String Art Handmade Album Cover

Ahoy Maties!!! As usual, I'm really enjoying my position here at Club Scrap Inc. designing projects! I really had a lot of fun creating this Month's Come Sail Away Club Stamp project - the Ship's Log String Art book (and hope you like it too). You remember the string art done with little nails and wood plaques right? It can be as elaborate or simple as you want it to be. Well I found that our little paper brads work well for wrapping the waxed linen thread around to create the string art sailboat on the front of this handmade mini ablum. With the included template (for hole piercing & stringing) in the April Club Stamp kit, it's smooth sailin'
 
After wrapping the matte board covers and rubber stamping on them, the stringing fun begins. Then a basic pamphlet is used to stitch in the inside pages, and the book is ready to fill with favorite quotes, journaling, sketches, rubber stamping and photos. Of course the Ship's Log project card that comes with the kit has great stepout pics and instructions to follow.

I couldn't seem to stop at just one album once I had the sailboat template that we've created for the kit in hand, so I made another album with the same template, but using other materials from my own stash of cool Club Scrap stuff. Just thinking of all the string art possibilities that could be used....



Instead of using a cardstock wrapped album cover, I used the Versailles Canvas to cover this album, rubber stamping on it first, and I just love the result! The canvas adds to the nautical feel of this handmade album. Here a pic of my stamped & stringed cover before adding the insides....

and then stamping on and adding the inside cover, (the Bon Voyage Anchor stamp came in handy with this ablum's theme)



and adding the holes and eyelets in the binding area for attaching inside pages.

Here I am adding inside pages, with that same simple pamphlet stitch,



I also enjoyed stamping and adding cruise photos to the inside pages,



Here is it, all completed and filled with photos, and memories.

Another hand crafted keepsake created!
Thanks for looking - wishing you sunny skies and smooth sailing!
Kay

Rubber Stamping & Spring Flowers Bloom Together

One of my favorite things to do this time of year is picking the spring blooms from my yard and bringing them inside to enjoy. However, the vase just doesn't look complete until a Club Scrap Rubber Stamped quote is attached to it! I used the Concrete Playground Remix quote today.

So adding this quote above.....



...to these flowers I picked this morning,



brightens ones day!

Here at Club Scrap Inc. the members and I are exposed to over 35 new rubber stamp images/quotes/words each and every month, (yes we put out more new rubber stamp images each month than any other company I know of!) so finding a quote that is appropriate to go on your vase of hand picked flowers for any occasion, whatever it may be, works out well.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day,
Kay

Rubber Stamped Easter Eggs....Here Comes Peter Cottontail...

 
Easter is almost here, but if you hop to it, time for Easter crafting remains!

I put together some fun Easter eggs using paper mache eggs that I picked up at Michaels Craft Store and the Easter Chicks UM stamps from Club Scrap of course!

The first step was grabbing some light weight paper for wrapping the eggs, any text weight will work well, so grab some copy paper or newsprint, anything cheep (get it?...cheep, cheep!) I cut mine into 4"x6" pieces, just make sure they are large enough to cover your eggs. Then color paper with sprays, color washes, stamping ink, anything you happen to have around - after dry, rubber stamp with Easter themed quotes and wishes, now you're ready for egg wrappin'.



Cut slits on both sides of the wrapping paper allowing the paper to wrap around the ends of the egg.

Then spread a nice layer of glue onto the backside of the wrapping paper, and attach to the egg.

Use your fingers to mold, press, squish and adhere the paper to the egg.



Add a little glue if it dried too quickly for you, like it did to me.  Also, I could have trimmed off the extra paper on the ends for easiler wrapping, you might as well make it easier on yourself.

Smooth out the paper against the egg to make sure there aren't many hidded air bubbles.

It's not a perfect looking thing for sure, but I think that's part of the charm of handmade stuff!

For a little added embellishment, I grabbed some of the fun colored waxed linen received from past CS monthly fibers paks, and wrapped the eggs with it.

Once the eggs were done, I found all kinds of places I could put them....

Of course there is the basket....but since I didn't want to have all my eggs in one basket heheeeeee I grabbed one of my Mom's canning jars, put a little moss on the bottom of it, and added the eggs.

The Easter Chicks UM stamp set has the perfect "Happy Easter" greeting for stamping a tag and attaching onto the opening of the jar.

I promise you won't end up with "egg on your face" if you do this little Easter project!

Wishing you a day that is sunny-side up, but most importantly, wishing you a blessed Easter!

Thanks for looking,
Kay

Altered Book Music Box

This old discarded book made into a music box has been a thought rolling around in my head since my Music Box Project Class this year at the Club Scrap retreat. Finally it was time to put it together! AND glad I took the time! Now, this old book has become a cute little keepsake currently sitting on my coffee table. Also at Club Scrap, the Music Box Mechanism was available separately, so I had what I needed to get started. Crank it up and it plays "Fur Elise", love it!

On the inside, I cut three nooks from the inner pages. One large enough for the 2"x1-3/4" music box mechanism to go inside, then one for holding maybe photos or jewelry, and the smallest nook holds a little bottle.

I made the smallest nook more shallow to accommodate for a secret matchbox drawer below.

 Cutting a little nook into the pages behind the key hole hardware so the end of the key can fit inside seemed like a good idea too. Well, ya know, while your at it, you might as well do it right!

There is a hole drilled through the book's back cover to let the music box crank work freely.

Now for a couple pictures concerning the construction.

I started with the easiest step, stamping the front cover with the Vogue Love Is Eternity Stamp.

Then moved onto cutting the inside pages.

Along with all the cutting, I would have to say gluing all the pages together was my least favorite part, but still enjoyed the progress of each step and getting to decorate it in the end, and especially now that it plays music!!! Who else has an altered book that they can crank up? Anyone? Anyone?

I wish I could say I carved the heart with wings wooden pc that is now attached to the lid myself, but I happened to see it in the clearance bin at Michaels Craft store.  It was bare unfinished wood and attached to a frame, after it got it home I was able to use a large knife to free the glued on heart/wings from the frame. Then it just needed some acrylic paint and distressing before it embellished my altered book music box project.

The possibilities of book altering are certainly endless, and this was a really fun altered book to show you, hoping you like! 

I'm off to crank up my altered book.

Kay

Valentine's Day Cards

Happy Valentine's Day to you!!! Wishing you a sweeet day!

Valentine's Day is a very fun time for those of us that live in the paper crafting world, and I've enjoyed making a few Valentine Cards.

I made the card above using the fun Let Me Count The Ways remix UM, just today, in Club Scrap's Gotta Have More Dept!

Can't beat the"Let Me Count The Ways" collage wood mount stamp for making cards too, it's fun and versitale. While I was at it, here is another done with the same stamp.

I also had a lot of fun with the "From The Heart"Stamp.

Coloring in the heart & wings design will never get old for me, I just like it too much! Also cutting out the heart and attaching with foam squares is a fun touch that this stamp makes possible.

Of course this stamp was cool on my Valentine mini shelf project too.

This year, I was so much better at using other themed stamps in my Valentine card making, like this County Fair Ferris Wheel Stamp below, just adding some punched hearts and my other Valentine quote stamps made it into a fun Valentine's Day card.

The same thing goes for this Academy Stamp.

Then I moved on to Let Me Count The Ways Stickers & Mini Cutaparts for additional card making....

and even did a 8.5x11 page while I had these items out on my craft table.

All fun Valentine stuff! Hope you are enjoying Valentine's Day as much as I am. Thanks for looking and have a sweeeet day!

Kay