snips n scraps of me gets a face lift

I have been wanting to personalize the look of my blog for a while.  Now I finally have with images of my great grandma's fashion scrapbooks and a new header and color scheme.  I hope you like it.

A little something...

Started working on an altered Altoids tin and mini book withe the G45 OZ paper while I was at Perfect Day.  Aren't these Valentine's day tins adorable?  I just used the cardboard insert as a template to make the heart shapes; so simple to do.  (I went back to 7-11 and bought two more, I was so excited to alter them.)

On Sale Now

Yay passports for the 2013 So Cal Shop Hop went on sale today!! This year's theme is recipes, sounds like so much fun!

Get it at your home store early and its only $10!!  With 20% off that pays for itself.  Check out the So Cal Shop Hop Facebook page for more details.

I had a total blast last year and am looking forward to another year!!

News and recent event in my crafting life......--UPDATED

1.  Southern California Shop Hop tickets go on sale tomorrow!!  If you buy your passport or bring a passport from a previous Hop many stores will give you a 20% discount this weekend!  Check out the So Cal Shop Hop 2013 Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/socalshophop

2.  I will be teaching a class (my first one) at Perfect Day Scrapbooking in Huntington Beach on Wed, March 13.  It is from 6-9pm and will cost $32.00.  I will show you how to make a mini album that features Carts Bella's Well Traveled paper.  It will have all sorts of cool stuff like envelopes, file folders and embossing techniques.  I will post pictures of the full mini album soon.

Check out the Perfect Day Website for more info and other upcoming classes  http://www.perfectdayscrapbooking.com/Classes.html

3.   I am working on a few really fun projects and hopefully (knock wood) I will have them all done and shared here on the blog before March 22nd!  Wish me luck

UPDATE...Due to unforeseen circumstances (paper is slow in arriving) my class has been postponed.

Multimedia Class- Splash of Color!

Yesterday I got to go to Splash of Color in Huntington Beach, CA and take a class taught by Marah Johnson.  Splash of Color is a merge of Creative Imaginations and Viva Decor.  The class was about multimedia techniques, particularly those using their new Silks acrylic glazes.  We made a collage board that can be used as a display for the items we used.  (I gave Rachel mine to put in the store.)

The Silks were pretty awesome.  The were sheer and iridescent, but were smooth and didn't make the paper go all wavy.  They also mixed well with gesso.  I also really liked the Inka Gold products.  It was so simple to add some shiny gold or other metallic to a project with just a swipe.  The Splash od color crackle was cool too- its like a paste not a paint, they also make a base for it.  The base lets it be sticky in the "cracks" so you can add Perfect Pearls or maybe glitter.

I had a really nice time and met alot of local Southern CA store owners.  It was also pretty cool to meet Marah Johnson, If you go back to my first post I think I used at least 2 of the Creative Imaginations papers she designed.

Now to get my havds on some gold crackle and a couple - few Silks and dress up my sketchbook cover.....

The Last Christmas gift of the season

To finish off my crafty Christmas /holiday season there is another gift I want to share.  This one is for my friend who introduced me to scrapbooking through the Cricut. 

I used another kit from Pinecone Press.  This one is a perpetual calendar / address book using Graphic 45's "Place In Time" papers.  I have recently started to get into buttons as embellishments, so I added quite a few.  In fact I added so many buttons and embellishments that the book doesnt close flat. Luckily my friend loves a minibook so full it looks like its exploding!

Also the book gives you an option to make photo mats to add your own pictures to the calendar decorations or to just make it decorative and add extra images from the beautiful paper.  I checked and my friend said she would prefer the extra images and embellishments. So that is the version you see in my pictures. Which, by the way I took with my phone, so the quality may be meh.

Front Cover: I choose slightly different images for the cover and added some buttons, pearls, a cameo and Teresa Collins bling.  I also added ribbon and some paper roses to the spiral binding. The kit comes with printed calendar and address book pages that are pre punched for the spiral.
 

January (and following months): The kit has you add the pattern paper across from each months calendar and as a strip at the top with the month.  The background is from the pattern side of the G45 paper and the decorative pieces are from the other side with the images and borders.  The kit has a diagram of where to cut.  On each month I added a button or other embellishment I thought matched the vibe of that month. Like a cameo for February, a star in July or a button that says lucky in November.

 

 

 

The address book portion didn't have any decorations.  If you are interested in getting a kit they are available on the Pinecone Press website.  The additional materials I used were various buttons (I know some were October Afternoon and Teresa Collins), rhinestones, pearls, and other embellishments.  And although the kit does provide you with plenty of ribbon for the whole book, I did use some additional ribbons I liked.

I think this book is a great idea, especially for people who are as forgetful of dates and birthdays as I am.  In fact I bought a second kit I intend to make for myself.