25th Birthday LO

Here is a simple LO for my 25th birthday.
I don't know the name of this paper -- but I love this! When I was at GASC I saw a lot of booths with this paper line. Super cute!
With my Gypsy I made the balloon and banner. The "25" and "Happy Birthday" are all from Don Juan... the balloon itself is from Create a Critter and the flags for the banner from Straight From the Nest.



Thanks for stopping by! Happy crafting!!

GASC LO

Oh what fun! This was my first trip to the Great American Scrapbook Convention - and I LLLOOOOVVVVEEEDDD it! We had a blast!

Something I like about this LO - to spell out the GASC acronym (that is the Don Juan font) - I used my sharpie markers, Simply Sweet, and my Gypsy to write out the "Great American Scrapbook Convention". Love the way it turned out!


Instead of putting the cover to the program of the convention, I just cut out the key points and adhered them to my LO.


Here is a picture of the picture collage I did. Love using these collages! :)

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Mudbowl LO

Every year our youth group at church celebrates the beginning of summer by having a mudbowl. I avoided the mess this year and glady accepted the photographer role. :)

The font is from Don Juan, the brackets are from Plantin Schoolbook, and my favorite is the mud blobs and they are from Everyday Paper Dolls.

I made the font and mud blobs glossy. I used Versamark, clear embossing powder and heat dried it.


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Student Teaching Journals

Hello Everyone!!!

I wanted to share with you a project I have completed. These are journals made from store bought notebook paper. I have made them for myself and some friends who are going to be student teaching soon. I really hope they enjoy them!









Recipe for this project:
Paper Studio - School Days Paper Pack
Doodlecharms - apple
Don Juan - letters
Plantin Schoolbook - Tag
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Notebook Paper (torn out)
Bind-It-All
Jute (or twine) - optional
Glossy Accents - optional

Thanks for looking!!

Happy crafting!

Believe Word Book

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to share a word book and how-to video with you. This word book was a present for a friend to give to a family member for Christmas. I didn't have time to get this video loaded before Christmas, but I hope the video will still show you my basic steps on designing and cutting a basic word book. I used Design Studio, but I'm pretty sure the same steps can be done on a Gypsy if that is what you have.





Sorry that the video is kind of long in length. I am still working on my videoing skills with my new Flip! Plus there were a lot of steps in making this book so that makes it pretty lengthy as well.

I must say that my inspiration for making word books in general came from The Bug Junkie! She is an amazing crafter! Her Halloween Swap Shape Book video tutorials were what got me started with word and shape books!