Vintage Crate with Altered Christmas Tags

 
It is that time of year when my thoughts turn to documenting my family Christmas. I normally make a mini album with a page for each day. This year I decided to make a series of tags and I altered a crate from 7 Gypsies to hold them all.

This beautiful flower is new from Maya Road and yes the bling comes in the center! I used my Cameo to print and cut the circles for the tops of the tags.

I used DecoArt's Crackle Paint in white on the crate first. When it was dry I lightly inked with silver metallic ink, then added touches of Metallic Luster in Silver and buffed it to give the crate an aged look.  I added paperclips with embellishments to several of the tags - a great way to tuck extra things on them! - this little glittery light bulb is my fave!

 For each tag I sprayed with Perfect Pearls mist and added ribbons, flowers, and other embellishments.

I used the Festive Collection from Tim Holtz - paper and ephemera - to decorate the tags as well. 

Travel Journal made from Scratch

Hi everyone,  I love to travel and I love to record my memories almost as much. For my trips I normally make a mini album, so I can stuff all the little stuff I collect in there with my photos to save. This little album is from a cruise we took in 2012.

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I used a lot of 7 Gypsies for this album, I really liked the colors of these lines. For the cover I added a Maya Road tin, butterfly and  mini chipboard.

Lots of journal cards so I could record my days. Using my Cinch Binder makes it so easy to add all kinds of things in my albums.

I used some Basic Grey journal spot stamps here and there, and I added several manila tags from 7 Gypsies too.

Because I was using a custom binding I could add pages of any size- I included several mini pages, fold outs and pockets.

I used a whole pack of the 7 Gypsies journal cards and I turned some on their side to change the orientation. I love having the little odds and ends sticking out of the album.

Adding a manila card to black cardstock makes an instant page!

I added numbered tabs to three small tags and bound them in the middle of the album.

I used a couple of the 5x7 photo pockets and I simply covered the seam with decorative paper before punching and binding. I think it gave it a better look.

Lots of pockets to put tags and other stuff into.

For this page I adhere two photos back to back, cut them into a pennant shape and bound them into the album.

I didn't use a lot of embellishments in the album, instead I layered lots of papers to create the dimension.

Do you make mini-albums? Have you tried the Cinch Binding Tool? It is so easy to use and you can make the most amazing albums using it. 

Thanks for stopping by today, have a wonderful week!

Bridging to Cadettes- Part 1

Howdy blogging friends!

How have you been??? 

I have missed all my virtual friends these last couple of weeks.

I am slowly on the mend and getting better eery day.

Since I am still on pain medication I have not 

attempted to do too much scrapping!

I have doodled around in the studio a bit here

and there, but mostly I spend my time

lying on the couch and letting The Hubs wait on me :o)

Not a bad deal really!

I wanted to share a layout I finished up. I started this when I was 

at retreat in August, but I just couldn't file it away as "done" -

it needed a "little something".

I FINALLY figured out what it needed and finished it up.

One more Girl Scout Layout down!!!

I have used some older Bo Bunny papers for this one. 

I really wanted to express the passage of time and these papers were PERFECT!

I used my Cricut for the title, bling is from Recollections, and the

journal card was fussy cut from the PP.

I fussy cut the clocks out of coordinating paper and scattered them

around my layout. A little spritz of mist on the background helped to

finish the layout off and the brads are Bo Bunny.

Now you know white pace is my enemy and I think this is why I couldn't put this one away -

I had this large space in the center that was making me nuts!

MUST FILL IN WHITE SPACE! 

So I grabbed my favorite set of 7 Gypsies stamps and filled in.

Yes, I know I typo-ed the journaling, but such is life.

I had my years mixed up!!

And look - it is relatively FLAT! Yeah - mission accomplished.

This whole making flat pages is killing me!

I need to finish of this project and go back to making

lumpy pages again,,,,,, soon.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

I have another post-op check up tomorrow,

I am really hoping that I will be freed from the couch.

But it isn't likely. He told me two full weeks, maybe three. 

Very. Big. Drag.

Seriously.

Anita