Lump, Bump and Clump!: Mini album

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June 14, 2016

Let's Celebrate Mini Album - Simple Stories

I recently designed this mini album for the Button Farm Club. It will be taught in Arlington TX and Tulsa OK at the Creating Keepsake Convention. It is also available over on the Button Farm website!!!

You can check out my entire blog post over at Simple Stories!

Phew, it is EVERYWHERE today!

March 19, 2016

Bucket List

Today is the last day to participate in the Paper Issues Mystery Bag Challenge. I hope you all will join me. Go HERE to see what has been submitted already. It is very inspiring. I created this little bucket list.

January 26, 2016

January Planner - mambi

I am over on the mambi blog today. This is how I decorated my January cover for my planner. I must tell you that I change this our every month. This month, it is usually snowy and cold around these parts. Not this year. So, for this planner spread, I am wishing for snow:o) Don't have me if you live near me:o) My boy wants to get out and play in it. Plus, he may be hoping for a snow day for two.

All of the product are from mambi, me & my BIG ideas. The base is The Happy Planner™. The only thing that is not mambi, the cute snowflake and snowman. They are exclusive PaperPOPs from Paper Issues. My friend Jen Chesnick makes them and has a store of her own called Parker on the Porch. Hence the name, PaperPOP. Cute huh? I attached them with a glue dot on a magnetic paperclip.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today.

November 7, 2015

Guest Designer over at Simple Stories

I can not even explain to you how excited I am to be guest designing over at Simple Stories today.

When given the assignment of creating a Christmas Mini Album, I was pretty stoked.

Then, the box arrived. I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the beautiful items they sent me to play with. An over-flowing box of the Claus & Co. collection. An amazing Christmas Sn@p album and more! After picking through all the goodies, I decided this mini would be a plan all - December Daily book all in one. Here is a few sneak peek photos. I do hope you will hop over to

Simple Stories to check out the remaining parts of my book. It was a blast to create!

Thank you stopping in today. Hope you have been inspired to get your December Daily planned and ready to go. Making your holiday season that much easier.

January 30, 2015

You Me Mini Album - mambi

me & my BIG ideas is sharing the last project I made for CHA (Craft and Hobby Association).

Pretty fitting since we are rapidly approaching Valentine's Day.

Tell me, when does it come more about your children on this day and less about your spouse???

I don't remember when it switched! lol.

Back to the point! This little mini is made up of all things mambi!

You can not really tell, but folks, these black letters are uber glittery and totally amazing!

You can see that I left this blank for the show. You could fill it with pictures of your loved one or your kids!

Thank you so much for taking a look at this photo heavy post.

I won't keep you any longer!

January 21, 2015

Sunny Snapshots mini album

We are already half way through January with no snow to speak of. It is EXTREMELY cold and I burrowed in for few days while my family goes to school and work. I have been trying to organize and clean out but something keeps calling me back to my scrap space. I decided to create a mini album from November when we went apple picking in weather that was sunny and bright, well one day anyway. Thinking maybe that would warm my feet. Nope. Today I have Smart Wool socks on, homemade knitted socks and my husbands slippers. My own don't fit over so many layers. I am sipping coffee with a lemon candle burning. Hoping I feel warmer.

Here is my sunny mini that didn't help change the temperature but it sure was fun making.

I created this album with cardstock pages. I use Bazzill 8.5 x 11 Avalanche. It has just enough texture and my favorite. I cut this in half the long way and folded in half with the texture inside, to create the pages of my album. Best thing about making your own album, you can decide how many pages you want for your event. I knew I needed 5 open pages.

I then used a strong adhesive to attach the pages back to back like so.

To create even sturdier pages, I machine stitched as close to the inside as I could on each page. I HAVE to use my sewing machine on everything lately. It is a stage I am going through. Remember the funky scissor stage? Tearing paper stage? Been through it all!!!

I chose the papers from Pink Paislee I wanted on the outside of my album. Attached with a strong adhesive and whipped it through my sewing machine again, of course! Then I started decorating the inside. We went picking twice. The first time, on the rainiest day ever and then again with our friends. We ate apples for weeks! Apple pie, Apple Crisp, Apple Sauce, Baked Apples. Everywhere we went, we took something apple with us!

There is a local farm that has a cold cellar and we can still get apples that taste freshly picked. We are lucky to live in New England. Even though I am kinda crabby today. I hope you have enjoyed my little mini and think about creating one for yourself. I will list the products I used below.