Mini book

Hello once again.  Today I have a fun book I made using the new Rosette Provisions Journal.  Thank you so much for the download on this journal Daisy.  It is another great one!!! 

This was a fun book to make, and really easy too.  A friend sent me this link, and I thought this would be an easy one to try for my first mini book.  Here is the deal thou, my paper cutter is in a bad way. I need a new blade for it. So, I tried something different that I recently learned.  I saved my journal pages in my Cameo Software, then I created all the right sizes for the mats and papers and use my machine to cut everything out.  Print and cut is great, and made this book really fast.  

Once I had to book all put together, I had to embellish it.  It needed to be simple, yet I wanted it to be elegant.  It also needed to be mostly flat for folding.   I was not the best at accomplishing this last part as you can see from the photos.  The papers have some great colors in them, which gave me the opportunity to use flowers I don't normally use.  

I hope you like my book!  

Kimberly  

Front of Mini Book

Mini book open to the first layer

Mini book fully open 

Here are some additional photos, close up's of the pages and the pockets created for the mini book.

LackLuster Shadow Box

Here I am once again sharing a project with you from Tsunami Rose Designs.  I have to warn you thou, I am so far out of my comfort zone on this project, proceed with caution.  *smile* 

This week, I decided I wanted to create a shadow box.  Well, something sort of like one anyways. I have had this old Prima flower box for a year or more and have always wanted to create something with it.  So, when the opportunity arose, I decided to try my luck. 

For this project, I used the Lackluster Printable Journal. 

For the background, I took one of the papers and opened it up in Adobe Photoshop, I then sized it to an 8 x 11.5 size so I could trim it down to the size of the inside of the box.  I so love anything that has flowers on it and most all of Tsunami Rose Printable Journals have some kind of flowers on them.  



Once I had the paper  cut to size, I inked the edges so they were all black.  I really like how the one side of this paper looks like lace or beads, and I was very careful to not lose that look when I trimmed and inked. 

I then added the large diamond flourish, and began to add my homemade flowers.  I have really taken a liking to making my own flowers.  I used to think they were to hard to do.  They really aren't, they are just time consuming, and I burn my finger tips often with the hot  glue gun.  *grin*   The flowers around the flourish are simple rolled roses with ink tips. All of my flowers are also made from one of the pages from the journal.  

In the other corner, I added a nifty pocket envelope and a journal card.  I also added a beautiful ticket. Again, everything here has flowers on them.  I topped the corner off by adding three more hand made roses.  This time, I chose not to ink the edges.  Now that they are finished, I am regretting that decision.  I chose not to mostly because I could not decide what color I should use, black seemed to dark, while pink seemed to light.  One of the three, however, I did add a touch of Tattered Angel spray to give it a tiny bit of sparkle. 

All in all, for my first attempt, I am pleased with the outcome.  However, I reserve the right to add elements or make changes.  * smile*

Tsunami Rose Designs ~ Step Card

Good Morning Everyone, 

Today I have a great card to share with you.  I have created a step card using papers Daisy created at Tsunami Rose Design.  I have always loved her papers, and find so many wonderful uses for them.  You need to make sure you stop in and visit and look at all of her wonderful papers and her awesome printable journals. 

For this step card, I am using pages from the Petticoat Ephemera journal. and the Petticoat Add on Pages.   You can view the entire shop here. 

I used a template from the Silhouette store to make the card base.  You can find templates all over the internet, but I wanted my card to be a little larger, so I found one and then enlarged it.  Honestly, this way I didn't have to figure out the new score and cut lines.  I don't call it lazy, I call it efficient. Right?   

For the base, I then needed to make the paper just a little larger, so of course, like I always do, I put it into Photoshop and printed it out as a full letter size sheet.  

The pages in this journal are perfect for a step card.  Perfect graphics, perfect sentiments, perfect colors.  Simply print, trim and adhere to where you want them on your card.  

This Bingo card is simply stunning and was perfect for the step card.  A beautiful young lady who is happy with who she is.   She chose happiness and to be herself.  

To finish off my step card, I needed some bling of course, but not to much as it would distract from the natural beauty of the images and all cards need roses. So, again, I used a file from the Silhouette Store and made it much smaller to make the rolled roses.  Aft I cut out the flowers, I lightly inked them in pink to highlight the pink colors in the paper.  

You won't hear me say this often about my cards, but this one, I really love how it turned out.  I like msot all of my cards, but some, let's face it, I like more than others.  This one fits that bill. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope I have inspired you shop at the store and create something beautiful yourself.