Spring Wreath

I picked up these green daisy last year when they were on sale hoping to find a wreath form that I wanted them on. I finally found one I liked, but it had a bunch of succulents and fern leaves on it when I brought it home.  The succulents I would probably never use so they were donated and the fern leaves when into my stash.  

 The wreath form reminds me of a garden gate so I placed the flowers going up one side of it.  It's going to look great on my front door. 

 

I know this isn't a scrapbook project but it is something that I had started - buying the flowers- and never finished so I'm counting it as a Finish It Fridays project.   

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Recipe:
Flowers: Green daisy flowers and a branch of flowered gems.
Ribbon: Celebrate It 1 1/2" light green sheer, dark green sheer; 1 1/2" wired edge ribbon green tones
Misc.: needle nose pliers, wire cutters, florist wire, hot glue

Petal Punch Card Treat Holder and Finish It Fridays

For my guys I always do the 12 days of Valentine gift, it's just a little something to remind them how much they mean to me.  It takes just a couple of minutes to make them. 

Now I just need to add the mini candy bars and I'm ready.  I'll be stopping at the store today to pick up my goodies that will going into my treat holders.

Since I had to look up the instruction on line I'm adding this to my Punch and Die Cut Journal.

 

 

I've missed the last couple of Finish It Fridays so I dug in my file and found a couple scraps of paper that included the instructions using the Stampin' Up Lattice die and making an ornament that I wanted to try. Here is my page for the journal that I will be using to make them.  It does take a little bit of time, scoring, folding and gluing each piece but I think it is worth it.    

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Recipe for Petal Punch Card Treat Holders:
Paper: Stampin' Up - Love Letters
Punch: Stampin' Up - Petal Punch Card,
Misc.: Adhesive,  Mini Candy Bars

Recipe for Lattice Die Ornament:
Punch: Stampin' Up - 2 1/2" Circle Punch
Die: Stampin' Up - Lattice Die

Christmas Card Album

I have another project done for the Yahoo groups Scrappers Challenge.  I have finished adding the Christmas Cards, letters and photos we get every year from family and friend to my album.  I started this album with the 2008 Christmas cards and letters.  We get several letters so I had to make something to hold an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper.  I didn't want to fold it as there can be stuff on the back so I wanted to use sheet protectors. 

I start off the year with a divider and the Christmas letter we send out.  After that it's just punching holes for the cards and adding them.  If I have a letter and card I keep them together along with any photos that were sent.  If there is writing on the back I use a piece of Acetate and photo corners to hold the pictures on then we can read what was on the back. 

I hold the envelopes in a sheet protector in the back of the album until I send out next years Christmas cards so that I have a quick reference if I lost an address.

This was not in my unfinished scrapbook pile but it is a scrapbooking project and it was unfinished so I'm counting it as a Finish It Friday project. 

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Punch and Die Cut Journal

To day is Finish It Friday's at the Yahoo Scrappers Challenge.   I have a couple, (it's actually two and a pile on top about of about 3" high on top of them) of plastic 12x12 Scrapbooking totes that you keep your paper in, with unfinished projects. 

I have several sample note cards with really messy hand writing on it and a sample of the technique I used or an element I made.  I have decided to keep them in a journal with the step by step directions so that I can recreate them in the future.  This way I can look through the journal, see the element I'm making and have the instruction all ready with what I need to do it.  The best part is that I don't have to scroll through my favorites on the Internet or Pinterest trying to find it.

 

 

My album cover is 6"x9" and covered in gray DCWV card stock on the outside and an unknown pink pattern paper on the inside.  I used the Tim Holtz Baroque die to cut a piece of white card stock.  I then layered a few of the flowers I have made along with a few silk flowers.  I'm thinking that the front of the album will probably stay this way.

I'm using the large ring binders (2")  to hold everything together as I expect this to be a chunky book. 

I am using a snack/sandwich bag to hold any templates I may have and clipping it to my instruction sheet so they don't get lost. I pulled out all of my notes and samples, rewrote them onto  5 1/2 x 8 1/2" paper, glued the punched samples down and attached any templates to the front of the project.  I had fifteen sample in my to do pile that are now in this little album.

 

Here is one of the pages inside complete with the template. I haven't decided how I am going to organize them on the inside: by type of punch or by what was made so I have not done any tabs.  One project completed for the Finish It Fridays, and I'm afraid to count how many are in there to go. 

 

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