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

Hidden Doorways House

Happy New Year!
It's still January, I can still say that, right?

As always, I've been enjoying the month's paper crafting here at Club Scrap. The January kit theme is Random Doorways, and what a fun theme it is. When designing the Club Stamp project for this month, I started with the thought of a door shaped mini-album. However one thing lead to another and I ended up with a door shaped mini-album attached to a hand crafted house.

 

I made this house project after shooting the project card for the kit, the Random Doorways Club Stamp Project kit comes complete with printed paper for wrapping the house and coordinating cardstock for creating the door, but I used my own papers and embellishments to create this paperless version of the kit. I think it's such a fun project that I wanted to keep sharing by doing this blog post:)

 

 

The house lifts off the base and has room for a hidden doorways mini-album also on the inside.

 

 

Lots of room for rubber stamping and pics inside the mini-albums.

 

 

 

I enjoy seeing all my great Club Scrap rubber stamp quotes inside along with my snapshots.

 

 

 

While I'm at it, here is a little bit about the construction. Of course the project kits from Club Scrap come with full instructions (that's really the way to go),

 but here are more visual tidbits about this project.

 

 

First the house is constructed from book board.

 

 

Then I rubber stamped on white text weight paper and wrapped the house.

 

 

 I applied acrylic paint using baby wipes onto the house.

 

 

The moisture from the baby wipes gives the paint more of a washed worn antique look.

 

 

After selecting papers and an Extra! Extra! transparency from my Club Scrap stash, I began construction on the mini-albums.

 

 

The Club Scrap Random Doorways Unmounted Rubber stamp sheet happens to have this perfect door image to cut around for making pages for the cute little album. I continued until I had enough pages for my albums and then used the basic kettle stitch for attaching them together. Then of course I glued the mini-album onto the front of the house.

 

Lots of room for creativity in this house I would say. It was a great project for a cold winter Wisconsin day! A cute little Valentine house for my daughter would be a fun idea too, with Valentines stuffed into the inside, I better get going on that one.

 

 

Don't let January slip by without doing something creative, even if it's on a mini scale!

 

Thanks for looking,

Kay

Christmas Tree Ornaments PART: 2

Season's Greetings!
Hoping this busy time before the holidays is going well for you. I've managed to get a few more ornaments made for the tree that I'd like to share if you actually have the time to look. Every year, I make an ornament using a pic from the prior Christmas. Using the current year's picture would be just to proactive for me, I'm just glad to get something on the tree from every year, up to last year that is :) 

The "mini album inside the tin" is the photo ornament I made this year.

Last year after Christmas I found a handful of these mini lunch box tins at Home Depot in the after holiday clearance bin. Well of course I thought they were cute and that I could make little albums for the insides.

Using waxed linen thread, I kettle stitched this mini album together that easily fits inside the tin. Of course after I rubber stamped the inside pages with my collection of holiday themed stamps from Club Scrap.

The mini album is filled with little pictures from last Christmas (Walgreens collage prints work well for this purpose, putting several little pics on the same 4x6, cheap and easy).

The mini cookie cutters tied to the handle is the perfect finishing touch.

The tin will keep this mini album in great condition over the years, I'm hoping my family enjoys looking through it each year we get out the Christmas decorations.

This blog is turning into a long one - hope you don't mind more and more pics!
Moving on to the matchbox ornament, I think it's so darn cute.

I had the premade matchboxes from when Club Scrap sold them in GHM with the Fossils kit (but that was a long time ago), for now one could certainly make their own or find them in the craft stores I would think.

As you can see my first step was wrapping with old dictionary papers.

It's so cute just like this, covered with old book pages, but thought I should add an acrylic paint wash. Blue for the sky and white for the snow.

Then I folded and cut up some of my little paper scraps (no large sheets of uncut paper were injured in this project) to make tiny houses.

I used the "Peace On Earth" stamp from Club Scrap's 2012 WOW Holiday stamp sheet for the little banner above the houses, attached with foam squares to add dimension.

Of course, glitter glue was a "must have".

Then adding a ribbon on the top of the outside sleeve works for a hanger. I would love to make more of these cutties, but need to get a little Christmas shopping done first LOL.

Now, this "Christmas wish in a bottle" only takes a couple minutes.

Just roll up the stamped or handwritten Christmas wish...

...put it inside the bottle. I used waxed linen thread for creating the hanger.  Easy one :)

Oh, and one other little tidbit. At Club Scrap we just put this 12x19 Ivory Text weight paper online (in my opinion, one can never have enough ivory text weight paper for projects) heheee. One side is printed with the Club Scrap logo, but the other side is great for stamping on and creating your very own altered wrapping paper. I had a little fun with it here wrapping a gift.

The possibilities are endless with this ivory text weight paper, and you can get 5 sheets for only a buck, enjoy!

Thanks for stopping to look during the busy time of year!
Hoping you find a little time for crafting this holiday pre-season.

Kay