Glue Free Handmade Books

I am really loving these little books! They require a little bit of folding and a tiny bit of snipping... Then, voila! You have created a dynamic book which can contain all kinds of secret messages and images when you remove the components from one another! Or, you can use glue (gasp), and make the structure permanent!

The images above and below feature an assortment of Handmade Mini Book projects that I have taught! Clockwise, from the center top book, they are the Fizz 1/07 Pocket Page Book, Fizz 1/07 Amazing Maze Book, Painted Desert 5/05 Squash/Explosion Book, Painted Desert 5/05 Glue Free Handmade Book, Painted Desert 5/05 & Nature's Wonders 5/06 Squash/Explosion Book, and the Mini Kit for a Cause Squash/Explosion Book!

Below is a sample of the Glue Free Handmade Book with the spine removed... When all the parts are together, these "back" pages are concealed. What a wonderful way to add some hidden journaling and images, or to just surprise whomever you give it to!

Five Artists' Trading Cards (ATCs)

Well, right before I left for Canada (school vacation week!) I had to churn out about 80 Artists' Trading Cards (ATCs or 2.5"x3.5" creations) spread between about 9 designs! Only two were designs I had made before! Yes, I was up a little late, but these were all relatively simple and not too time/mind consuming!

Club Scrap - Stratosphere 4/07 Fuchsia, Green, & Light Blue Papers; Retro 9/06 B&B UM Stamps & CSt Right On UM Stamps; Ranger Adirondack Ink Pad in Pool; Stewart Superior Palette Ink Pad in Noir Black;


Club Scrap - 2007 Mocha Java Remix UM Stamps; Ivory Elegance 12/06 Cream & Dark Brown Papers; County Fair 7/04 Tan Paper; Ranger Archival Ink Pads in Coffee & Sepia; Ranger Adirondack Ink Pads in Butterscotch, Caramel, & Ginger;
Brushless Watercoloring and Torn Paper;


Club Scrap - Stratosphere 4/07 Fuchsia Paper; Club Scrap Fizz 1/07 White Translucent Paper, Club Stamp WM Stamp, & CSt Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps; Ranger Adirondack Ink Pads in Pebble, Raspberry, and Watermelon; Stewart Superior Palette Ink Pad in Noir Black;
Zig Memory Pen in Black;
Technique Junkies - Modern Grid Technique;


Club Scrap - Imagination 2006 Host Reward UM Stamps; Stratosphere 4/07 Dark Blue & Light Blue Papers; Ranger Archival Ink Pad in Cobalt;
Ranger Nick Bantock Ink Pad in Cerulean Azure;


Club Scrap - Nature's Wonders 5/06 Borders & Backgrounds UM; Wings 7/05 Dark Blue & Mustard Papers; Niji Waterbrush; Ranger Archival Ink Pad in Sepia; Ranger Adirondack Ink Pads in Butterscotch, Caramel, Lemonade, Oregano, Pesto, Stonewashed, & Sunshine Yellow;
Watercoloring with water-based dye ink pads;

Mini Badge Book

I love the idea of creating Mini Badge Books! These books are the perfect size for carrying in your purse and have ID badge holders acting as page protectors! This quick little book is just one way to fill a Mini Brag Book!






Supplies Used, all from Club Scrap:

• Stratosphere 4/07 - Dark Blue, Fucshia, Green, & Light Blue papers;
• Refresh 2/07 - Sr Light Green 12x12 Print, Dark Blue, Dark Green, & Light Blue papers; CSt UM Stamps; Club Scrap DigiDeluxe Kit;
• Fizz 1/07 - Borders & Backgrounds UM Stamps; CSt Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps;
• Ivory Elegance 12/06 - Dark Brown paper;
• Farmer's Market 10/06 - Club Scrap DigiGoodies Kit;
• Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 - Borders & Backgrounds UM Stamps;
• Surf's Up! 7/06 - Salmon Hibiscus Print;
• Collections 6/06 - Saddle Brown paper;
• Nature's Wonders 5/06 - Mango paper;
• Musical Interlude 12/05 - Maroon paper;
• The Written Word 11/05 - Medium Blackberry paper;
• Down to Earth 4/05 - Brown paper;
• Textiles & Notions 9/04 - Sr Rule Stamp; CSt Ironing Board Grid Stamp; Stewart Superior Palette Ink Pad in Noir Black;
• Ranger Adirondack Ink Pads in Bottle, Ginger, Lettuce, Purple Twilight, Red Pepper, & Watermelon;
• Ranger Archival Ink Pad in Cobalt;

Scrapbook Take Out's Cyber Crop!

I'm under the weather again, but trying not to let that stop me! Scrapbook Takeout is having a Cyber Crop all weekend long! (Today is the last day, but images can be posted through midnight EST tomorrow!) We've been having a blast with all kinds of silly games, door prizes, and 15 awesome challenges!

I believe the only challenge that remains will be the one for children, hosted by my own daughters! It'll be posted at 2pm EST today! Definitely join in!

I'm going to list the inks from my "Name That Color" card challenge in the comments for that blog post! It was a blast, but I think noone was creating during that hour... just hunting Ranger's website and making a few new addicts of them!

