Hortensia Perpetual Mini Album

Hi Crafty Friends I'm here today to share a project for Clare at My Creative Spirit using Stamperia's Hortensia Collection.  If you aren't familiar with it please check out the links at the bottom of this post.  If you love flowers, especially hydrangeas then this is truly the collection for you.  Hydrangeas have always been a favorite for me.  Growing up Momma had huge ones growing outside our dining room window.   I remember one year she picked a large bouquet and dried them for a centerpiece.  My goodness they lasted forever.  So pretty, so many memories....

Isn't she beautiful?  She's dreaming of peace and contentment and a world free of Pandemics, less stress and turmoil, oh wait, I think that's what I'm dreaming of.  

This book has a hard front and back with accordian pages that open to the right and left.  A fabulous design Clare made!  It allows you to view the complete front or back all at one time.

Your best look at the mini is through my YouTube walk through video.  In it I will share each page and all the tuck ins, pockets, hidden treasures etc.  The link is at the bottom of this post.  

These are the first two pages.  As I said, it's stunning paper don't you think?  Stamperia never disappoints.

For those of you that have followed my creative journey you know I love repurposing things.  The parchment bag and the pink doily with the flower cluster were all one bag gifted to me by my friend Paula.  I cut the bag top off so I could use bits on both pages.  It's the perfect complement to the papers. These are pages 3 and 4.

Pages 5 and 6 share one of the lovely purple hearts my friend Manuela (Bunny Bow on YouTube) gifted to me many moons ago.  I've been hoarding but I thought it time to share with whomever purchases this book. Things are always better when shared don't you think?

I have created a playlist for anyone wishing to know how I created any of the elements you see on these pages.  Each two pages are a separate video so it will be easy for you to find the correct video without having to wade through all the things you may not be interested in.  These are pages 7 and 8.  Here I created an acetate window which eventually could house a very special photo.

And as all good things this one ends with pages 9 and 10.  I hope you've enjoyed this little visual of the book and pages.  Please join me over on YouTube so you can see the whole book, start to finish.  

Have a wonderful crafting day my friends!

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Post Bound Albums

 Hi Everyone I'm sharing today another kit I did for Clare at My Creative Spirit.  Check out the bottom of the post for links to her store and social media, my social media and the two videos I made sharing the finished project.  Enjoy!

I'm just going to share a few teasers here so you can get a feel for the book

You'll want to check out the videos

to really get a feel for it!

This is a post bound kit, meaning you can replace or

extend the posts to give you all the 

expandable room you want

to add more and more

photos.

My mini has 9 pages 

plus the front/back covers

I used black cardstock that

Clare had sent me for the

inside pages.

narrated walk through

photos only

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Notebook and Wrapper using Stamperia's Inspire Collection

Hello my friends! Today I'm sharing my first project for the My Creative Spirit Design Team, owned by the fabulous Clare Charvill.  I've used Clare's A5 Notebook Holder kit with the Stamperia Journals.  I loved the journals at first sight.

The wrapper is actually a plain paper bag transformed into this lovely carrier for the journals.  I have a complete, step by step process video which I will link below if you'd like to adapt the concept to one of your journal projects.

The front inside cover has a clustered pocket to hold tags.  The journals are held by black cord elastic so they are removable and replaceable as you so desire.  I won't be doing a process of the video with the journal how to's since you get those directions with the purchase of Clare's kit.

The back cover also sports a pocket, a little different shape, but easily able to hold multiple tags, photos or mats like the ones included with mine.

I included a dangle on the front with two metal charms that say Handmade and Made With Love.

The front pocket on the wrapper has this darling tag included with paper from the collection.

Please check out both videos, the walk through and the process, to really get a feel for this journal and wrapper.  These would make such lovely gifts.

Walk Through

The Process

Check out Clare's Store for purchasing information of her A5 Notebook and the Stamperia Paper Collection Imagine - A5 Notebook Holder & Wrapper - https://tinyurl.com/y3bfcf6a Stamperia Imagine Paper - https://tinyurl.com/y26ssfvq Black Construction Tape - https://tinyurl.com/y42cvzpc Please visit My Creative Spirit at - Shoppe - https://www.mycreativespirit.co.uk/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mycreativespirit.co.uk YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/c/MyCreativeSpirit Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/clare_charvill/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/mycreativespirituk/ Blog - https://www.mycreativespirit.co.uk/blogs/blog Visit me at A Soul's Heartbeat on Blogger - http://asoulsheartbeat.blogspot.com/ Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/zbph36l YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/nwlady1949 Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/northwestlady/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nwli

Napkin Embossed Cards

 It's always so fun to find a new technique, try it out and fall in love.  Wow that's how I've felt using the napkins Whitney Kosters and I exchanged.  I came out on the good end though because she really had a bunch to share!  I've seen YouTubers using napkins on tags, mats, cards, journal pages lots of stuff but I really hadn't given it a good shot.  Boy am I sold.  How easy fun and wow what fantastic results.

Here are the four cards I've made so far.  I used some Anna Griffin Mix and Match embossing folders on two of them.  They have pop out sentiments that you can change up.  I'll link to where you can find them below.

Remember these color papers I made from the my last post?  They are the remains of the Viviva paints on my glass mat after I was done.  My goodness you just cannot toss something like this.  Let's see what I've made with two of them.

 

These two background were some of those papers.  They just were the perfect accompaniment to my napkins.  I can't wait to use the rest of them.

I'm hanging my head in shame here, I've had these beautiful embossing folders from Anna Griffin for eons and had rarely used them  The card directly above I made step by step on the video below.   I really like how the embossing adds to the napkins.  I'll leave a link below where you can purchase the folders since they are out of print now.

 

I did add some antique lace on a couple of the cards.  Can you imagine the house it took to do the tatting on the right?

Please check out my video and as always thank you everyone for stopping by.

EBAY - A Dream A Day 

Anna Griffin Trellis Mix and Match Embossing Folders

Anna Griffin Embroidery Mix and Match Embossing Folders

Anna Griffin Assorted Mix and Match Embossing Folders

Viviva ColorSheets

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Viviva ColorSheets

Viviva reached out to me to see if I'd like to play and review their colorsheets.  

Oh my goodness I love them.  Any of you that follow me know I'm no where near close to an artist. If you asked me to draw a cat and I did you'd say what's that.  Yeah I'm that bad.  But I can make blobs and I can doodle and the two of them together created some very beautiful cards.  Well, let me show you - 

 

 

Because I'm such a beginner I have a habit of picking up way too much color so when my cards were done my glass mat had lots of color still on it.  I couldn't throw all that away ink so I used my blank watercolor paper to pick it up.  I'll be able to use them for more cards, backgrounds already made!

 

Gorgeous colors huh?

Viviva ColorSheets

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Monica Taylor's Harvest Fair digital printable kit - transformed

 Hi everyone, Monica contacted me a while back to see if I'd like to play with one of her new printables.  I chose the Harvest Fair Bundle .  Instead of a journal though I decided to do an assortment of projects.  I definitely wanted some fall cards made.

I made three cards and loved each one but my favorite is the fussy cut tree, 

someone is going to love getting that I'm sure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Included in the printables were tags and a pocket. I'm saving these for a future journal 

 

 

The last project was an altered Composition book.  

They are always so inexpensive this time of year and make great tuck ins 

when you need just a little something for someone.

 

 

I hope you've enjoyed my little picture walk through of projects.  

If you'd like to see more, or the how I did them please check out my video below. 

Monica's Website and the Harvest Fair Bundle Kit

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