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Found Items Shadow Box for Constance

I have his this project sitting on the shelf literally for months to get done. First I had to get Constance's room finished, which meant taking all of the old wall paper down, putting up new, doing the trim and arranging the furniture to actually display what I wanted to do. Her bedding will be done by Bunny and then her room will be done. She's had a lot of stuff in her room that was jus random and after the years really didn't belong there, but the stuff she needed didn't' have a place. So what's the best thing that a scrap booker can do who owns dolls? Add the two together.

I have been in love with altered art and found objects for a while now but haven’t really had a chance to get anything done until now. I was looking at an old shadow box I had in the doll room and decided now was the time to get one done and make it for my Constance.

So a quick trip to Hobby Lobby to get some really cool moss and some other items and pulled out my huge box of altered art supplies and Constance now has her very own miniature bookcase of goodies for her room and her room isn’t as cluttered.

Here is the box how it started out.

In progress.

And finally done. I’m so happy with how it turned out and I think Constance is happy also. See below pictures.

 

Each individual box was customized just for her and can come out and be rearranged, but right now I like how they are set up.

 

And with the plastic dust cover and lid.

 

Inside Constance’s room for size along with Izzy and Joey to see how tall it is.

 

Joey has already asked for one in her size.

Scrap Happy

Dust some cobwebs off the books and get out your double sided tape. :) The last month or so some of the ladies have been over and we've been having a wonderful "Movie Night".  Along with that movie night, I've enlisted the help to get our wedding book done.  For some reason it has been just looming over me, and not sure if it's because it's finally done (the wedding, the planning) and we've been working so hard over the last seven years, but can't seem to get it done. We have an upcoming "Movie Night" and then the book will be finished.  I'm so grateful for the true friends that I've made and along this journey have enjoyed them very much.  We even have plans for some other books that are more "dolly" oriented.

       

      
 
 
 
 

To Slice or Be Sliced

That's the question, answer and statement.  Along with yesterday's post of Little Man Going to school finally, I had to get some of my other scrap booking projects under way. And in order to do that, I had to finally, get my Making Memories Slice machine and all the bells and whistles that went with it. I so wanted this last year, but with everything going on for the wedding, there was no time or extra funds in the budget to justify it. I was able to get all of mine now, but had them in lay-a-way for the last several months and just got them all out.  Along with Little Man's scrap books, our Wedding book, my BOS, my Dolly book and about a half dozen other projects, this little 2 pound machine will come in extremely handy. 

So first up, everything in it's glory. I even got an apron and some Valentine crafts with everything that I bought.  The only thing I haven't gotten yet is the storage bag.  I don't think I'll be taking the machine out to do projects.  I'm not that hard core yet.

 

The Inspiration Recipe Box. This I had to get on evilBay, and was a little hard to track down.  They either aren't making them anymore, or making new ones, but I found the original.  It's just like a regular recipe box, but with scrap booking/Slice Ideas instead.

 

I figured if I was going to get all of this now, to get as many of the cartridges that I could, or at least the ones I'm really interested in.  So I got Story Time, which is filled with tons of nursery type die cuts.

    
 
 

Next up, Holidays, and Christmas.  The FaLaLa set and Mistletoe cards

     

     

Of course no collection of mine could be complete without Halloween die cuts.  Their Spellbound and Spooky Alley would have been so great to use for the wedding, but time constraints, just didn't allow it. But now while putting our wedding book together there are a ton from these that I can use.

     

     

Holiday Expression and Faith were two that I was on the fence about.  But after seeing them, I'm glad I included them in the sets.  The Holiday Expression are all the words for holidays, months, and days. Faith has naturally all church based die cuts, but lots that I can use on other projects.

     

     

The Calendar card will go along with everything.

    
 
 

With my love of vintage styles, Findings had to come along also.  I'm really excited about using these in a few projects.