Anyhow... here are a few of the challenge entries that I managed!

Club Scrap DigiGoodies Kit Refresh 02/07 Papers, Bambino Font, and My Kids' Photos by Me!

This layout was created for Francine's Ad Challenge using this page of an old O Magazine!

The text reads:

E - Easter Egg Hunt April 16th, 2006
The kids adored having their Easter Egg Hunt at Mimi & Papa's house this year! They bonded so well with Jordan & Jason! They also could no resist helping one another on their quests!

While they can squabble at home, they can't help but cooperate everywhere else!

Club Scrap DigiGoodies Ivory Elegance 12/06 Kit plus Xtra from Farmer's Market 10/06 DigiGoodies Kit; Girls Are Weird Font; Created for the "-tion" challenge where you needed to use a word ending in "-tion" as your title/theme.

Club Scrap Refresh 02/07 Greetings to Go & Fizz 01/07 Crazy About Fizz UM Stamps; Ranger NonStick Craft Sheet and Nick Banktock Sapmoss Green & Chartreuse Leaf Ink Pads; Angelwings Radiant Pearls Bitter Apple; Niji Waterbrush; Sizzix Hearts #38-0157;

This card was made for the altered die cuts challenge AND for a little girl's St Patrick's Day birthday! I layered die cuts, stamped on them, layered heart stamps, used monoprinting with water and ink, then water and Radiant Pearls!

Club Scrap: Painted Desert 5/05 Sand & Embossed Sky Solid Papers, Nature's Wonders 5/06 Daisy Stencil, Matte Board, Bookbinding, Padding, & Laminating Adhesive, ColorBox Stylus with Sponge Tips; Ranger: Adirondack Ink Pads in Juniper, Lemonade, Peach Bellini, & Shell Pink; AC Moore: Bargain Ribbon;

I created this mini squash/explosion book for the "No Patterned Papers" challenge!

I made the bracelet using my own the Club Scrap Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 CSt Bracelet Project and a few other Club Scrap Beads. The layout used Club Scrap Digital Kit for Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 plus plus DekoSide Font.

This little digi layout was actually for an early challenge to do a layout of an object, no humans allowed! It is also made specifically for my 6x4 Kodak Digital Picture Frame!

Tulips In A Row Stamp

Ok, I am just loving this stamp... such a great card base... So today I'll be adding more and more cards made with it but using alternate color schemes.

A very good way to use a stamp like this is to stamp it with Ranger's Archival Ink Pads in your choice of colors... I like to use a brown because it doesn't interfere with the colors of the leaves or petals and isn't as glaring as black... but sometimes black is good ;)

Then take your Niji Waterbrush and use an Adirondack Ink Pad (also the older Ranger Sea Shells and Sea Brights which are being re-released as Adirondack pastels and brights with a few new colors) to color the images. These pads feature a hinged lid which easily burps color off of the pad into the top of the lid by pressing down on the center... then you can pick up that color with a waterbrush. Alternately, you may press any water-based ink pad against the Ranger Non Stick Craft Mat to pool some ink. The Distress Inks are great for this... but if you move into other brands or work with a non-distress black then your colors may separate into their composite colors.

Supplies Used On Rusted Tulips Card:

• Club Scrap: Nature's Wonders 5/06 Tulips in a Row Sr Stamp; Asian Artisan 1/04 White Plain; Paisley 3/07 Burnt Orange Plain; Color in Black & White 4/06 Copper Plain; Farmer's Market 10/06 Brown Plain and Orange Fibers;
• Ranger: Adirondack Ink Pads in Butterscotch, Lettuce, Oregano, Pesto, Red Pepper, & Rust; Archival Ink Pad in Coffee;
  
• Stewart Superior Noir Black Palette Ink Pad;
• Niji Waterbrush;
  
• Gartner Studios Hot Hues Brad;

Supplies Used On Pastel Pink Tulips Card:

• Club Scrap: Nature's Wonders 5/06 Tulips in a Row Sr Stamp; Fizz 1/07 White Translucent, Silver, Black, Dark Pink, and Light Pink Plain Papers;
• Ranger: Jet Black Archival Ink Pad; Seashells Tropical Raspberry and Starfish Green;
• Zig Pure Black Writer;
• Niji Waterbrush;
• Coats Moda Dea Ticker Tape Art. R117 Color 9722;
  

Supplies Used On Bright Tulips Card:

• Club Scrap: Nature's Wonders 5/06 Tulips in a Row Sr Stamp; Fizz 1/07 White Translucent Plain Paper; Wheel & Sprocket Green Translucent and Purple Plain Papers (scanned on Green & Translucent)
• Ranger: Jet Black Archival Ink Pad; Adirondack Ink Pads in Butterscotch, Currant, Lettuce, Terra Cotta, & Wild Plum; Sea Brights in Awning Green, Bikini Pink, & Purple Surf;
  
• Niji Waterbrush;
• Coats Moda Dea Ticker Tape Art. R117 Color 9815;

I Love You. I Love You. I Love You.

