Club Scrap Blog Hop: Adirondacs

Welcome to the monthly Club Scrap Blog Hop.

We present to you the May Adirondacs kit.

You can see all the participants on the main

Club Scrap blog

but if you are hopping, you came over her from

Pam's Blog
and seen her lovely ideas with this kit.

I came up with this fun
Accordion pop- up 
album
that I have seen around and is just
perfect for this paper and pictures I have ready.

First I tel you what you need:
1 piece of cardstock: 9 x 12 inch (here blue)
2 pieces of bookboard 9,25 x 3,25 inch
2 pieces of paper 4,25 x 10,25 inch (here the arrow paper)
2 pieces of  9 x 3 inch (here red)
ribbon
bookbinding adhesive

Let's start with the bookcovers.

Use the bookbinding adhesive to glue

the bookboard to the paper. Fold the paper

around the bookboard and glue this too.

 Take the red ribbon from the kit and cut it in half.
Glue this half way of each of the book covers
and then cover this with the red paper with
bookbinding adhesive.

Now the covers are ready for decorating.

Here is the template for the inside of the book.

I scored everything first before cutting. So score

every 3 inches horizontal and vertically, then cut the 

middle part like you see above. 

Here you see how everyting looks folded.

This is from above and helps you the first time

you start folding.

Now you are ready to decorate the inside with pictures

and cut apparts from the kit.

When everything is done, you glue the

inside to the cover of the book and

you are ready to tie the ribbon around the

book to close it.

This is the cover of the book with

some of the cut aparts and little embellishements

I have left over from other Club Scrap kits

in the past. 

When you untie the booklet you see

the folding popping out.

And this is the inside of the booklet:

Owen doing some exploring in our garden.

At school the subject was insects and he colored this

butterfly beautifully. 

And around the garden he foun some ladybirds,

which he put in a small glass jar for showing in class.

Of course Aiden looked around too!

How about drawing a ladybird. Yes oma, I did 14 feet,

just for fun, I know they have six, I learned it at school.

Colin also looked at some grass growing while

Owen was putting the ladybirds in the jar.

Just one more look at the folds.

Now let's see what

Jennifer's Blog
gives you for fun inspiration.

Thank you for looking
and have a creative day!

Member of the Club Scrap Artist Team

Saturday Sketch and Color challenge

For this card I used two challenges:

a sketch and a color challenge.

The sketch challenge is from the

Fresly Made Sketches here

and the color chahellange is from

the Color Throwdown Blog here.

The bold letters are the Alphabet stamps by

Michael Strong and the birthday die cut is

from thinlits by Tim Holtz.

The letters are stamped and embossed with

white embossing powder. Next they are cut with

an oval punch  3/4"x 1 1/2".

The flowers are also by Michael Strong and embossed

with white embossing powder. These flowers have 

matching metal dies to cut them with, but are also 

easy to cut by hand. On each flower is a sticky gemstone.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Stamps Progressive Challenge #4

Her my card for the #4 Challenge of

Limited Runs Stamps.

If you want to play too, you still can

and you find all the details HERE.

You can get this fun bug image for free

until May 29.

After printing the image, I colored it with pencil.

Then cut the image and added it to the card. on the wings 

I added some glitter glue to give the wings some shine.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

I made this aerosol can from green and black 

scraps of paper and in the background

I used a Tim Holtz stencil like I just had

sprayed. The fly swatter is an image I found online.

Yes, the bug season has started her

and we are prepared!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap May Artist Team Challenge: Mash Up

Hello Crafters!

Here is the Club Scrap Artist Team for you with a challenge

to let the creativity flow. This month we were asked to create

a project, lay out or card with at least materials from 2 different

collections. This can be papers, stamps or embellishments. It all

starts at the Club Scrap Blog.

I hope you have arrived here from 

Jennifer's Blog and seen what her ideas where.

I put my thinking cap on and came up with these cute

little booklets for my grandson, who just loves to draw.

I went trough all my boxes and picked out some papers

that match nicely together. 

What do you need to make one booklet:

1x cardstock 5.5 x 8 inch

1x cardstock 5.5 x 3 inch

a piece of ribbon (aprox. 17 inch)

one button

some copy paper

needle and a piece of cotton or waxed linnen thread.

For my forst booklet I used a piece of Graffiti paper

and a button from the Sprinkles kit (PSL 2012).

I folded the cardstock in half and fastned the

button to the front of the booklet with a piece 

of raffia. Leaving the raffia on the button for

closing the book when finished.

Take the copy paper. I used 4 pieces and cut them to

5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inch. Fold it in half, punch some holes

in the center and sew these pages into the cardstock cover.

Now to cover the sewing and decorate the booklet,

take the piece of 5.5 x 3 inch and fold in half.

I used a piece of decorative Picknick paper. You can blue

it with tape of bookbinding glue.

Now glue the strip of cardstock to the booklet

and close the book with the raffia.

You can do a bow or tie it around.

Here are the 3 books I made before derorated.

You recognize the different papers?

For decoration I used the stamps from 

this months Adirondacks kit on the red banner.

On the middle booklet it is Creative Licence and National 

Parks stamps. On the last booklet you see the 

elephant and sentiment from the 2007 Serengeti kit.

You can see Owen loved the little booklets

and when he came from school I asked him which

one he liked best to start drwing in: of course

he picked the elephant. He loves wild animals.

Owen busy making his first drawing.

Here the inside with Owen's first drawing!

These mini booklets are super to take with you in your

purse with a small package of  pencils. This way you 

can draw everywhere.

And now over to

Pam's Blog

and see her inspiration.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Coffee and Mojo Monday 497

This card is made with the Mojo Monday sketch of this week.

You find the sketch and all the details

on the Mojo Monday Blog.

Background embossed with a coffee stain 

embossing folder and coffee bean embossing folder.

The sentiment behind the cup is part of

an Stampendous "wave words" stamp.

The cup is a stamp by Verve Stamps (Le Typewriter)

and  added a cute little spoon as a carm.

And of course I wanted to use my new washi tape.

This totally cute washi tape is from Doodlebugdesigns.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!