Tissue Paper & Mist Happy

My awesome friend Jennifer taught me how to make tissue paper flowers this summer...I made some pretty yellow ones. They are soooo easy! Keeping the paper folded as I took it out of the package I just measured it in half and cut straight. Bascially it depends on how big you want the flower to be...the longer it is, the bigger your flower will be. I cut the edges into points or little "triangles"...the smaller the cut the more "points" your flower will have. I then accordian folded (1in wide folds) the cut paper and wrapped thin wire around the middle. Lastly I "peeled" the paper to the wire and fluffed it out  to make it look like a pretty flower.



 I also used tissue paper like ribbion and made a little border for my black and white "Life at Thirty" papge (for my own scrapbook). I'm not sure why I am always drawn to black and white...but anyways...I used a vintage vinyl doiley sprayed with Metalic Maya Mist on the paper for a cool effect. I luv the doiley becuase they are sooo easy to clean and are super cheap :) I cut the butterfly out on my Silhouette and sprayed it with Maya Mist Pearl. Pin is also Maya Road (luv them) It's a simple page but I really like how it turned out!  

Recycled Mini Albums

              

I am a recycler by nature..i'm always thinking to myself "should I save this? I just know i will use it one day!" But as time goes by i never seem to get down to business and use the items i save. Until now...my family eats an incredible amount of foods that come in cardboard paper,. It can really pile up in the recycle bin! I was trying to come up with a project that was low cost for the OLL cropand it was my recycle bin to the rescue. The idea of making a mini album cover with the cardboard paper and one from toliet paper tubes popped into my head. For the square album i cut the cardboard to 5x5 shape and scored 1/2 inch in the middle for the "binding". I then painted it with black paint and finished it off by with spritzing of my homemade sliver mist. After it dried, i punched holes in the binding and added the silver rings. For the inside I cut white cardstock same size 5x5. I also cut the bottom of library pockets and added tags to fit. The front cover is vintage school paper, triangle misted aqua and black letter stickers. For the other mini album I flattened three toliet paper rolls by running them through the cuttlebug (hand flattening takes a bit of time and some muscle, but will work) painted and misted in the same manner as the other mini album. I then covered the tubes with Kay & Co. paper and made tags to fit. Lettering is black stickers. These little gems just remind me of how much I love the black & white colors together!

Makeover

Last fall on a trip to IKEA I bought a metal board and planned to use it to hold my weekly dinner menu. I actaully finished the project and loved it! But I began to notice the paper I had decorated it with was lifting...so I decided to remove the paper and decoupage some vintage recipes/pictures onto it. I was a little hesitant to do decoupage because all of my projects in the past were disasterous..wrinkles, bubbles and all! I knew I had to approach it diffrently this time! I began by selecting my recipes and pictures. I gave it a dry run of sorts..arranging the items around a bit before actually committing to the arrangement (no..oops.. I want to put this picutre over there sort of thing..) Next instead of brushing a heavy layer over the paper I brushed a very thin layer of decoupage on the metal and then laid my papers down. Making sure I smoothed it out as I went along. I let it dry a bit before brushing the top layer on. No wrikles or bubbles this time! I complete my menu board I glued wooden clothes pins , one for each day of the workweek. These hold my laminated resturant order tickets. I use dry erase markers to write the dinner menu on them.  Hope it inspires you to do some dinner planning of your own :]