Valentine Love Mini Album with Robyn Pitts

 Robyn created her Love Mini Album using medium weight 12 x 12 black chipboard and poured a lot of love, passion and creativity into each page. See how she turned the 4 page Love Word Album into a keepsake that will hold over 36 photos. Every page is filled with beautiful detail and fun, interactive features.

The letter “L” is cut from 2 layers of black chipboard that creates room for the shaker elements. The chipboard letter is then outlined in rhinestones and the shaker heart is filled with sequins.

When you open Robyn's album the back of her cover page is kept simple with a panel to journal or write a special message to the recipient. What a wonderful keepsake this would make for a newly wed couple. 

 
A large heart (in place of the letter O) is cut from 2 layers of black chipboard and then glued down on just the right side to create room for a pocket on the left.  Robyn also created an additional black boarder to outline the heart and she explains in her links how she did that. 

The heart is embellished with a mini fringe heart, pink and white rose floral spray, ribbon, several layers of decorative chipboard elements and a whimsical silver glitter arrow.

Several 3x4 journal cards that are backed with black cardstock are placed behind the heart pocket and are perfect for adding more photos.

 

Robyn created this next pocket by duplicating the base of the “Heart” page and cutting it in half. Then she created gussets on both sides to create a pocket.

The pocket is lined with pink lace, hearts and more rhinestones.
This pocket contains (4) 4x6 journal cards that are perfect for photos and journaling. She also included a tag and a small heart shaped notepad for more journaling

The letter “V” is cut on 1 layer of black chipboard and outlined with rhinestones then embellished with a beautiful resin butterfly, pink and white rose spray, and a lace applique.

Robyn shares links to the Twist and Pop card and where to find the paper pad and other materials she used for this beautiful album.

 The Letter “E” is cut on 2 layers of black chipboard to create room for the shaker element which is filled with sequins. More embellishments, hearts, a pink and white rose floral spray and mini envelope are added to the bottom of the letter.

Robyn added a waterfall album with a magnetic closure to hold (13) 3x4 photos. Be sure to check out her video for more details and great tips to create your own Love Word Album.

You can find Robyn's Youtube channel HERE to view this project along with a whole host of other creative projects for paper crafting. She's so inspiring and shows how to take your creativity to the next level. 

THANK YOU ROBYN for letting me share this. ~ Val

Tutorial for New Bath Bomb and Ornament Holders

This is a photo tutorial for the new Bath Bomb gift boxes.

All of the boxes go together in same way other than the front pieces of the characters themselves. Those can pieced and layered together like any other paper piecing.

 

1. Cut out all your pieces. Glue all the characters parts and pieces to the front of the box before assembling the carrier.

 

2. After you have the character's pieces (face, hat, scarves, etc.)added to the front of the box flip both the front and back facedown and end to end, lineup the circles on the lower large tabs and glue together. You will now have one long piece. This is the top section of the Bath Bomb box.

3. Fold the score lines on the bottom section and lay it on your work surface with tabs coming up as shown. Flip the top section of the box "face up" and lay it cross wise on the bottom section as shown in the photo above and glue in place matching up the center circles.

 

The pattern comes with 2 different sizes of bottom boxes, the part that hangs down below the character's body. The following shows a different method of closing the tall box and short box.

 

TALL BOX.... 

4. If using the taller box bottom you will see a cutout tab on one side and slit on the other. This tab and slit is not on the shorter box.

5. I'm jumping a little ahead to show how the box closes on the bottom. Pop up the tab cutout and insert it into the slot on the other side as shown. You will then push it fully closed.

6. Before closing the bottom tabs, lay the box on it's side, insert your bath bomb or ornament into the bottom box. The top of the bomb or ornament rests up into the circle cutout.

7. Now insert the cutout tab into the slot and push the sides together to fully close.

8. Stand the gift box up right. Thread a length of ribbon or twine thru the holes in the neck area and tie your box top closed. 

 

 

SHORT BOX... 

The short box works best for small bath bombs and those little EOS lip glosses. They will even work for K-cups.

 

The circle in the main pattern piece is 2-1/2" in diameter. For smaller items I included 4 additional inserts with every design. These hold your item in place, make it easy to open and remove the gift and then reuse the box.

9. Set your item in the box and then place the insert tab on top to be sure you have the size you need. Fold up the tabs on the insert. Glue the long tab to inside edge keeping the folded edges for the insert and box lined up.

