Elyse's Confirmation

This past weekend our niece was confirmed and I thought it would be nice to make her a mini album/journal  in celebration. Of course I wanted to coordinate her album to her outfit and I was given 3 colors to work with.....aqua, navy, and tan.

I left ample space for journaling and pictures...

...along with plenty of pages with pockets for cards, notes, and memorabilia.

I ended up with quite a few scraps and decided to make a couple of small notepads for her siblings.

DETAILS:

The blue stamped image had been hanging around for a couple of years and while sorting my craft area, I put it on my craft desk to put away and it landed beside this album.....how perfect, I couldn't have asked for a better design for the focal point. All of the crosses were glued to Tim Holtz Fragments with Glossy Accents. DP is DCWV Juniper Berry. 

Flower ribbon, tulle and twine, along with seam binding was used throughout the entire album to tie everything together.  The washi tape matches so well you would never know it wasn't part of the paper pack. Three of the pages open for additional pictures and private journaling. 

Usually when making these journals a 1.5" Zutter wire works perfectly, but after adding extra pages I found binding to be my biggest challenge. Thank goodness Mr. B has a tad more patience than me and was able to put it all together with eyelets and D-rings.

Whew, finally done and Elyse loved it. 

Such a blessed and happy day!

CHALLENGES:

Crafting from the Heart: #7 Anything Goes/Use Flowers

Loves Rubberstamps: #92 Washi or Faux Washi Tape

Through the Craft Room Doors: Anything Goes 2/25 - 3/3

The Ribbon Carousel:  #90 Washi Tape Week 4

I am still burrowed inside from the single digit temperatures outside....brrrrrr! Between naps and daydreams about warmer weather, I keep wondering why I haven't moved south yet as the midwest is a tad bit too cold for me this winter. Again......brrrrr!

Y&FH Hang Loose Release Day! (picture heavy)

Happy Y&FH Hang Loose Release Day!!!

 

Aloha! I hope you've been enjoying the previews of the Hang Loose series at the Y&FH blog these past couple of days. If you have, you'll know Leanne and the rest of the DT have been busy showing these adorable new images off.

 

I decided to use almost all of the images in one project to make a mixed media journal cover. I feel it is necessary to say that I am in no way an expert on mixed media, I just like using all of the products and will sit for extended periods of time coloring and painting and outlining.

 

The images and sentiments were stamped on a piece of watercolor paper and after coloring them, gesso was applied over the entire page.  Multiple colored Gelatos were used for a rainbow effect...because I always think of rainbows when I think of Hawaii. Additional images were colored and fussy cut, and after gluing a few of them to the page, gesso was applied again.

 

 

 Additional stamping, chipboard letters, and DP were added.

 

  

TH Fragments and Glossy Accents were used to make charms, but after deciding they were too large to use as charms I glued them onto the cover.

 

 

After a few more layers, this is the finished journal.

 

Summer Yumi, Tiki Surf Set, Honu Set

 

 

Summer Chuckes, Tiki Surf Set, Honu Set

 

Summer Chuckles, Summer Yumi, Summer Fumi,

Tiki Surf Set, Honu Set

 

 

All of these adorable images can be found at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade online store, along with all of the Y&F collections.

 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave such nice comments, they always make me smile!

:Dxx

Winter Yumi Journal

Happy Tuesday! I decided to use Yumi and Fumi Handmade 's Winter Yumi for today's post...I just LOVE her cool hipster look and happy stance. I thought she'd be great on top of a journal for my daughter, which I'll give to her on Thursday...Valentine's Day. 

 

 

In honor of Valentine's Day I thought I'd use the word LOVE as much as possible in today's post, so here are all the things I LOVE about this journal...

 

I LOVE the mesh bling...OMG, I mean I LOVE mesh bling!

* I LOVE the Colluzle heart template I used

**I LOVE the foil and flock rub-ons

*** Lot's of LOVE = LOL

I LOVE my BIA

I LOVE the reason why I made this journal...my daughter

 

Copics:

Hair:E31, E34, E37

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20

Jacket: R81, R83, Rv02, RV04, W3

Tights: N4, N8

Hat, Scarf, Skirt: B91, B95, B99, BG000,BG10

Boots: R05, R46

 

Thanks for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me, I LOVE my bloggy friends and all of your sweet comments! 

:Dxx

 

* When I gave away all of my  Colluzle templates a while ago this was the only template I kept, because I LOVE the shape of the hearts.

** Thank you Wendy!!

***A hilarious quote from the movie Dodgeball.

Fumi Panda and Happy New Year!

 

Happy

Happy

New Year

Once again, I can't say how excited I am to be the January GD at Yumi & Fumi Handmade....these really are some of the cutest images, and every time I see them I always smile. I've been wanting to use Fumi Panda for a while, and I knew exactly what I was going to make with this cutie....a(nother) journal.

