50s Kitchen Book in a Drawer

Greetings Blog Hoppers!

If you've missed any stops on the hop, check out the Club Scrap Blog for complete listings. This month's hop features the Club Scrap 50s Kitchen Collection.

How do you like the Nice To See You glasses charm on my Wooden Art Dummy? Lol!

The vivid colored papers worked well for my kettle-stitched mini album, which conveniently fits into a handmade Book Board kitchen drawer.

50s Kitchen cardstock was used to make the mini album while the Club Stamp text weight Quad Print worked well for wrapping the book board drawer.

The stamped quote from the Collection UM is perfect for the front of the album. It basically designated the size of the album and it all went from there. This will be great for holding family photos.

Since the mini album rests inside, there's room for setting "stuff" on top of the little shelving unit.

Next on the hop is the lovely and talented Julie, at Cape Cod Scrapper. Enjoy!!!

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

Wooden It Be Nice?

Wooden pieces for mini album covers? It works.
Here at Club Scrap I'm always looking for fun paper crafting projects as well as ways to turn my projects into keepsakes and I think this is certainly one of those projects. These 5"x6" wooden pieces make nice mini album covers! Once again, a simple little thing found becomes a keepsake to me. Here are a couple of the wooden covered mini albums I've enjoyed putting together.

The wooden cover is a good rubber stamping surface.

The wood is soft enough to cut a window into on the front cover.

The wood can be easily colored with any color ink pad.

Now for a peek inside the kettle stitched pages....

I'll continue to fill them with photos, rubber stamping and other memories.

But, for those of you more curious about the construction, here are a couple stepout photos.

This is how easy it is to color and rubber stamp on the wooden pieces.

Then I kettle stitched together a block of pages to fit inside the wooden covers.

Then attached the wooden covers with book binding glue.

Wrapping the paper straps around the front and back covers gives the book pages more stability.

That's it in a nut shell, another fun creating process, but with wooden covers this time!

Thanks so much for looking!

Wishing you a creative day,

Kay