Handfasting Minibook part 4

These last few pages in our Handfasting minibook show my lovely friends and family gathered around our (rather fierce) fire.  Again I'm using that lovely East of Indian tape and some punched SU hearts with titles using OA minimarket stickers or cut on my cricut.

 We had a local group Beachcomber come and play in the evening for us. They are an amazing group of musicians and we go and see them as often as we can. We were very lucky, as they stayed till well after dark and we had a bit of a fireside gig especially for those of us who camped at the plot over night.

 They are; Kerry and Vince, Jay and Becky

 and the lovely Didge Joe came along and played as well.

This is the last page at the moment but I am still hoping that someone took some photos of our guest book tree as I would like to add those to the book. So far though none have appeared on any disks I have been given :( Trav and I have both written letters about the day to store in the Maya Road envelope on the back cover of the folder. 

I hope that you have enjoyed looking through the pages of our handfasting album. I now just need to make two smaller versions of this one for each of our mums.

TFL 

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Handfasting Minibook part 3

 Installment three of our Handfasting minibook. 

I forgot to mention that a very good friend of mine (who happens to work at one of my favourite crafting shops - CTM) came to our handfasting and bought with her a roll of yummy East of Indian tape. 

I just adore it!!!!

I must admit to being a little unsure about using it to start with ..... all that ripping and those un-straight edges - not my bag man! But I can't get enough of it and have used almost the entire roll on this book alone. I love how it helps pull all the pages together and I have used it some many places to cover page joins or to frame a photo. 

Amazing stuff and I want more more more!!!! in all different designs!!!

Here i have repeated the layered heart embellishment again and added a ton of the tape to frame the photo of us kissing. On the right hand page I have used a page protector that is made to hold two 4x6 photos, as you can see they work really well for mini LO's and journal blocks.

Some friends, family and dog (we took Gracie-Lou, Suki-Su and Bella-Donna with us for the weekend) photos for these two pages, again with the repeating hearts (using my favourite SU punch), i made a small pocket out of kraft paper and added a little journal note, the title is made with October after stickers and my DonJuan cartridge.

 photos of my man and his eldest son and a beer refil :) 

a few more Jillibean Soup journal sprouts and some OA alphas. White photo corners inked with SU crumb cake became my second favourite supply during the making of this album.

 I made a red velvet sponge cake covered in vanilla frosting for our handfasting cake and ordered some poppies from a local sugar craft shop (they looked amazing!)

 Again these two pages are fold out ones to help tell the story of how I made Trav eat cake!! He's not got a big sweet tooth but I was adamant that he was eating some of this cake and ended up rubbing a load of it into his beard ;)

Tomorrow I will post the last few pages of this book.

TFL 

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Handfasting Minibook part 2

So here are a few more pages from our handfasting book. 

We held our handfasting (for those who don't know) - to celebrate ten years together and so that we could be married in my faith. 

 

The right hand page in this photo opens out to show more photos (see below).

I used my cricut to cut the titles, another of Sam's handmade stamps and some jilli bean soup journal sprouts made up the base of a repeating layered embellishment.

 these pages where the first that I made for the book, the heart drawn on a page ripped from a book was take directly from something I had seen on pinterest a while back.

 I just loved this photo of my boots and had to do a multi photo page using it.

 The right hand page is another page that folds out. 

On the front two pages are our vows to each other, inside are photos of us reading our vows and some journaling about all the crying that happened at this point.

TFL

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Handfasting Minibook

I'm almost finished with the mini book I'm making of our handfasting. I decided that rather than using a 12x12 album and tons and tons of PP and CS i wanted something smaller, something I could leave on the lounge coffee table that wouldn't take up too much room and something that wouldn't cost the earth to make. I have had a couple of paperchases A5 kraft folders in my stash since January this year and thought one of those would be the perfect size. I have used a mix of pages;  plastic A5 pockets, plastic pockets that hold two 6x4 photos or pages, plain A5 pages and pages that fold out to reveal hidden photos or journaling. I have taken photos of all the pages that I have completed so far, but some of them I won't be able to post as they contain words or photos that I'm not happy sharing with the www. 

So here is the album I hope you enjoy looking through it. There is some reflection here and there but I wasn't able to remove the pages and photograph them (sorry).

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 Sam made this stamp for the handfasting card she made us. She stamped me a few images so I could also use them in my book. I adore this stamp but still need to add some colour to areas of it.

 

 I used a wide range of papers to make this book (but not a single picec of OA paper..... shock horror!!!!) I have tried to keep mainly to the red and black theme of the day but have added cream and kraft, with a little jade to help the pages flow. most of the tittles have been cut with my cricut.

 These two pages both fold out, I also used a theme of poppies and heart throughout the book.

 hiden within are some of the verses said during the ritual, photos of our coven members and the kraft envelope holds a copy of the whole ritual. I used two sheets of A4 kraft copier paper to make the envolpe and them drew a scalloped circle to make the flap a little more interesting. it's decorated using more stamps made by Sam.

 Jumping the broom to seal the deal, and photos of me sorting out Trav's shirt before the posed photos were taken.

Look out for more handfasting book photos tomorrow. 

TFL

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Hen Night minibook

 My youngest niece went on a hen night a few weeks back and asked me to make a minibook for her to give to the bride as part of a wedding gift. The theme for the night was pink and black.

 

I have left journal spots throughout the book for the bride to write down her memories of the night. 

 some of the pages fold out, there are spaces where more photos can be added

 I added punched flowers, butterflies and tags as embellishments.

 I added a pocket to this page and put a few journal tags inside. 

I also made a journal tag for her to list any hen tasks she was given.

 It's all boxed up now ready for me to take to the post office. I do hope they both like it :) 

TFL

Bought to you by the letter C

Happily I have a new job, it's hopefully just a filler until the school remember how good I am with the naughty kids and they advertise my old job. The idea that just because a school has changed from a state school to an academy so all of a sudden all the kids will start to behave and compile is a joke but I'm happy to let the school management believe that for a little while ;) anyway back to the reason for posting. I know work weekends so my days off are during the week.... Sweet! I get the house to my self, once the dogs and house work are done I can sit and craft for a food few hours! And today is one of those days I'm drinking Coffee, eating Custard Creams

and Crocheting a Cozy for Carys.

I might even manage to cook a Curry for tea tonight ;)

have a Cool Wednesday.

TFL

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Crafting from Pinterest

I saw this neat little Christmas ornament tutorial on Pinterest the other day. 

I've been looking to make some apples to hang on my Wicca tree, for Mabon. I wanted them to be 3D apples not flat stamped ones and I thought that this ornament would serve my purpose perfectly. I gathered the tools that I thought I might need

And cut out as many circles from three sheets of 12x12 cardstock as I could on my cricut. My circles are roughly 1.5" I think it might have been easier if I had cut them slightly larger.

Taking 12 circles as the tut told me I stapled the 12 together. My stapler only just went through the pile, but it did hold. I added glue dots top to one circle, bottom to the next.

And stuck them together as I went around the globe. I'm not overly impressed with the finished ornament. #1 because the ball looks too cramped

#2 because out of three sheets if CS I will only be able to make 9 apples.

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So I changed the pattern slightly and only used 8 circles for the next ornament.

I'm much happier with this one. The stapler went through the layers much better. The layers aren't so cramped so the colours and patterned paper shows up better also I will get a few more apples for my CS. If I was to make them again I wouldn't use Bazzill, it is too thick for this task coloured paper would work much better and I would cut the circles about 1/4" larger just to make each ornament a little less fiddly.

Another great find on my favourite website Pinterest!

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