FLASHBACK FRIDAY'S - Wonderful Mother - Scrapbook Tin - Sale-A-Bration Smackdown

Happy Monday Everyone!

Yesterdays post brought a flurry of e-mails, hits and messages about Dreaming = Create = Pillow share see here.

Today's project I have been working on uses all new products from the Stampin Up Occasions Mini Catalogue. For this project I designed a mini scrap book tin using Nature Walk Clear Stamp Set (121997) and Designer Series Paper Botanical Gazette (121783).

With Mothers Day right around the corner I thought what a better idea than a mini scrapbook in a tin for a wonderful mother.

Look for PDF instructions on how to make this in the next few weeks.

Front of Tin

Inside tin pocket to hold special memories

Space for journaling and for picture



Interior pages for journaling and pictures

Close-up of tin cover with ribbon opened

Ohhhhhhhh la la ... Using Chic Boutque

I seem to be on this Paris kick and frankly I am surprised because the one time I did go to Paris I found it dirty, loud and well not very friendly. I am sure that it has changed since I was there almost 20 + years ago, but sometimes things just stick in your head. All of that said I am super excited about what is coming in the our new Stampin Ups! Idea Book and Catalogue for 2010 -2011. Can we say vintage?

I absolutely love Chic Boutique, I used it on my Simply Adorned Jewelry see here plus the card below. In fact I used two stamp sets (one of the reasons I so love Stampin Up products they are interchangeable), for the card below. I used Chic Boutique and Charming from our Holiday Mini Catalogue (September 2009 - January 2010) look for it make a return soon!

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I absolutely love chocolate and baja breeze and I am happy to say it is returning in the new catalog so I will be creating some new invitations using that fabulous colour. This card will fit a standard # 10 envelope but I will never mail this one as it has one of my favorite buttons on it. So this will become instead a little piece of art.

Close up showing that beautiful button...

Cake Good Enough To Eat

Decorations Make Them Homemade...




I like to look for ideas and ways of decorating for a shower or even for a wedding that are not to costly but give the WOW factor. I also like to personalize things, but not spend a lot of money.

When I got married, one of the things that I did was take very expensive white wrapping paper (pricey paper better quality) and wrapped individually three box each smaller than the other. Once they were wrapped I put one on top of the other (so it looks like a cake) and using quality cream coloured ribbon (shearer the better) held them together on all four sides. From there again using quality silk flowers I removed everything except a few green stems and hot glued them to the boxes ensuring the best flower(s) for the top. Remember you don't need a lot of flowers just play with the positioning will be just fine.

So with that in mine I did an updated version using Stampin' Up DSP Urban Garden and some hat boxes that I found at Pritchard Packaging. For those of you who live in Ottawa and don't know about this place it is so fantastic. You can not only find so many ideas here but the prices are hard to beat.

I am going to dig through my boxes of negatives yes negatives and see if I can find some pics of what I did for my wedding so you can see. But in the meantime here is what I ended up with.

Let me know what you think?