Altered Arts Magazine: Repurposing

Fall is in the air! Today I'm repurposing an old fabric swatch book.
Of course, I have found many uses for the lovely fabric it once held: Scrapbook embellishments, collage, quilts, applique and more. The books themselves are so durable, there is much more life to them.

Ideas:
(1) This note pad, decorated for fall but can easily be refilled and the flower changed time after time. (instructions below)
(2) Decorate the top/front, spray the long area with chalk board paint and add a little chalk holder.
(3) Decorate the long writing area around the border only, then cover it with laminate to use as a dry erase board, attach a marker on a string at the top.





Supplies:
Decorative paper (Jeanine DeOre digi kit "William")
Fabric Flower
Ribbon
lined note pad
3/8" and Super Sticky sheets adhesive
Liquid glue or hot glue

Directions:
1. Disassemble the fabric book and remove the fabric swatches.
2. Untie the hanger that came with the book by unknotting it inside the cover or snipping off as little as possible to remove it for the next step.
3. Cut decorative paper to fit the panels on the cover and adhere with super sticky sheet. I used one piece to cover the front and top, making it about 1" longer than needed so I could over lap the large panel on the back side.
4. Pierce the holes where the chord hanger was and put the handle back into place.
5. Cut a lined pad of paper to size and adhere inside using super sticky sheet adhesive.
6. Wrap the ribbon all the way around the project, meeting on the front side under where the flower will be placed. Adhere with 3/8 super sticky tape.
7. Glue the fabric flower into place with strong liquid glue or hot glue.

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Cheers!
Becky

Robin's Nest: Girly Scrapbook Page

Hello everyone! I'm very excited to welcome you to another Robin's Nest post.
I was in a scrapping mood so I created this fun layout.


Robin's Nest Supplies:
Little Girl Swirl Paper
Green Stencil printed on Linen card stock
Sunflower Dew Drops
Pink Glitter Flower
Yellow Glitter Butterfly
Glitter Gold Journaling block
Gold Glitter Card Stock Letters
Green Chipboard Leaf

Other Supplies:
Ribbon, tag and Raspberry Stickles, copper art wire

I used a paper saving technique to layer the background papers by cutting out 10" of the center so I would have the same paper to use as an accent in the lower right corner, which is trimmed to 6x6". The photo is glued only on the top and bottom so I could slide the tag behind it for journaling.

Dew drops accent the center of the glitter chipboard flower and stickles added some detailing to the glitter chipboard butterfly. I also coiled copper colored art wire to make the butterfly body.

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Have a wonderful and crafty day.
Becky Conley

Sakura Design Team Post & Blog Candy!

Today I am posting the project I made for my Design Team Application to Sakura.
Visit their blog for helpful tips and project ideas

FLOWER SHAPED CARD

SUPPLIES: I am being a bit generic about the products used here because most of them are scraps of left overs, I went through the scrap paper bin and picked 4 blue hues that worked together and one green piece for the leaves. The brad is a Basic Gray left over.
*Sakura-3D Clear Crystal Lacquer
*Spellbinders dies-Daisy Heads, Flower Creations, S3 die of 3 hearts, bee/hornet and grass hopper.
*Kaiser Craft wood flourish
*Ink- Adirondak:Stream, Meadow, Citrus, Lamp Black-Ranger
*Copper Wire, dimensional foam adhesive, liquid glue, sand paper, scissors, blue fine art glitter
*Flower shaped card-Darice
*Rubber Stamps - Flourishes BY ME! BCDesigns (BLOG CANDY! leave a comment on this post to be eligible to win the entire 8x10 sheet of high quality red rubber images: see below) Find them at HeartsinTouch.com

I started with a blank white shaped card.

Then covered it with patterned paper and stamped flourish accents in coordinating ink colors.

Then I cut and embossed 6 large die cut hearts from glossy cardstock, sanded the raised areas and inked them with Adirondak Stream. I cut off the bottom points and folded them backward at the center and glued them on top of the flower card as shown. I picked 3 flower die cuts by sizes that would work, sanded and inked them too. Assemble the three smaller die cuts with the decorate brad in the center.

Adhere the smaller flowers with 2 layers of dimensional foam adhesive in the center of the large flower. Ink the wood flourish with Citrus and glue in place on top of leaves. The grasshopper is inked with Meadow, the bee with Lamp Black. Use liquid glue to hold the copper wire at the center of the flower and dry adhesive to adhere the wire to the backside of the bee.

I applied 3D clear crystal lacquer to accent the edges of the large flower petals, raised areas of all die cuts-including the bee and grasshopper, and the stamped areas on the leaves. This step adds SO MUCH in the way of dimension and shine.

Since I can't seem to live without bling these days, I sprinkled a very light amount of blue art glitter over the flower while the crystal lacquer was still wet.


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Just leave a comment on this post and a random winner will be selected. Of course, I'd appreciate it if you follow my blog too! (but only if you enjoyed this project as much as I did creating it :o)

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Adhesive foam is not included in this give away.

Stay Crafty & Be You!
Becky