Jessica's Craft Shaque: Meljen Designs

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Monday, March 26

Coloring Book Mini Album for the Birthday Girl

Today at the Creative Scrapbooking Divas Mansion, I am sharing a birthday gift I made for sweet Ariana who will be turning 4 on April 3rd. She is always peeking around the corner when I am browsing through all of my digi images. Her soft, sweet, little voice always asks "can you make me a picture to color mommy?"

This gave me an idea . . . why not make her very own coloring book with some of the

girly images she loves so much.

I am happy to link up to the following challenges with this gift:

Queen of my Craftroom: Mini Album
The Outlawz - PAM032412 - Add a Bow (the bigger the better)

Simon Says - BINGO (flowers. lace, ribbon/twine)

I started with Medium Chipboard and printed out 8 images

from various artists:

and

I printed 4 images to one page, leaving the images to measure 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 after being cut. This gave me the opportunity to cut my chipboard a bit larger so that the coloring pages fit inside comfortably. I adhered the tops of the images together using Tacky Glue.

I used a hole punch to cut 5 holes across the top of the front and back covers to be able to feed ribbon through later. I also made a tent to house the stack of images. I adhered this using wood glue. The clothespins are always handy when gluing something together. They keep it taunt and you can set it up off of the surface you are working on so that it can dry.

I then covered the chipboard with some dp I received from my Blend

Cindy at cre8ivecindy. I really liked the cream color for the front and the flower print for the back.

After picking out some coordinating embellishments and a fun stamp by Unity Stamp Co., it was all coming together beautifully.

The pink sticker has a cute little sentiment that I felt was fitting for my sweetheart daughter.

It says, "i just love you plain and simple". This left room for me to add

some alphas to place her name in the center.

This tag and the red flower next to it are from a set called

Lickety Splits by Imaginisce. I stacked a few old buttons in the center of the flower.

Then I added a punched butterfly given to me by my BFF, Teresa.

By the way, Teresa is the New Blog on the Block

and can be found at skybluepink creations. Pop over and say hello.

I tied some other ribbons from my stash to the top for added flair, and put the coloring pages inside.

I got the pink lace out of my stash and pleated it along the bottom and then added a satin olive green bow to offset all the pastel colors.

It is all complete.

I am super excited to give this to her on her birthday!

Thanks for stopping by the Craft Shaque and for visiting the Mansion!

Keep Crafting

:O)
Jessica

Sunday, February 19

Teresa's Crafty Visit and ADORABLE Card

Hello Bloggers!! I am going to let Teresa hijack my blog to tell you about her A*D*O* R*A*B*L*E card she just finished. I love having my BFF over to share in crafty time and am so happy to be her little "enabler". We made a fun trip to our local craft store and 2 hours later returned home to get crafty.

So without further ado, I now present you to Teresa . . . .

Hello everyone. I am happy to be learning how to blog. I am good with writing emails, but have never blogged. I have always enjoyed crafting and have just started getting back into working with paper. I used to decoupage anything I could get my hands on....LOL. Now, I am really having a lot of fun with paper crafts (ie cards, altered items, tags, etc.). I was lucky enough to get a Cricut for V-Day from my DH and just purchased a Sizzix Texture Boutique. I love visiting Jessica for crafty time together. I grab her list of challenges, look at the sketches, and decide which ones I would like to play around with.

I can't wait to read all your comments and welcome your input.

I started with a light brown textured card stock as my base. I gathered some coordinating dp from my new Recollections Stack - Bold Basics. I followed the sketch from Ribbon Carousel this week. The image is from the fabulous Meljen's Designs colored with Whisper Strokes Dual Tip Watercolor Markers and colored pencils. Twine is Cappuccino by The Twinery. The grapevine hearts were a crafty find at the LSS. I used the MS enchanted heart punch for the 2 hearts along the outside of the oval image. Buttons from stash.

Challenge Entries:
Allsorts - #142 AG
Meljen's Designs - #97 AG
Penny's Paper Crafty - #73 AG
Cards For Men - #4 Valentine's Day/Love
Love to Create - #2 Buttons & Bows
Celebrate The Occasion - #50 Valentine's Day (Must use a Heart)
Creative Inspirations - #150 Colour Challenge

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - RCC40 Sketch

Until Next Time
Teresa

Wednesday, February 1

Love is in the Air

Happy to be on a roll with creating cards. I hit a small "lull" in my creativity, but am finding a rush of ideas the last few days. Today, I wanted to work with a Meljen's Designs Image that I have been keeping to myself. The dear sweet Sew Country Bunny can be found HERE if you are interested in purchasing it. I played around with my MS Valentine papers and colored my image using my Whisper Strokes. The tag stickers are from Real Life and the hearts are from my stash. The flowers were a candy win from Donna at Bearly Mine Designs and are from the company, I Am Roses. The sentiment at the bottom is from a set of stickers I have had for about 10 years now. I still remember the shopping spree my sister and I took to purchase them at a Dollar Tree when the chains first started opening in Ohio. The Baby Girl pink ribbon is from 3 Girl JAM and is one of my favorite crinkle ribbons ever. I love all the colors Julie has to offer and it is so fun to play with.