughout the journal
As a finishing touch on the front cover I cut three of the two inch by two inch images from the paper colection and put some Dimensional magic on them and then glued them on the side strip.
You can see a full flip through of the finished journal below:
So, this is my very last post of my first exciting year of being on the Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft Creative Team for 2019. I want to thank Aunty Vera and also the other girls on the team: Donna, Gina, Silvia, Tina and Amira for making me feel so very welcome and comfortable throught the year and I look forward to creating some wonderful projects in 2020.
Hi everyone, today I am stepping back and my youngest daughter Bella has taken over my craft room for this project. Thank you to Aunty Vera for sending Bella a little gift which inspired this project,
To start hubby cut the stem off a wine glass, (these can be purchased really cheap at Big W).
Next Bella cut the background in white glitter cardstock with the Sizzix - Tim Holtz - Alterations - Thinlits Die- Tree line.
To hang the ornament Bella glued a piece of ribbon to the top of the glass where the stem was cut off.
Then she wound some trim around the ribbon to make sure it stays in place.
And now the fun part which means bringing out the hot glue gun. I always have a spare glue stick on hand as she loves to be heavy handed with that glue gun in the name of creation.
