Showing posts with label Design Team Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design Team Project. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Notebook and Wrapper using Stamperia's Inspire Collection

Hello my friends! Today I'm sharing my first project for the My Creative Spirit Design Team, owned by the fabulous Clare Charvill.  I've used Clare's A5 Notebook Holder kit with the Stamperia Journals.  I loved the journals at first sight.


The wrapper is actually a plain paper bag transformed into this lovely carrier for the journals.  I have a complete, step by step process video which I will link below if you'd like to adapt the concept to one of your journal projects.


The front inside cover has a clustered pocket to hold tags.  The journals are held by black cord elastic so they are removable and replaceable as you so desire.  I won't be doing a process of the video with the journal how to's since you get those directions with the purchase of Clare's kit.


The back cover also sports a pocket, a little different shape, but easily able to hold multiple tags, photos or mats like the ones included with mine.

I included a dangle on the front with two metal charms that say Handmade and Made With Love.


The front pocket on the wrapper has this darling tag included with paper from the collection.

Please check out both videos, the walk through and the process, to really get a feel for this journal and wrapper.  These would make such lovely gifts.


Walk Through


The Process


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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Crafty City Design Team Summer Mini

Hello everyone, I'm back today with a new Design Team Project for Crafty City using the Summer Blush Kit.  This fun kit includes beautiful decorative papers from Blue Fern's Blush Collection as well as bright, lovely flowers from Prima.  Also included are some soft blue buttons from LemonCraft.  When you watch the video you'll see I used all the packaging materials from the flowers and buttons as well.  Since this kit has only 8 designer sheets I supplemented the designer with solid Bazzill Smoothie cardstock.  


This is an 8"x9"x3" mini with a chipboard outer and a four page inner.  The pages expand and open to reveal lots of places to place photos in size from the smallest Instagram or Iphone photo to large 5"x7".


The front cover has this gorgeous double frame, included in the kit, from Scrapiniec.  I used several kinds of Glimmer mists, along with white Gesso and Deco Art Glitter Paint to bring it to life.  The top left is free to insert your own photo behind the acrylic liner.  I've shared this lovely heritage photo of my Grandma and my Aunt so you can get an idea of what it would look like with your personal photo.  The frame has been decorated with an assortment of embellishments and flowers both from the kit and my own stash.  The butterflies were metal and I again covered them with white Gesso and after they were dry brought out the colors of the kit with my own sprays, inks and paints.


Here's some snapshots of the page spreads, you can check out the Crafty City Blog post for a much more extensive review or better yet hop on over to YouTube and watch the cover to cover walk through.  There will be a tutorial series following sharing how to construct the pages and some decorating ideas.





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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Graduated Pages Mini Album

a guest design team project for Crafty City

Today I'm sharing a new album made from Lemon Craft's collection Sweet Secrets.  Archana Joshi owner of Crafty City was kind enough to send me this collection to play with as a Guest Design Team project for her store.  A Video link to the complete walk through is at the bottom of this blog post. Archana is offering all my viewers a 10% discount through the end of October with the code PattiDT10, be sure and check out the Crafty City Store for some wonderful products (discount does not include kits)

This Mini is FOR SALE
USA only, payment via PayPal
Please email me if you are interested nwlady2@gmail.com


I am calling this original design a Graduated page mini which is easy to see why.  The base of the mini is 8"x10" with a 4" spine.  Constructed of medium weight chipboard and covered in a cream cardstock.  Each page of the mini graduates in width by 1" starting with the first page being 4" and the last being 9" for a total of 6 page sections.


Inside the front cover I've included a huge circle photo mat to complement any photo you'd like to showcase.  I am including a circle template that fits perfectly inside the pearl trimmed frame so whomever purchases this will have no problems filling it.


All the pages measure 7 1/2" high. The first section, as I said, measures 4" wide when tied and closed. Open to the right, as shown above, it expands into 3 sections each housing a tucked in spot for photos or journaling or those little treasures you'd like to keep.


When opened to the left the sections expand to include a fourth.  Lots of space for a variety of photos, journaling and whatever you'd like to preserve on them.


The next section expands to  5" and has a beautiful side lace pocket with a nice folded tuck in inside.  The lace has been mounted onto clear acetate to create stability and strength to the pocket.


The next group of pages expands to 6" in width and showcases a beautiful lace pocket filled with tuck in mats.  I found this fantastic beige mesh butterfly in my stash that had just been waiting to adorn this page.  It's so fun to use things you've looked at many times and now find they fit perfectly. To secure the surprise hidden inside this page I used a LOVE white clothespin with a cream Seam Binding bow on one side and a button adornment from the collection on the opposite side.  The clothes pin neatly holds the mats on both sides in place.


When you remove the decorative LOVE clothespin from these pages they pop open to share side by side Belly Bands complete with fussy cut sprays of flowers.  The flowers are free in the middle so the tuck in can slide behind. Folded, large, photo mats store neatly on each side behind each belly band.


