Club Scrap Blog Hop - May - Cape Cod Kit

Welcome to ClubScrap's Monthly kit Blog Hop!!!

So this month we were taking a trip to the San Juan Islands and I needed a Travel Journal to take with me, to document our travels.  I also wanted to incorporate some watercolor paper tags to paint on using the Travel Art Kit I made a few weeks ago for iNational Scrapbooking Day.

When I opened up my Club Scrap monthly kit and saw it was the PERFECT kit for a trip to the islands, and so here is what I came up with...

Supplies:
Composition notebook
Cardstock
Rubberstamps
Ink pads
Watercolor paper
Ribbon
Adhesive
Modge Podge

1.  Get a composition notebook.  Trim off the about an inch of each of the lined notebook paper pages inside the notebook.  This will make space for labeling the divider pages.

2.  Cover composition notebook with cardstock using modge podge or book binding glue.  I used the cardstock with the light house.  I only covered up to the black spine cover with this cardstock.

3.  I then created a cover for the spine of the notebook, using green cardstock.  I tore cardstock on both long edges and then I used the stencil with a sponge to sponge on green ink.  Add this piece to the journal spine using modge podge. 

4.  I then covered the inside of the front and back covers with cardstock - stamped images - added ribbon.

5.  Measure and cut divider pages.  I cut each of these pages about a 1/4th of an inch wider than the one before it, so that when you open the notebook, you can visually see all of the page dividers.  On each divider, I stamped some images along with the day (i.e. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, etc)  Divide your notebook into even sections and then adhere the dividers into the book.

6.  On the opposite side of each divider, add a 2 in strip of cardstock, strategically adhering to create two pockets for 2 tags.  Cut two tags to fit in pockets (I rubberstamped images on some of the tags, left some of them blank):

7. Here is a couple of the tags that we took turns painting along the way, I pretty much suck at it, but still had fun doing something other than staring at miles of concrete:

 I really liked this version of a travel journal.  I was able to use different colored sharpies through out the book and write bigger, make lots of lists, and notes about meals we ate, prices we paid, drew some maps of the different areas, geocaches found (for logging later), etc.  I really enjoyed the extra space allotted to me.  It was a nice size to take and work with as well while traveling!

 Thanks for visiting my blog during the ClubScrap Blog Hop!

Wanna see some more great creative ideas using this month's Cape Cod kit from ClubScrap???  Just check out the next participant in the Blog Hop, please visit Jill P. over at http://jmp1022.blogspot.com for more! 

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Digital layout - Minecraft cake

A digital layout using ClubScrap's Come Sail Away digital scrapbook kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Digital layout - Bear Hunting

A digital layout using ClubScrap's Bookshelves digital scrapbook kit.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Digital layout - Air Compressor, Kellogg ID

This is a digital layout using ClubScrap's BOOKSHELVES digital scrapbook kit. 

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

National Scrapbook day.....Club Scrap Blog Hop: Travel Art Kit.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!  Welcome to ClubScrap's iNSD Blog Hop!!!

So I wanted to make a travel art kit.  Something really small that could fit in my pocket or purse.  Then when we are at a restaurant for dinner, or waiting for kids during karate, or even on my lunch break...I could doodle and do a small art journal...just a lil something to keep the creative juices flowing anywhere I may be....

I decided to also make one for a very dear friend, whom is always so busy she rarely has time to create, even tho I know she really wants to...maybe she, too, will find a lil time here and there to play and do something artsy to make her day a lil better creatively speaking and more fulfilling!!

I used numerous ClubScrap sentiment stamps - they have SO MANY super fabulous ones to pick from - to create these two projects -

For one of the tins, I used Spring Chorus kit and the other is Wild Flowers kit.

 

Each kit includes a little case (an altered tin from candy the kids received at christmas time, measures about 4.5x3.5) - in the case I have watercolor paints, paint brush, pencil, pencil sharpener, some water, and a spiral bound book of watercolor paper.  I cut the watercolor paper to fit the tin and bound them using my bind-it-all machine.

 Instructions:
1.  Started out by creating the little spiral ring watercolor paper sets, by cutting watercolor paper to size, then punch out the holes and bind with the bind-it-all system.

2.  I rubberstamped various images and sentiments and then watercolored the covers of the art journals.

3.   Then I took air dry clay and put a chunk into the tin that fills about 2/3rds the inside of the container, leaving space for the pencil, paint brush, water, etc.  I left about 1/2 inch deep.

4.  Then I used a little bottle to create the divots for the watercolor paint.

5.  Let this dry, it will shrink a little bit - then I pulled out, filled with paint, and then glued (using a hot glue gun) back into the tin.

5.  Next I cut cardstock to fit the tin, and rubberstamped images and sentiments on the front and back pieces.  I then modge podged the cardstock pieces to the tin.  Here is MY tin, this is the front side of it, I used papers from the the "Wild Flowers" Club Scrap kit:

Here is the back side of my tin:











Here is the tin for my friend, I used cardstock from "Spring Chorus" Club Scrap kit:

6. I also cut a 1/2 in wide piece of cardstock to run around the edge of the tin - I rubberstamped a sentiment on it and modge podged to the tin.

 I sure hope my dear friend likes her tin, can't wait to have my tin done and ready to travel with me...I look forward to future playtimes with it!!

Thanks for visiting my blog during the (inter)National Scrapbook day ClubScrap Blog Hop!

Wanna see some more great creative ideas using this month's Spring Chorus kit from ClubScrap???  Just check out the next participant in the Blog Hop, please visit Jill P. over at http://jmp1022.blogspot.com for more! 




The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Card - “Dandelions!” card

“Dandelions!” card

Cut a piece of yellow cardstock approx. 4.5in x 7in, ink edges with pink ink.  Cut a piece of white cardstock 4in x 6in.  Using round sponge daubers, daub on orange, blue, and pink inks firmly, leaving the circles of ink all over the white cardstock.  Stamp “Dandelion” images (ClubScrap) with black ink.  Cut white cardstock into 6 strips, varying the length and widths as shown.  Adhere these strips onto yellow card front and attach to card base. Finished card measures 5in x 7in.


The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin