Welcome. If you stopped by yesterday, then you know that I really enjoyed myself with the current sketch from Mojo Monday. I layered strips of trim with strips of paper to create 'rectangle' shape. And, I did it again! This time I used only trim.
The lovely ladies over @ the Shabby Tea Room have this great inspirational photo, to guide your creativity. And I just love it!
This photo is very inspirational. I just love the weathered wooden structure, and the bike. It's so sweet. The banner and flowers really add a softness. So, I set out, back into my craft room I went, and crafted another piece. {smile}
So, this sweet little piece isn't a card. I altered a mini composition notebook. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Because this item will most likely travel along with you, I kept the front cover as 'flat' as possible. But you know me, I'm no good at CAS (clean and simple). This is about as much as CAS as I get. (smile).
Recipe: Well, like so many (ok, 95%) of my crafts, I started with the beautiful heavy weight card stock from Stampin' Up!. This sweet, soft, grey-ish green, is actually called Moss. It is a retired color from several years ago, and yeah, I still have a few large scraps! Anyways, I used this color of card stock for the spine of the notebook, as well as the matt for my sentiment.
The worn wood, botanical pattern paper is from a new purchase, by Our Daily Bread, Shabby Rose. The paper 'pad' is 6" x 6", so I only used two sheets. Yahoo! One sheet for the front and back covers and then another for the lining inside the covers. {smile}
I added three different lace trims to the right front cover. The strips of lace I had on hand were a bit too long, so I did a fussy ruffle machine stitch to help shorten their lengths. There is a cream lace trim on the bottom, then a white lace trim over that. And finally, a thin cream crochet trim on top.
I hand stitched a trio of pearls onto the lace. Two at the top and one at the bottom of this lace strip.
For my sentiment, I stamped this definition 'original' in going gray classic ink (slate, is the new name for this color), by Stampin' Up!. I stamped the sentiment onto very vanilla card stock. I wanted some softer than stark white. I used my small scallop rectangle die to create the shape. I matted in onto a scrap piece of moss card stock, and then onto rose red card stock. I wanted a pop of color that is in the roses.
To help give my piece a rustic look, I did a simple criss cross stitch with cream twine at opposite corners of the sentiment piece.
Then to finish off my notebook, I added a pen nib. But the metal pen nib looked to plain, so I tied on a multi-loop bow made from some strawberry bakers twine, and hot glued this piece to the front of the notebook. [I used hot glue, to give this embellishment a bit more 'staying' power.]
I used some cream twill ribbon, to hold the notebook closed. I think this textured ribbon helps give a rustic softness to the notebook. And finally, I had to include a pen. I had a scrap piece of a blue pattern paper laying on my craft table, that really 'matches' the blue in the main pattern paper. So, I rolled up a piece and stuck it into the barrel of the pen. Now, who ever carries this little notebook, along with them, will have a place to jot things down, and an instrument to do so. {smile}
This little treasure will be for sale at this years Spring Craft Fair @ La Cueva High School, in Albuquerque, NM. On the first Saturday in May, 2015. Hope to see you there!
2 comments:
Love your altered notebook! Such a pretty cover and so fun to use up scraps and make something so pretty!!! Love the pen nib too!
Beautiful with many fun layers of interest. So glad to have found you through the Shabby Tea Room.
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