Mini Memories Tin

Hello crafty friends! It's me Tera, here to share one last piece of inspiration before the New Year.

I have been loving the mini tins and journals by "Suzy ShabbySoul". She has some great tutorials on Youtube; one of them can be found HERE,

I also took some step by step photos below.

My little mini journal was a gift for my mom. It features photos of her and her dad. He passed away when she was young so I thought this would make a good memory keepsake.

The outside of the tin I added eyelets to for the ribbon, as well as an extra for charms

(Ok, yes...Originally I just punched the hole in the wrong spot...haha. However, it worked out perfectly for the charms!)

I chose to make the tiny journal so that it could come out to be easily looked at. The charms attached to the journal are hanging from one of the Tim Holtz tiny paper clips. (I thought it could be a fun decorative piece as well as a pull tab).

Here you can see the full layout with it opened.

Ok, on to the details...

This project is a little photo heavy, so you may want to grab a drink before you dig in.

I started by cutting my chosen papers to 1.75in x1.75in. I then rounded the corners with my corner punch. After I laid out my 6 papers, I then flipped them over to start gluing them together. I put a little collage medium down, then used strips of mummy cloth to bind everything. (leaving about 1/8in between each piece) I added a little more collage medium over the tops of the mummy cloth to really make sure it would stay and be sealed. 

I also decided to add some fabric tape over the mummy cloth for extra strength and visual interest.

For the tin I used clear gesso, translucent grit paste, and distress crayons to get a rusty look. (rusty hinge, walnut stain, and black soot by the time it was all done).

I also used fabric tape as the hinge on here too (I did glue it down with collage medium and set aside to dry).

As you can see I added the tape to both sides :) 

Now that the fabric binding was dry I went back to playing with the mini journal strip.

(the blue flowers remind me of forget me nots, so that's why I picked that one).

I copied and printed the photos since my mom have very few photos of her dad. This kept me from feeling guilty about cutting them up. 

You can see I started by laying out all of my main elements before gluing everything down. 

(I even changed my mind completely on the one square). 

Once I had everything how I liked it, I glued things down and added pop dots under the 2/6 and the 5.

I also added more crayon to the tin. 

To truly finish everything I added some Tim Holtz stickers and a quote chip I peeled thinner.

I used my water brush with vintage photo distress ink to lightly shade around the quotes, and some of the pictures. 

(you can kind of see that the 2/6 is elevated here).

I of course also added the charms, eyelets and ribbons. 

I did end up making a wrap around cover with a brad to tie the cord around. This helped to give it that mini book feel for me. 

Thank you for visiting! I hope you all like my mini memory tin!!

Supplies Used:

Tim Holtz tin tops (there are also some cute Christmas ones out right now too!)

Tim Holtz Idea-ology sticker book Christmas (most of them from this one)

Tim Holtz Idea-ology sticker book (older one)

Tim Holtz Quote Chips

Tim Holtz Ephemera (from several different packs)

Tim Holtz Token numbers

Tim Holtz Typed tokens

Tim Holtz Mummy cloth

Tim Holtz linen tape

Tim Holtz Long fastener (Brad)

Tim Holtz Mini Paperclip 

Vintage photo Distress ink

Tim Holtz water brush (These ones don't leak! I love them!!!)

Distress crayons: Rusty Hinge, Black soot, Walnut Stain

Papers: Tim Holtz Backdrops

Crinkle ribbon aka seam binding ribbon

Clear Gesso

Translucent grit paste

collage medium

Distress Stains- Antique linen and speckled egg (for the ribbon)

Eyelets

Random charms I had find other charms HERE

Saturday Step x Step - Mini Book

Hi there! Suzz here to share a mini book created using old dictionary pages.

I was thrilled when Sara Emily challenged us with books. I love reading and love up-cycling damaged old books into a new piece of art to enjoy again.  

I decided to create a mini journal with lots of stamping. I started with the idea of a house that opens up to show you inside. I decided to use Tim Holtz's tiny houses die and trim off the edges.

Here are my original pages die cut: 

I cut down a the crease where you would normally fold the die to form the houses. I did this with multiple pages from the dictionary and from two pieces of chipboard.

After I trimmed off the excess sides from the die cut pattern I then punched four holes on the main house that was to be the back of my book. I then used that as my pattern to draw where the circles should be on my other pieces.

I covered my chipboard with pages from the dictionary. I kept two of the houses from the dictionary pages in the full house shape to attach to the front and back of my book. I cut all the other pieces in half along with one of my chipboard pieces for my cover of the book.

I used glue to attach my paper to the chipboard. I also cut cardstock houses for all my pages as I wanted the pages to be sturdier than just the dictionary pages. I attached them all with glue as I have found that using tape tends to show through in the stripes of tape behind the text paper. Glue can also do this if you don't give an even coat. I painted a light coat of white acrylic paint across all my pages to mute the text and allow me to stamp over the texty background. Let this dry before continuing on to the next step.

For each of my pages I used a different distress ink on the page. I first dragged the ink pad over the surface.

I then smeared it first with my finger to soften the ink over the entire surface. I then put brown dye ink onto my craft mat and  used a sponge applicator to sponge the entire surface with brown dye ink.  I then gave them all a lovely sprinkling of water and heat set the ink and water spots.

Then the fun began with stamping and layering images over the surface of the various pages.

For my cover I decided to die cut a heart image and follow the same process of covering it with the text background and the inky process. I stamped the word love across the surface with black archival ink and hand drew hears and outlined with a black watercolor pencil. I made a tiny bouquet which was attached on the right side but overlaps the middle. This allows the page to still open but looks like it is attached in the middle.

I stamped the text along the top and bottom of the house. I pop dotted the hear so it could overlap my holes on the top but allow the book to be linked with jump rings.

As I continued to sponge the pages you can see I picked up some of the previous colors used in the other pages because my sponge picked up the distress oxide. I liked the blended colors and didn't mind the effect. Heat set the archival ink as it tends to stay wet on the painted.

I used white highlighter to help lighten up where the inky pages got darker and waterbrush to help blend my watercolor lines.

I also sponged archival ink over the stencils and cleaned off my stencils with the ink cleaner. I added a touch of watercolor pencil on top of the inky background. I also took the silver glittery design tape and dragged the black archival over the surface to give me a black shimmery stripe along the top.

For my final page I just used the Wendy Vecchi stamp as my focal point. I framed the sentiment with a house and heart using black and pink watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. I splattered white paint and decided to add a moon along the top.

Next up was just layering on my pages with a jump ring in each hole. Lay them in order to make sure your matching pieces line up. :)

The finished album and how it looks opened page by page:

I didn't do it but you could continue your stamping on the reverse side to finish out your images on the main pages as well as coordinating the backside colors to match the center.

And the finale:

I hope you have enjoyed the mini house journal book and you are inspired to play along with us in the Read and Good Books Lately Challenge!  You have until Tuesday August 15th to join in the fun!

Suzz

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