10. Now gently push the insert down over your item. Don't glue the short tab. This tab is used to open and remove the gift item easily without tearing the box apart. It will stay down when you tie the top of box closed.

**TIP: I cut out all 4 inserts and save off to the side. Then I can use them to determine what size insert I will need on each project.  When I know what size I want then I only have to cut one from the right color cardstock.

 

 

 

See the full line of Bath Bomb Gift Boxes here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Friendship Tea and Japanese Flower Girls Part 3

Here's the 3rd and final post in our tea series with the JAPANESE FLOWER GIRLS. This card front uses 'Hannah' (meaning favorite flower) from the  set

 

 

Peachy pinks, apple-y greens, then a touch of black. Love the colors. The box is from the DESIGNER BOXES set, 3 rhinestones along the bottom of the box and one for the flower center in the flower girl's hair add a sparkle.

 

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I really like how April makes the inside of her gifts as fun and uplifting as the outside. Here she tucked one of the printable greetings from the TEA CUPS & TAGS set on the underside of the lid. Coordinating bits of cardstock are stapled to the original tea tag.

April used the svg cutting files from the following sets.

DESIGNER BOXES

JAPANESE FLOWER GIRLS

TEA CUPS & TAGS

 

Thank you April M.

 

If you've enjoyed browsing these projects for tea lovers please feel welcome to leave us a comment below. Thank you.

A Cup of Tea Card And Tea Gift Box Part 2

Are you a tea lover or know someone in your life that is. Here is a wonderful idea for a friend, a birthday, Mother's day, a hostess or thank you gift.

 

Several years ago our friend April created this beautiful set of tea cards and tea gift boxes. We love these as much today as we did back then so we had to share them with you.  
 

Beautiful and unexpected colors of purple and apple green add a happy note to the front of the card. The flower girl 'Miki' is on the front. Her name means 'beautiful princess'. She is one of 3 flower girls in JAPANESE FLOWER GIRLS set. The flowers are included with the set in the Cherry Blossom file.

 

On the outside of the gift box, April used the cherry blossom branch again and then added a tea cup and printed tag from the TEA CUPS & TAGS collection. You'll find a full page of quotes ready to print and cut included with the tea cup patterns. Sure makes it quick and fun to put this project together.

 

When you lift the lid you are greeted again with 'Miki'.

 

For the box itself, April choose the square PIE BOX,  enlarged it to fit the containers, deleted the window on the top and added side panels.

She found the little plastic heart containers at the dollar store and filled them with and assortment of loose leaf teas and added labels. You could also add an assortment of individually packaged tea bags.

April used the svg cutting files from the following sets.

JAPANESE FLOWER GIRL
TEA CUPS & TAGS

PIE BOX

Thank you April M.

 

3 Gifts of Tea and the Japanese Flower Girls SVGs - Part 1

We're heading into fall and cooler weather so it's the perfect time to enjoy a cup of tea and share a cup with a friend. Alma from our design team is creating cheerful tea bag dispensers using the 3 princesses from the Japanese Flower Girls collection and the Dispenser Box.

 

 

The 3 princesses from this collection were given special names.. Let me introduce you...

 

 

The first is Miki. Her name means "beautiful princess". 

 

 

This is Hana. Her name means "favorite flower". The branch of cherry blossoms is included with collection and looks beautiful on the front of each dispenser.

 

 

 

And the third flower girl is called Sakura. Her name means "cherry blossom". 

 

When Alma shared her tea dispensers with us we were really tickled and recalled some projects our friend April did for us several years ago. We are going to make this a 3 part series and share those with you as well.

 

These little Japanese Flower Girls are such the perfect characters to add to any tea related project.

 

Alma used the svg cutting files from the following sets:

 

Japanese Flower Girls

Dispenser Box

 

You can also view photos on Alma's
Facebook at My Craftastic Side.

and on instagram at MyCraftasticSide

 

Thank you Alma.

 

Hope you enjoy these and if so please leave us a comment.

 

 

Vinyl Monogram

Hi friends! This is Debb (Clickersister) and today I'm excited to bring you my first post for My Scrap Chick! I love creating personalized items, so I chose these files and made an anniversary tile!

 

I used the Flourish Monogram for the main letter, and the long flourish from the Flourish Placecard file. I duplicated it, then mirrored one of them to create the white image on each side. This was cut from two colors of vinyl, then applied to the 12x12 ceramic tile.

I hope you've enjoyed my project, along with all the other fabulous designs on My Scrap Chick. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Hugs! Debb