My Filofax Tabs

Hello and welcome to the blog. Today I'd like to talk about my newest obsession, my Filofax. I am loving this organizer and am having so much fun making tabs for it and figuring out how I want to organize it. 

The store where I work,  Simple Pleasures Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking starting carrying these this month and as soon as I got one I was hooked. My boss Cathy will ship these (or any products) so if you want to buy one make sure to call the store and see what we have in stock. 719-528-1338

Here are some of the tabs I've made for my Filofax

This was the first tab that I made, I used Memorybox stencils and Archival ink. I also used butterfly wash tape around the edges, this one came out simple but I love it

I used a Memory Keeper Punch to make the tabs in the side, labeled "Notes" this is a perfect punch for making tabs, the punch even comes with clear plastic tab covers, its awesome! We also sell the tab punch, stencils and inks at the store

For my next insert I used my round gel plate and Dina Wakley paints to create this fun page. I used several different stencils for the numbers and texture in the background. (this is my budget tab)

For my next insert, I used a combo of acrylic paints and Dina Wakley paints. My stamped images are from Stampotique Originals and I used Copic markers to color them. This is my opening page for my filofax

As you can see I love color, this insert is no exception. I used Tim Holtz Crazy Bird stamp set along with the die set (makes it easier to cut out these cool birds) and colored my images with Copic markers. For my background I used Dina Wakley Paints again and I added some washi tape and doodling. The tab for this page says "Store Cards" I will keep all those darn store cards behind this tab.

Last but not least, I created this insert with Wendy Vecchi crackle texture paste in white and also her regular texture paste, I used the paste through a bunch of different stencils.

Next I added Tim Holtz distress inks in several colors

you can see what colors I used in the photo below

you can also see that I added a tag at the top of this page

I added black cardstock letters cut out with Tim Holtz Word Play Sizzix Die

This tab is going to be my Budget Tab, I switched this one and the gelli plate one from above. That tab was changed to "lists"

So those are my tabs so far, I plan to hopefully make a few more but I think I'm well on my way to having my filofax organized the way I like it. 

All of the products in this post you can get at the store Simple Pleasures Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking

and this is our Facebook page where you can see more photos of Filofax ideas. 

Simple Pleasures Facebook

Take care and thanks for stopping by today

Altered Puzzles Week 12 - Back from Vacation

Welcome back everyone, I am home from a 15 day vacation and am pumped to get going on this challenge once again.

My family and I took  much needed vacation to California and we had a great time while we were there.

Now that I'm back let's get started on the next two pieces. 

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9
Week 10
Week 11

Our Facebook group is here:

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I am doing these two pieces completely different, fir the first piece I took a doily and placed it over my piece

Next I used my archival ink and a sponge tool to add blue

This is how it turned out, I love it!

I then added a bit of white with a paintbrush and white acrylic paint. I didn't use my white gel pen here because the gel pen doesn't work well over the gesso and ink

I also added a bit of torn wash tape

I used a Wendy Vecchi flower stamp to stamp some flowers and also colored them in with Copic Markers. I then cut them out

I also stamped my words onto scratch cardstock and cut them out. 

Here is my first piece, I used glue dots to adhere my flowers and rolled up the petals to give it a dimensional look

For the second piece I started with some distress ink for the background, I applied the mini ink directly onto the background

I then used a brown color for the edges, this time I applied with a ink blender tool

Next I spritzed water onto my fingers and dripped it onto my background

I then used archival ink and stamped a scroll word stamp onto the background
Check out that background too, after I used the water it came out so cool!!

I then used a Stamping Up stamp to add some flowers to the bottom

For my center piece, I stamped some grapes onto cardstock and heat embossed, I then colored them with copic markers
I then cut them out

I applied my sentiment and my grapes to the background using dimensionals

Here is my finished second piece

and here are my pieces together

and my entire puzzle

Check back next week for the final two pieces!! Have fun with your pieces this week and cya soon
CHEERS!!

