Christmas Daily by Sue Smyth

 

With the Christmas season upon us, it is a really nice thing to record our

 daily preparations, memories of the past and traditions that we have each and ever year.

If you are like me and time poor, make the cover of this mixed media book up

in advance and just slip the pages in as needed when you do them.

I have made this sturdy mixed media book from an old Readers Digest book.

Add lots of glimmer mists and glitter along with a few bits n pieces 

in my stash.

 

How to make the cover 

Simply use Couture Creations Craft Knife to remove the inside from the cover of book 

Layer over hand towel and adhere down with gel medium, allow to dry.  

Emboss cream cardstock with  Moonlight berries folder and adhere to cover.

Cut Ivy set doilies from kraft cardstock and adhere to cover as pictured.

Paint with Gesso and allow to dry  

Spray with glimmer mists, and use an alcohol pen to colour the berries on the Moonlit berries folder.

Rub gold paint over the raised areas. To add a sparkle to your cover using your finger smooch with Crystal Glitzin' Glamour Glitter Glue

Emboss white cardstock with A magical time embossing folder, trim out the greeting 

you desire and adhere to cover with 3 D foam tape.

Rub over red ink and gold paint.

Create a flower
Step 1

Cut 2 of 3 sizes with the Roses die from red cardstock, 

pierce a hole in the centre of each.

Snip around the edges to create petals.

Step 2

Gather together several stamens and glue together.

thread through the holes of the flower starting from the smallest 

to the largest.

Step 3

  Spray with water and scrunch up to create a flower. 

Dry off to hold in shape.

Spray with adhesive and sprinkle with glitter.

Step 4

Adhere to cover along with assorted bits and pieces. Rub 

extra elements with gold paint.

Cut Connexion die from green cardstock, spray 

with adhesive and sprinkle with glitter.

attach around the rose flower.

For the Inside 

Trim assorted cardstock to make a folded page that fits the inside of your book.

Create as many pages as you think you will need.

Dry brush gesso over the edges.

Tie bakers twine around the fold of each page. Align the knots

to the bottom of the fold. 

Punch a hole into the spine of the book with a Crop-a-dile and 

thread  organza ribbon through the hole and 

through each strand of bakers twine and back through the hole so both ends

come through the hole.

Handy Hint set and eyelet over the hole to make it sturdy

Tie the ribbon into a bow on the outside of the spine.

This way you can add more pages as needed.

Use Couture Creations Vintage Christmas Paper Pad to 

Decorate as desired with the ordinary and traditional things you do

each Christmas 

Happy Crafting & Merry Christmas 

 

 

Couture Creations Products Used

 

 Fantasia Doily Dies Ivy Set  C0723222

 Vintage Christmas Paper Pad C0723551

 Craft Knife C0721987

  Embossing folder A Magical Time Wrapped in Joy C0723588

  Embossing Folders - Moonlit Berries Wrapped in Joy C0723596

   Sophia Collection - Connexion C0723506

  Nesting Dies Roses C0723218

 

 

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We have 3 Couture Creations Prize Packs valued at $50AUD each to giveaway

all the Details on how to enter are HERE

Treasured Memories Canada | Bower Bird Mini Album Class with Pauline Pierantozzi

Couture Creations is very proud to be sponsoring Pauline's class

Date: January 5th

Time: 10am - 6pm

Cost: $100.00

 

Designed by Pauline Pierantozzi from Australia exclusively

for Treasured Memories

Edmonton Canada

This 9x9 inch mini album takes memory keeping to the

extreme. The book is an eclectic collection of found and

treasured items, with over 12 pages of flaps, pockets and

divided pages to house oodles of photographs.

 

Combining the mini album concept with altered art is what

makes this album unique. The album is attached to a backing

board which resembles as picket fence so that it can be hung

like a piece of art on a wall or stand on an easel. For those

of you who are not sure about an album on a wall, then the

backing board can be removed and the album used on a coffee

table or bookshelf.

 

Using a plethora of paper craft products from Australia and

the USA, Pauline has created a showstopper album which

focuses on techniques using embossing, stamping, die cutting,

distressing and more. The Couture Creations paper line that is used in the album

will not be released until CHA 2014 – customers of Treasured

Memories will be the first in the world to use these products.

 

This full day workshop promises to be action packed, fast

paced and a whole lot of fun with an Aussie girl who has over

12 years of teaching experience in Australian stores and paper

craft events. Pauline is known for her compassionate, giving

and patient teaching style.

