Hi there crafters, I am so happy to have another blog post for you. I know I am have been a little quieter that usually. For the last 4 weeks I have been on bed rest by doctors orders after hurting my right knee rather badly. There was even talk of surgery at one point but that was re assessed thankfully.
To keep my self a bit distracted from the obvious difficulties that this injury has caused I have been doing what little crafting I can. I also had a custom order which I was able to work on. Unfortunately I made a mistake when creating the spine and as the title of this post indicates, I made it extra wide, seems I wasn't reading my rulers measurements as well as I thought I was. I personally blame being tired.
All was not wasted, I had some extra supplies and was able to make the custom order correctly. As for the mistake, I kept it for myself and made THIS....
Isn't it gorgeous?!
Here is the flip through video. Remember to like, comment and subscribe!
I have been asked to make a mini album which I am over the moon about. However, I realised I have not made one of these for myself in about a year and thought it was high time I did so. On that motivational point, I decided to go through my somewhat large stash of 12x12 papers that I have collected over the years and made a point of ensuring that this album was not going to be a "collection/themed" album. The reason for this is, well, I knew straight off I did not have enough of a collection or theme of papers to do the entire album.
I won't be listing the papers and who designed them or what company they come from, mostly because all the bottom strips got thrown away after I made the album.
I am sure if you asked around some one can help you with the relevant information about a particular paper I have used.
As usual, there is a flip through youtube video at the end of the blog post.
So instead of using Kathy Ortas "hidden hinged" spine I decided to go with the stack method. This, I find, gives a better strength and stability to the spine and pages. It also has the advantages, for me anyway, of giving me an extra page to add.
For now I am not to sure when I will actually use this mini album but I at least have this AWESOME album for future photo journaling.
The one thing I did want to do with this album for myself was add lots of space in the album, so there are a lot of folds and matts and paper clips to add more things to.
To see the rest of the album have a watch of this.
Thanks for watching and I hope you come back and see what new stuff I have been creating.
Hey all you create creatures out there reading my blog post today.
I got something new and oh so awesome for you. Well, I think it is awesome none-the-less.
Now I have tried my hand at book making for a while and have done many coptic stitch and other binding methods before. This time I tried long stitch. I am so impressed with the outcome, I had to show you all.
There is a youtube clip at the end of the post that shows the whole process of making the book and it was a lot of fun.
I decided to use the Forgotten Meadows Collection and make a leather bound journal with the Long Stitch binding method. There are a few different tutorials out there, but I used this particular tutorial which seems simple and easy to do.
The two library card I put at each end of the book. Which I filled with tags and some of the journal cards that come in the kit.
I printed out three copies of the book pages from the kit. I used the line page to print of the back of all the pages too as I will use this book for notes while out and about.
The book was the be for note taking while I was out so I didn't want to add any flowers or balky embellishing. The book closes up nicely and will be very handy in the future.
Remember to watch the video to see the making of the book and the final project.
Thank you so much for reading this post and I hope you like the project.
AS some of you may know I have not been the best for the last 6 months. Back in June while up in Berri, SA I became mysteriously sick which plagued me for the better part of 5 months. Early November the doctors I was seeing decided after 5 months to finally do some thing and remove my gall bladder. Then came another 2 months recovery.
To help with the healing process a friend and I decided to head back up to Berri for the end stages of my recovery from the surgery. Before leaving I had already started developing a project to do once we return commemorating the closure of the 6 month journey. This is what I came up with.
The entire project proved to be a little tricky to photograph so I did a video instead so you could see how it all worked. The video is at the bottom of the post.
There is further information in the video description when viewed through youtube.
You are most welcome to leave any comments or questions.
Hello there crafters. Todaying I am sharing my next project for Meg's Garden.
I created a mini album using The Gentlemen Collection I design from Meg's Garden. I have been itching to do another mini album but didn't have anything to put in it, until I realised I have a lot of pictures of my archery adventures. This is now my archery brag book.
There is a youtube video at the end of the blog post which shows the construction and completed project in it.
I used the Kathy Orta Hidden Hinge mini album method which I really like as you can create so many pockets and interactive pages.
Inside the front and back covers I created pockets for extra photos and cabinet cards.
Two of the pockets in the mini album were created to hold small booklets for journalling as well, there you will see when you watch the video below.
I watch a lot of Marion Smith'sYoutube videos and like a lot of her designs and collections, but I have never bought any of her printables as I have SOOOO much paper and craft stuff! I saw this little project on her youtube channel and saw the printable was only $5 and I could use a lot of the stock I already had. The video for the project is embedded at the bottom of this post.
It was so simple and easy to make (with a few little hiccups along the way) and I have so much fun making this little project that I plan on making it again with some other papers.
