Day 287: Bird Tile

Tonight I made a bird tile.  I purchased a box of tumbled tiles from my local hardware store so I can make coasters or decorative tiles. I applied the bird rub-on Decor Element from Stampin' Up!, and colored inside the blank areas of the rub-on with Copic markers.  When the ink appeared to be dry,  I peeled off the stencil, used a VersaMark stamp pad to create the blue-green background, and added some flowers from Prima and a few pearls from Jolee's.  I sprayed the tile with a matte acrylic finish by Mod Podge to prevent smearing or running.

Day 285: Japanese Girl Journal Completed

I made this journal using this pretty paper from My Little Shoe Box. The fan was in my stash.  I used Mod Podge to adhere all the papers and the fan to the  composition notebook.

Day 238: Titles for Calendar Cover Pages

Today I used a variety of coordinating stickers to add my titles to the calendars. I like to use hodge-podge alphabets because it lets me  use up stickers left over from other projects.  I sealed the calendar covers with a coat of Mod Podge, and three Christmas presents are made!

Day 228: SEI Scrapbook Kit

I worked on a winter page of me and my husband today.  I wanted to use a felt snowflake (Stampin' Up!) as an embellishment on this page, but I did not have a white snowflake.  I tried painting it white, but the red color still peeked through. So, I got out the Mod Podge and coated the snowflake with it and then poured purple glitter from Martha Stewart all over it.  It looks great!

Day 208: Tag Album: Part 3

Today I selected the photos I wanted to use, uploaded my photos to a photo website, and had them printed in sepia tones so they would not compete with my papers.  I added the photos and embellished the tag pages.

Materials:  Papers: Generations by Simple Stories; Mod Podge by Plaid; pearls: Jolee's; metal bird, key, key hole: Tim Holtz; ribbons and lace with pearls, door handle, heart:  from my stash; crochet ribbon on page 6: Stampin' Up!; flowers on page 1 and wooden clock on page 2: Prima; tags:  Gallery J Creative Crafts

Since I always cover up the faces in my photos, I have shown you the tag book before I added the photos in the pictures below:

Completed Tag Album

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Day 206: Tag Album: Part 1

Today I started working on a tag album.  A couple of years ago, I had purchased a couple of kits by Gallery J Creative Crafts that had these big press board tags inside.  I didn't want to make the kits; I just wanted the big tags.  I have always loved the saying "...all because two people fell in love..." and I wanted to put some pictures of my family on the big tags.  I finally found some paper by Simple Stories with the "...all because two people fell in love..." theme when I was at a scrapbook store and knew that I finally had what I wanted to make this come to life.  So today, I cut out all the papers and adhered them to the big tags with Mod Podge.