Hello
Friends…
Welcome to
my page today..Thanks to my new followers and hope to keep your interest in
here with my projects.
Today’s
project is a girly re cycled project for my niece who just graduated from high
school and I wanted to give her something “special” to record all the wonderful
memories with her friends. It is s co incidence that she celebrated her
birthday last week and it was just perfect timing!
You know how
these teens are, especially girls…a bunch of them, giggling and talking and
having fun and talking their minds…they are a lot different from what we
were…do you agree???
I dint want
to make it too girly and neither vintage and so I decided something in between
like bright spring colors, lots of flowers and a keep sake every teen would secretly
admire…
Yes, I made
a TP roll mini album with a hinged binding so it’s all covered and clasped with
all the secrets tightly locked, lol!
I want to
start with the cover where I have used the negative of this ornate oval die and
I applied crackle texture paste randomly with a spatula and let it dry. When it
dried, I sprit zed my new TSUKINEKO inks in Eucalyptus…wow! A lovely green it
turned out to be. I rubbed in some old gold Inka gold with my fingers on the
top and edges. Some chit chat stickers from Ideology completes the scene here.
A perfect
background for the bunch of retro girls peeking from the frame…. Just look at
them…happy and all smiles!
The other
side of the cover has a lovely resin flourish which I made in brown and then
rubbed in Inka gold. The sentiment has the same treatment as the retro girls
frame.
The cover
flap has a crochet lace and a sentiment from KaiserCraft …a perfect reminder
for the good times.
On the top I
have hand dyed the seam binding with DI and followed Tammy Tutterow’s tutorial
to make a shabby loopy bow. I made my first chunky charm with a teen girl in
mind, high heels, comb, colored wooden beads, pearls, keys and more!
I dint
want it too heavy...it is attached to the bow with an Ideology trinket pin
which says “secrets”…I can almost visualize the girls whispering this in each
one’s ears!
I have used
papers from DCWV, as proud as a peacock paper line and some Graphic 45 French
Country Paper Stack papers from my stash.
I have used
6 TP rolls to make the pocket pages…each page has a tag in the pocket and some
stamped sentiments on the main page.
Handmade flowers using Sizziz and Joy
Crafts die add color to the pages.
A mini
wooden peg says “laugh” and floral paper clip for added interest are also used
as embellishments.
I have taken
scraps of PP from my stash for journaling and a bunch of ornate tags too using
Joy crafts die.
Here is pic
of all the little things inside the pockets…so much to giggle and write for the
young lady! I can imagine the glee and joy she would have in journaling the
interesting memories of her high school life…(wink) !!!
I have also
used some funky border stamps from paper Artsy for the front and last page
which has some additional papers slips for journaling or can be used as photo
mats.
The closed hinge
binding makes it a lovely mini book, which can hold a lot of interesting
details, can be closed and sealed with Velcro and tucked inside almost anywhere
so “mom” cannot see, lol! Have you done that…I have…mom, I hope you are not
reading that!
This is
going to my niece as a surprise and I hope it does that! Do let me know if you
enjoyed this post.
I would like
to have my retro girly mini enter the following challenges..
TIOT – retro
1960’s ( I love this challenge)
CraftyRibbons Challenge – AG with ribbon
Loves RubberStamps Challenge- use atlest 2 dies (flowers, ornate oval and ornate tags)
C.R.A.F.T.Challenge blog- Add a charm/metal
Until my
next Creative Journey,
Happy
Crafting and Re cycling,
Hugs.
