Printable Letterboxing Journal

Well here it is gang! My printable for letterboxing. It's simple and it's cheap! Only $4 at my Etsy shop! 

DIY Bottle Cap Charm

Carnival of Love Printable & Giveaway

Check out my latest printable...just in time for Valentine's Day!

And I'm having another giveaway! The winner will get the free download of this printable. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this page or on my YouTube video. I will pick a winner on  February 13, 2014.

Good luck everyone!!!

Happy Christmas Printable Mini Album GIVEAWAY!!!

Hello Everyone!!!! Here's my printable mini scrapbook and giveaway. To enter the giveaway, simply comment on this post OR and comment on the YouTube video for a chance to win this mini plus the digital download! I will randomly pick a winner on December 24th. 

The printable kit includes 20 scrapbooking pages, 2 pockets, 8 small cards for journaling or for photo mats, 2 pocket inserts plus 15 words/phrases to cut and add to any page. This printable is available at my Etsy shop for only $10. So don't forget to comment to enter for your chance to win this pre-made album PLUS the digital download! Good luck, everyone! And thank you for stopping by!

UPDATE:
This giveaway is now over. To see the winner please visit this post.

Spooktacular Mini Winner

And the winner is...

CASSANDRA A.

You are the winner of the Spooktacular Halloween Mini Album. You get the chance to choose how you receive your prize either as a free printable, a kit, or a finished project where you just add the picture. Congratulations! I hope you enjoy it!

Nothing Gold Can Stay Printable Mini Album Kit Winner

The winner of my Autumn Printable Mini is...

Arplytag

Congrats! I will be in touch so we can arrange receiving your album kit. Thanks everyone. Keeping checking back for my next printable mini album release and giveaway!

Don't Forget! Fall Mini Album Giveaway This Saturday

I just wanted to remind everyone of the FREE FALL MINI ALBUM GIVEAWAY! You can see this album on this post. For this giveaway, you get the printable (already printed out for you...unless you want the download for FREE!), plus the chipboard, some glue and maybe a few other things I can throw in ;) To enter all you have to do is FOLLOW THIS BLOG. I will pick the winner this weekend. If you are interested in purchasing this album, please visit my Etsy shop where you can purchase the download for $10. Good Luck, everyone!Thanks for stopping by!

Nothing Gold Can Stay Release and GIVEAWAY!

My Fall themed printable mini album is ready for purchase! I'm so super excited about this mini. It's great for fall...and pretty much anything else. You can purchase this printable album at my Etsy shop called Ellie's Albums & More for only $10! I'm also doing another GIVEAWAY!!!! WHOO HOO!!! I'm going to giveaway a kit to making this album. I will include all the printouts, the chipboard and probably even some glue and string! You just put it together however you want! To enter to win just follow this blog and I will choose a winner on September 28th. Good Luck!!!!  Below is the video of the album and how to bind it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Winner of the Budding Romance Mini

Hello, everyone. I'm so sorry I missed posting the winner yesterday. I have been sick for a few days and had several visits to the ER. I'm still recovering but I don't want to leave anyone hanging, wondering who the winner is to my first ever giveaway. The winner is...

The Girl Who Went to Texas!

Congrats!

To see what The Girl Who Went to Texas won, check out the YouTube Video which shows you the album and the printable which you can buy from my Etsy shop for only $7.

 I'm almost finished with a Fall inspired printable mini album so keep checking back for that. Once I've completed it, I will have another giveaway for that too. Thank you everyone, for stopping by!

Pinspiration Sunday: BOO! Sign

So I've seen a lot of signs on Pinterest that say "BOO!" And I finally decided it was time to make my own. Everything I used in this project I already owned...whoo hoo! So here's how mine turned out:

Mine got a little bigger than I was originally aiming for. Here's my original pin:

This beautiful sign was for sale in an Etsy Shop called PeaceGlitzNGlam but has since sold.

I began my project with 3 wood pieces...I have a ton of these because I came across them one day in ACMoore and they were only 25CENTS!!!!! 

I painted the fronts and sides with black craft paint and a sponge brush. I use sponge brushes whenever I can. They are crazy cheap and great to use and toss especially when working with Mod Podge!

After they dried it was time to cut the burlap. I happen to have a strip cut from a prev project which also happen to be the perfect width. All I had to do was cut the length. Burlap frays so easily...so here's a tip: pull one or two fibers out from the area you want to cut, then cut through that area. See the picture below? I pulled a thread out. then cut along that open space.

I did this for all three wood pieces. Then I covered the wood pieces with Mod Podge and pressed the Burlap on top to secure.

Next, I cut out letters using the Happy Hauntings font on my Cricut Craft Room and some creepy spider paper I had left from a previous Halloween mini album.

