We're all Mad Here how about you??

Hello Everyone,

I was looking around the internet for some idea's for a new project. I am finished with the enormousness wedding album I did for a lovely lady locally. I must admit that I do not want to scrap with purple for a long time. That being said I really did enjoy doing this for her. I scraped 120 photo's. Now that I am done with the album I am back to being able to work on my own projects.

I was thinking about steam punk stuff and I came across a website with a pattern for  mini mad hatter hats.  Well, I knew that my GS would love making these for our annual Very Merry Un-Birthday party. They are SO easy to make. Here is the link to the PATTERN.
You will need to go about 3/4 of the page down to find the link. There is a tutorial on how they created theirs, but I changed mine up a bit.
Materials Needed:
Patterned paper, cereal boxes ( I have also used tissue boxes, mashed potato boxes, ect)
 Step One:
Print off your pattern. (click on the word PATTERN above) Print onto 8.5 x 11 paper.
 
Step Two:
Cut your pattern out of cereal boxes. I use as a chipboard template  to cut out the pieces from cereal boxes. IMPORTANT side note: the top of the hat can be chip board but the brim and the body needs to be flexible in order to make the shape.

Step Three:
Next, I cut all my paper pieces.

Step Four:
Adhere the  paper pieces to your cardboard. ** Make sure that you bend the cardboard for the body by rubbing it along the edges of a table.

Step Five:
Gluing the body together. Hot glue the body of the hat together first. Then the top. Lastly the brim. * Before you glue the brim on you want to curl the edges. I do this by running the brim over the edges of a table like you did with the body.

Step Six:
Decorate in any way you wish. Flowers, trims, ephemera, charms, lace, stickpins, ect.

Here are some of the ones my scouts made:

It was kind of a silly face day. :)
I hope you enjoy making these as much as we have.

A closer look at the ABC primer mini album

As promised her is a closer look at the album. I decided to make a paper bag mini for two reasons. 1. I am almost out of the chipboard my sweet friend gave me and 2. they are super fun to make.
I really wanted to show every single page on the design team call, but I had to really choose the pictures that I wanted them to judge. Now that we have time let's look a bit closer. ;)

 I wanted to make this cover in a non girly way. Esp since I have a son and two daughter and my hubby wants me to include pics of us when we went to school. ;) I put pop dots under to ABC primer cut out so that the wrinkled and distressed look could really pop out.
I love that the ribbon has numbers on it. and the letter stamps are right next to it. It made me think abc's and 123's. Oh great now I have that song stuck in my head.

 I love these canvas CTMH stickers. I just knew that they would make this mini rock.

 These two flaps fold down so that you can put pics on the back also.  It also leaves a large 4x6 area behind them for a photo.

 This flap lifts up and there is a photo mat slid into the side of it. I love the old looking ruler. I love these neat little touches that G45 papers add to the paper packs.

 What school looking mini album would be complete with out some old looking notebook paper?? This one is shaped like a file folder and is my photo mat.

 When I saw the little girl jump roping I knew I had to use it. As you can see the photo mat sits in the side. On a side note my circle punch was one of the best things I have bought.

Again a nice big photo mat.

I used the daylights out of these little flash cards. They are sooooooooooooo cute. The ribbons sticking out are alternating abc's and numbers. The other end pulls are twine, I really like a nice thick twine. This flap has a pocket on each side for photo mats.

 Here you can see the two tags.

 Note book looking paper made from index cards and cut to look like a file folder.

 A second set of the folding  tag holders.

 This is showing the other side. They also operate independent of each other.

 I still love these little flash cards.

 The little library card is so cute.

 The notebook looking paper that says journal is a canvas sticker.

I burned the edges of this. I just really like the pattern it made.

 I really like the mini book covers shown on this page of paper. I had the 8x8 paper pack I think I would really like to get the 12x12 paper pack too. You can see a sneak peek at my paper airplane.

 I just had to make a flight path for my paper air plane. I think this is one of the coolest stickers I have ever received. I think canvas stickers are the bomb.

 I took the pictures outside in my front yard so you can see the shadow that the camera strap left in this picture.

 This book title was SO cute I just had to cut it out and use it. I distressed the edges with my scissors to be honest with you. I usually use my TH distress tool, but after making 8 projects in a week and a half I was having trouble fining ANYthing in my craft area. I am happy to report that the craft room was given some much needed TLC today.

nice vertical pocket with a file folder looking photo mat.

 This is the inside of the back cover.

 This is the spine of the my mini. I really like the way it came out.

Not sure what made me take a pic of the mini from this angle, but I really like seeing the ribbons and twine from the tags. I know maybe I was showing that it all fit neatly inside the covers. ;)

This mini was pretty different for me in the fact that I did not ink anywhere near as much as I usually do. I did ink I just used a very light color and I only inked where I wanted dramatic emphasis.

