The Daddy Files

Hey Everyone! I hope you are all having a great day and enjoying what's left of summer! I can hardly believe that school starts in just over a week for us here. I will have two kids in school and my Hubby & I are headed back to school ourselves. I'm feeling a little unprepared for this big change for us, but totally excited at the same time!

Well I know that this is kind of off for the timing, especially since Father's Day was back in June. I had to wait to share this awesome mini album I made using the Artbooking Cartridge for a customer until she had given it to her honey! Now when I started this little project adventure, I had never made a mini album and so I was pretty nervous. (See even I get nervous sometimes, especially when working on something for a customer!) But it turned out to be pretty easy to do.

I used most of the images on the Top Secret key from the cartridge and just sized each of the pages so that they matched. Sized the cute images to work with the size mini album and then I went to work cutting. Of course gluing too! I was pleased with the turn out! I obviously could have gone with more embellishments but I decided that if my customer wanted more to it, then she could add what she felt it needed to complete the gift. I liked the simplicity especially since it was meant to look like top secret files! I think in the end the hardest part was punching holes in all those pages for the cute Baker's Twine I used to hold it all together. I actually broke the hole punch my hubby bought for me and I had to go pick up a crafting one, so it could handle all the layers.

I hope this gives you fun ideas of great gifts and projects that are so simple to do! Don't forget Get Crafty!

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Items Used

Artbooking Cartridge

Cashmere Cardstock

Outdoor Denim Cardstock

Slate Cardstock

Olive Cardstock

Buttercup Cardstock

Crystal Blue Cardstock

Black Cardstock

Some various decorated cardstock

Chocolate Ink

Cocoa Ink

August's Stamp of the Month is this super cute 'Owl'oween set! I absolutely adore this set! Spend $50 or more and get this set for only $5, or order it at its regular price of $17.95. Remember not to let this cute set pass you by, because starting September 1st it will no longer be available

Damask Divas Blog Hop: Timberline

It's another month and another Damask Divas Blog Hop! I've been feeling a bit out of the loop these days, so I'm so excited to be back joining another Hop! Let me officially welcome you! If you came from the Fabulous Amie's Blog, you are in the right place. If you have jumped here and just discovered our blog hop, feel free to check the list at Damask Divas Blog to find the complete list of blog hop participants.

This month we are showcasing Timberline paper pack and I don't know about you, but I love this set, because it is so masculine and great for all those projects that need that bit of outdoors to it. I don't know about all of you but I have found it really hard to locate paper that is truly fitting for cards for men or scrapbook pages. Maybe its just where I live, but anyway, when I saw that we had a set that was outdoorsy, I couldn't help but think that this was perfect! It was fitting for those hard to create projects for the men in our lives!

That being said I was delighted to get to showcase this paper right before Father's Day. I made a set of four cards that are nearly identical in set up and almost in the papers I used, but I wanted to show that with the particular paper you can get a variety of looks just based on the cuts of paper you use. I used only one sheet of paper, it had the wood board look on the one side and the variety of sayings and outdoor images on the back. I also used a Daisy White CS base and stamped the image in Cocoa ink on a piece of Cashmere CS, which I then used my sponge with more Cocoa ink to distress the edges of that small piece.

 I cut a 3"x5 1/2" strip of the wood grained side, then a 2"x4" strip of the otherside. I dovetailed it and layered it on top. I added my Saying and gave it a bit of pop by using 3D tape. So simple and yet so cute. I love trying to make more complex cards, but I still love being to whip out multiple cards that I know will look great. This is just one sheet in the set and you could use this same layout with any of the other sheets or even any other sheet, but this set is absolutely fantastic!

 

I also managed to use the thin strip at the top of the page to decorate the inside of two of the cards. I loved how simply I was able to tie the inside with the outside! If you want to add this paper pack to your collection, go to my website and order yours today!

  

I hope you've enjoyed our Blog Hop thus far, your next stop is Lilian's Blog! Don't forget to Get Crafty!

Artbooking Made Easy: Love, Love, Love

Good Evening Friends, I hope you enjoyed my post from yesterday and got cute ideas for making your own fun Dress Cards for Mother's Day or for whatever event or occasion you think they will be perfect for. I'll be sharing a sneak peak later tonight on FB and will post my latest project tomorrow sometime. For now I hope you'll enjoy this video from CTMH and perhaps find a way to work this super cute idea for Mother's Day or even for Father's Day! The ideas certainly can carry over to whatever project you are currently working on and you should take the time to experiment and learn the new techniques, cause even if you mess up, you'll have learned something new! Don't forget to Get Crafty!