50th Birthday Scrapbook Album

 

Well now that it has been gifted I can share with you a great made from scratch scrapbook that I put together for a 50th birthday celebration.  It was serious fun working on a very masculine album for a change and trying to keep everything in line with that and a black and white theme.

The black velvet ribbon embroidered with the gentlemen's monogram was wrapped around the box that the invitation came in so I used it to dress the front of the album to keep everything all in theme.

I started by making an 8x8 black album with a traditional spine and 5 pocket pages.

I dressed up the spine with his name and the year of the event.

The album was full of great masculine textures like metal and wood.

Here's a pic of me in the middle of my creative process.  Are you as messy as me?  😄

I hope you enjoyed taking a look at this album.

 

Watercolor Ink Album

 I wanted to share with you a beautiful album I created for a special friend to celebrate her first Gallery Show.  She is such a talented artist and I wanted a way for her to capture all the special moments and share with friends and family for years to come.  The album is made in black card stock and fiber board by scratch and the paper is from a Recollections Paper Pad called Gilded Ink - spectacular colors!

I hope you enjoyed this project!

Happy Crafting,

Annette

 

 

Happy Happy Spring Everyone!

I am always so happy to see the change of seasons, and especially spring when everything starts growing anew, the weather starts getting warmer, and he color palette changes to pastels and every shade of green.

My next class is all about spring with 4 new cards I designed that celebrate the season and that fabulous color palette.  For more information on this class set for Saturday, March 14th 2020 at 2:00 PM check out my web site at Love That Designs

or you can book directly at the store's website at The Crafty Scrapper


Hope to see you there!

One Love,
Annette

Snowy Cardinal Tag

For those of you still snowed under in the country, I wanted to share a project from a recent design challenge for The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie.  I love cardinals and all of their background stories so I focused on them for inspiration on this project.

We started with Tim Holtz's Thickboard tag.  I painted all the edges with the red acrylic paint to match the cardinals of course.

The I used an old school decoupage technique of using only the very top layer of a beautifully printed paper napkin.  This time I used Dina Wakely's clear gesso under and over top of the napkin with a little extra along the sides to seal it in.

Then I used the beautiful Peace and Joy papers from Kaisercraft for the background and embellishment pieces.  I fussy cut out flowers, greenery and of course the majestic cardinals as well as a tag and sentiment banner.

I applied a round wood circle to the bottom to give the cardinals something to perch on and then built up the embellishments in layers.

I dusted all of the embellishments and birds in snow that was created from chunky crystal glitter and Art glitter glue.  I topped of the tag with a beautiful buffalo plaid ribbon.

I hope these sweet snowy cardinals bring you joy today.

One Love,

Annette

A crazy little thing called love

"A crazy little thing called love"

I wanted to share some Valentine inspiration with you today.  The February Designer Challenge for The Crafty Scrapper revolved around some great Tim Holtz products, like the frames, old portrait photos and the wonderful shadow box all with a Valentine theme.

I started with Jillibean wood platform that was whitewashed in grey and white. I layered on a 12x12 thin wood sheet that had heart shapes cut out into it. I cut some of the hearts apart from the rest of the sheet and washed those in a combo of grey, white, and pink paint. Then I topped it off with the Tim Holtz shadow box, frames and vintage photos also all washed with paint.

I added torn strips of the Prima Rose Quartz paper collection and rolled flowers made from the paper. The finishing touches were a stamped sentiment and rubbing of all the edges in a rose quartz wax to match the copper fairy placed inside the shadow box.

I hope this may inspire you to create something wonderful for your Valentine.

Happy crafting - One Love

Christmas Cookbook and Tag Class

Join me for my next class Saturday, December 1st at 2:00 PM.

This is a cookbook you will make from scratch using brown paper bags.

It is full of pockets so you have plenty of space for lots of recipes.

It would make a wonderful gift.

And we will make 12 tags getting you ready for wrapping in style!

 

 

 

 

2 of the tags are special gift card holders:

  

The class is selling out fast so please call The Crafty Scrapper at 972.923.3151 to book.

Hope to see you these!

Santa's Holiday Cookbook

Come join me for my next class at a wonderful all day event at The Crafty Scrapper - The Christmas Carousel - Saturday, November 17th.   You will take 5 different 1 hour classes, enjoy a catered lunch and have time for shopping.  My ride on the carousel is a great class in which you will create an amazing cookbook from scratch with lots of room for all your favorite holiday recipes. 

What a great keepsake for you or fabulous gift! 

The album uses paper lunch bags as the base - yep there back! 

We will decorate your album with the Carta Bella "Santa's Workshop" paper line along with embellishments, pearl accents, ribbon, decorated recipe cards and more.

Hope to see you riding the carousel!