     

No gadget loving, tool freak would not have all of the tools with them at one time either, so the 15 piece set was included.  This way, even if I do decided to take it on the road, I'll be able to have all of my tools, and cartridges with me.  The card storage case holds 24 cards and their booklets.

    

Now to the actual Slice Machine. You are able to get this in pink, but since all of the other tools are the mint green, I stayed with that.  Design Cutter, Power Cord, User Manual, Basics 1 SD design card to get you started, 6x6 glass cutting mat, foam brush, 5 replacement blades with attached tool, blade wrench and repositionable adhesive.  The basic SD design card has basic shapes, letters, numbers and a few words.

 

Since I do a lot of 8x8 and 10x8 papers, I figured that the 12x12 glass cutting board would be useful also.

And finally my free apron, and storage case on my desk.  I even cleaned off my desk for this little guy. I've arleady gotten my first request. Little Man wants a "ghost" from the Spellbound kit.

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Time for School?

OH MY GOD, I can't believe that it's time for Little Man to go to school. We sent in our application to the semi-private school by us and he got accepted for the 2010-2011 school year that starts in August.  WHAT?????

There is no way he can be this grown yet.  With his birthday not falling in the summer, he is waited out for Kindergarten till next year, but I think with what he already knows from what I've taught him in the last several years, he might get tested out and be put in Kindergarten a year earlier. Wouldn't that be fantastic. YIKES

So with the application, fees, and tuition, I've had to step up his scrapbooks.  He has several, but the one that I've been holding on to for the last couple of years, is from the Becky Higgens School Album Kit.  When I first saw this I knew I had to get one.  Not only one, but got two extras, in case he gets a sister or brother or if I can give it to another mom whose into scrapbooking also.  It contains everything you need to keep memories in one place for their entire 12+ years of school.  Everything is already die-cut and pre packaged so all you have to do is supply the 12x12 album, photos and journaling.  I started Little Man's over the weekend. I should have all 12 grades done by the end of April, then all we have to do is sit back, wait for his accomplishments in school and take pictures.  

Pre School four years old started.

    

    

    

   

The rest of the years, Kindergarten - 12th Grade.

    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cards, Cards, Cards

While sending out dolls and other various items, I realized that I was running out completely of Thank You Cards.  I did a quick search of my office and came across an old set of Lisa Bearnson Sampler Card Kit.  With some spare time, and after almost a year of having them, I finally got them done.  They are cute and easy and I think after the first of the year might get back into the "Cards of the Month" club.  It's nice to have some hand made ones around and they were very quick to make.

Paper Fetish?

Confessions of a Bibliophile...

Even with my love of technology and having a computer and the iPhone, there is just something so rewarding about writing with a nice pen on quality paper in a bound book.

My love of journals and little books has really taken me to new heights.  I was looking the other day for just some scrap booking supplies and stumbled upon these cute little 5x6 size dairies or journals from Korea.  FireHoth and I both have a fetish for lack of a better word for journals, day timers and notebooks and these are by far the cutest I have ever seen. This is stock picture of one from online.

Each page literally tells some sort of story in it's pages.  They all come with sheets of stickers, full color and so detailed.  They are a little pricer than most, but so worth it for everything that is packed into them.  These to me are better than Moleskins.

There are several different types that are available and I wound up getting four total. I got the hardcover and soft snap versions of the Alice In Wonderland ones because I just couldn't make up my mind.

  

A golden radiation sticker. This makes me laugh.

Cheshire likes it.

All three that just came in.

The Mint Tarot one (can be purchased in Chocolate, Cream and Pink)

And the Pinocchio Hard back edition in Carmel (can be bought in Violet)

The contents of each is pretty much the same for all:

Contents - 1 page

Icon Manual - 2 page

Magic Message - 2 page

Calendar - 2 page

This Year - 2 page

This Month - 2 page/14 month=28 pages

This Week/Cash Book - 4 pages week/14 pages =280 pages

Free Drawing space - 24 pages

Free Note Space - 42 pages

Blank Notes - 22 pages

Cash Plan - 24 pages

Information Page - 6 pages

Diagram - 4 pages

Subway Train Pages - 2 pages

Image paper - 22 pages

Personal Data - 1 page

Total 464 pages roughly

I'm starting to realize my love for Japanese culture and know that if we were to ever get to the Orient/Hong Kong, I'm going to have to have an empty suitcase for all of the cool things to come home with.

