Shadowbox Tin

Feeling crafting fortunate today, I submitted my shadowbox tin project to Paper Crafts Magazine for their Paper Crafted Creative Ideas For Every Season & Holiday publication, and here it is! in print! going on sale March 19th, 2013. Thank you Paper Crafts Magazine for including my project!!!

I was inspired to make projects with these fun black matte tins when we received them in the October 2012 Peacock Club Scrap kit, so one thing lead to another and I'm still wanting to make more!

This wasn't on purpose, but in the process of putting this shadow box tin together, I think I've crafted the world's smallest drawer!

Since the Black Matte Tins were a goodie in the Peacock Kit, I enjoyed doing projects with them for the Scrap Rap, but then I just kept making projects with this sweet little tin.

I'm going to let the pictures tell most of the construction story, but I started by cutting dividers from black book board.

Once the dividers were in place, I put together the teeny tiny drawers.

Here is the other mini drawer I made for the upper corner of the tin (perfectly sized for fortune cookie fortune storage).

Then it was fun filling in the other compartments with other odds and ends.

I decorated the lid by spreading a thin layer of Book Binding Glue and attaching a color photo-copy to it.

Then used sand paper to trim off the excess paper, followed up with a little brown ink on the edges to give that warm used & handled look.

While I'm talkin' tins, here is a photo tin I put together.

I used the same steps for attaching my photo-copied photo as the lid above. It's amazing how well rubbing sand paper on the edges works for trimming off the excess photocopy.

Lastly, I couldn't resist making an accordion album using Club Scrap's October Peacock Paper in at least one of the tins. Here it is.

With a little rubber stamping on the lid and some button embellishments, it's also really cute! What a different look than the other tins!

Thanks checking out what I've been up to. Wishing you an inspiring day!
Kay

My New Favorite Project!!!

Creative Valentine Greetings To You,

Valentine's Day certainly brings out the crafter in me! I just love it. That being said, I want to show you my new sweet project. Those of you that are Club Scrap Members are familiar with our new Up, Up & Away February Collection, I really enjoy the rubber stamps from this collection and used them for collage style stamping on old dictionary pages. These pages ended up wrapping my handmade boxes. I tore out plain pages from the dictionary for a stamping empty canvas, yet it still has the old paper look (well, because it is old paper, old paper with new stamping on it I guess).

 

 

After my handmade boxes were all wrapped, the fun started. I just love this part....

 

 

...wait for it...

 

 

...a string of hearts hang from the lid!  Newly released for Valentine's Day is the Loves Bites rubber stamp collection. The little phrases that fit inside the hearts are the perfect touch.

 

Not being able to stop at just one, I used the Love Bites rubber stamps to make the "insides" that will hang from another box lid.

 

So, here we go again...

..I have a heavy duty crush on this project.. (however I don't think my husband is too worried)..

 

 

...wait for it...

 

 

...ta daaaa... so darn cute!

 

 

Like I mentioned, Valentine's Day seems to bring out the crafter in me, here are a couple other Valentine projects of mine that Scrapbooking.com is featuring in their February issue :

Love In A Box Of Paper

and

Heart Medley Frame 

 

 

As always, thanks for looking and sharing my love for creative projects on Valentine's Day!

Hope you have time to do something sweet for someone!

Kay

Keepsake Book

Creative Greetings,
Quick....before I post a Valentine project or two, I wanted to chat about this fun book I created for Club Scrap's past Holiday Weekend Of Workshops. However as you can see, this one doesn't have a holiday theme to it. I enjoyed wrapping this project with old dictionary inside pages.

The Keepsake Book project that came with Club Scrap's Holiday Weekend of Workshops had a holiday theme to it of course, but now we do have the kit components available in a Paperless (or naked as we sometimes call it) Kit Version so I thought it was a good time to squeeze in a blog about it - so if you are inspired, you could make your own Keepsake Book with already cut components from Club Scrap, or of course, you could whip up your own with a bit more elbow grease and this entry will show you how. The inside of this handmade book contains an accordion album and a box to stash keepsakes inside of.

 

 (Inside the outside covers)

 

 

The inside accordion supplies lots of space for adding photos, journaling, stenciling and rubber stamping. I did a little of all that stuff.

 

 

As usual, I couldn't help myself and just kept decorating.

 

 

 

 

(love that quote above from Winnie The Pooh)

 

 

 

It's just so fun when a project is completed, I get all picture happy and snap away as you can tell.

 

 Speaking of lots of pictures, I did photo many of the steps while putting this book together, so I'll let the pictures do the construction talking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As always, thanks for looking and hope you've enjoyed viewing the construction of the Keepsake Book.

 

I better go get ready to make some Valentines!

 

Kay