Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Pay It Forward 2011..#1..

I am participating in Facebooks "Pay It Forward 2011"...and just completed my first project.  It is a paperbag mini and I saw this technique of assembling it online somewhere, but now I can't find the video... The inserts are something I came up with, but I am sure someone else thought of it first!!

The recipient mentioned she liked purple, and loved girlish, frilly things...  So I went with flowers and butterflies.  The paper is all from a big pack I got at Costco a couple of years ago.....

I coloured flowers  from Wild Orchid Crafts with my homemade glimmer mist and again...love the way they grab the colour!!!  The lace is from A Tresure Nest I believe and it too is coloured with my sprays.
Butterflies I made using my Martha Stewart punches that I JUST bought!!!  Coloured them with Studio G ink from Michael's then a coat or two of clear embossing powder.

The pearls are from Close to My Heart as well as from the dollar bin at Michael's...I free-handed the pattern.

 close up of the binding....


 Between each page is a slide out Journalling card I made...room for more pictures and notes...so cute!











Lots of room for pictures and journalling.  I really had fun making this and I hope she enjoys it!!

8 comments:

  1. This book is just so elegant. Of course she will like, I mean love it. Your butterflies are adorable. My fav part is the roses on your cover. I struggle SO much with how to arrange flowers. Thank you for the paper collection info punkin.

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  2. This is gorgeous.
    I am doing the pay it forward facebook thing as well. Don't you have to make this for 5 people...I am just giving my post it note holders... wow I feel lame now :)

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  3. Appreciate the ideas for how to use Nestabilities. I will keep them now, and hadn't thought of gluing two pieces together. I've only been doing this kind of papercrafting for about five months. I saw some good deals on the Sizzix web site. They bundle a group of Tim Holtz dies together, and the bundle ends up being about half the cost of buying them separately.

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  4. Tracy...I am making something different for everyone. Most of my "Pay it Forward" 5 are dear friends back in Canada that I would probably send stuff to regardless!! I don't have people here to make things for, so it is theraputic for me as well!!

    Mrmorris....I don't know if i should go to the sizzix website or not!! lol

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  5. great job Tangie I LOVES IT!!!
    Flasher :-)

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  6. This is one amazing gift!! I love everything about it.
    When I hit post now, I am going to do a happy dance (please don't picture it in your head, you may die laughing) I made it to everybody on WOYWW and commented everywhere! Yay me! Took me long enough!
    Tertia 110

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  7. Thanks for the peek and sharing.

    Hugs, Marjo #10 Happy WOYWW

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  8. This is soooooo stinking CUTE!!!! Love it!

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