TGIF!
Julie
When making a card for St. Patrick's Day, I remembered that I had this older stamp that was an Irish blessing! How perfect for today!
Supplies: Impression Obsession rubber stamp, black cardstock scraps, cream cardstock scrap, kraft cardstock, DCWV paper, Offray ribbon, Hero Arts gem, foam dots.
This recipe is for Shamrock Pretzels courtsey of Family Fun.
Hello, and welcome to my third mini album tutorial, has anyone received the February Trends Mini Album magazine? I was lucky to get my “Words that describe you” mini album published there, and for this months tutorial I would like to share with you the steps to make your own.
For the tutorial I’ll be making a new mini album about my First Cousins, I have a total of 18. At the beginning of the year I was very fortunate to get a picture with each of my cousins from my moms side of the family, I have a goal to do the same with my cousins from my dads side of the family to complete my album.
Now I’ll share with you a fun technique I learned at an online class taught by Laura McCollough, I was surprised on how easy it is to apply the Press On to Canvas, I like to work with canvas but I’m not very skilled when it comes to painting, reason why I think this other option to dress up the canvas cover is great.
The cover decoration continues with two pieces of pattern paper, one with a border punch edge to add a little extra decoration, a Journal Tag, the Pleated Ribbon, Cotton Twine, and Brads; it is important that you make this separate, once it is all put together you can adhere it to your cover and add any other extra embellishment.
The inside pages have a simple and easy design. Coordinate a piece of pattern paper with one of the Flip Notes. Add a piece of ribbon on the corner opposite to the binder holes and tie a piece of Cotton Twine around the top part of the page.
Here is a finished page. 
For the girls pages I added a few feminine details to the original design with some cute flowers and gems.
This album has two Canvas Pockets, The family name will go on the front part and on the back part I’ll add another photo with the same clean and simple design I used for the chipboard pages. The pockets have a snap in the front that will keep secure anything extra you want to include in the album, I'll be putting my journaling notes there.
Here is the finished album cover, as extra embellishments I added the cork buttons, a prima rose and three different thicker fonts.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and get inspired to make your own, using my album themes or any other topic that fits your life."ANNOUNCING TUESDAYS BLOG WINNER"
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Hello readers! With St. Patrick's Day coming up, I thought this month's Inspiration Challenge should focus on that! I did a google search of St. Patrick's Day images and found this cute one to share with you today. For the challenge, use this image on any project and upload to our
NING GROUP by next Monday! We'd love to see how you use this image.
I must admit, I was under the gun a bit to whip something up quick for this post today but I thought a tag might be pretty fun. I used green scraps for the tag base, an EK Success border punch, a black scrap, the Lucky image, KaiserCraft gemstones, and Offray ribbon to complete my tag.
Don't forget to comment on our blog this week. Di is going to be selecting daily winners from our blog comments!
I started with a layer of black gesso, 1 8 x 8 sheet of the 7 Gypsies Lillie paper and their acrylic travel stamps. I painted the tower first and while it was drying, I stamped the label images (using an ink dye, so it wouldn't run when the Mod Podge was applied) onto the 8x8 sheet of paper. I waited briefly for the ink to dry, cut the labels up and started to lay them down where they seemed to fit shape and design wise. * Note, when using Mod Podge, remember to use it under and over to get a good seal and to protect your image completely.
Remember the Resolution Tag Book Gayle made Here? Resolutions are so easy to forget as the months go by, that is why I liked her project and decided to make my own.
My book is small because I only have four resolutions.
The home of my book is this 7 Gypsies Match Box that I decorated using Chatterbox paper and embellishments.
Weekend Getaways; is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, and I am hoping to save enough and accomplish at least two this year.
Minimize Multitasking; multitasking is something I used to be proud of, until I started to get very forgetful, I read that when you multitask your attention is divided and that causes short term memory and stress. As women, we do so much that multitasking is a MUST in our daily life, so I am not saying I am going to stop, I’m just going to try to do less of it.
Minimalistic Habits; Last year my husband and I moved from a 2 bedroom to a one bedroom apartment, for that reason I had to get rid of a lot of stuff we barely or never used. Because of our new small space when I go to the store before I buy something instead of asking myself “do I really need this” I wonder “where am I going to put this”. In a few months we’ll be moving again to a bigger apartment, and I really like my new forced lifestyle of not buying unnecessary things, if I am able to accomplish this, because of the savings I’ll be able to make my first resolution a reality ;)
Emotional Healing; this is the most important of all my resolutions, and it is one that I’ve already been working on.
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