Mother's Day 2014

Happy Mother's Day!  I made a card for my mom last week so I can mail it out to her.  I used one of my favorite Graphic 45 paper collection:  A Ladies Diary.  The banner tag, doily, and stamped/die cut flower are made from Papertrey Ink. 

I stamped the inside as well and added a border sticker.

I used Sketch#98 from Cardabilities:

Thanks for stopping by!
                                                       Hugs, Mimi

SSS Monday Challenge: Number 5

I wanted to participate in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Five.   I created a card that measures 5x5 inch square.  I also wanted to use 5 Prima products on my card:

The 5 Prima products are:  Fairy Rhymes paper, flowers, Say it in Crystals, trim, and a resin bird.
Other products used:  Papertrey Ink stamps and die, border punch, and crushed velvet trim.

Thanks for stopping by!
                                                Hugs, Mimi

Prima Wedding Mini Album

Happy National Scrapbook Day!  I'd like to share a project I've been working on using some Accucut dies.  It's a mini album using the Prima Something Blue collection.  It has 6 pages made of medium weight chipboard. 

 

 

For the cover, I used a 3x4 ATC card, wood icon piece of the wedding couple, chipboard piece below and behind the flowers, flowers from the collection, and a Graphic 45 ornate key.

 

 

The pages normally measure 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, but some of the pages were shortened lengthwise to create a "side step" effect so you can have a peek of all of the pages at once. 

I also used an Accucut circle die to create a "peek through" window to the next page.  When creating the pages, I plan what the circle will show when you turn the page.  The page behind also creates a window, and I wanted to make that nice to peek through too.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.  Happy creating!!

                                                 Hugs, Mimi



Botanical Tea Butterfly Project

Hello!
I have a project share with lots of pictures.  It's artwork that I plan to display in my craftroom.  I used a butterfly die from Accucut, but instead of using the die cut shape of the butterfly, I used the negative, or leftover space.  I wanted to not waste any of the papers and also show different ways of using the die shapes. 

The pages are curled and slightly lifted off the page to create a dimensional look.  The base is made of medium weight chipboard and covered with the papers.  Here are more close up pictures:

 

The paper collection is Botanical Tea by Graphic 45, and I used some embellishments by Prima Marketing. 

 Come watch my video taking you through my project:



Thanks for stopping by!
                                       Hugs, Mimi

Botanical Tea Set

Hello!  I wanted to play around with the Graphic 45 Botanical Tea collection and created a set containing a card, tag pocket, and matchbook to hold a tea bag.

The flowers and seam binding I stained with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.  The stamp set I used is Papertrey Ink's Tea for Two.  I used the Graphic 45 Kraft Tags Large and folded it to create a pocket to hold a gift card.  The matchbook flips open to reveal a glassine bag to hold a tea bag.  Added a paper doily and some flat back pearls to finish it off.

Thanks for taking a peek.

                                                    Hugs, Mimi

Prima Cartographer Mini Pocket Album

Hello!  Just a quick share on a project I was working on.  I wanted to play with the Cartographer papers from Prima and made a pocket mini album using an Accucut die.

Inside the mini, I also used Tim Holtz Idea-ology embellies and Ingvild Bolme Junkyard Findings.  I made a video taking you through the pages of the pocket mini:



Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

                                                 Hugs, Mimi

Divine Mini Book and Caddy

Hello!  I'm here to share with you a project I made using Eileen Hull's Sizzix die Box, Caddy for the March Art with Heart Challenge. 

 

 

It's covered with Prima Marketing goodies.  I made a mini book to put inside of it, but it ended up being too chunky.  The papers I used came from the Divine collection. 

 

 

 

 

To see more, you can watch my video below:

 

 





Thanks for stopping by!
                                                 Hugs, Mimi