 

Bookings are essential and kits are strictly limited.

 

Join me on Sunday January 5th

for a full day workshop and

create your own Bower Bird Mini Album.

I have been involved in the Australian paper

craft industry in the capacity of educator and

advocate for well over 12 years, resigning

from my teaching position to follow my

passion for all things paper. I live on a

Pineapple Plantation on the Sunshine Coast

in Queensland, Australia with my fabulous

husband Peter, and my two equally beautiful and talented

teenage daughters Jordan and Sidney. Family life and

everything it encompasses is important to me.

 

After being diagnosed with cancer late last year I was even

more passionate about being creative with my memories and

the near thought of not having those memories encapsulated

for my daughters frightened me and the importance of not only

memory keeping for myself but also educating others about its’

importance become my drive.

 

It is an absolute honour for me to travel to Canada and teach at

Treasured Memories – which I am hoping will be the beginning

of my international educator role. Being involved in the industry

for so long has afforded me many friendships with some of

the world’s most compassionate people and when Trisha

Ladouceur recommended me to her favourite scrapbooking

store I was humbled and honoured to be considered so highly.

I hope that you will join me on Sunday January 5th

Memories for a unique memory keeping project and altered art

project.

 

Please Visit Treasured Memories Blog for booking details

Tag Book by Pam Bray

 

Today I want to share with you how to make a tag book using your Couture Creations Nesting Dies. I hope you enjoy the one I made because it was really easy to do. This is also a wonderful way just to make a few gift tags in the future using the same technique.

 

 

I used the largest of the Scallop Nesting Rectangles to make my scallop border with. HINT: To hold the die in place I used a bit of washi tape to secure it prior to running it through my die cut machine.

 

I die cut and adhere the largest of the Nesting Rectangle using Couture Creations Double Sided Tape to a white card base that I cut a bit larger than the rectangle. I added my scallop border that I had die cut to the bottom of the white card base with another piece of double sided tape.

 

I placed a small border strip over the top of the seam. Repeat these steps on the back of the white card base making sure that the scallops match up.

 

 

So now you need to cut a stack of nesting rectangles along with your scallop borders to make the front and back of the 4 tags you will need to make your tag book.

 

 

Make sure to cut an angle using your Couture Creations Precision Scissors on the top corners of your tag. I also used my Couture Creations Sanding Block on some core dotted paper to expose the inter core. You could emboss your own Core'dinations cardstock, using a different pattern on each page.

 

 

Page Two - Add some of the embellishments and frames using the Foam Mounting Tape to give dimension to your tags. Remember to use some to the fabulous Gemstones from Couture Creations.

 

Page 3 - All the frames for the tag book is used from a few of the smaller nesting rectangles.

 

 

Page 4 - It is always fun to do double layers using your Couture Creation Nesting Dies, they always give a wonderful mat look to your project.

Page 5 - I made a few of my photo frames from the nesting rectangles.

 

Back of Tag Book. I hope you try your hand at using your Couture Creations Nesting Dies to create something special.

 

Hugs Pammejo

 

 

Supplies:
Couture Creations:
CO723047 Scallop Nesting Retangles
CO723046 Nesting Rectangles
CO721983 Double Sided Tape
CO721985 Double Sided Tape
CO721961 Foam Mounting Tape
CO721956 Precision Scissors
CO721957 Self Healing Mat
C0723060 Sanding Block
Handheld Essential
Clear and Pink Gemstones

 

 

Friends Album by Pam Bray

 

I love mini albums...they are one of the most favorite thing I love to create, they are a way to use a few pictures but yet you have an album that last a lifetime. Today I created my Friend Album using a chipboard book that I had in my stash along with the Large Vintage Girl Embossing Folder and the Nesting Sunflowers. The Large Vintage Girl Embossing folder from Couture Creations is the perfect size for the front of the chipboard album.

 

I started by first running my salmon colored paper through my die cut machine.

 

 I then cut out a bunch of the Nesting Sunflowers out so I would be able to make my flowers.

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When I covered my album front and pages I cut the excess paper off with my xacto knife from the Couture Creations Handheld Essentials Kit and sanded the edges with the Couture Creations Sanding Block

 

 

I also sanded the front of the embossed image with my sanding block to expose the white color core.

 

 

Taking my Couture Creations Precision Scissors I cut around the frame

 

and continue to do the same for the inside of the embossed image so I could form a frame for the front of my album

 

 

I inked all of the album pages and the frame with the distress ink using

Couture Creations Sponge Daubers.

