Kimberly Congdon — Paper Craft Designer, Editor, & Instructor.
It’s been Mini Album Mania~ between making albums for classes, stores, and for gifts.. I have been loving making the Mini’s..
What was the last mini album you made? Do you enjoy making them as gifts or for your own pictures? It is so much easier to make a mini if you have a theme in mind. I find them easier to make if they are a gift.. that way I don’t have to add photos.. lol anyways here are a few photos of this weeks albums.. some are from a class I taught and some are gifts.
I LOVE MY DAILY GRANDE NO-WHIP MOCHA.. AND YES I MEAN DAILY~ It’s my only true addiction at about $4.30 a day.. I figure I work hard I deserve it~
I have a few random pictures of my favorite coffee cups that some awesome friends bought me.. my collection of Starbucks sleeves.. and my mini album that I made using the Genuinely Jane Studios wood coffee cup album. I have a few stamps with fun coffee sayings and some cute coffee cup stamps, but I wanted to try to only use Starbucks products in my book.
My daily order
Cover of my Album
My Favorite Cups
My Stash of Sleeves
Just painted pages
Page 1 & 2, hearts cut from sleeves
another page
back page, waiting for it’s photo
Book Before & After
The first page in my album I painted all white. The 2nd page is chalk board paint, the 3rd and 4th page are painted the same green as the Starbucks logo. I have a layout that goes w/ this book and a few more pictures to add.. but my due date came before I could finish.. If you want to make your own book.. you can order it through Genuinely Jane Studios or stop by my Scrap It Girl store.. I sell them too~ Thank for taking a look at my mini book.. time to go get another Starbucks Mocha~
Kimberly Congdon, aka Scrap It Girl
A proud member of the Genuinely Jane Studios Design Team!
Thanks for taking a look, now head over to Genuinely Jane Studios to look at all the wonderful wood books and other fun supplies you can now order.
Also go to the Artistcellar blog to see what their team did today~ Leave your comments too so you can win~
Wow.. I have hosted 20 challenges and I have never had a sketch challenge. This is our first one so I hope to see a ton of entries since I hear everyone loves a sketch challenge. Remember it can be a card, layout or an altered project. Our Design Team Member Kelly Starsky designed the Sketch and will be hosting this month’s challenge. Please check out her site too. The challenge winner for our April Challenge of angels or arrows is Irit, please email us the mailing address so we can send you the goodies. Congrats to everyone else who joined us the arrows and angels was a fun challenge.
This is the May Sketch
May Prize Package
Laura’s Card
Kimberly’s Layout
Kelly’s Layout
Dawn’s Layout
Rachelle’s Layout
Candy’s Layout
I forgot to mention.. two of my designers had to step down so I would like to add two more to my team.. if you are interested in a design team position send me some links to your blog and Facebook page. Thank you.. and good luck with this month’s SKETCH CHALLENGE. Thank you Kelly for the sketch challenge and the prizes.
Now that summer is finally right around the corner, my girls are getting ready for their 1st Lemonade stand. They are having it on Saturday, so they asked me to create a paper banner to hang in front of their table. I figured lemonade, ice, and popsicles, would not work with a paper banner. So I started looking for a better idea for their signage. And guess what I found? This wonderful wood Sun Shaped album from GENUINELY JANE STUDIOS. I think this is perfect for taking apart to use as star bursts to highlight the items they plan to sell. My daughters helped with the project.
Here is a list of what I used and a few quick steps to help you create your own.
Sun book from Genuinely Jane Studios
Yellow acrylic paint, water spray bottle, Modeling paste, Gesso from Claudine Hellmuth, your choice of stencils, I used Balzer Designs Mini Layered Beads and an alphabet from a craft store, Black Faber-Castell Pitt big brush, Dark Chrome yellow big brush, orange and yellow gelato’s, and I sprayed Mod Podge glaze over the finished projects. The “sun-bursts” can be tied to any item, but we are using these clips that I use in my store to hold my other signage items. The 4th sun piece isn’t done yet, we think we are going to hang it from the lemonade dispenser as a decoration. I will post finished pictures of the stand on Saturday.
Tag book & Sun Book
Books are taken apart.
1st step yellow paint & stencils
Products Used for this project
3 of the 4 signage
This is a really easy and quick project. Basically choose your base color, which for us was a bright yellow. We painted 1st and once it dried we stenciled the “layered beads” using the gesso and I mixed it w/modeling paste for more texture. Heated it, then added more yellow by using the gelatos, Big brush yellow and a few squirts of water to blend. We outlined the bursts with the black big brush and used the same big brush to stencil the words. I used the Glaze to finish it off. I think they will look better sitting on the lemonade stand on a hot summer day.
The tag book that is pictured above is being used in another post later this week.. at first I was using those tags with the sun but at the last second changed my mind. Check back this week to see what I do with the tag book and to see how the lemonade stand turns out.
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