Paris in the spring

Feeling a little crafty this week and here are the results. :)

This was the off the page object from the March Flying Unicorn kit.

I have never worked with just a limited color pallet. I really wanted to challenge myself.

Here it is in the daylight.

I recently got some Lindy's stamp gang embossing powers AND well, I just could not resist using them here.

Have a wonderful day!!

Faux spool

I have wanted to decorate a spool for quite some time now, so I was looking around the internet and I saw a bunch of great pics to inspire me. Here is what I came up with.

This is made from a toilet paper tube and craft cardstock. :) I love the way it came out.
Happy crafting.
Haley

Up, Up and away.

I totally love Hot air balloons right now. I looked up some projects about hot air balloons and found THIS   Super cool right??  Then I saw THIS  I really liked the idea of hot air balloon being on the chipboard. My husband is really tall and our ceilings are, well, not. SO hanging anything from the ceiling is a no go.

Here is my completed project, Tutorial to follow.

I recently got some awesome October Afternoon
paper. When I saw this cloud paper I thought I
would never find a use for it. I think it works perfectly with the hot air balloon.










Here is a picture of the template my hubby made me on the computer, printed on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

the "bulb" is 10 inches. The length is 8 inches.












I traced this pattern onto all of my patterned paper. I made a chipboard template. Now I will have one for a long time.

I traced and cut 8 of them.

Next, I folded them in 1/2 length wise. I then glued them back to folded back.

Here are several photo's of them after they have been glued waiting to dry.

 Here I used my crop a dile to add a small hole for threading seambinding.

Here are all the sections glued together.

Now I took a 12x12 sheet of chipboard and paint it or cover it with paper. I chose to cover it with black cardstock.

 next I covered it with this October Afternoon sky paper.

 

 Next, I glued the spine to the paper. If you don't glue the spine down it will flop around.

 Here it is after I glued it down. I also glued the two most end pieces to the back-round.

 Proud of my stitching on this.

 Here it is with me attempting to get tall enough to stand over it and take pics.

I placed a strip of pearls for the body of the butterfly. I had never sewn thru chipboard before. My VERY elderly sewing machine required some assistance, but I really like the way it turned out.

 Here is a close up of the distressing. I punched out a cloud and tucked it in. I really went to town on the edges.

 I love this seam binding. I get it from Cheep trims. It come in 100 yard spools for about 10 bucks. I have white and black. I dye the white one all the time.

A few years ago I was given these "learn Chinese cards" and I have been slowly using them in my projects. I just love them. The bling in the bottom corner came from ETSY. 

 Here are some flowers from my stash pile.

Here is a close up of the trim I used and the lace.
I really hope you enjoyed this and make one for yourself. If you do leave a link down below in the comments.
Happy crafting!!
Haley

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.

I see the light

This year we made the switch from incandescent light bulbs to florescent, leaving me with some recycle craft materials. So, I started browsing the internet for ideas. I found a steam-punk website where they took Christmas tree bulbs and made hot air balloons.  That inspired me to make hot air balloons using the light bulbs my husband was going to (gasp) throw away.

It was so easy to make. I made several of these for presents.

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!!