KEY WORDS:

Korean Diary, Japanese Craft Books, Planner, Diary, Scheduler, Notebook, Korean, Urban Diary.

New Tools Makes Mommy Happy

The Save the Dates are done, and that led me to clearing off my desk and getting restarted on the programs for the wedding.  Last year, I had started to format Photo Shop into a newsletter, but something about it just never looked right.  I didn't like just the 8x11 type of paper and not a good way to bind it or hold it together.  The finished product is still be revised, but now it's actually in booklet form and I couldn't be happier.  But in the process of getting to this point, I started to look at different type of binders, rings, springs, and everything else in between.  While I was at Archivers I came across the ZutterProducts, and had wanted to get one of the little binder systems that they had, but still couldn't justify the cost.  I still might get it, but not for use for the wedding.  While looking at the binder, I noticed all of the other little bells and whistles they had, and had to get the Cool Tools that accompanies the binder.

One it's pink, so it matches my room perfectly, two, it's compact and now I wont have a million pliers, snips and tape measures all over the room, that I can never seem to find anyway.

Everything all zipped up in one place and it looks great on my desk.  It comes with 11 tools; knife with refills, scissors, wire cutters, pliers, bone folder (which now one in the scrap-booking room and one in my dolly room), stainless steel ruler that is just perfect size, measuring tape, paper piercer, sewing needles and a ball point pen.  With it being in cased, I can take it around the house if I need to do something elsewhere and it's all in a cute compact PINK pouch.

   

365 Project Starts

Well, with the quick shipping of CK, my 365 Project Kits came in the mail a lot sooner than expected.  I still don't know how my order got through on the first and with all of the problems and issues the site had and the ordering was just a fiasco, but I'm extremely happy about mine. 

 

I figured I'd use the first one as a daily journal for the next year.  I'm going to save one for when Little Man goes to school, and might do one for just the dolls.

I didn't realize the scope of how hard it was going to be to start the kit either.  I had already had about nine pictures or so to start with, but putting it all together was an entirely different story.

It took the better part of two days to get it completely done.  Becky wasn't lying when she said to "just put it together first" then insert pictures.  I had everything laid out on the kitchen table...

• 1 12x12 D-ring binder
• 54 12x12 specially divided page protectors--four 6" x 4" slots and four 3" x 4" slots 
on each side
• 399 3" x 4" journaling cards--21 designs, 19 of each design
• 60 4.25" tri-fold journaling cards--4 designs, 15 of each
• 60 4"x 6" header cards--12 designs, 5 of each
• 60 2.8" x 3.8" footer cards--12 designs, 5 of each
• 8 4" x 6" decorative title cards
• 8 4" x 6" decorative end title cards
• 12 12" x 12" decorative cardstock--6 designs, 2 of each
• 25 4" x 6" transparent overlays--5 designs, 5 of each
• 12 3" x 12.5" monthly divider tabs
• 27 days of the week cardstock sheets--378 total stickers
• 11 days of the week cardstock sheets for journaling cards--429 total stickers
• 2 yards ribbon--two designs, 1 yard of each
• 2 4" x 6" decorative boxes to hold journaling cards
• 1 date stamp

And of course having to be precise is what kicked my butt.  I divided up the header cards and tried to coordinate them with each month.  (One thing that I wish she had done on this kit was actually make the cards and papers to go with each month, but I guess since you could use it for one year on anything that would defeat the purpose). 

I managed as best as I could to try at least on the first one, to keep a theme going. I matched up all of the journaling cards with the header cards.  This alone took hours.