The paper used was ABC  primer (Graphic 45) 8x8 pack, cotton twine, Abc ribbon and numbers ribbon (from Maya road) , cardstock (paperstudio brand), light weight packaging a friend gets for me, vintage photo ink, CTMH black ink, CTMH canvas stickers.  I used  Following the paper trial with Laura's stack the deck binding. I also used many, many different techniques I have learned from all the amazing youtube videos I have seen over the past few months.
I hope you all enjoyed this closer look. ;)
Please take a minute or two to leave a comment on my audition post if you can.
Have a scraptastic day!!

Graphic 45 Design Team 2012 Auditon

Hello  to my scrapptastic friends !! I have missed you all the past week or two. I have been busy, busy, busy. Not the "oh my goodness I need a break" kind of busy, but the keep out of trouble good kind of busy. ;) Those of you who know me know that is a good thing. LOL
I have a confession to make to those of you who don't know it yet.... I LOVE GRAPHIC 45 papers!! I know, I know most of you already know this, but there are always new comers and I need to tell them. ;)
As you saw from the blog title today I am pulling up my big girl panties and be a big brave dog!! I am auditioning for the G45 design team. Wait, what's that in the back?? A small faint voice that says you are not familiar with Graphic 45. Please click on THIS. I know it will take a while to come back , but please try to remember to come back and finish looking at my pics.
   The design team call was to make a minimum of 6 projects. I got so caught up that I ended up with 8 projects. I made two mini books, two altered projects, two 12 X 12 layouts, one tag, and one card.  I used mostly G45 papers. I used the Communique 12x12 paper pad and the 12x12  Play Times Past paper pad. I used an 8x8 paper pad - ABC Primer. I used some washi paper I got many years ago while we lived in Japan. I also used two pages from  the Le Fluer paper pad by Paper studio.
All of the projects in this post are brand new. Since there are a lot of pictures and techniques that I used to make these projects I will make a series of more in depth tutorials, supply lists and explanations of the projects over the week. For now sit back and enjoy the photo's and a brief explanation of each photo.
Drum roll please.........

Let's start with the 12x12 Layouts:

 This layout of my husband's grandfather just had to me paired with the Lady of Liberty from the Communique papers.

The chocolate brown Heart is from my Maya Road warehouse sale box this past fall.

  I used  CTMH hinges. They are so cute and they work as you can see.

I used a CTMH stamp set to make the post mark and cancellation marks under the black penny stamps there is also an air mail stamp.

 I just can't help but think of all the letters my husband sent me when he was deployed. I just had to use this post card with the military picture.

Next layout is my husband's grand parents. A relative found some pictures in need of preservation and had them digitally remastered, so while the quality of the photo may not be the best  you sure can feel the wonderful happiness from this photo.

 I made the paper and lace flowers on this page.

 The ribbon folding just popped into my head and I really like the way it came out.

A friend of mine gave me some peacock feathers from some local peacocks.

I have two altered objects:
The clock that I altered has a small, but cute story. While in college a friend of mine felt that our sparsely decorated to small for our family city dwelling needed some styling up, so he bought me a clock. Now I adore my sweet friend, but over the years as my own style developed the clock just did not fit in. I hope he really likes what I did with it. I have pics of it once it had had a few coats of white, but not of the clock the way it was in it's original glory. I was just way to kind to subject you all to that you may thank me later.  :)

 I made the lace, ribbon, and yo-yo flowers on here. Isn't the little old fashioned doll so cute.  I also love the teddy bear with the blocks.

 The buttons on the lace flower to the right are old typwritter keys and they are the letters ABC.

 I love the the little advertizements.

 How cute is this little boy on this stick horse??

 I love my little faire girl giving a gift.

The clock houses a Play Times Past mini album. I love the play on words. ;) The chipboard album was in a Maya Road warehouse box. To cute to resist.

Next altered project was gifted to me by a friend who said that she had held on to it for years and never had a vision for it. She challenged me to do something with it. Now, she wants it back. :) Love it.

I sneaked a black penny stamp from the G 45 papers. The pansies are real dried  pansies that I bought about 12 years ago.

 I used Elmer's gel glue to make this crackle effect. I do not use any heat. I will be making a youtube video of the technique later on this week.

 I recently got some ephemera from K & Co. It looks so good on here.

I wanted ya'll to be able to see that this is a mirror. Look at that gorgeous Texas sky!!  I made the paper flowers, the yo- yo flowers, and the yellow ribbon rose. I love the green felt ribbon at the bottom center. I don't normally do much with birds or nests, but this project just called out for it.
Hang in there with me everyone we are nearing the home stretch. I hope you are enjoying the pictures and descriptions.

Now I have a card and a tag:

 This was my first time using Ranger Alcohol inks.  The postage stamp looking awesomeness is some washi tape my friend Julie got me when she went to the washi  factory store in Japan.

 I masked this using an awesome image from my Cricut.

 stickles, pastel chalks, lace, ink, paper and what do you get?? An awesome card.

Woohooo!! To you for sticking with me. Two more to go. These are the two mini albums I am submitting.
I used the Playtimes Past and the ABC Primer for them.

This photo begins the ABC Primer.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to look at my pictures. I hope you will come back again and again. I will be posting more in depth looks at the projects thru out the week. Be looking for more tutorials and my very first youtube video will so be here for you all to enjoy.
Have a scraptastic day everyone!!