Matchbook Box With Mini Album

I've been on a mini

album kick lately... just can't seem to want to make anything else. After watching this video by Arlene, I decided to try making one to fit into the Graphic 45 Matchbook Box that I had bought awhile back. She used the French Country collection by G45, and since it's one of my new favorites, I made mine with the same.

Other than the Graphic 45 

items, I used I AM Roses flowers, two buttons from my stash, two My Mind's Eye brads, crinkled seam binding, a Momenta metal key, an Idea-ology metal Label Pull. I also used a Spellbinder's Floral Motifs die.

Here are the individual

pages of the mini album. I cut them from medium weight black chipboard. I punched the holes with my Crop-A-Dile and added two We Are Memory Keepers wide eyelets on the cover, leaving the others plain for less bulk.

Not being sure what

I'm going to do with this project, I just inserted copy paper rectangles where the photos will go.

I left the label pull

empty as well, with the thought of adding a title or someone's name when the time comes to either use it in my home or give it away.

I started out by

giving the box a few coats of Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist... brushing it on instead of spraying. I then heat set it, and at this point... my heat tool shot out sparks and died. Hummm... now what? I use this gun more than any other tool.

The only solution...

quick place an order with BlueMoon Scrapbooking for another. Might as well add on a few other things to make the over fifty dollars free shipping... right? (Can you believe, it came in four days!)

I put down the 

papers with Tombow Multi glue, inking the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink first, then added my embellishments.

Here it all is...

a VERY Happy Place!

I think I need to make some cards next, but after those, there are three other albums I want to try.

I'm linking up at:

Anything Goes - Heavy Metal

Crafting by Designs - Spring Flowers

Crafting For All Seasons - Floral Delight

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

Compliments Of The Season Tag

The tag I want to show

you today is a combination of old and new. I inked this #8 manila tag with Ranger's Weathered Wood, Tattered Rose and Vintage Photo then gave it a spray with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold. Then I proceeded to cover it all up???...

What's the point?

Well, I changed the image that I was going to use to something a bit larger. When going through my box of last Christmas's odds and ends, I found this piece from Graphic 45's Christmas Emporium and knew I had to use it on this tag!

I love this collection!

I had saved every tiny piece I had left over from my cards and tags last year. 

My tag wasn't quite

sturdy enough for all the embellishments I had planned, so I pulled out a sheet of cardboard from an old Pixie Dust Paperie kit, cut a square and glued it to the G45 image. Edged it with some Vintage Photo DI and added it to the tag layered on top of a paper doily.

I glued a section of 

American Craft crocheted lace to the bottom, then added I Am Roses flowers and leaves that were misted with Lindy's Stamp Gang Scintillating Silver Glitz Spritz. The time piece is from Prima and is topped with a My Mind's Eye brad.

I cut three snowflakes

from a scrap of white cardstock with Alterations Mini Snowflakes die. Adhered on red rhinestones from a pack from TPC Studio that is nearly empty, and popped them up with 3-D foam squares, the last of that pack, too.

A sheer bow at the

top completes my odds and ends Christmas tag... and I have a sense of satisfaction knowing that these bits and bobs haven't gone to waste.

I'm entering my tag at:

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Tags

Crafting for All Seasons - Use Flowers

Shopping Our Stash - Odds and Ends and/or Waiting to be Used

Tuesday Throwdown - Lots of Layers

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!

Linda

In Everything Give Thanks

This is one of those

quick, hurry up posts that I need to get done NOW because the challenge is closing... yikes!...

Word Art Wednesday's "Give Thanks" challenge.

This paper is from the

Prima Fairy Belle collection and is called En Pointe. It's teamed with white and Chocolate Mocha cardstock from Core'dinations. I used Walnut Stain Distress Ink on the edges.

The flowers and leaves

are I Am Roses and the feathers came from Hobby Lobby.

The blue organza ribbon

is by Darice. The metal butterfly is from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

Sorry to have to run.

I just might get this in on time.

I'm linking my card to:
Crafting For All Seasons - Thank You Cards
Papercraft Star - A Thank You
Sentimental Sundays - Thanks/Thanksgiving
Tuesday Throwdown - Thankful For You
Word Art Wednesday - Give Thanks

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!

Linda 

Give Thanks

This is one of those

projects that just made me feel good to create. You know... where everything you've used came really cheap or free, and half of it was already put together when you started.

Let me explain...

1. The journal was purchased at Hobby Lobby at 40% off.

2. The leaves, tag and burlap string were given to me free along with a purchase made on Etsy.

3. The alphas came in a kit purchased at a discount. 

4. All the inks and paints used were bought on sale.

5. The white rings were made with a toilet tissue cardboard roll... have to recycle, ladies!

6. Most of the background was already down as I always use all my inks and paints from previous projects... like you see on that opposite page! Waste not, want not... an art journalists creed.

This all adds up to a "happy crafter"!

As, like I said, a lot

of the background was already on the page, I just sponged on some Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I laid down the Crafters Workshop Chevron Arrows stencil and spritzed with plain water, let it sit a minute, then dabbed with a paper towel and dried with my heat tool.

Added Vintage Photo

Distress Stain to the center of the white circles, then Ripe Persimmon went on using a CW Mini Chicken Wire stencil. I stamped on a verse from the TPC Studio Autumn Harvest clear stamp set (bought at 40% off last year) with Coffee Archival Ink.

I inked the edges of

the alphas and glued them down, highlighting them with Yellow Ochre acrylic paint. Applied the Alterations mini leaves and the tag/string that I stamped with Nov 22, 2012, our Thanksgiving Day in the US.

I real bargain, if I must say!

I'm linking my page to:
Balzer Designs - Art Journal Every Day

Crafting For All Seasons - Falling Leaves

Sentimental Sundays - Dimensions

Shopping Our Stash - Best Deal Ever or I Had To Buy It, It Was On Sale

Stamping Sisters In Christ - Colossians 1:3-5 Thankfulness or Prayer

The Play Date Cafe - #156 Cinnamon, Squash, Vanilla & Sage
Word Art Wednesday - Give Thanks

Thanks for the visit!

Hugs!

Linda