A bit more with She's Creative

Here's a nice simple layout to make with the She's Creative kit.
My border was punched from the Craft cardstock and inked. The flowers are distressed with Old Paper distress ink and the title was created by laying the alpha stickers over my photograph outlining with a black pen then removing the stickers. I then slightly sanded inside the letters and added Glossy Accents to create my title.

Claire x

Mini Book Page 5

Another day another page! For this one cut a rectangle of the star print paper from the kit in a size that almost covers the whole of your page, leave a gap at the top and bottom. Draw a star shape on a scrap piece of paper and cut it out. Place the star on your star paper and spray ink and mists over the top - I went with black ink and a gold mist. Remove the paper star then leave to dry or pat dry with paper towel.

Matt your photo on to a piece of patterned paper  and cut out the paper leaving a large boarder. Round the edges of your photo matt. Take one of the larger paper flowers from the kit and cut it in half. Glue one half to the top of the photo matt and one half to the bottom. When the star paper is dry glue it to your page along the left side. Glue the photo piece to the right side of your page. Stick a piece of tape along the bottom of your photo then add your title over the top. Cut out small strips of paper and glue them along the top and bottom of your page. Tear one of the scalloped edged note cards from the kit in half and glue it upside down along the top of your page. Make a journalling block from a scrap of one of the plainer patterned papers and add it to your page along the lower left corner to finish.

Stop by tomorrow for the next page!

xx Leo

Rock 'n' Roll Star Sneak Peek #1

The next Quirky Kit is coming together! Rock 'n' Roll Star features papers and goodies from the Pink Paislee 'Sweetness' line, Sassafras 'Count Me In' line, Sassafras 'Mix n Mend' line and as usual lots of fun quirky custom and vintage goodies.

Look out for it's arrive in September!

xx

Vintage Holiday Minibook page 4

Cut a piece of kraft cardstock to fit on your background from top to bottom and ink around then edge then add it to your page. Spray over the top of your page with black in ink a Mini mister. Cut out scallop circle shapes from three of the papers and place them along the bottom of your page. Cut out a smaller rectangle of patterned paper and punch the top with a Bind it All tool to make it look like a torn notebook edge. Glue this piece above the scallop shapes. Add some masking tape over the top of the scallop circles and the rectangle. Matt your photo on a piece of patterned paper then distress the edges. Glue the photo to your page using 3D foam pads so it's layered half over the top of the scallop circles and the rectangle. Stamp some star shapes on scraps of paper and cut them out. Doodle more stars on scraps of paper and cut them out. Layer the stars around your photo. Add a title to the top of your page. Finish with some stars doodled on your kraft cardstock and some journalling.

Stop by tomorrow for the next minibook page. The last one will feature on Thursday.

She's Creative

Or rather he is in this case.

I thought I would show you how versatile this kit is and made a male page.


I am loving this kit and have lots of inspiration for you so keep checking back !!

Claire x

Vintage Holiday Mini Book page 3

Round the edges of the photo and matt it to a piece of patterned paper then cut out leaving a small boarder. Distress the edges of the photo matt. Add a dab of glue or tape to the centre of the back of the matted photo and stick it to the middle of the page. Cut up small random sized rectangles of patterned paper and layer them up around the photo gluing them so they're slightly underneath the photo edges.

Add a strip of torn paper to the bottom of the page and a large rectangle of patterned paper. Add the title to the bottom of the page and a journalling spot to the top. Add two rolled roses to embellish, on this page one is made from paper and one from fabric. Distress the edges of your page to finish.

xx Leo

Vintage Holiday Minibook Page 2

The second page in my 'Vintage Holiday' minibook......

Round the corners of your photo and matt it to a piece of patterned paper then cut out leaving a small boarder. Cut a larger piece of patterned paper that covers almost all of the bottom half of your page. Tear the bottom edge, matt it to your page. Layer some of the blossom embellishments from the kit around the left edge of the paper. Add two strips of patterned paper along the right edge.
Add foam pads to the back of your photo making a small pocket to accommodate a tag. Add the photo to your page. Add your title running down the right side. Make a layer of lace, paper and embellishments in the top right corner of your page to finish.