 

I made the background paper on the computer because I wanted to personalize this with one of our favorite family stories...that the first time we took our youngest son to Panda Express he started to cry and told us, "I don't like panda meat."  Too cute!

 

I've been waiting for the perfect project to use these beads to make a charm....if you look closely you'll see a glass panda bead.  There are also a couple of wooden beads with kenja symbols that I found at OTC. The Ying/Yang symbol was made using my Pagoda cartridge.

 Copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20, R22

Hair, Eyes: E33, E35

Costume: N1, N4, N8

 

Thanks for stopping by,

I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2013!

:Dxx

FBW #220 Open Challenge

This week's challenge at Flutter By Wednesday is the same as it has been for the entire month of December,  OPEN.... which means you can enter any project/card as long as it has a fairy and/or butterfly on it. We'd love to have you join us....feel free to link up HERE. And while you're linking up, check out what my fellow teamies came up with....I can assure you that they have some wonderful projects to share!

Whew, I'm almost done showing off these fun journals.... not only did my nieces, daughter, and friends enjoy receiving them for Christmas, but I had a lot of fun making all of them!


Prima Madeline DP
Gold embossing powder on chipboard letter
Image: Sugar Nellie Woodland Fairy
Ranger: Polysparkle embossing powder
Asst ribbons and beads
Mini pen (thnx for the idea Eva!)



I thought I'd try something a little different this time and made a combination journal and post-it note pad.



TH Tattered Elements sentiment



Handmade charm made with TH Fragments and Prima Madeline DP, along with assorted beading

Hopefully you'll find a few crafty minutes to join us at Flutter By Wednesday this week...maybe you have some new and fun supplies you're  wanting to try!

:Dxx

Journal #3 for Elyse

Thank goodness my shopping is done, all of the Christmas cards and packages have been mailed...and tomorrow will be dedicated to spending the entire day wrapping presents.  That leaves me with making cookies at the end of the week for a cookie exchange I'm heading to on Friday, then cleaning over the weekend.  I'm sure I can squeeze in a few hours to finish up on the last couple of journals I still need to make.

This journal is for our niece Elyse...she's energetic, athletic, independant, sweet, silly, and fun!

I used this week's sketch at Anyone for Anya and flipped it to show how I worked with it.  TGF's Soccer Anya was printed twice in orange and once in blue, with the blue Anya being fussy cut and centered between her two orange team mates. Because I printed the images in two different colors I didn't feel the need to color them...making for a quick and easy project.

This post is going to be short and sweet...as I've got those journals I mentioned earlier, along with a few other projects to work on. Thanks for stopping by and leaving such nice comments...they really do make my day.
:Dxx

Journal #2

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Please scroll down or click HERE for today's

SCRS Preview of Chinese New Year Rin.

 

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I think I warned all of you that I'm going to be keeping myself busy making journals for Christmas gifts this year, here is journal #2 that was made for my niece Michelina. Michele is a freshman at college this year who is creative, athletic, and down to earth....she is such a warm and inviting person,  she is the girl everyone wants as a friend.

 

 

TGF DTT challenge is It's a Rainbow,  which I had to join because there's something magical about prisms of color. Yes, those are violet highlights in Anya's hair!

Anyone For Anya has a Button challenge.

 

I'm going to show off a little bit and show you the charm I made that was inspired by these two challenges...I am soooooo happy with the way that it turned out. It started with wanting to make a charm out of buttons, but it needed some bulk....so I added beads. I'm not going to add this to Michele's journal because it makes it too busy looking with the patterned paper, instead I'm going to save it for another project down the road.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave such sweet comments, they really are appreciated.
:Dxx

A Journal for Macala

In case you're wondering....what is my all-time favorite project to make? Banners! But second on my list is making journals...which is a good thing because I've decided to make journals for all of my nieces for Christmas this year. You might even get tired of seeing me post so many...but hopefully you won't?! LOL.

 

 

This is for my niece Macala who just turned 10 less than a month ago. She's into bright colors, fashion, dancing, glitter and TIARAS! The green tulle tied on the binding has glitter embedded in it and when Macala come over in October for our annual rib-fest she was playing in my craft area, swirling and twirling all night with strands of this tulle...leaving a mixture of glitter and dust floating in the air for days. I couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time....there was glitter EVERYWHERE!

 

How awesome that I won this adorable Bean from TGF a couple of weeks ago and it just arrived yesterday...after inking it up this morning I couldn't wait to multi-color her hair....ADORABLE! I also made a charm using beads and TH fragments...a girl can never have too many fragments!

 

The sketch on the cover of the journal is by Kathy Curry and I've used it before a couple of times, the simplicity of the sketch is what works so well.

Challenges:
Yumi & Fumi Handmade:    Use ribbon or lace
Anyone for Anya: No patterned paper
Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes
Use It Tuesday: Ink it up finally

Thanks for stopping by and leaving such nice comments, they always warm my heart!
:Dxx