Hi Friends! Today I have a project to share with you that's featured over on the Crafting Ireland blog today. I made a Memories Journal for my daughter Kaley. Her 14th birthday is coming up on the 17th so I wanted to not only make her something to celebrate her day but to also give her something that she could use to record memories of her last year in middle school...sniff sniff..where has the time gone!!
If you click on the link above, you'll be able to see the full tutorial on how I created this journal. I also have a video which I'll upload later today on my CHANNEL. But in this post I'll just share the completed project : )
My daughter's school colors are blue and yellow & since it's a memory journal for her last year of 8th grade...that's the color scheme I went with for this project. I made this from an old book cover and used office envelopes and such to create journaling pages, pockets, tags and plenty of space for photos.
I can't wait to give this Kaley and more importantly I'm excited to see her fill this up with memories from her friends.
Thanks for checking out another scrappy post & another DT project for Crafting Ireland.
Hi Friends! Wow I didn't realize it's been over a week since my last post..yikes!! I've been super busy with work, the school year is winding down, end of the year stuff with my kids and we're getting ready for a huge garage sale this Saturday. I've been busy with some DT projects and a mini swap I'm doing with a fellow crafting friend on YouTube who lives in Belgium...but more on that in another post : )
I've been doing lots of videos on my YouTube Channel and today's post is all about some handmade flowers my daughter and I did together.
Didn't Kaley do an amazing job on her pink flower? I love it!!
Kaley and I did a video together on making the crepe paper flowers, her's is the large pink one we did during the tutorial and my two are the purple w/lace & the white one.
I had a blast doing this with her...she loves to craft and is so very creative so it was fun sharing this passion I have for crafting with her : )
Here are some additional photos of the lace & ribbon flowers I made....
Here's the video on how I created the above flowers....
There are some great companies who put out gorgeous flowers but I think it's so cool when you make your own. You can customize them to your colors, size, materials for whatever project you may be working on. The bonus for me doing these was working with my daughter & spending some time with her which is so very precious to me.
Thanks for checking out another scrappy post. Be sure to check back as I have some super exciting projects to share with all of you that have been in the works but I couldn't share just yet : )
Hey everyone...I have such a cool post to share with you all today. It's not an actual scrappy project BUT it's all about some vintage items that I will be using on some upcoming projects.
This post will be a walk down memory lane for me as what I am about to share with you is something from my childhood............
I remember as a little girl sitting at the kitchen table running my fingers through all of the buttons in this tin while my mom was working on a sewing project. I remember the smell of all those buttons and bits of thread that were in the tin & when my mom brought the tin to me and I took the lid off...I seriously felt like I was 9 again when the same smell of buttons hit me. Now you might be thinking I am totally weird or thinking what in the world does an old tin of buttons smell like...but let me tell you...it's a lovely scent & a memory from my childhood. I had asked my mom a few years back about this tin of buttons. She wasn't sure exactly where they were so she told me when she came across them, the tin was mine....squeal!!! I was beside myself when she called me last week and said she finally found the tin and would bring them over the very next day. Let me tell you I couldn't wait!!
Just look at all those lovely buttons!!
There are a ton of these buttons still on their original cards. Just look at the one in the front with the little girl on....so cool! You just don't find things like this in the stores anymore. The next set of photos are of some buttons Kaley & I pulled out that we thought were just awesome and so unique....
Check out those penny buttons...I mean how cool are those??? I've never seen buttons like that before.
Love how the brass buttons have turned green..most times I'm distressing stuff to look like that & there's the real deal : )
These pictures are so precious to me as I now have a record of Kaley digging through the very same tin of buttons that I did when I was her age and even younger. Even though my mom doesn't have photos of me I have the memories & the pictures of those days will never fade for me. Even though I'm only 39, I truly love vintage items and treasure them, especially the ones from my mom.
Some of these buttons I won't use... I plan to just keep them stored in some old jars etc so I can see them while I'm creating and some I will use on projects. I would love to be able to pass this tin of buttons on down to Kaley when she is older as my mom did for me.
Thanks for letting me share a memory from my past and a tin full of items that mean so much to me. Happy Scrappin!!
Hey everyone...I have some super cute photos to share with you today. My daughter Kaley turned 13 on September 17th and I made her some scrappy items as some of her birthday gifts.
Here she is with the "ScrappinAbby's" version of a smash journal. I posted about this HERE in case you missed that post and video I made. Her favorite colors are black, hot pink and a little bit of green. You can check out all of the pages & fun stuff I put in there for her at the original post.
I couldn't really wrap the Trio Of Altered Wood Frames since they had stuff hanging off them so Steve had to cover her eyes until I had them laid out in front of her and I was ready with the camera. That's my adorable 17 yr old son Tre' sitting next to her : )
She is such a goofball!! I wonder where she gets that ; )
This is the chalkboard frame I made for her. You can see the full post and video on these projects by clicking the link above.
Here's the dry erase board.....
And the cork board...
She loved all of the items I made for her and thanked me for making her some scrappy items for her room : )
Thanks for stopping by for another scrappy post & for letting me share some photos of my projects I made for Kaley.