Pop by tomorrow for the next mini book page!
xx Leo

Get Creative with the 'She's Creative' Quirky Kit { vintage holiday minibook }

oday I'm sharing the first part of my 'Vintage Holiday Minibook'. I've used mostly goodies from the She's Creative Quirky Kit. I'm going to begin with the minibook cover and the first page then post up a new page everyday till we're done.
Rather than buy another album I decided to make one using the packaging from the kit. This is incredibly easy to do. First decide on the size of your album pages, (if you have some page protectors already to use make your album cover large enough to accommodate them) then double it on one side, (portrait or landscape side depending on how you’d like your album orientated) and add around half an inch to accommodate your spine, you can make a deeper spine if you choose. Cut a piece of card from your pizza box to this size. In my case I decided to make a 9x7 inch size book so I cut my pizza box card to 18.5 x 7 inches. To make the spine I measured 9 inches in from each of the sides so it left a spine of half an inch then folded the sides up. For the cover I used the fabric of the tote bag from the kit. Cut the bag in half down one side then cut off the top and then wrap it around your book. Fix it in place with glue, (I used Pritt Stick) then use a sewing machine to both add decorative stitching and to help keep the cover together. I used the handle of the bag on the inside to cover over the seams and used a chunky zigzag stitch to both add a decorative look and to help keep it all together.

Because the pizza box is made from corrugated card it will squish down under the sewing machine and it does sew well – this won’t work with thicker chipboard or greyboard so don’t try it. You will need to keep the sewing machine foot lifted to get through the layers.

To add your pages to your book make two holes along the spine with a Cropodile and set two eyelets in the holes.

You can make your pages from spare pieces of card from your stash as I’ve done here or you can use a pack of page protectors. Thread two pieces of twine or string through holes in the edges of your pages.

Thread the ends of the string through the holes on your spine.

Open out your book and turn each page so the string makes a loop inside your book. Tie the ends of the thread together on the outside of your book.

The cover of the book was decorated with some lace sewn along the bottom edge, (this one is from the August card kit here) some of the Sassafras glitter stickers and 4heures37 chipboard from the kits, a lighthouse doodle drawn with Promarkers and a vintage denim rolled rose. The extra alphabet stickers are by October Afternoon.

Page 1

Cut out a background paper for your page. Spray over it with blue ink in a mini mister. Cut a piece of kraft cardstock to run from top to bottom of your page. Cut a piece of patterned paper out as a photo matt. Round the corners of both the photo and the photo matt. Fix the photo to the photo matt with some tape in the top right corner. Add some cut out pieces of paper and embellishments and position them around your photo, allow some to slide underneath and some to layer over the top. Add the journalling to the bottom half of the kraft card. Punch out some butterflies from patterned paper and glue them down the right side of the page to finish.

These page layouts you could change up to any size you like. Stop by tomorrow for the next page of the mini book. If you've already delved into your kit leave a comment bellow sharing what you've made.
xx Leo

Create 10 Goody Bag Prize Draw!

During Create 10 we were very good and used up all our scraps so it makes sense that we deserve a treat! If you completed any of the classes during Create 10 and have left a link either on the Flickr group on this blog or on the UK Scrappers group you will have been entered into the draw. The winner will receive this super yum bespoke kit......

It comes in it's own little bag too which you can alter if you like or use as a tote bag for crops. There's everything you need to start creating right out of the bag!

OK here we go....
The names were written down and added to a bag then one was drawn at random. So the winner is.......

Mollymoo email me your details at enquiries@craftyprincess.co.uk and I'll get your kit in the post for you. :)

I think I've replied personally to everyone who emailed their thanks for the classes but I'll mention it here too! Thank you for taking part I'm really glad that people are getting something out of the classes and it's given you ideas and motivation to use up your leftovers. :-D
xx Leo

Apologies.........

Sorry for the lateness of the Create 10 draw, just haven't got around to sorting it out yet and I'd like to take a photo of the goody bag but some of the goodies I wanted to add are still in transit :( They should arrive tomorrow because I've been waiting for aaaaaaaggggggggeeeess. Anyway just wanted to post up to let you know what's going on and that I haven't forgot about it!
xx Leo

New August Card Kit

Have you seen the new August card kit - it's just out today! This time around it's called 'Chilled Out' and it's got a fun vintage summer vibe. The kit features lovely new papers from the Sassafras 'Indie Girl' line along with co-ordinating card that you can use to make shaped card bases with plus embellishments that add texture. Have a peek at the full details on the main site here.

Here's a quick card I made this afternoon using goodies from the kit. I went with a summer theme with the ice cream cones but stuck with the subtle vintage tones for a different look. The message is printed from the PC on to a scrap of kraft cardstock. The font is a fun one called 'Junko’s typewriter' you can download it from Dafont here.

xx Leo