A Soul's Heartbeat: Stamperia

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Monday, March 22, 2021

Hortensia Perpetual Mini Album

Hi Crafty Friends I'm here today to share a project for Clare at My Creative Spirit using Stamperia's Hortensia Collection. If you aren't familiar with it please check out the links at the bottom of this post. If you love flowers, especially hydrangeas then this is truly the collection for you. Hydrangeas have always been a favorite for me. Growing up Momma had huge ones growing outside our dining room window. I remember one year she picked a large bouquet and dried them for a centerpiece. My goodness they lasted forever. So pretty, so many memories....

Isn't she beautiful? She's dreaming of peace and contentment and a world free of Pandemics, less stress and turmoil, oh wait, I think that's what I'm dreaming of.

This book has a hard front and back with accordian pages that open to the right and left. A fabulous design Clare made! It allows you to view the complete front or back all at one time.

Your best look at the mini is through my YouTube walk through video. In it I will share each page and all the tuck ins, pockets, hidden treasures etc. The link is at the bottom of this post.

These are the first two pages. As I said, it's stunning paper don't you think? Stamperia never disappoints.

For those of you that have followed my creative journey you know I love repurposing things. The parchment bag and the pink doily with the flower cluster were all one bag gifted to me by my friend Paula. I cut the bag top off so I could use bits on both pages. It's the perfect complement to the papers. These are pages 3 and 4.

Pages 5 and 6 share one of the lovely purple hearts my friend Manuela (Bunny Bow on YouTube) gifted to me many moons ago. I've been hoarding but I thought it time to share with whomever purchases this book. Things are always better when shared don't you think?

I have created a playlist for anyone wishing to know how I created any of the elements you see on these pages. Each two pages are a separate video so it will be easy for you to find the correct video without having to wade through all the things you may not be interested in. These are pages 7 and 8. Here I created an acetate window which eventually could house a very special photo.

And as all good things this one ends with pages 9 and 10. I hope you've enjoyed this little visual of the book and pages. Please join me over on YouTube so you can see the whole book, start to finish.

Have a wonderful crafting day my friends!

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Playlist for Hortensia Mini - https://tinyurl.com/3tmrjbpu Hidden Paper Clips - https://tinyurl.com/58nhwtys an Envelope Insert - https://tinyurl.com/5av8yd4v Revamped Graphic 45 Staples Tag - https://tinyurl.com/epy85tfs Envelope Wallet - https://tinyurl.com/w46ps3as

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

Check out Clare's Store for purchasing information of her A5 Notebook and the Stamperia Paper Collection Imagine - A5 Notebook Holder & Wrapper - https://tinyurl.com/y3bfcf6a Stamperia Imagine Paper - https://tinyurl.com/y26ssfvq Black Construction Tape - https://tinyurl.com/y42cvzpc Please visit My Creative Spirit at - Shoppe - https://www.mycreativespirit.co.uk/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mycreativespirit.co.uk YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/c/MyCreativeSpirit Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/clare_charvill/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/mycreativespirituk/ Blog - https://www.mycreativespirit.co.uk/blogs/blog Visit me at A Soul's Heartbeat on Blogger - http://asoulsheartbeat.blogspot.com/ Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/zbph36l YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/nwlady1949 Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/northwestlady/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nwli

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Winter Mini Album using Stamperia's Make A Wish

Hi everyone, I'm sharing my Winter Design Team project for Crafty City using Archana's Make a Wish Kit which features Stamperia's Make a Wish Collection. Gee I love their paper collections.

I think I'll just post the 5 pages and then you can pop over to the video to see the complete walk through. I used muslin fabric to hinge several of the pages together. Something I'd not seen before and something I know I'll do again. Because of the give of the fabric the mini lays so flat and has so much bendability and flexibility. It's great.

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Monday, May 20, 2019

Using the Scraps from the Lavender MIst Kit!

Hey everyone, you know how I love using my scraps up. Well I've uploaded a couple of videos and made two cards so far with the little snippets of leftover paper bits from the kit and I thought maybe you'd like to take a look-see. I'll be adding more videos and examples throughout the week.

--- Check out the videos for the complete process on both cards ---

Dimensional Card with Flowers

Process of building Quilt/Pieced Mats

and resulting card.

Two cards and a Tag!
More inspiration for your leftovers

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Portfolio Tutorial Playlist!