Increasing another inch to 7" the next page has a gorgeous flower and paper element anchoring the top flap and acting as a stopper.  Released it pops up, down and out to reveal numerous large areas for photos.


The backside is a simple, but lovely, pocket housing three mats.


Moving to the 8" wide page shares a plain page with just the lovely print of the collection showing except for a tied ribbon bow at the bottom which promises something fantastic when opened.


Within these two pages are 3 sets of waterfalls each allowing for different sized photos.  Because it's secured with the tied ribbon closure it allows the waterfalls to grow in size to accommodate all the photos.  So much is here in such a small area, I love it!  There are lots of surprises under the waterfalls as well but I'll let you discover them when you watch the video. 


Probably my favorite duo of pages are these with the lace scallop pockets across the bottom.  I would be remiss if I did not thank Cheryl Wells for the lovely laces within the pages of this mini and Manuela Ott (Bunny Bow) for the bags, sacs and envelopes tucked here and there throughout.  I am blessed to have such generous crafters share their things with me.


Inside the back cover is a humongous envelope filled with all sorts of goodies for the purchaser of this mini to help decorate the pages to their liking.  Some ribbons, and paper elements, butterflies and clothespins, some tab pulls and oh yes photo templates to take the guesswork of what to put where.

Please join me on the video to see the full walk through front to back of the mini.  I do not have a tutorial for this but I do have a playlist of many How Do I Do That  videos that will walk you through basic mini album construction. 

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Monday, October 8, 2018

Authentique Solitude Leftovers to Cards

a Country Craft Creations project share 

Well if you're a regular visitor to my Blog, YouTube or any of my social media outlets you know I've been trying to stay in the habit of using up my scraps before I store them away.  This time it was with Authentique's Solitude collection, a wonderful assortment of very vintage Christmas designs and images.  I had so little paper scraps left I had assumed I'd only have a couple of cards to share with you.  As happens lots of time the scraps grew and I ended up with twelve Christmas cards and still a few designs left for maybe three more.


This was the first card I made and wow do I love it.  Super simple, super elegant and something I'd love to share with anyone.  This one was larger because the image is 4x6", all the rest are 4 x 5.5".


On the video (the link is at the bottom of this post) I'm going to give you three examples of perhaps making a card a little differently than you usually do. I'll share all the cards I made to give you loads of food for thought and hopefully inspire you to look at and use up your scraps into cards.  On this particular card I fussy cut the little girl out of the mat.  Popped both the mat and the little girl on scraps of chipboard, or a couple of sheets of scrap cardstock work well too.  I then added the ribbon and bow and glued the girl back into the design.  Now she's dimensional!  To hide where I snipped the border to get to her I've added one of my snowflake clusters.  Easy Peasy!



The next idea, well there's no two ways about it, I'm going to be an enabler and tell you if you don't already have a branch punch in your crafty stash you need to invest in one.  Mine is an older pine bough punch by Martha Stewart.  All your little scraps can be punched to make a lovely wreath like the one shown here.  The scrap only has to be as wide as the widest part of the branches, which is pretty small.  It takes a bit of time to punch them all but I love the visual it provides!  I've also included some of these same branches around the fussy cut robin on this card.  It will add so much punch to your cards if you add them here and there.


OK the last idea I'm sharing here is using the negative space to create a card.  I had punched out the snowflakes and I was left with this beautiful negative space image of a snowflake.  I added an acetate pocket behind and filled it with sequins and shiny bits and glued a backing on it. Voila instant shaker card.  Across the middle is the punched snowflake with of course some shiny Stickles added to it. The small photos show the negative space cutting to add just a small border around to form another snowflake (on the left above) and the dimension of the altered negative space (on the right).


So come and join me on the video and see the other cards I created.  
As always, thank you so much for stopping by.  
I really love when you visit!
Patti


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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Authentique's Solitude Christmas Mini Album

a Country Craft Creations design team share

It's so hard to realize that Christmas is in the air, well at least the air of all of us crafty people.  Tammy Merrill from Country Craft Creations sent me the new Authentique Solitude to play with and it just oozes Christmas memories.  


To me it's a very nostalgic collection full of images of Christmas and Holiday's past.  It will be the perfect mini album to house a huge amount of this years Christmas memories. I did a little cutting and pasting of images on the front cover to scoot the girls under the tree limbs and pull the limbs around them like a snowy embrace.  Using ArtDeco Snow Marker, Stickles Icle and Red brought the cover to life.

This is a 5"x7" mini with a 3" spine.  It's constructed of medium weight chipboard and covered with Artisan Kraft Cardstock. All edges were inked in Tim Holtz Iced Spruce Distress Ink.  There are 8 pages with many flips and flaps to add to the amount of space housing photos.  This mini was designed so that the receiver could add a multitude of 4"x6" photos.