If you couldn't guess already, I adore the set of photos that I used on the layout! I've blogged it, I've made a mini page for a Multicultural 6x6 Layout Swap (the wreaths were made as part of learning about Swedish Midsommar celebrations), I've even put it on a mug! But this is my first layout of it for our album!

Unfortunately, the scan does brighten the blue ribbon and the painted chipboard... in real life they are more muted! Anyhow... I created this layout as part of the weekend's Crop-O-Rama at About.com's Scrapbooking Forum! We were challenged to have specific numbers of certain page elements! Here are the contents!

5 Embellishments:

1. Scrapbook Take Out 2/07 Kit Fancy Pants Biggest Board Chipboard Flourishes
2. Club Scrap Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Sage & Dark Cherry Printed Cuts
3. Club Scrap The Written Word 11/05 Decorative Tape
4. Making Memories Pewter Decorative Brads
5. Making Memories 1/8" Pewter Snap

4 Papers:

1. Club Scrap Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Aqua 12"
2. Club Scrap Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Sage 8.5"
3. Club Scrap Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Dark Cherry Solid
4. Club Scrap Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Light Cherry Printed Matte
   

3 Pictures - Desaturated but the color was added back to the blossoms.

2 Types of Ribbon:

1. Scrapbook Takeout 2/07 Kit Fancy Pants Vintage Summer Ribbon
2. AC Moore Bargain Ribbon

1 Big Flower:

1. Scrapbook Takeout 2/07 Kit Prima Petal Poetry Flowers & Quick Picks
   

Inks - Ranger: Coffee Archival; Latte & Raisin Adirondack Ink Pads; Aqua & Lettuce Adirondack Acrylic Dabbers; Clearsnap: ColorBox Chiffon White;

I inked the edges of all the mattes and then I painted the chipboard with the Lettuce first, then inked it with the Latte and Chiffon White Ink Pads, allowed it to dry and then swiped small specks of Aqua paint and wiped off most of the Aqua. In real life it matches the layout very nicely!

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I used scraps from the layout to create a card! Both work towards this weekend's Crop-O-Rama online crop at About.com's Scrapbooking Forum... but the card is covering a few challenges!

First, I used this Color Scheme Generator to pick my colors. I used #88974E and the Harmonious Colors of #4E6497 and #814E97 to come up with a sage, a denim blue, and an eggplant purple, then went to work on the stamped image.

Using Ranger's waterproof Archival Ink, I stamped the image and then colored in the image with my Niji Waterbrush & Adirondack Ink Pads, diluting the same inks for the background and then edging the paper directly with a pad. I hunted around for leftovers and added a new strand of fiber and a snap to finish it off!

Supplies are:

• Club Scrap - Nature's Wonders 5/06 Sr. Tulips In a Row Stamp; Let Me Count The Ways 2/06 Sage 8.5" Print & Sage Cuts; Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 Purple Plain; Culinary 3/04 White Plain;
  
• Scrapbook Takeout 2/07 Prima Petal Poetry Quick Pick Flowers;
  
• Ranger Adirondack Ink Pads in Denim, Eggplant, Lettuce, & Pesto; Ranger Archival Ink Pad in Coffee;
  
• Niji Waterbrush;
• Making Memories Grape 1/16" Snap
• Crop-A-Dile
• Katia Sevilla #29 606117

6 Cards Using Club Scrap's Collections 6/06 Kit

Here are a series of cards that I have offered in classes.

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go with additional stamps from Wheel & Sprocket August 2006, Nature's Wonders May 2006, Color in Black & White April 2006, and Greetings for a Year. All inks from Ranger's Adirondack and Archival collections.

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Color in Black & White April 2006 - Unmounted CSt Stamps, WM CSt Life is Art Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Pitch Black Ink Pad; Katia - Sevilla #29 Ribbon;

Congratulations Card... Club Scrap- Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases, POPs, Unmounted CSt Artistic Renderings Stamps, CSt WM Collector's Log Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Ginger & Caramel Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad;

Happy Holidays Card... Club Scrap- Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases & POPs, Unmounted Greetings For a Year Stamp; Ranger - Archival Sepia Ink Pad;

Club Scrap- Greetings for a Year UM Stamps plus Collections June 2006 Greetings to Go card bases, POPs, Unmounted B&B and CSt Stamps; Ranger - Adirondack Ginger & Caramel Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad; LumpyStuff.com - Slide Mount; Glue Dots - Mini Glue Dots;

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Nature's Wonders May 2006 Unmounted CSt World of Wonders Stamps; Club Scrap Greetings for a Year - UM Stamps; Club Scrap Egyptian August 2003 - Border POPs; Ranger - Adirondack Pesto & Red Pepper Ink Pads, Archival Sepia Ink Pad; Sizzix - Sizzlits 38-9745 Tiny Tag Set; Katia - Sevilla #29 Ribbon; Yasutomo - Waterbrush Niji clubscrap.com;

Club Scrap Collections June 2006 - Greetings to Go card bases, POPs; Club Scrap Wheel & Sprocket August 2006 - Unmounted B&B and CSt Stamps, WM CSt Wheels Go Round Collage Stamp; Ranger - Adirondack Stream & Red Pepper Ink Pads;