Hi everyone, my playlist is up and running for the Lavender Mist Portfolio Tutorial Series. There are seven tutorial videos and one walk through video. I have listed under the video and on the video thumbnail the number of the video and what it covers. If you're hunting for a certain aspect of the portfolio hopefully this will keep you from having to go through all seven videos to find it. See the bottom of post for Supply List and most measurements used.

As always if you have any questions just pop me off an email and I'll get right back to you. At the time of posting this was created using a kit from Crafty City with Stamperia's Provence paper, but any paper and embellishments could be used in its place!

Enjoy and happy crafting, if you make something using my portfolio directions I'd love for you to share with me. Patti

Supply List

Lavender Mist Kit

Sookwang (Scor) Tape

Art Glitter Glue

Purple Tulle

Magnets

White seam binding dyed lavender

Optional - I used an additional partial pack of Stamperia Provence Paper

4 sheets solid 12" for wrapping and matting inside

23-25 sheets 12" solid for matting, backing etc. I used 3 shades of lavender

2 sheets medium weight chipboard

Cutting Guide for Chipboard (Video 1)

1 - 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" for back

2 - 1 1/2" x 10 1/2" for spines

1 - 3 1/2" x 10 1/2" for front right

1 - 5" x 10 1/2" for front left

Wrapping outside and Matting Inside (Video 2)

4 sheets solid 12" for wrapping and matting inside

Inside Waterfall, right side (Video 3)

Measurements for Waterfall flip

Contrast solid cardstock for back strip - 3 1/4" x 10 1/4"

NOTE- Do not cut your decorative mats for the waterfalls until the end then you can use your scraps instead of cutting into full sheets. Also see *note below about alternative method to completely matting all flips.

Waterfall flips, you will need 14 - solid cardstock -

each measures 3 1/4" wide x 4 3/4" high

score on the 4 3/4" side @ 1/4" to glue to base strip

Optional depending on the amount of decorative paper you have

You will need 14-28 3" x 4" pieces of decorative paper to mat each flip. Your choice will be whether to mat inside and out. *If you are low on paper an alternative is to just cut a 3/4" x 4" strip for all but the two top flips (one on bottom, one on top). You can put just the 3/4" across the bottom (leave 1/4" on side for matting with your solid cardstock). When the flips are closed, before photos are placed, it will still look as if you matted everything.

The other optional is to mat the 1/4" area between each flip. As an alternative you can add a strip of solid ribbon here like I did on the outside edges of the portfolio.

Back Insert - Video 4

Inside back mat (decorative paper) 8 3/8" x 10 1/8"

Solid Paper -

Double Middle Pocket in center back - 8" x 11 3/4" score at 5" on short side

Left flip page - 8 1/4" x 10" score on long side @ 1" to form skinny pocket, score opposite long side @ 1/4" to form tab to glue to book

Right flip page - 7 1/4" x 10", score on long side @ 1/4" to form tab

Left pocket (attached to left flip page)

8 1/4" x 12", score @ 1/4" and 7 1/2" on the long side

Accordion insert 1 12" solid cardstock cut in half and each piece scored at 6"

Accordion joint piece is 1/2" x 6" to join the sections together

Back Insert Matting - Video 5

Top part of pocket - Decorative paper 7 3/4" x whatever length you have, make sure it is deep enough so it covers back when pocket is glued.

Triple mats for two center pockets

Solid 3 3/4" x 4 3/4" and 3 1/2"x 4 1/2" (pick 2 different solids)

Decorative - top mat 3 1/4" x 4 1/4"

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Monday, May 6, 2019

A Portfolio using Crafty City's Lavender Mist Kit

Hello everyone!

I'm sharing a new project today, a portfolio I designed with a kit from Crafty City called Lavender Mist. This is my first project as part of Archana Joshi's design team and I was so happy to have this kit to play with. It's packed full of scrumptious goodies including a pad of Stamperia's Provence paper. Which is lavender! Oh my goodness you guys know how I love lavender. This project seemed to make itself or perhaps I just felt that way because the kit made me so happy to work with it!

I'm not going to go on and on here since I have a pretty lengthy post over on the Crafty City Blog which you can pop over to and read. But I did want to share a little to get you perhaps as excited as I was to make one of these portfolios for yourself. I will be uploading a Playlist of videos sharing how I created the components of my portfolio so you'll be able to follow along, adapt it to your paper and creativity and make one of your own.