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Planes, Trains & Automobiles

22 Thursday Oct 2015

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Distress Inks, Distress Stains, Road Trip, Stampers Anonymous, Tea Dye, Tim Holtz, Vintage

Howdy-do, today I have a couple of projects featuring automobiles. My husband and future son-in-law both love old cars, they both enjoy restoring and showing off their vehicles, so for my husband’s birthday I created a mini album for my husband to be able to tell the story of one of his restoration projects. He takes pictures of the entire process so it will be fun to see this filled with pictures and journaling.

Fold Out Flap Mini Album

I created the design for this and a friend of mine wrote up the instructions, I will probably have the instruction for sale for a nominal price soon. If you are interested in purchasing the instructions, please feel free to contact me by leaving a comment below.

The second project was for my future son-in-law’s birthday card. I used Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Road Trip stamp set and created the following card.

Birthday card using TH Stampers Anonymous Road Trip stamp set

I stained the watercolor paper with various shades of Distress Stain that I rubbed onto a craft mat and then spritzed with water and smeared my paper in it until it was covered the way I liked it. Then I stamped the vintage vehicle and the Route 66 sign in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I created a mask for both images and then I stamped the tire track by first stamping it off and then applying it to the card, to create a lighter image. I topped the tire track with the Road Trip stamp and then added the Journey sentiment over and below the Route 66 mask. I trimmed the edges with my deckle edge blade and distressed it in Tea Dye in. Then added it to a black mat and finally added that to a scrap of that fabulous automobile paper I had left from the mini album. Voila! I was happy with how these turned out since I struggle with masculine designs.

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The Proposal

02 Sunday Nov 2014

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Art Philosophy, Close To My Heart, CTMH

Hello Fellow Paper Fanatics! Do you remember the movie The Proposal starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds? In a nutshell the characters make a proposal to one another to get married to mutually benefit each other’s careers (and keep Sandra’s character in the country). The two did not like one another in the beginning but end up in love at the end. Well that is where this week’s project relates (if only symbolically) to the movie.

A friend’s son came to me and proposed an idea he had, to help him with his upcoming marriage proposal, by making a mini album using pictures of the two of them. Oh and the caveat…he needed it right away. Initially I hated the idea…well, not his mini book idea, but the idea that I had next to no time to do it and although I am not a perfectionist, I am a little picky about the finished product. But alas, I accepted the business proposal and here is the cover of the finished product. I am not sharing the inside pages, due to privacy issues.

Charms attached to the spine ribbons

Hand made rose, using my CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.

Various flowers made using my CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.

Cover of the Proposal Mini Album.

Oh and by the way, she said “YES!” Congrats you two!

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Oh Baby!

03 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Authentique, Bazzill, Doodlebug Designs, Graphic 45, Laura Denison, Little Darlings, Quick Quotes, Tim Holtz, YouTube

Oh baby this was a fun project to do! I love creating mini albums and this was my first attempt at a Z fold album. My inspiration was Laura Denison with Following the Paper Trail, she has some very good YouTube tutorials on many different albums, but this one seemed to be just what I was looking for. There is a lot of room for pictures and journaling, so much so, that some of the more embellished detailed patterns could be left blank. Now on to the nuts and bolts of it.

First off the best instructions to follow is watching Laura’s YouTube, I will add the link at the bottom of this post. I used Graphic 45, Little Darlings paper line. This paper has been discontinued however they do have comparable lines currently out that could be used for a baby album or obviously any paper line would work, just make sure you have a full paper pad or close to it of whatever coordinating papers you want, this is a deceivingly large album. I was somewhat freaked out by the fact that the half pad of 12×12 papers were irreplaceable, so with that said this album was less therapeutic than most projects can be. 😉

The cover was distressed with Tim Holtz Tea Stain. I made the banner with Epiphany’s banner epoxy which spelled out the baby’s first and middle name. All the alpha stickers used in this were Authentique and all the alpha rub-ons were Doodlebug. Doodlebug makes the best rub-ons I have ever used.

I embossed all the fold-out photo mats. I used three different designs and alternated them. This added interest to an otherwise blank (if only temporary) piece of paper. I made the larger photo mats of patterned paper, so no extra steps were needed with these.

The tags were done with Bazzill paper and I used a Kraft and a swiss dot Baby Blue, these were cut at 4×6 and I made a template to give the top a traditional tag appearance. On I added either Graphic 45 Little Darlings or Botanical Tea to the tags…I was running out of my Little Darlings paper because I had to use a lot of it to fussy cut out all the adorable pictures. I found Botanical Tea had a couple of designs with birds and nests that fit the baby theme and the colors matched perfectly. WIN!!! On the flip side of the tags added some headings to encourage the mommy to journal.

Quick Quotes makes some wonderful products and I have a nice collection of their vellum poems and saying. I used a few quotes regarding parenting and babies. There was a beautiful poem about adoption that fit the bill perfectly. I embossed a couple of the vellum quotes to add interest.

Here is the link for the Z-fold mini YouTube, and I hope you enjoy the pictures of a few of the pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGL_fo0RZs