   

Then since my handwriting isn't the best for the "week of" section I decided to print them out on clear labels.  Now this wouldn't have been such a problem, if I had paid more attention to the dates.  I was off on about two weeks, so it through the header cards out of whack, but by the time I figured it out I was already into October's cards. I decided the hell with it, and just get them done at this point.

   

After the "week of" journaling, was time to put a sticker a day on the journaling cards. This also took some time, but well worth it to get it done.  One sticker (Sun-Sat) for the entire year.  Oh yeah, and thats 365 stickers. Yeah, I've questioned my sanity also at this point.

   

Finally after back bending, breaking, tear soaked page protectors it was done and I actually put a little more than a weeks worth of pictures in.  I haven't done an actual photo album in years.  I don't count Little Man's scrap books as albums, because most of them are online and more in journal format than pictures.  This will be demanding to do but I think pretty interesting.

For the upcoming pictures I've decided to print them out just once a month and through my account with Wolf Pictures.  There's no reason to burn through my ink.  I'll take a picture a day, but put them on the computer and hold them till the end of the month.  I printed out a years calendar so that I can keep a little note of what each picture is.  So, at the end of the month, print them out, check my notes and do an entire months pictures over the weekend.

If this was just online a picture a day would be easier then writing it out, but I think this will be pretty easy to keep track of and wont drive me to drink as it would by trying to print out a picture and write each day.  I've got too many blogs to take of to do that.

365 Project

EDIT:) YAHOOO, I got my invoice over the weekend, of the actual dollar amount, shipping and real confirmation number.  I called the local number, I'm in the system, and all three are being shipped on the ninth to the warehouse, shipped to me, hopefully by the 15th.  It pays to have several browsers and windows open.

Well, it's been a full week, and I've got my seven pictures.  I'm so happy.  I started the 365 Project on the 28th of December, to take a picture a day for the next year.  I'm not posting them, but they will be in a 12x12 binder, that I'm hoping gets here soon.  See this post for the beginning of this story.  The reason why I say that I hope the kits get here soon is that apparently they were a "pre-order" and aren't even in stock yet.  

The sale went up January first at 9AM Mountain time and it was so popular that the system crashed from Creative Keepsakes, and the phones weren't even manned.  People in Europe weren't even able to get through.  I had planned to order just one kit, but when I even had a hard time getting onto the site and getting through to the phones I wound up, when I was able to get in, to get three sets.  I know I'm going to use them, (one for this year, one for probably when Little Man starts his first day of school, and one maybe for the dolls).  There is still a ton of problems that the site is having with getting everyone's orders in, but I know that I got mine, because luckily I was one of the ones to get an actual confirmation number, and dollar amount.  

This kit sold out in about 15 minutes, and that is a record for the KOTM's. Good for Becky, but bad for business with not having enough people to take the brunt of the orders, no-one to answer the phones, to deal with the overseas calls at all, or to keep the site from crashing.  From the customer service people I have been able to talk to, they've said that the kits will come in by the 9th of the month, and we should have them by the 15th or so.

Several people on evilBay are already trying to resale them, and they don't even have them yet, but reselling them for the highest that I've seen for $275.00.  Pretty sad when they were only $36.00 to start with.

But I'm on the second week of pictures and it's been fun, doing just random shots throughout the week.

My Paper Fetish Just got Worse

Since I organize my life, the best thing in the world for a scrap booker is an actual project that will take the entire year, all wrapped up in a pretty box, and detailed to the max.  I just read about the Project 365 Kit that's coming out January first and I couldn't be more thrilled.  I've been wanting to do the photo ones on Flicker for a while, but this will encompass everything I do during the year, Little Man, Dolls, Wedding, decorating, everything.  All I need to do is take a picture a day and print it out. This is the reason why my camera is attached to my hip.

Here is a sneak peak of what all I'll get, and the listings already for everyday are phenomenal.  I'm already making a list.