Mom Treasure Book

My Mom's birthday is December 13, so I made a special treasure book for her.  She loves the color purple and butterflies, so I used both of them in this book.  I found the idea for this book in a video.  Paper Bag Mini Album Insturctions  I am not going to bother recreating the wheel by posting instructions.  But I do want to share the different components within the book I made.

Here is the cover.  MOM is cut from Gypsy Font. 

The cover inside and out are lined with paper from Close to My Heart.

There were a total of  8 horizontal pockets.  The smaller pockets have embossed butterflies (using the cuttlebug butterfly embossing folders).  The longer pockets have butterflies made out of glitter paper.

This is a trifold (accordian folded) with swivelling hooks made out of gold shimmer paper to hold it closed.  The closures are adhered with pop dots and swivel on mini brads.

Here is the trifold unfolded.  This is reserved for photos.  

Each set of pages is covered with a different paper (all in shades of purple).

Here is a waterfall card.  I put M O M on the squares.

 

I'm not overly happy with how this one turned out.  It opens up (see next photo).  I think it will probably end up as a place for journaling.

This is a double display card also reserved for photos.  The top is gold shimmer paper embossed with the cuttlebug floral fancy folder.

The verticle pockets have ribbon attached to them.  The larger ones have purple ribbon.

The smaller verticle pockets are also embossed and have white ribbom.



Matthew 10:29-31 Wall Hanging

This is a cute little wall hanging I made for a dear friend as a Christmas gift.

Supplies:

• 2 sheets 12 x 12 black cardstock
• 11 x 11 white cardstock
• 3 x 12 pink cardstock
• 6 mini brads
• 2 feet pink ribbon
• Popdots

This is pretty straight forward.  I adhered the white cardstock to the black.  I cut branch at 8.74 x 5.72 from Home Decor and cut the bird twice at 3.16 x 2.04.  I cut 12 flowers from Home Decor and hid the center.  The top flower layer I scored the flowers into 5 petals and then using my paper piercing tool, I gently curled each petal around the piercing tool.  I poked a small hole into the center of each and then put a mini brad into the center.  I put a popdot on the back of each and adhered them to the branch.

A nice ribbon saving technique that I like to use is to cut 2 pieces of ribbon; the first piece should be about 3-4 inches longer than the area where you want to put it and the second should be about 1 1/2 - 3 inches (these measurements of course depend on how big the place you are putting the ribbon is.  Next tie a loose knot into the center of the longer piece.  Slide the shorter piece into the loose knot and pull both ends of the longer piece straight out.  Then just adhere the  two endsto the back of the piece you areputting the ribbon on.

Gift of Cards (Part 5)

This is called a swing (or flip flop) card.  Again, it looks pretty complext, but it is quite easy to make. 

Supplies:

• Purple shimmer paper 6 3/4 x 5 1/2
• 2 pcs white cardstock 3 3/4 x 2 3/4
• Pink shimmer paper
• Red shimmer paper
• Black cardstock
• Black ink
• Clear embossing powder
• Heat gun
• Popdots

Measure in 2 3/4" and then score down from 0 to 1 1/4 and 4 1/4 to 5 1/2.  Flip the base over and then repeat the first step.  Next turn the cardstock a quarter of a turn, measure in 1 1/4" and cut from 1" to the score line.  Lift up the cutting blade and cut from the score line again down to 5 1/2".  Again do this on both sides.  Adhere the white rectangles in the center of the cutout you have just made.  I cut the heart from the pink shimmer paper using Home Decor.  Using the blackout feature I cut the same heart from the red shimmer paper.  I cut the music notes from Hannah Montana out of the black cardstock.  I then inked the notes and sprinkled them with the clear embossing powder.  I melted the embossing powder with the heat gun and then reapplied the powder and heated three more times togive them a nice glossy sheen.  the hearts are attached to the front and the back of the rectangle with popdots.

Gift of Cards (Part 4)

This is called a wiper card.  They look very difficult, but they are quite easy! 

Supplies:

• 2 pcs white cardstock cut at 6 3/4 x 4 1/4
• Pink shimmer paper
• Red shimmer paper
• Cream shimmer paper
• Glitter
• Computer generated sentiment



I found a video for this type of card which makes it much easier than trying to type out all of the instructions. 

Dawn's Wiper Card Video

I cut the cupcake from Home Decor, once out of the pink and once out of cream and then using the blackout feature I cut it out of red.  I cut the cherry out of red and colored the stem brown with a marker.  I added a bit of glue to the cherry and coated it with some glitter.