Junk Portfolio Tutorial!!!

Here it is, thanks for being patient! I finally have made the tutorial for my Junk Portfolio. This is made from 4 grocery bags and it is loaded with pages and pockets and possibilities.

The bags I used were 12” wide, 10 1/2 tall and the bottoms are 6 3/4. I have used Tim Holtz papers for this version, along with a lot of fun ephemera and goodies that I have made in the past and kept for just the right project to use them with. The full walk through of my first portfolio is here ...

Thanks for watching and I hope you have fun making one for yourself!!!

Stay crafty, my friends!!!

Junk Portfolio Share...How I used Grocery Bags and K & Co. Paper to make an AWESOME Project!

 Please come and see how I used the Library Pockets from Envelopes...and a bunch of other things I have made to go into this amazing Junk Portfolio I made from grocery bags!!!  I love love love how it turned out and I can't wait for you to see it!

Thanks for watching, and stay crafty, my friends!

Fun Days Mini Album

Here is another half done stashed project that I finally finished.  I made this album a long long time ago.   The video was done in 2009, so I assume that's when I did the book.   I had the "bones" of the book done, meaning the base, pages covered and the tags made.  The book is a paper bag book, vertical style.  I did the decorations tonight.

I got the tutorial for this book from Kathryn Krieger on YouTube.  Her tutorial that is used is here.

I raided my stash of stuff and finished it tonight.  The original papers were by Chatter Box, the "Fabulous" collection.  I did use one page from DCWV.  I had the letter and felt stickers from that line as well.  I added the cover flowers (by Recollections), and the bling by ZVA.  The chipboard letters were by Chatterbox.  Here are the rest of the pages.

 This will make a cute album to cover a weekend of fun.

 Each bag has a tag, and each tag is double sided.

 I added little felt stickers to the tags at the finger pull spots.

I used some fun "suede" like paper that I got from JoAnn's for the spine cover of the book.  I used a Fiskars punch to edge it.

Thanks for looking.  It feels good to get this out of my pile of unfinished stuff to do!!

Stay crafty, my friends!

Double Paper Bag Page Mini Album Tutorials Available Now!

 The tutorials for the double paper bag pages are available on YouTube now.  They cover how I made the base pages with their variations, the envelope gusseted page, the giant envelope page, and the small pocket pages.

All of the pages and variations are in both of these albums.  You can see the albums here:

Homemade Recipe Album Video

Ladies Diary Album Video

Double Paper Bag Page Tutorial Part 1 of 3

Double Paper Bag Page Tutorial Part 2 of 3

Double Paper Bag Page Tutorial Part 3 of 3

I hope you like the videos, and create your own album!

Stay crafty, my friends!!

A Ladies Diary Mini Album

 Hi all, welcome to the blog.  Today I am going to show you a little of this mini album that I made.  I also did a video that you can find on my YouTube channel that will go more into the book and how the pages are constructed.

 I used my "double paper bag page" design, but did some different things with it for this mini.

 It turned out gorgeous, and has all kinds of space to tuck those little letters and notes, pictures and journaling.

 Don't you just love this paper?

Here is a peek at one of the page layouts.  Please come over to see the video.

ETA:  Here is a list of the products I used.

Bags:  Celebrate It
Paper:  Graphic 45, Paper Accents, Bazzill
Brads:  American Crafts
Lace and Ribbon:  Teresa Collins, American Crafts, some unknown
Bling:  Recollections, Prima
Flowers:  Petaloo, Recollections, Bo Bunnuy
Doily:  Bo Bunny
Metal Key:  Graphic 45
Metal Lock:  JoAnn's
Photo Corners:  3L
Paper Clips:  Prima
Postcards:  American Tag Company
Punches:  Martha Stewart, WRMK Envelope Punch Board
Ink:  Tim Holtz, Prima


Stay crafty, my friends!

Off to see a Scrapbook Convention!

It is that time again...time for Jackie and I to hit the road and go to the Creative Keepsakes Convention in Seattle!!  I made a mini album to commemorate the event, and I wanted to share it with you!

 I got the tutorial off of YouTube, from My Sisters Scrapper.   It's called a "Vertical Paper Bag" mini album, and it is awesome!!

