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Mini Coaster Book

Altered Art, Bind It All, Chipboard/Illustration Board, Christmas, Holidays, Notebooks, Techniques 17 Responses »

Oct 252007

Hey ya’ll! Well it looks like it’s gonna be another day that I don’t have time for any fun stamping. Jeanne and I have been working on some projects that need to be done, and I’ve made more cards here in one day that I ever do back home. Jeanne is definitely a stamping machine! When I contemplated doing the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge yesterday, she shook her head at me and said I had assignments that needed to be done. Sorry Roxie, I’ll make it up later!

I didn’t want another day to go by without sharing something with you though, so before I left home I typed up a few posts to have on hand, and this is one project you’ve not seen before.

I needed an altered item for the 3D Swap at the Stampin’ and Pamperin’ Retreat in Cincinnati. I bought the Bind-it-All back in August and this was the first time I was able to play. I have to say, that I am hooked – totally hooked. I cannot stop making little altered books and journals. It is just way too much fun!

I covered chipboard coasters with Mod Podge and then covered both sides with Designer Paper. The stars were done the same way, except they are covered only on the front. After I cut the paper off around the stars, I sanded the edges and then covered the bare edges with distress ink. After getting the stars done, I thought the little book itself needed some sponging, so I then sponged the same distress ink along the sides of the coasters. The sentiment is stamped on Very Vanilla and then trimmed down to make a tag attached to the stars with gold cord. I wanted something different for the inside, so I made 6 pocket pages so that when a page is flipped, you have 1 bare page and 1 pocket.

To make the pages, I cut a piece of 8-1/2″ x 11″ cardstock long ways in half. I then trimmed off the longer end to 7-1/2″. You should now have a piece of cardstock 7-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. Turning the paper so that the 7-1/2″ side is horizontal, I scored the sheet at 3-3/4″. Turning the paper vertical, I scored at ½”. Trim the bottom flap off on the left-hand side leaving a ½” flap to fold up and close off the bottom. To make the angle cut, I marked from ½” at the top and then 1-1/4″ from the bottom and cut along the diagonal. To finish the pocket, apply adhesive to the flap and when you fold over to make the pocket, join the 2 pieces together.

Stamps: SU Fancy Flexible Greetings

Paper: SU Very Vanilla, BasicGrey Fruitcake Collection

Ink: Tim Holtz Peeled Paint and Fired Brick Distress Ink

Accessories: Bind-it-All, Mod Podge, Mounting Tape, Gold Cord, Bare Chipboard, 4″ Square Chipboard Coasters, Sponge Daubers

Hope everyone has a great day and more later!

Stampin', Pamperin' and Just Because We Wanna!

Altered Art, Bind It All, Christmas, Holidays, More Than A Card, Notebooks, Techniques 15 Responses »

Oct 132007

Good morning! What a fabulous time we had at the Stampin’ and Pamperin’ Retreat in Cincinnati!! Jeanne arrived here on Wednesday, Kittie on Thursday, and we headed over to Cincinnati on Friday afternoon. We stamped, we were pampered, and met some old and new friends. The weekend started with a birthday cupcake cake made by Amber and ended on Saturday with everyone exhausted but so glad to have been together!

This is the cake that Amber (Bambi64) made for us girls. It was all cupcakes and then a layer of icing over the top — yummy!

We just couldn’t resist hamming it up just a little. Left to right, Jeanne S, Dawn Lusk, Jen Javorsky (Jen70), Kittie Caracciolo (Kittie747), me, Amber (Bambi64).

JUST BECAUSE WE WANNA

Let’s get to some stamping today. It’s my turn to host the JBWW Challenge, and this week we are going to alter a journal, notebook, etc., anything you have on hand. Don’t forget to come back here and post a link to your altered item and if you upload to your SCS Gallery, please use the keyword JBWW.Every once in a while I mention a sorority when I babble in my posts. I belong to a friendship/philanthropic sorority, Sigma Phi Gamma, Delta Phi Chapter. Each November we have a luncheon and auction to help raise money for Scholarship Fund and charitable donations. Each member is to make a couple of items for the auction, and the journal below is one that I have made for the auction.

