The start of school is just around the corner. I'm always looking for ways to organize, simplify, and, of course, display the fun projects my kids bring home. My refrigerator doesn't have much room, and often doesn't do their projects justice. Hopefully this will:
My husband builds things, and makes things, and repairs things, so there's always scrap wood lying around. I had him cut a board that was about 3 1/2" tall to a little over 2' long (I actually held my hands apart and said, "I want it about this ____ long." Which makes him roll his eyes!). I painted it with some leftover whitewash from my bulletin board project.
I used mini clothespins from Little Yellow Bicycle. I especially loved these for this project because they have words on them like, "love" and "wonderful". I decided to stain them a blueish color (not shown in the picture above, but you can see it in the picture below) with Lindy's Stamp Gang T-bird Turquoise Flat Fabio Mist. I attached them with Glue Lines from Glue Dots®.
Now all I have to do is get my husband to hang it on the wall, and I've got a great place for my kids to display their work!
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I wrote this post while on the Glue Dots® Design Team.
If you follow my blog, you know that Glue Dots® did a blog hop with Lindy's Stamp Gang at the beginning of July. For that blog hop, I got to play around with lots of Lindy's beautiful mists. I fell in love, and started regularly following their blog. They have a new monthly color challenge, and I thought it would be fun to play along with July's challenge.
This month's challenge included red, white and 2 shades of blue. I figured that was the perfect color combo to pair with Little Yellow Bicycle's Vintage Summer collection and our photos from this year's 4th of July fireworks. I had a canvas album from Little Yellow Bicycle that I thought would be fun to mist.
I used Lindy's Flat Fabio mist (that meas they are all the color, without the shimmer) in Danny Zuko's Denim (blue), and Rizzo's Rowdy Red. As a side note, I didn't have a mask that I thought would work for the cover, so I cut one myself with my Silhouette machine and an old piece of patterned paper. The up side is you can customize the mask to just the right size, shape, and style. The down side is you can use it for the one project, and then you have to throw it away. This is the mask before I misted over it.
I was able to use it on the front and back covers of the album before having to throw it away.
Now that I've show you the covers, here's everything in between. Every single paper, embellishment, sticker, etc. is from Little Yellow Bicycle's Vintage Summer or Naturals collections.
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I have 2 layouts today. One uses some of my extra Basic Grey and Lindy's Stamp Gang products from the blog hop and features a little bit of fun we had while away from home. The other uses up some of my Simple Stories papers and features some fun we had at home.
There's a great pedestrian bridge in Omaha, NE that spans the Missouri river. Halfway across the bridge is the Iowa-Nebraska state line, so of course we had to have some fun with that (look, we're in different states! Look we're in 2 states at once...and so on). I layered up some Basic Grey Carte Postale papers, and colored my chipboard letters with mists from Lindy's Stamp Gang.
These pictures just don't do these letters justice. These babies shimmer like crazy in real life! They're so pretty.
I also scrapped a little fun at home. We had a blast making a mess mixing shaving cream and corn starch. If you have kids, I highly recommend you try this (outside! it's messy). You end up with the weirdest feeling mixture, and a good hour of entertainment.
I kept this layout pretty clean and simple. The background paper is from Basic Grey's Fact collection, but all the rest of the papers, stickers, and journaling cards are from Simple Stories 24/7 collection.
As you can see, I did a bit of layering with the stickers and added some strategic stitching to finish things off.
I am beyond excited about the team up for today's blog hop!!! I mean who doesn't love working with Basic Grey and some gorgeous mists from Lindy's Stamp Gang? In fact, I'm so excited that instead of making 1 video tutorial, I made 4...yup, I got a little carried away. I made 1 project for today's hop, but there are a number of little techniques used, so instead of making 1 really long video, I split it up into 4. That way, later if you just want to re-watch 1 technique, you don't have to go searching through a really long video for it.
If you're like us, you tend to take lots of mini trips in the summer (and maybe even a big trip). Over the course of those trips you collect mementos that may, but usually don't, fit well onto a scrapbook page. My solution for that is to create an envelop mini album that has pockets to stash things like maps, concert tickets, and the like.
This album, built from envelopes, has a handy little pocket built into each page to slip your memorabilia. I used Basic Grey's Carte Postale (this is my new favorite travel paper, it's rich in color and full of really fun travel themed patterns) and Lindy's Stamp Gang mists to embellish the pages.
You can check out step by step instructions on building your own envelope album from envelopes and Glue Dots® Continuous Line in this video:
To create the cover of the album, I used an inking technique using Lindy's Stamp School Mists (which are soooo shimmery and rich in color!) and Basic Grey's Carte Postale paper.
You can see a step by step on sponging with mists in this video:
I made an inside page to hold a map from a zoo trip, and embellished it with custom colored chipboard stars.
The video below shows how you can use Lindy's mist BEFORE adding water (Lindy's mist are shipped dry, and you add the water when the get to you) to paint custom embellishments.
Finally, for this last page I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Mists to create a custom colored journaling tag by misting onto my craft mat and smooshing the tag into the mist.
Here is the last video I have today on that technique.
Thanks for sticking with me through that long post! There is just so much to love about Glue Dots®, Basic Grey's Carte Postale, and Lindy's Stamp Gang Mists. Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out what the rest of the designers have created. There are some really amazing projects for you to check out, and some more great video tutorials.
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I'm pretty excited to share this project that I just finished! Maybe it's because I got to use both the belt sander and the staple gun, or maybe I'm just happy with how it turned out.
I needed a new bulletin board, so I made this one from an old barn window I picked up.
I'm kicking myself for not taking before photos, but I did think to snap one after I got it all sanded, but before I painted it.
I used a whitewash instead of a straight paint, because I wanted some of the wood grain to show through.
Each pane is filled with a thick piece of cork covered in burlap (I used the staple gun to attach the burlap to the cork). I wanted to add a little something extra, so on 2 of the panes I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio Mist (meaning it's color without shimmer) in Danny Zuko's Denim. I used this fun mask from Studio Calico for the design.
Now I've got to get my husband to hang it on the wall so I can start using it!