Altered Puzzle Challenge Week 9

Wow, can you believe that it's already week 9 of this challenge? Amazing how time flies! It seems like I just began the altered playing card challenge and here we are on another challenge into week 9 already. 

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Our Facebook group is here:

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At any rate, Sunday was Father's Day but it was also mine and my husband's 18th anniversary! Time really does fly!!

This week I started with the two pieces and used distress stain in two different colors directly onto the background

Next I applied a darker color of ink around the edges of each piece

I then applied an even darker color again around the edges

I love how the colors graduate from darker to lighter towards the middle

Next I decided to use a stencil and two different crackle pastes, one is a white paste from Wendy Vecchi and the other is a clear crackle paint

This is the stencil I am using for both of these

I simply used a pallet knife to apply the crackle mediums through the stencil

This is what they looked like after application

Set both aside to dry thoroughly, I left mine for a few hours while I ran an errand

When I got back home they both looked like this... look at that crackle! So cool... I love the way the distress stain color bleeds through the crackle mediums.

Working with the brown piece I stamped this weed stamp onto my background. This is from an older Tim Holtz set, I also used this set for my images

Once again, I forgot to take photos of the next steps BUT, all I did was stamp butterflies onto white card stock and colored and cut them out and applied them to the top, I also just stamped my sentiment (Dylusions) and cut it out and added it

Here is my finished first piece (I love this one!)

For my blue piece, I only added a sentiment, I wasn't sure if I wanted to add anything else

I might add something later but for now I like it as-is

Here are the two pieces together

and the full puzzle so far, what do you think?

Again, sorry this post is late, I hope you enjoy making this week's pieces....

Have a great week!!!

Altered Puzzle Challenge Week 6

Welcome back to the blog everyone, thanks again for coming by. If your following along with the Altered Puzzle Challenge,
we are onto week 6

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Our Facebook group is here:

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We are creating pieces 9 and 10 and

I started with my first piece but adding Dylusions paint to my background. First yellow....

Then some orange  (I added all these colors with a sponge on my finger)

I added red with the side of my credit card by just scraping it downward

Next I added turquoise with a Tim Holtz stencil

and lastly I added a bit of hand writing with my Zig pen

I wrote a quote that my husband just had engraved onto my wedding ring.

"Place me like a seal over your heart" 

Song of Solomon 8:6

Next I added a tad bit of white paint here and there with my brush

Now that I have my background done, I am going to cover up most of it... LOL..

I die cut this heart  and added a bit of double sided removable sticky tape and stuck it into the middle of my puzzle piece

I then used black paint to smudge along the edges

Once I removed the die cut heart, you can see the bright colored background

I then added white paint around my edges

I used my pen again to write the word "Love" and then cut it out

I also used a baby wipe to wipe some of the white paint off around the edges

Here is my first finished puzzle piece

For the second piece I used some Tim Holtz paper and glued a piece to my background and cut it out

Next I used wash tape and added some to a piece of card stock and cut it into a stem

This is going to act as the stem for a flower I'm going to create

To create the flower, I decided to use Wendy Vecchi clearly for art in pitch black

I am also using Ranger's alcohol inks in Metallic silver and gold

 I cut my clearly for art using Tim Holtz movers and shapers tattered flowers die

Simply use a distress tool to apply the alcohol ink onto the clearly for art flowers

Next, heat up the clearly for art and shape it as much as you want. I ended up only using one of the flowers that I cut out

I found a video where Wendy shows how to make a similar flower HERE

I added a Tim Holtz mini gear to the center of my flower and figured out where I wanted this flower to go onto my background. Using E6000 glue I adhered to my background

I added my sentiment and trimmed the stem on the bottom of my flower and last I used my copper pen to edge the piece

Here is my finished 2nd piece

and here are my two pieces together

and the puzzle together

So far so good? I hope you have fun creating your pieces this week.