The Book of Memories: A Mini Art Journal

A Book Of Memories

Memories…something that we never forget, as least, I hope that is the case. I have so many wonderful things that I want to remember. I wish our memories were like flash backs in the movies- vivid color, crisp images and and the ability to quote a conversation word for word. I for one can remember none of these things. But I recall the feelings and emotions associated with a certain event and that in itself is enough. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we all had books filled with our favorite experiences and memories, playing back the event as seen through our eyes? I really want someone to invent that!

Instead, you will have to settle for this mini book I made using some new stamps that I LOVE!

Creating the Mini Art Journal

As I mentioned above, these stamps are newly released by Seth Apter for PaperArtsy. They are so amazing! I feel as though I cannot say this enough. They are full of detail and are the perfect blend of grunge and vintage.

For the Cover, I stamped one of the main images, aged it, colored it and used chipboard to create a cover.

The inside pages were made using white card stock and covered with old book pages. I stained everything using Distress Stains to create an aged page. All the stamped images and background stamps are from Seth’s new sets. You can see my release project for Seth new stamps HERE. Also, I just completed a art journal centered around my all-time favorite drink, TEA! It is called Splashes of Tea.

Thanks for Stopping by!

Kate

Challenges Entered:

Craft Stamper: July Anything Goes

Love To Create: Challenge 13 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Creative Artiste: Challenge 28 Anything Goes

A Inky Mess: Challenge 12 Mixed Media

Little Darling Mini Album

I made this mini album cover for Pink Persimmon. I used texture paste in the background and some metallic paints.

I used a die cut, flash card and a few stamps from Lisa Pace’s Antiquated Collection. A rosette and a charm to top it off.
Have a great week.
Kate

My Thankfulness Journal Part 2

   Thank you for coming back to see more pages. Enjoy!

Kate

My Thankful Journal Part 1

     I started this journal a few months ago and am almost finished. I have taken pictures of completed and non-completed pages. I used a Wendy Vecchi Art parts journal and Prima ‘Printery’ paper and embellishments. Thank for stopping by.

Baby Boy Mini Album

I made this little mini featuring the Paper Boy stamp plate by Artistic Outpost. I also used the Serenity stamp plate for the embossed areas and the Ephemera Backgrounds for the background. My main image was colored using distress markers. Bits of paper, ephemera and lace were added to the cover and ribbon to the twine.
Sorry I was silent for a week. I was away and have needed a bit of extra recovery time. I appologize I haven’t made it to your blogs lately. I will catch up with you all as soon as I can. Have a great evening.
Kate

Mixed Media Paper Bag Album

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I am sharing my mixed media album for Artistic Outpost featuring the Paper Boy stamp plate. I used several other AO stamp plates for my backgrounds and sentiments. The photographs are of my boys. This stamp plate is the perfect for a family of boys. Enjoy the pics!

Happy weekend!
Kate

Miss Moxie Mini Album

I have a lot of pictures to share today so grab a cup of tea and sit back. I started off using the Miss Moxie Matchbook Kit fromRed Rubber Designs. I used a ton of different stamps so I will do my best to list them all at the end of the post. I altered my kit, slightly. As you know, I have an addiction to paints, sprays, embossing, texture paste…all that fun stuff. You can check out the kit online to see exactly what the papers look like. Alright, on to the pics.

The last picture is of the back of the album. I used paints, sprays and embossing. I hope you like this mini. The kit makes it so much faster to put together a mini. It leaves more time for decorating! Well, thats it for me today.
Kate

Red Rubber Designs products used:
Showers of Blessings
Singing Praises
Tea Stain Backgrounds
Here I Am
Ancient Map Background
Script Background
Miss Moxie Ribbon
Mia’s Cottage Hardware
Verdigris Embossing Powder

Red Rubber Designs August Blog Hop

   Welcome! It’s August and that means Christmas over at Red Rubber Designs. I love this holiday! And this gives me a chance to get a head start on my projects. You can play along as well and get those cards, presents and ornaments made before the mad rush of the holidays.

Contest Details:
It looks like one of Santa’s elves has been causing a little mischief in the workshops and craft areas of our Design Team members. Look closely at each project on the hop and you will see that said elf has left a little image of his jolly employer on one of the Design Team member’s creation. Find the picture of Santa then let us know where you found it (whose blog). Email your name and the name of the blog where you found the picture of Santa to contest@RedRubberDesigns.com . Every correct answer will be entered into a random draw for the Spotlight Stamp Holiday Wreath. Contest ends Sunday, August 5 at midnight (CDT). Good luck.
    My Project for the hop is a Christmas Mini Album. I will fill the pages after Christmas but I have completed the covers. Our featured stamp for the blog hop is the Holiday Wreaths. I am a non-traditional kind of girl when it comes to colors. I love turquoise as you already know so why can’t I use it for my fav holiday?!! I silver embossed my bottom layer, gold embossed the stars on acetate and added some gold embossed berries and beautiful ribbon. I used background paper and paint sprays with a stencil and stamp for my background.

   RRD products used:
Holiday Wreath
Vintage Santa
Catelynne Paper
Beauty of a Woman
Juliette Ribbon

Please hop along to all the Red Rubber Designs Design Team:
Red Rubber Designs Blog
Sarah
Paula-Kay
Louise
KC
Kate – You are Here
Diana

Thanks for looking!
Kate

Pemberley Bay Matchbook Mini Album

Hey Everyone!
Today I am sharing the inside pages of the mini album I made for my RRD tutorial from last week. So head over to their blog to check out how I put this pretty little book together. This kit is full of beautiful papers. The paper pack to match the kit is Amberley Grace. This kit is really cheap and includes embellies that I have also used as journaling spots so go have a look.
I am not going to detail everything I did so if you have questions please leave me a comment. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy the pics.