I'm going to do a few tutorial videos, which will be added to the Authentique Solitude Tutorial Video Series Playlist on my YouTube channel.  I'm not going to walk you through where to glue each paper and embellishment but instead show you how I created the page designs I used.  That way you'll be able to use these designs in any project you so choose.  There is no cost to use my designs I'd just appreciate a shout out and link back to my blog, facebook or youtube.


I used a split page design on the page on the right above.  You do this by splitting the hinge in half and adding a swing side pocket to the top and the bottom.  I also included this adorable belly band to slide a mat overtop.  I like using something like this or the stopper on the left page above to keep everything neat and tidy and help pages and photos from escaping the mini.


I also included some swing tab closures in this mini in place of magnets.  They keep the pages together and provide a nice visual interest as well, like the little bird above.


There are lots of mats, tags and a little book or two like the one above tucked here and there.  This allows for many more photos and memories to be added.  Don't forget when you add your photos to add journaling too so generations in the future will know where and who and why you added that photo.


On one of the tutorial videos I'll share how to make this swing out page using the belt loop tabs and a magnet.  Super easy and super fun to do.  Don't you just love the images?


As is usually the problem there is so much to share with you.  I think I'll end with this photo and let you join me on the walk through video which won't share any how tos but will share each page in detail with you.  Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your time with me! 



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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Upcycling! Trash to Oh La La.

a Canvas Corp Brands CREW project

Recently I placed an order for some spices online and when it arrived it came in this bright, shiny, yellow box.  I think I was more excited over the box than what was in it.  From the first moment I knew I was going to have to alter that box into something fun and useable.


I know, I know, I throw you that great tease and then what do I do just give you this little snippet of a photo.  But you can already see the fantastic effet the High Impact Aqua paint made over the shiny yellow of the original box!  Pretty cool huh?  I'd love for you to pop on over to the Canvas Corp Brands Blog and take a look at the complete project.


Not only is there the transformed box but also the cutest little mini tucked neatly inside.  You're going to love how I've used the Architextures Collection to make this mini!

As always I've added a video to the mix, a complete walk through of the box and mini.  But wait!  This time I'm sharing a playlist of three videos, two are process videos, how to alter the box and how to make the mini so if you'd like to replicate my idea with any box you have lying around this will give you great food for thought.  The entire Playlist can be found here Upcycled Box & Mini Playlist

 Please check out the complete blog post - Upcycled Box and MIni Book using Architextures Collection   over on the Canvas Corp Brands Blog.


Supplies, Tools and Stuff from my Stash
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist – Graphite, Silver Sugar, Vanilla Breeze, Valentine Pink, Patina; High Impact Paint -Aqua
From my Stash – Artisan Cardstock – Black; Black cording/twine; Versamark Ink; Clear embossing powder; Art Glitter Glue; Kraft Tex – Black; Glossy Accents; Wink of Stella; Metal Rose embellishment; Aleene’s Collage Podge
Tools I used – Fiskars Cutter; Martha Stewart Scor Board; Bone Folder; WRMK pokey tool; Large Eyed long needle

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Saturday, September 8, 2018

Prima's Misty Rose Mini Album for CCC

a Country Craft Creations project share

Today I'm sharing a new mini album using Prima's Misty Rose Collection from Country Craft Creations.  Oh my word what a gorgeous collection this is my friends!


The base of my mini is medium weight chipboard covered with white Artisan cardstock from the Country Craft Creations store.  I have 4 8" square pages.  I adorned the front with this great doorknob from the Graphic 45 staples collection. Clustering a group of embellishments together added a great front focal place with room behind to tuck in a nice folded notecard, perhaps the perfect place to put a nice to and from note.


Because the mini has 1/2" gussets between the pages it will lie flat when opened, I love this look.  Don't be fooled because there are only four pages, it holds a huge amount of photos.


I've included several paper clip embellishments and embellishment clusters.  I'll be posting a follow up post and video using all the scraps in many more of these little gems.  Perfect to adorn a scrapbook page or be the beginning of a wonderful card.

Many of you ask how can I do pages that will stay closed without using magnets.  So this mini has no magnets but several different types of closures from tuck ins, swing spots, and ribbon ties.  Ideas to help you keep those pages from flapping in the wind and not have the expense of magnets.


Most of you that follow my blog and YouTube know that I really enjoy fussy cutting. To me it's a stress reliever, something I can do while the tv is babbling in the background.  This paper was a fussy cutters dream.  I cut one of the floral pages all apart and have used it throughout my book for closures and embellishments.  Never fear if fussy cutting puts your teeth on edge there are lots of cut aparts that you can substitute for where I used a cut out flower.


I hope you'll pop on over and watch the video walk through so you can get a real sense of my mini.  I'll be adding the video tutorial series over the next week and will pop them all into a playlist to make it easier for you to find.  Thanks for stopping by and have a super crafty day!


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