 

 

I added Couture Creations Double Sided Tape to the cut out center so I could place a piece of pattern paper behind the frame.

 

I just love the Couture Creations Double Sided Foam Tape, it gives great dimension and that is what I wanted to achieve this for the front of my book when I place it to the front of my album.

 

 

When you get ready to make your flower from Couture Creations Nesting Sunflowers, ink them first, mist with water, wad them up and allow them to dry completely.

 

 

Once it is completely dry carefully open them up, layer them, using your Couture Creations Handheld Essentials Paper Piercer pierce a hole in the center and add a brad.

 

Here is a closer look at the flowers and the Large Vintage Girl frame I created

 

and a second look at the other corner.

Supplies
Couture Creations
CO723447 Large Vintage Girl Embossing Folder
CO723212 Nesting Sunflowers
CO721985 Double sided Tape
CO721963 Foam Mounting Tape
CO721956 Percission Scissors
CO721957 Self Healing Mat
CO723060 Sanding Block
Handheld Essentials
Crystal Gemstones
Sponge Daubers

Other Products Used
Chipboard Book and Rings
Brown Distress Ink
Pattern Paper
Buttons
Alpha Stickers
Flowers
Chipboard Birdhouse

Memories Mini Album by Jo Piccirilli

Hey scrappers!  Its Jo and I'm back today to share a mini album I have made using Couture Creations yumminess.

 

I LOVE making mini albums.  I don't have a tutorial for this but you will find heaps of different ideas on Youtube.

 

 

This mini was made with paper bags which allows for lots of pockets.  I stuck most of them down.

 

On the front I have used my Rectangle Nesting Dies to create a frame.  I have also used the tranquillity flourish die from the Endless Dreams Collection.  I have also used the new doily dies (Ivy Set).  These little doilys are a perfect size for mini albums and also cards.  I can see these being used all the time and are becoming a firm favourite.

 

To bind my book I have used the Damask Flourish embossing folder and rubbed a bit of ink over it to give it a warm look.  The butterfly is also a die.

 

 

Here I have used my circle and scallop nesting dies to create a mat for my photo.  The embossing folder is Pastorale from the Romantique Collection.

 

 

Again I have used the circle nesting dies and embossed them with the large damask embossing folder and the Dandiya embossing folder.  Another doily die too slipped underneath and finished with the magical butterfly die.

 

 

The paisley border nesting die was used to  make this frame, which I left open to slip a photo in.

 

The hearts nesting dies have been used to create an embellishment on this page along with the doily die.  I have also used the tranquility flourish tucked under the blossom (another fav die I use all the time).

 

By using the rectangle nesting dies and the scallop rectangle nesting dies I was able to make two photo mats, and there is that pretty tranquility flourish again (see told you it was a favourite :)).

 

 

I used just the top part of the Dandiya embossing folder as the photo mat on this page and the Petite Fleur embossing folder with a piece of patterned paper down the middle to make the base of the next page. 

 

 

The page on the right was made using the Bradshaw embossing folder (a fav) from the Romantique Collection.  I used my hearts nesting dies to cut out a couple of chipboard hearts and then I embossed them with the large Damask Flourish embossing folder and rubbed some ink over the top.

 

 

I kept a pocket on this page and made a tag using the rectangle and scallop nesting dies.  Another half doily poking out of the flower cluster and magical butterfly to finish.

 

 

 

I had so much fun making this!  If you click on the actual pics you will get a closer look.  I hope I have inspired you to pull out your embossing folder and dies and don't forget to upload your beautiful creations to our Facebook wall.  We LOVE seeing your work!

 

Until next time

 

 

Couture Creations products used:

 

CO723412 - Magical Butterfly

CO723222 - Ivy Set Doily Die

CO723046 - Rectangle Nesting Dies

CO723160 - Pastorale Embossing Folder

CO723435 - Tranquility Flourish

CO723051 - Paisley Border Nesting Dies

CO723213 - Hearts Nesting Dies

CO723449 Large Damask Flourish Embossing Folder

CO723047 - Scallop Rectangle Nesting Dies

CO723041 - Scallop Circle Nesting Dies

CO723040 - Circles Nesting Dies

CO723168 - Dandiya Embossing Folder

CO723165 - Petite Fleur Embossing Folder

CO723159 - Bradshaw Embossing Folder