I decided then to ink the edges using Tim Holtz distressed ink in Peeled Paint. But after I started inking the edges, I decided to blend and cover the entire letter. I knew that I wanted to use 3D adhesive dots to help the letters stick off the wood pieces, but my paper was really thin. So I decided to laminate them. This also helped me to ensure that my sign could last through the years.

For some reason I decided to take this project even further. I had this picture and frame that I bought at a thrift store months ago for $1 or $2.

I pulled all those staples out.

Then I tried painting the front with craft paint. But I realized it was going to take A LOT of coats to cover it. So I flipped it over and painted the back. 

I had this bottle of crackle medium...it's a very OLD bottle...but I gave it a shot...

After covering the frame with the crackle medium and allowed it to dry, I painted the frame black.

It worked...okay...but it's supposed to look grungy so it worked for me! By the end I went along some ridges and edges of the frame with silver craft paint too. While that dried I finished off the "picture" part. I knew I wanted something else for the background...plain purple just wasn't going to work. I thought about drawing some spiders on...but then I looked through my lace and I had a small piece of black that was just a bit longer than what I needed! WHOO HOO! Perfect! I covered the purple area with Mod Podge and pressed the lace on top to secure. Then I cut the excess off the ends.

Once it was all dry, then it was time to put the background back into the frame. I secured it with nails I had in a tool kit and added a picture frame hanging bar thing (technical name, I'm sure) to the back. Next I hot glued the wood pieces into place. The hands came from a bag full that I got from Michael's (and they have them this year too)!

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Thanks so much for stopping by!

DIY Burlap Roses

I had a post awhile back about glimmer misting burlap...in that post I mentioned that I made roses out of them. Here's a video to show how to make your own burlap roses.

Thanks for stopping by!

Fabric Flower Tutorial

As I stated in my first YouTube video, I'm going to show you how to make a fabric flower using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die. This is a very simple, easy and fun project! Let me know how it works out for you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Budding Romance Printable With Paper Clip Binding And GIVEAWAY!

Okay everyone...my printable mini is ready!!!! Check out my YouTube video above. You can purchase this at my Etsy Shop. But here is even better news...I'm doing my first ever giveaway!!!! All you have to do is follow my blog....that's simple, right?!?! On Saturday, August 31 I will randomly pick a winner and you will receive the mini album I showed in my YouTube video! Don't want to wait that long to get yours? Then you can purchase this mini at my Etsy shop, Ellie's Albums & More for only $10  $7. And it's an instant download. You can purchase and make this right now! I'm so excited about this, I hope you are too. Please enjoy! And feel free to leave me any feedback.

Thanks for stopping by!

Broadening My Creativity

So as you have probably guessed if you follow my posts at all, that I am a huge fan of Marion Smith. If you don't know who she is, you should check her out over at A Piece of Craft. She is AMAZING and a huge inspiration to me! From her blog you can check out her website where she sells scrapping kits and she creates her own printable mini albums...which I LOVE! I will be sharing some of my minis I made using her printables very soon. You can also get to her YouTube channel through her blog as well. She has great tutorials. The reason that I am telling you all this is because she has inspired me to create my own printable mini album. I started out knowing nothing about digital designs but my best friend, Angela, taught me so much! So I just wanted to share this with you. I have been hard at work creating some pages. I have a long ways to go and a lot more to learn but I'm having so much fun with this. I can't wait to share my final project with you. Here's a page sample  :)

Thanks for stopping by. Let me know what you think!

Christmas Memory Box

I made this box after watching Marion Smith's video for her Travel book box. I decided to make a Christmas box instead. I thought it would be a nice way to document the holiday season and what better year to start it than the year we started our family. Here's a look at the box and 1st book I made:

And what makes it even more perfect is my "push" present. (in case you have no idea what that is, it's the present my husband gave me for pushing out our baby boy)He got me the new polaroid camera and the pictures are the perfect size for the mini books that go inside

So there it is. I can't wait to doodle and journal in it. I'll show you the finished product later!

Life Scrapbook; Another Christmas Gift

So a couple years ago I decided that it would be nice to make a scrapbook of my husband’s siblings and himself for his parents. He parents are divorced so that meant that I needed to make two scrapbooks. Well between school, work and life I only made one. Now, several years later my husband decided 2 days ago that I should make the one for his dad this year for Christmas. Now, I’ve mentioned before that I am pregnant. In fact I’m very pregnant…4 days overdue at this point…so yeah, let me get right on that, honey. Well I did…mostly because I have nothing left to do but wait for this baby to come. And even though he decided this literally 48hrs ago…I’m done. I’m not going to share the whole album with you but I thought I would share a few pages. It’s an 8 X 8” album that I started with group pictures then gave each child a separate section. I even added a few pages for our baby…the first grandchild in his family. I really tried to incorporate some doodling into this album and I think it came out pretty well…So here are some pics…Enjoy!

The cover:





Used a Tattered Angels' mask and glimmer mist for this background



Copied the robot for the Doodle Formula book...it's just too cute





A close up of the doodles: