Little Book

Good Morning All

When I am at home I keep a Diary for writing reminders and lists etc etc.

So when I go away I dont want to take it with me as it is A5 size and as I am limited on weight and space when travelling with a budget airline.

So I decided to make myself a little book to take with me when I travel and I have kept it now as it is a good size to keep in my handbag all the time.

This is the tutorial I used on You Tube

I folded little squares of paper to use for lists and these slotted in the slots in the pages.
I copied reminders onto these too, from my big diary.

Quite cute and useful too.

xxxxx

Wendy L


Diet starts today, weight has crept back on slowly but surely, so got to get it in check.
More walking too.




CHALLENGES
Craft Dee Bowz 33 - AG
Not Just Cards - AG

Picture Album

Good Morning All

I was browsing You Tube the other day and came across Dawns Inspirations and she has a blog  HERE.  I was looking for something different to make as I have loads of cards on stock and wanted to make something else.  This is what I found or, rather,  my version of it.  Made from a cereal box !!!!!

This is the front before I added names.

The papers are PaperMania Capsule Collection from a goodie bag quite afew years ago.  They are nice, strong papers.

The tags are cut from beer carton cardboard using a Spellbinders Ribbon  tags die.

I have put the names of my grand children on the front - Hollie Anais and Noah Jacob and will fill the first half with pictures of Hollie and the second half with pictures of Noah, the problem being, which pictures to choose.  

I used all the pieces of paper even if there was not enough to cover one piece of card in one go, as the papers all blend OK, I added half and half!!!!

I didn't quite have enough to complete every card so used plain orange on some.

Dawn shows you how to make the tabs to use as pull outs and / or  labels.

There are loads of pockets to put pictures and they are matted on cards and slide inside the pockets sideways and in the tops.

I am in the process of making another one of these to use to put my slimming recipes in that we are given at the club, so I will blog that one when it is finished.

Dawn has some lovely ideas on  You tube and on her blog, so I'm sure I shall be attempting more, so watch this space!!!!
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Craft My Life - Anything but a Card
Make My Monday- Anything but a Card
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Add Ribbon
Lothian Crafts Challenge 31 - Love Using Your Dies (Spellbinders Ribbon Tag)
Really Reasonable Ribbon 88 - anything but a Card + Ribbon
   

Birthday Book

Good Morning All

I am a happy bunny this morning, why you may ask,  because I made something yesterday and am really pleased with how it turned out.  I was browsing around on You Tube and came across a demo for a little book, I decided to turn mine into a Birthday Date book as I had a little calender book on my desk that John had given me and had never got round to using it.  The tutorial is HERE, and this is how mine came out.

It is 3 and 1/2 inches square as I used  12 x 12 paer to make it.

I used wool in all the tags and pulled the edges.

There are 6 slots in the top and one in the side.  So I put two months in each slot and a plain card in the side one.

I just takes one piece of 12 x 12 paper and I made a cardboard cover for mine and covered it with material cut off when I shorted my curtains here in my craft room and decorated it with a tiny tag and some flowers.  Ribbon to fasten it with.

There is room on the back of each card to write and notes and names etc.  It could even be used as a diary, there is room to slot extra bits of paper or card in.

I think I will be making more of these and just use months with number, not an actual calender, so that it could be used year after year.

xxxxx

Wendy L

CHALLENGES ----
Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes + Ribbon
Crafting for all Seasons - For the Girls
  

Anything But Not A Card

Good Morning All
Allsorts time again and the theme this week is Anything But Not A Card so get your thinking caps on and away you go.

I chose a Digidarla Sentiment and decided to make another book, a sort of diary/ reminder book for birthdays, appointments etc.

This is a brilliant way of using all your bits - short pieces of ribbon or twine, any odd flowers and any odd embellishments, see further down on this post.


I made a mistake by cutting two holes in the wrong side of the front, so I cut corresponding holes in the back and put some rope through to use as ties for keeping closed.  These were very, very white so I rubbed some ink on them to tone them down, the same colour ink as I used for the edges of the sentiment and the front and some embellishments.

Inside this book I put quite afew leaves,  folded and glued to make pockets to store any bits and bobs - photos, appointment cards or any other stuff.

 This is the inside of the first cover.  I used a sheet from Astrid Artistic Efforts HERE and I made a book mark and slotted it on the inside.    

Then a full year of monthly diary  sheets from Cuddly Buddly HERE.

 I use these for my birthday reminders.



I only stuck these down at one edge so that they can be removed at the end of the year and fresh ones glued in without making too much mess.

I glued the remainder of Astrids sheet on different pages.

Odd bits of waste peel-offs to make the pouch stand out.


I tied strips of webbing on coloured paper clips, both to use and for decoration.

I stuck envelopes on some pages, and on others, I glued triangles of card  to make a little pouch for storing photos or cards.

 I cut tags that could be used as a title card for what is stored in that pouch.  I cut these from pieces of birthday / Christmas cards that people give me to recycle.

I carried on decorating the pages with odd bits that I had on my desk and in my scrappy box (which is getting very full again, I will have to have a splurge again soon).

A different envelope.

Another piece from Astrids sheet.

On the back sleeve I had a larger print of the sentiment so I made another pocket with it and put a tag in it.

