Club Scrap Blog Hop: Navigation

Welcome to the last Club Scrap blog hop of 2015.

I hope you arrived at my blog from 

Ann's Blog

with her wonderful projects.

As you know all the bloggers are always listed

on the main Club Scrap Blog. 

The kit of this month is called Navigation and

so it is all about boats. As you see the above picture,

that is what I see from my top window! It is 

Lake Westend and we do have a boat. It is

in winter storage now, but during the season

we float about and I like to keep a journal as

to when and where we go. This paper was just

perfect to make a boat journal for next year!

Here you see the finished journal.

It meaures 6"x 4,5"and I made a template for

you on how I folded the outside.

You need a piece of 6"x 12"to make the 

cover of the album.

(click on the photo for the larger version)

score the page at 4,5- 5,5 - 10 - 11.

In between the 4,5 and 5,5 inch you make the holes

that will be used to fasten the inside pages.

I used 3 times three folded pages for the inside.

6x 5,5"x 8,5"and

3 x 5,5" 12".This is the middle page in each signature.

Score this at 4,25 and 8,5. The extra 3,5 is used

to make a pocket

by folding this towardsthe inside.

I did not want to fasten the pockets with double sided tape

(for usually that opens after while when you add things

inside) soi choose to sew it, each pocket in a different 

stich.I thought it looked fun with the boat theme.

Here he see all the pages inside the journal.

I made a pocket on the front inside

and on the back where I could add tags to go

on the pages,when we will be going with the boat.

Here are 3 tags ready to be used. They will be added on 

the page when done.

I did not totally finish the pages of the book, that will

happen when I use it on our the trips that we will take,

depending on what we do and wherewe go.

Just a little decoration here and there.

This is the complete outside of the journal. In the middle

you see where all the scrap floss comes together from sewing

in the pages. I used some beads from a previous kit

for decoration.

On the front I added also a picture of our boat.

We have it already for 15 years.

On the front I printed out:

2016-boat journal - Onyva.

"Onyva" is the name of our boat and is French for:

"Let's go".

The anchor came with the kit, just added the steering 

wheel on top.

And this is the last card: so easy to make with just

the cut up part, a piece of lovely scrapbook paper, 

a fiber and a printed sentiment.

I wish you all a safe and creative journey into 2016.

May you be blessed with health and happiness

and wonderful friendships!

Please hop on to 

Josette's Blog 

and see what she has in store for you.

See you next year!

Club Scrap Artist Team:Minion inspiration

Are you addicted to the Minions?

Well, the Club Scrap Artist team is.

This month we were asked to make something

inspired by these pictures:

I love those litte figures and just had to go and see

the new movie. Did you see it? I LOVED it.

When you come out of the theatre you feel happy.

You did NOT see it?

Well here is the trailer:

Now what to make.....?

That was more of a problem. Ok, my inspiration came

from the colors and the warm island feeling.

In such a climate you need ice cream or a popsicle.

So I came up with this popsicle booklet.

I used this image as a template:

I took a strip of 6x12 inch CS Orient Express paper

and devided into 3 parts of 4 inch.

I traced the popsicle template at the beginning and the end

for cutting and left the middle straight to fold harmonica wize

every 1/2 inch.

The shaped paged are papers

from Orient Express, Wild Flower (brown) and

Bold Blooms (pink).

The pages are decorated with different Club Scrap stencils.

The chocolate topping is glazed with

glossy accent.

And for the wooden sticks I took 

a piece of grey board and painted it with 

tea die acrylic paint. Then I took a Tim Holtz

woodgrain stencil and vintage photo ink to

make it look likea wooden stick.

I used all kinds of sentiments from different

Club Scrap kits on the left page of the bookltet.

This one is from

Sprinkles um stamps 2012.

I went through all my photo's to 

find pictures for this book.

I also used a few stickers frommy stash.

This sentiment is from Club Scraps Desitations kit.

This sentiment is from 50's Kitchen kit.

Here you see the front and the back of the booklet.

I just ha to add at least one Minion.

Want to see what the others have come up with?

You find them here:

Debbie

Roni

Marya

Anne Marie

Thanks for looking!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Take Wing Blog Hop

Welcome to another fantastic

Club Scrap Blog Hop

This time you see the use of the September 

papers and stamps from the Take Wing kit.

Have you come over from Tricia's wonderful

blog with all her great ideas?

Well if you get lost, you can always find all the partipants

at the Club Scrap Creates Blog.

I also have a sidestep on the

Technique Junkies Design Blog

with a technique card:

Technique Design Junkies Blog

So here is my special project

 that I want to share with you.

It is not my own idea, it was a friend

that showed this booklet to me

and I knew right away I wanted to make

this booklet for my retreat memory book.

I will be at the October retreat and hope 

to meet up with many old and new Club Scrap friends.

This booklet is 5 inch by 6 inch and inside has

many pockets to put in memorablia.

The big stamp is from my first retreat.

The black letters are chipboard letters

fromthe Hopekit.

A view on the inside of the book:

5 pages each with 3 pockets.

The back of the book with a stamp we got

last year at the retreat.

A closer peak at the inside of the booklet.

A little stamping only for I wanted to leave

space to add all the items fromthe retreat.

For sure i will share this book again

when it is filled with wonderful memories

after the retreat.

Ok now you want to know how I made this:

The covers are 2x  5 1/4"x 61/4 chipboard

covered with the white printed 8x11 inch paper.

The spine of the book is green covered grunge paper.

Here you see the outside.The green spine is

glued 1/2 " over the front and the back cover.

The inside of the outside over.

The middle part is the bendable part.

Let is dry real good before you add the inside pages.

Now you want to know how tomake the inside pages:

You need to cut the paper down to 10 x 9 "

and this is the template:

in paper it look like this:

Folded in half you contruct the pocket.

When folded, you have two flaps on the

outside. You can use a border punch

if you like on these flaps for decoration.

These flaps should be on the left side of your page.

These flaps are used to put the book together.

Glue on top and bottom (use some red heavy tape

or a line of bookbind glue), so a pocket is constructed

on each page.

This is just to show you the front of the book

will be glued to the cover.......do this after you have 

covered this chipboard with design paper.

For the backside you need to cut an extra stripof

5x5 inch,fold in half (lengthwise) add the punch

border and glue to last page and cover (after decorated 

with design paper).

These are the tags that ore inside the pockets

with only a little decoration for now,

but it will be filled after the retreat with lots more.

Hope it all makes sense to you, but

you can always email me if you have questions.

Now let's hop on and see what

the ever creative Kay has for you

on her Keepsakes Blog.

Happy Hopping!

Have a creative day!