MiniBooks

This is another mini paperbag book. This one is for my nephew to keep his memories of Nana and Papa's house. Fishing, ice fishing, walks kayaking, boating and playing. This one has fabric, string, acrylic paint and copper brads. A little more of a worn masculine look compared to the girls (previous post).


Scrapbooking mini style is really fun!!








I saw an example of a tag like
this in a magazine using the daisy
K & Co. papers. I loved it and had to make a couple for the girls minibooks.

Paper Bag MiniBooks

These are the little boxes I found, just the perfect size to hold my paperbag minibooks.
One for each of my daughters to hold those special memories from their nana and papa's log cabin on the lake.
The front of this one has some beading for the word "fun". I sewed the bags together for a strong binding then punched holes for the ribbons.
I love the paper bags because you can sneak in so many pictures and journaling for some great pull-out surprises.
Some painting here with letter templates. I started these books 2 Christmases ago and really need to finish preparing the inside for pictures and send them off to nana and papa's house.

Mini Birthday Bag Book

This little gift bag book hold pictures of my daughters best birthday pictures. 2-3 pictures for each birthday from 1-5 years is taped to one side and tucked into the top of the bag. This is three bags decorated and held together with loops on one side. The middle bag handle is cut off and the bottom of all three bags are cut off and glued on the bottom.

Cardinal Paper Mache Ornaments

I really wanted to make one more winter craft before the Valentine rush so I decorated two mini paper mache boxes. They are filled with microbeads to make them shakers, wrapped in paper and layered with torn pieces of old cards. I wrapped them in trim from old doilies and added an eyelet screw to hang a treasure. The final touch is my wonderful Aleene's glitter snow. They now adorn my winter berry wreath. I am on a cardinal kick this year (see my tag with alcohol inks also in Jan.)

Winter Homemade Envelopes

This is my favorite handmade envelope. I made it last winter. I figured out the dimenesions I needed for holding extra pictures on a scrapbook page or for giving pictures as a gift. Then decorated it with vellum, lots of microbeads, buttons, utee, paint and wire. The snowflake is mini Christmas ornament. This envelope has one of my handmade faux seals made with clay. This also has vellum, utee, and fabric. I pulled the white fuzzy off string to attach for a snowy feel.

Favorite recent layouts

These are just a few of the layouts that I had the most fun making in the last year. Fuzzy string, some copper and paper sewing on the dog layout and a beaded letter I with buttons on the "precious" layout.

Spring Lay-Out

This spring lay-out includes stamping, punches, stickers, chipboard words and a metal G. Although I love winter, I needed to start scrapping from 2 springs ago YIKES!! So behind.

Tags

I have been working with Tim Holtz alcohol inks. The tree tag background is metallic paper with alcohol ink dabbed on for the "snowy" effect. The two bottom tags are foil papers altered with the ink ready for my crafty embellishing. I love how this ink really sticks to any glossy surface including metal (brads on tree tag).