This piccy show the top edge of the book and the bits of  web / ribbon tied around the page clips.



An odd scrunched paper flower and a felt flower stuck to the middle of it.


I loved making this book and could probably have used alot more bits.

Back to the Challenge -------
                                          Digidarla Designs will give the winner 5 images of choice.

And Pin & Tack who are giving a  $10 voucher

                                                             

Here is another example of a book using the same sentiment.

                                                                          Front Cover

Not as many embellishments though.

Inside

At my slimming club we have a raffle every week. We all take a piece of fruit or a tin of something, I took this book and a lovely lady won it whose hubby had passed last year (I think) and she said she would use it to keep memories of him in - snippets from newspaper, cards and notes etc etc, which I thought was a lovely                                  
                                                                idea.

  As a result of that I got orders for four others too.

Have fun with this challenge and I look forward to visiting your blogs to what you have created.

xxxxx

Wendy L

CHALLENGES -----

By The Cute & Girly - Vintage

Joanna Sheen - Recycle  Odd pieces ribbon and old birthday cards for tags

4 Crafty Chicks # 139 - Felt

Crafty Ribbons # 44 - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Paper Crafting Journey - Use a Sentiment

Crafting by Design - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Fave Colour Combo

Bearly Mine # 83 - Digi Days

   

Sunday Mojo No. 3

Good Morning All

If you saw my post here you would have seen the bits for the Mojo Challenge that John gave me, this is just a little challenge  between John Next Door and I.

These are the bits again, we can use all or some and add our own bits to them.This is what I came up with.

 This is the first one - An easel card using numerous die cuts of my own and quite afew of the bits that John sent round.














This is a close up of the lovely paper he gave me.

Second item was the book and this is what I came up with - a Secret Hiding Place like you see in Spy Movies!!!!!

 I stamped my initials on one of the tags, inked the edges of some of the quilled flowers.





So this is the front.




This is a side view showing that it is a Patricia Cornwell novel (I do enjoy reading her books sometimes)

 This is what I did with the inside, it took a while with a very sharp craft knife and I have kept all the insides to cut flowers from.

 I stuck a sheet of the patterned paper on the inside page to cover the hole.









Attached ribbon to tie it closed.

This was something abit different and I really enjoyed it.   It also got me into making some smash books / envelope books 7 memory books  as shown in the link above.  John gets alot of hard backs from the books at work that they can no longer sell (they sell 2nd hand books in the shop) and they are perfect for covering with nice paper and making these books with.  There will no doubt be more of these in future posts from me.  I have already made one for my my sons partner who has just found out she is having a baby.  I have put lots of pockets inside it so that she can keep records and appointment cards or memory bits for her and the baby.  So I think afew people will be getting these as  Christmas gifts too.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

PS.  Here is what I  have put together for next week, No. 4. Plus a stamped image which I have not done yet.  The die cuts are from a set of Spellbinders I bought without reading properly (I seem to do this alot) I I think you need a set of stamps with them.  They are meant to be Lillies, they are on a set with Crosses on, which is why I bought them,  for sympathy cards.  I am eager to see what John does with them, as he has an artistic eye for things like this.

CHALLENGES -------------

Creative Corner Challenge # 11 - Layers  Easel Card

Hotshot Craft Blog # 15 - Not a Card  The Book

Ladybug Crafts - Use Blue

    

Books

Good Morning All

John Next Door has set the new challenge for Sunday 24th, but it may be earlier as he has commitments, so keep watching.  I will show you what he has sent at the end of this post. A hint is 'books' this got me into what I have made here.
I saw these books on Youtube and I thought that it would be a great idea for storing my digis that I print off ready for colouring, and I can store them with a piece of paper reminding me which digis they are as  I always forget.

It is called an 'Envelope Book'

 You could add as many envelopes as you would like.  I used the front and back off a hardback novel.  John gets these from his work, as they throw old book aout that have not sold.   I covered it with Papermania Capsule papers and decorated it the Papermania flowers from the same collection.  I distressed the edges and made a fancy binding with me Spellbinders Edgabilities.

This is a view of the top showing how you stick the envelopes on a piece of card that has been scored and folded into 1cm mountain and valley folds.






I love it, and I am going to make some more to take to my 'DIL's for gifts when I go on my Hollie Days on Easter Sunday.
I have found out this week that I am going to be a Nanna again.  This time it is my son who lost his son in 2010.  He is settled with a new partner now and seems very happy, I am so pleased for him and I think he is ready for this now, it has obviously taken time and he has been through some very bad times.

Dont for get that my candy draw takes place on Sunday 24th March, this will give the winner time to get their address to me before I leave for the UK.

This is what John gave me for our challenge this week.    
Everything is blues/greys -  paper, card, ribbon, flowers, diecuts and strips of glittery card.

And an old novel. 

I have definately had to get my thinking cap on for this one.  I have completed one and thinking about the second one now.
xxxxx
Wendy L

CHALLENGES -------
LEJ Challenge # 48 - Add Flowers
Crafty Sentiments  - Flowers Galore
Really Reasonable Ribbon # 68 - Flowers and Ribbon
Tando Creative # March week 2 - Flowers
Sarah Hurley # 78 - Recycle