 I put a punch of charms on the spine, a lot of them given to me by my BFF, Jackie!  They were just waiting for the perfect project, and this was it.  I also added (later) a penny, from 2013, to the charm assembly. I thought it was fitting for this book.

 The papers are by DCWV, called Vintage Collector.  I used flowers and leaves by Recollections, Prima, Petaloo, Bo Bunny and Shabby Chic.

 I added a few kraft paper pockets by Paper accents, the tags are by Inkssentials.

 I used buttons by Bazzill, and BLink by Zva Creative, Recollections, and K and Company.

 I am not showing it, but the pages on the right actually flip open to reveal two more pages of space for photos.  This teal envelope is by Recollections.  It has mats inside for photo use.

 I love how this book came together.  There are so many pockets to put things.  The bags are open at the top, for more tags.

 I used the bobby pin by Crate Paper to hold this tag flap closed.

The last page is a waterfall page for lots more space.  All through the book I also used word/phrase stickers by My Minds Eye.

I hope you check out her tutorials on how to make this project.  It was soooo much fun to do, and I know I will be making more.

Now, off to the convention to collect photos, ephemera, and most importantly, memories to fill this book.

Stay crafty, my friends!

Day Album: Paper Bag Tutorial

As promised, here is a quick tutorial on how I made my Day Album paper bag mini album for the December blog hop with Just a Few Friends.  It's a long post, please go to the end of it as it's the 3rd project.

The paper bag I used was large, it measured 16 1/4" x 9 3/4".  I was designing it to be sort of a "day album".  I used a simple ribbon closure, but you could do any closure you wanted..velcro, magnets, belly band, etc. You can also use any size bag you want.

 First, I folded the bottom of the bag (on the left) over, and gave it a good crease with a bone folder, then I added a 1/4" gusset to the right of that crease, giving the album a little extra wiggle room.

 Then I took the bag bottom flap, and folded it to the left, so that I created a pocket on either side of that fold.  I used wet glue to secure this fold AFTER I adhered my papers to the bag.

 This is just a picture of the 1/4" gusset I created above.

 Then I opened the bag sides, and cut on the 2nd score line on the top and the bottom.

 I put the bag sides back where the go on the left, and left the ones on the right out.  This is going to create page flaps and pockets.

 I folded the bag flaps to the inside of the book, creased well.  Then I folded the bottom of the bag over, finding where the far right flap would go, made a score, then another score at 1/4" away from that.  Again, this gives the book a little more wiggle room.

 I trimmed off the edge of the bag to give a straight edge as well.

 Next, I cut the flap we made with the sides of the bag again to finish the page flaps.  The two smaller flaps folded inside the bag again.

 I didn't use this opening in the album at all, since this was going to be part of the cover and closure of the book.  I folded these little pieces in, and adhered the piece together.  Then, when covering this piece, I wrapped paper around the whole flap for stability.

I then measured and cut two pieces of card stock to adhere to the flaps of the bag that we created, making the flip out pages.  

I covered the flaps with paper, and adhered them onto the card stock pages, one flipping up and one flipping down.  I then had created two pages with two pockets.  

 This shows the flaps closed.  On the LEFT I added a card stock page BEFORE I placed paper on the pocket created by the bottom of the bag.  Closed, it has the pink mat...

...open it has the blue mat on the page.  It was just another way to add more space to the book.  I also adhered the mats so that tags could be slipped behind them for journaling.

I used the same technique with some patterned paper on the back of this book (the red striped paper).  It opens to reveal the back page of this book (the green dotted paper).  Again, I added the page with a 1/2" tab to the back of the album before I added the green paper.

And here it is, opened up.  

I hope that this tutorial helped, and you all have fun trying this out.  You can do this with any size album, and you can get creative and add as many interesting options as you want!  

Have a great day, and remember to ROAR WITH PRIDE!

Stay Crafty, My Friends!

A new kind of Paper Bag Book

While checking out the latest postings on Youtube, I came across this great paperbag book tutorial by Mary Anne Walters. You can find the link to the printable PDF here: http://scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/that-pbb-pdf/
I have yet to embelish, but here is the base of mine,

I used Glimmer Mist on the entire book!  My adhesive of choice was Scor-tape and Beacon's 3in1

I also added a little heat embosssing!

Too much of a good thing

I created this FUN paper bag book using 3 bags sewn together down the middle and the great Cosmo Cricket line, Snorkel!