FINISHING OFF THE BLOG FOLDER

You will remember that I've been sharing some of the remaining items that have been lurking in my blog folder for some time. 

First up a birthday mini book for my friend's daughter

I send them blank with lots of add ons and some double sided tape so she can fill it full of photos relating to birthdays and parties etc. 

The inside of the book was quite simple as the papers were really effective, the book is in the style of the one I created for the Wear Crafts National Scrapbook Day in 2014

And these are a selection of the pages and pockets

Here is the link that relates to the original post with a downloadable instructions for this book if you fancy a go yourself

I also did some fun mail art last October, when asked to do a guest blog post over on the Weird Scissors Blog, check out their blog here

And finally the UK Scrappers stocking I put together last year with some of the contents, the main reason for sharing it, is that it's the first time I've made a stocking and I was rather pleased with the finished result

Hope you have a happy scrapping day!

SHARING MORE CREATIONS

Good morning, following on from yesterday's posts I thought I'd share some other recent makes that don't come in the 12 x 12 format.

This one is a little mini book I created for a school friend, the design is the same as the one I created for Wear Crafts National Scrapbook Day last year using some fun bright papers I had.

I love to create these little books, I do one for each of her daughters and also a Christmas mini book too and I know she has an absolute blast filling with lots of memories and photos documenting birthdays and Christmas.

I think it also shows how versatile the mini book is, I've done it in all sorts of papers and the book looks different every time.

The other positive on this one is that it also not too big, so hopefully not too daunting to fill.

Lots of glittery happy papers!

Lots of other things to share over coming days - you'll have to forgive me if they are Christmas based though!

CKCB - LAYOUTS 6, 7 AND 8

Morning all - more counterfeit kit layouts this morning, I'm having fun with the kit up to now but as yet haven't managed any of the challenges - hopefully will resolve that this evening.

First up hubby and Lara Croft's vehicle from when we visited a car museum last year.

I used a small stamp I got recently for the title and journal blocks.

Next up is a layout I did as part of the Big Picture Classes for national scrapbook day, I'm not one for blending paint with my scrapping very often because I don't like the fact that it 'buckles' my paper, however I've discovered leaving it underneath my two craft mats over night goes a long way to flattening it back out.  I know a lot of people use chipboard as a base but I dread to think how heavy my layouts would be if I used chipboard all the time!

And the final one is another Big Picture Class inspired layout.  It was to create a page in a project life style and include lots of photos, I did two of these layouts (need to share the other one yet) but if I'm honest it didn't really float my boat - not as much as the one above, I think it was a case of if you are going to do project life do it if you know what I mean!

Right work beckons hope you're all having a good day!

WEAR CRAFTS - NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY - MINI BOOK

Good Morning to one and all hope you are enjoying the National Scrapbook Day, as promised here is a beautiful mini book using two out of three mini book kits available from Jen at Wear Crafts, if you haven't got your hands on one of these kits yet, don't worry there is time yet to get one.

This is Option 1 Mini book and if you click on the picture (fingers and toes crossed) it should take you to the Wear Craft link for this kit

Option 2 Mini book is 

And Option 3 Mini book is 

Each of these kits retails at £10 and is full of lots of gorgeous stash to make a mini book with - so are you ready

Here are the PDF instructions for the book

WEAR CRAFTS - MINI BOOK INSTRUCTIONS

Now the decoration of the books is really up to yourself but knowing what I'm like with mini book classes sometimes you want to repeat the original design, so here is the detail

Pull out from the first pocket

And the back of it

 

Now on a couple of the pages - I gutted the centre element and used the frame on one page (as in the yellow frame below

 and used the centre element on the opposite page

 Another gutted frame, the sentiment was used on the front cover

The second mini book

another one of the 'gutted' frames, frame on the left and gutted piece on the right

 And again, frame on the left, gutted piece on the right

 I did the same with this page, took out the bracket and then used some 'scraps to put behind the page

 then used the cut bracket on the right hand page

 This page was technically 'portrait', by turning it I had letters going the wrong way down the page, therefore I cut the ink pen element and stuck over the words

Pocket elements

And yes before you ask I have completed the mini book here is what mine looks like

 This is a pull out pocket element

and the back of the pull out

The little wooden embellishments are part of another Wear Crafts kit and was an add on to the mini book.

Still got to get the date for the photo!

Another gutted page, and used a circular photo

The gutted circle on the left hand page.

 Pull out pocket element

 and the back of it

 Gutted frame placed over the top of the photo

 The gutted bracket used as a journal block on the right.

 Another gutted frame

Journal block

 and here it is finished

 And from above

 The other mini book

 again the wooden butterfly is part of another Wear Crafts kit

 Another gutted frame over the top of the photo

the letters chapel comes from the gorgeous sticker sheet which is part of the kit!

And there you have it, hope you like and hope you get to enjoy the instructions.

Happy National Scrapbook Day