Thanks for stopping by.
Kate

Items from RRD Store:

Pemberley Bay Matchbook Kit
Crop-a-dile
Be Happiness
Graditude to God
Happily Grateful
Here I Am
Punctuation
Sweet Day Cupcake
Background Soup
Bingo
Fanciful Vintage
For Everything
Victorian Squares
Vintage Background
Hey Life
Just Bee-Cuz
Sugar-Coated Sweetness
Palette- Morisot
Palette- Beaux Arts Blue
Palette- Cognac

Pemberley Bay Matchbook Mini Album Tutorial for Red Rubber Designs

Here is a little sneak peek for my mini album tutorial over at the Red Rubber Designs Blog. It’s a beautiful kit and I have easy to follow directions in my tutorial. Head on over and check it out. It would be an awesome gift that can be put together in a weekend. Enjoy!

First Blog Anniversary Giveaway

This is an altered brie cheese box. I used Lindy’s and paint to color the box. On top I added flowers and some vintage embellishments. The image is from Graphic 45’s Le Romantique. The side has lace underneath a layer of painted skeleton leaves and black pearls.

For the inside of the box I painted it turquoise and then decorated the underside of the lid with some more lace, gaffer tape, a butterfly,flower and a Le Romantique image.

Here is another closeup of the lid.

I made this little box to celebrate my first blog anniversary. I am a couple months late but better late than never. I just want to say thank you to my followers for your support, kind words and encouragement. I wish I could thank each one of you with a gift. So, if you like this little box and are interested in winning please read the following:
1. I would like to give this to a follower. Please do not follow just to enter the giveaway as that is not fair to my faithful readers. If you like my art please feel free to sign up as a follower.
2. Please leave a comment on this post and tell me if you are a follower, what kind of art you enjoy seeing and what you might like to see in the coming year. This helps me to include variety of art in my posts.
3. The giveaway will run Feb 1st until Feb 14th. A winner will be picked at random from the comments.
4. I would appreciate it if you share this giveaway on your blog if you feel led too but this is not a requirement to be eligible for the giveaway.
Thank you so much for supporting me. Without it, I probably would have given up on this blog long ago.
Blessings,
Kate

Once Upon A Springtime Mini Album

   Lots of pictures… but I wanted to show you this mini before I decided to fill it with pictures. I made this mini for a friend from college. I want to fill it with pictures of her precious baby girl who is 6 months old and still in the NICU. I understand how difficult this time is for her not being able to bring her baby home as we dealt with the same situation with our first son! It is such an emotional time and I wanted her to have pictures and some places to journal.
   I used the Graphic 45 line ‘Once Upon A Springtime.’ Perfect for a baby mini. I used the paper collection and my Spellbinders dies to embellish. Thank you for looking! Hope you had a enjoyable Cyber Monday and that you didn’t spend too much money!
Kate

Graphic 45 On the Boardwalk Mini Album

     I finally got around to completing our vacation mini from this summer. I have been dying to use these beautiful papers by Graphic 45. My goal was to use the paper collection as the embellishments. I decided to make tags, pockets, flip outs and mini books to house pictures so that the paper would remain the focus. I used stamps, laces and trinkets from our trip as extra embelishments.
    Do you see that awesome crab leg I used? I picked that up on the beach. The joints still work. The colors were beautiful from the salt water but after it dried out the colors softened.
     Enjoy the pics. Thank you for stopping by this gorgeous, fall Monday!
Kate

Shabby Chic Packaging Mini Album

I recently moved my scrap room from an overflowing corner of a room to my own very small room! I am estatic to have my own space. It is nice to be able to leave my table in the middle of a project and just close the door. I am in the middle of cleaning and I found a lot of embellishments still in their packaging. I tend to hoard the pretty things so since I am short on space I had to condense.

I remember seeing a YT video using Prima packaging to make a mini album by Steffogal. I took the packaging that I had been saving plus the new stuff that I dismembered from its embellies and set to work with my scrap bin.

I used some of my favorite embellies that I have been saving. I also tried to use some of the many flowers that I bought on clearance. Enjoy looking at all the pictures. Can you believe that I still have left over packaging? I think I have enough for another mini. Stay tuned!

Kate

Time Flies Mini Album

My baby boy just turned one! Well, back in June he turned one. Time flies so fast and I hate it! Perhaps it is more bittersweet than anything. I love the growing independence that comes with age. Unfortunatly, all those wonderful baby traits and features disappear. All this change is part of life. I try to make these mini’s of my boys as often as possible to refresh my memory of my most treasured occasions. Oh how I love my little monsters!

Landon’s first birthday was small. We just had my wonderful in laws over for the weekend. You know how it is. The first is mostly for the parents. The kids are really too young at that age to understand what is going on. But thats ok. We need a little something to help us get past that crushing reality that we no longer have babies. So, here are some pics of my mini!

I used light weight chipboard for the pages. The paper line is Oliver by Basic Gray. I used a Tim Holtz fragment charm for the clock on the binding along with some Cosmo Cricket and Prima ribbon throughout. The rest is just a bunch of scraps and embellies from my stash.

I hope you enjoy. Remember to make time to scrap your precious little ones. Those are the projects that will always bring joy no matter how old you are.

Happy Monday!

Kate