This journal is made using the Bind-it-All and the 5×7 chipboard covers. I applied Mod Podge over the chipboard pieces and then covered with different designs of the BasicGrey Fruitcake Designer Paper. The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark and embossed with Dazzling Diamond Dust. Both the tag and the sentiment panel are raised on mounting tape. To make the inside pages, I picked up a $1 writing table from the Dollar General Store, and cut the pages down to the size I wanted.

Stamps: Let it Snow from Michaels

Paper: BasicGrey Fruitcake Collection

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: SU Stitched Ribbon, Bind-it-All, Blank Chipboard, Writing Tablet, Mod Podge, Dazzling Diamond Dust, Gold Cord

Journaling!

Altered Art, Chipboard/Illustration Board, More Than A Card, Notebooks, Techniques 14 Responses »

Aug 082007

Good morning all! How many of you love journals and little notebooks? I do, but I collect them more than I write in them. I have one on my desk to keep track of passwords and addresses of all my on-line friends, but to sit and write a daily entry is not something I do. Well wait a minute, I guess I do – I blog! Hahahaha – I’m tickled at myself – duh! When I was a senior in high school, I wrote my first journal entries. My Senior English teacher had given us an assignment, “What I Did on My Christmas Vacation.” Well for me, it was fun! My parents had left in November and traveled west. The day school recessed for break, my sister and I boarded a plane and met them in California. We spent two weeks traveling in the motor home, heading back to Indiana by the southern route. Of course, my parents had taken the northern route out to California. I wrote every day where we were, what we did and what we saw! Last year my mother gave me back the yellowed and dog-eared pages, stapled in the corner, with ink smudges. That paper will be 32 years old December of this year. This small school assignment started Trip Journals for my family. Every year my parents would travel for extended periods of time and my mother began writing down where they were and what they were doing. I have to admit that I got a great kick out of reading my old paper again. So when my youngest daughter, Mallory, and my husband went to Europe last summer, I made her a journal to take with her. She wrote every day about all the exciting places and things they were seeing and doing.

One week from today, August 15, we take Mallory to college. She will be a freshman, attending the same college both her dad and I did, 3 hours from home and without a car for the first few months. We’ve shopped for the basic necessities, linens, desk items, ipods, blow dryers, everything the normal teenage girl would need while away at school. We’ve told her once we get her moved in, we can access her needs then and if necessary go out and purchase any other items she will need. There is only one thing that she has asked me to make for her, and that’s a new journal! YES, my baby wanted a journal!!!!! So while we were shopping one day at Target, we picked one up that could be easily altered.

Now Mallory is an Audrey Hepburn fan and has seen all of her movies (and owns most of her favorites on DVD). Her bedroom here at home is decorated in black, white and a blue that resembles SU’s Cool Caribbean, and has posters of Audrey Hepburn on the walls. Luckily in one of my shopping frenzies at eclectic Paperie, I had picked up some Tinkering Ink papers – Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Marlena Dietrich. If you haven’t seen these papers, they are black and white double-sided papers with the reverse image on either side. Very cool! I sent Mallory off to the internet to find some pictures of Audrey Hepburn that she would like me to use on the journal. She has done this before – she made a desk in art class one year that we painted black and then she decoupaged close to 40 pictures of her favorite actress on the top. I don’t believe there’s a space on the top of the desk that you can actually see black paint, and if there is, it’s very minuscule.

Here is Mallory’s journal completed and put all back together!

The journal that we bought had dividers and pockets, and since they were brown I made new black ones to replace the originals and then attached tabs made from the SU Round Tab Punch and attached the tabs with eyelets. I picked out a few pieces of chipboard, covered them with some scraps of the designer paper, and used Making Memories rub on sentiments on the pictures and chipboard. I wanted to use sentiments that would pertain to her first year away from home and this great adventure she has before her.

Paper: Black; White; Tinkering Ink Lauren Bacall, Marlena Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart from eclectic Paperie

Accessories: Mod Podge, Making Memories Rub On Sentiments, SU On Board Accents and Simon Lower Chipboard, Ribbon, Brads, Photos from the Internet, Eyelets, Sanding Block, Crop-o-dile, SU Round Tab and Spiral Punches

I hope she enjoys this journal as much as I enjoyed making it for her!