Christmas Recipe Mini Album In A Box for Reneabouquets

Merry Christmas everyone, it's one of my favorite times of year and this year is especially important because of all we have been through in 2020. It's a blessing to remember what this season is all about and that is LOVE... we love because HE loved us first. Every year I make certain specific cookies for Christmas that are a family favorite.  I thought it would be fun to create a little mini album to hold these memorable recipes and give it to my daughter so she will always have the recipes of the cookies that filled her tummy during this time of year.  The box to hold them is a Graphic 45 ATC Book Box and I decorated it with some festive Christmas cardstock. 

 On the outside of the box I used the Beautiful Board Small April In Paris Adornment Pattern and I embossed it with brass embossing powder. I then used Christmas Burgundy Mulberry Poinsettias, Roses & Holly Leaves Flower Set for that festive look. Some Christmas greenery and tiny brass bells from my stash. I also used the Graphic 45 claw feet to rest the box upon. 

To embellish the front of the mini album I created I used one of my favoite items from Reneabouquets store which is Small Square Shaker Box DIY Kit Laser Cut Chipboard. These are so much fun to create with and have endless possibilities on what you can do with them. Inside I filled it with Beautiful Board Large First Snow Snowflakes and a mixture of Gold Fine German Glitter Glass, No Hole Glass Microbeads in Silver, No Hole Glass Microbeads in Black, and mica flakes from my stash. 

I also hung a charm I created off the side of the album, and this included Reneabouquets Tea Time Trinkets which were painted with black gesso and then white gold Finnabair wax was rubbed on top to give it a brass finish. 

The inside of the mini album was created with pockets to hold your recipe cards and decorated with an assortment of Beautiful Board Special Edition Homemade Christmas Cookies which were painted and then sprinkled with fine clear glitter for a sugary look. A Metal Clip Bookmark With Cabochon from the store was clipped on to a page for some added fun. 

If you would like a better closeup of the entire project I have provided you a video below so you can see each and every Christmas goodie used from Reneabouquets store. Wishing you a magical Christmas season, filled with health, peace and joy. xoxo

Vintage Trunk Mini Album

Hi everyone, and happy Monday ! Today I have a new project filled with Reneabouquets goodies and I'm so excited to share it with you.

Reneabouquets has such a gorgeous selection of beautiful board, flowers, laces and trinkets, not to mention her handmade butterflies, that can take your mini album over to the next level. Sometimes I really have a difficult time not adding too much, because everything is so pretty to work with. 

On the front I added some gorgeous lace from the store and embellished it with several different handmade mulberry flowers and RB Salted Caramel butterfly. All the beautiful board used was embossed with Brass embossing powder. And what about that brooch...isn't it gorgeous. 

The handle on the top of the album is actually a door handle which I whitewashed it and then lightly embossed it also with the brass EP. 

To open, you lift the top and the sides come down (almost like an explosion box). And inside I have waterfalls, accordion pages, as well as tags, and hidden pockets. You can actually see all of this more in detail in the video below where I will take to page by page and share details of the album. 

Here are a couple pages of the album featuring on the right, a waterfall section and on the left and accordion fold out tiny mini album. 

This is another photo of a couple pages just to show you how pretty also is Reneabouquets chunky glitter glass that she carries, also in several beautiful colors. Oh and did I mention trinkets??? The charm I created on the left has some of the beautiful board dangling as well as a Fairy Princess Crown and on the left I have the Queen Bee Clock Charm. And this month Reneabouquets is offering a coupon for trinkets in the store. 

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I hope you enjoyed this project for below are all the products and their websites that were used.... Happy creating !

 RENEABOUQUETS SUPPLIES USED

 Beautiful Board Large Fancy Fall Corners Set Of 2 Laser Cut Chipboard 

Honey Roses And Leaves Mulberry Paper Flowers

 Beautiful Board Ivy Vines Tuck It In Laser Cut Chipboard

.5 Ounce Diamond Chunky Glitter Glass

2 Ounce Buttercream Chunky Glitter Glass

White Pearl And Rhinestone Button Set Of 2

Beautiful Board Large Feathers Set Of 3 Laser Cut Chipboard

 Beautiful Board Fancy Fall Tuck Ins Set Of 23 Laser Cut Chipboard

Vintage Dark Olive Mulberry Paper Roses &Gardenias

Winter White Curly Roses Mulberry Paper Flowers Set

Mini Old Gold Mulberry Paper Roses and Leaves Set

Ivory Wide Floral Embroidered Lace

Natural Cotton Crochet Lace-Cluny Lace 003

 Leopard Premium Paper Butterflies

True Love Story Premium Paper Glitter Glass Butterflies

Salted Caramel Premium Paper Glitter Glass Butterflies

Trinkets Set Of 5 Fairy Princess Crowns In Tarnished Brass

Reneabouquets Queen Bee Clock Charms Trinkets Pack

Large Ivory Chiffon, Pearl & Rhinestone Flower

2 Ounce Buttercream Chunky Glitter Glass

Passport Mini Album/10 Easy Mixed Media Background Techniques

Hi everyone,  I have many people tell me that they love the look and idea of mixed media but they are simply too afraid to try it. Well today I have a project I created with 10 of some very simple ways that you can add some mixed media to your next projects. I've compiled them all in a mini album that I created using Eileen Hull's Passport Die and the help of Art Anthology's products.

For your pleasure below is a process video which will show you each individual page more clearly. You don't have to have alot of different supplies just the desire to try something new. 

I also altered this little box to hold my album in. Nothing special, just white washed it a bit with white acrylic paint and added some ephemera, sea shells, a little bit of sprays etc. 

The album's signatures are held together with jute. Tied and braided then beads were added for interest. 

I hope you take a moment to view the video. I'm sure you will be surprised at how fun and simple many of the techniques are. Grab some paper, some stencils, paints and/or sprays and create with me. 

The Bone Collector-Coffin With Mini Album

Hi everyone.... I have some fun and eerie inspiration for my design team project for Art Anthology. It is  "Bone Collector" altered coffin holding a mini album to put all those fun Halloween pics in.

I started off with a paper mache coffin that I purchased at the dollar store. I traced the coffin onto chipboard and cut out for the pages of the mini album. 

The outside of the coffin was altered with wood pieces that were applied with texture paste and then painted with multiple colors to provide that aged look. Everything was propped up on a wood base and the wooden base was textured using sand, rocks and floral moss. 

The tree was made using grapevine wire from the craft store and painted then Ideaology spiders were hung from the tree.  All those pesky hot glue strands are perfect for this project because they provide a spider web effect. 

Ideaology bones, skelletons, apothecary vials word band and lantern are added to enhance project. 

The inside of the coffin was decoupaged with a Halloween napkin. This is one side of the mini album. 

This is the other side of the album. It will hold at least 30 photos. 

I hope you enjoyed this Halloween post... Hope this didn't scare you with all the steps and photos, it's quite easy and allows your creativity to go wild. For your pleasure I have a Snapguide tutorial below. Park your brooms at the door, sit down for a spell my pretties and enjoy. 

This project is entered into the following challenges

Frilly and Funky- Trick or Treat (Mini Album hidden in Coffin)

Emerald Creek  - Freaky and Fun

Rhedds Creative Spirit - October Challenge 

Altered Ecclectics- October Challenge 

Creative Artiste-Mixed Media 

Check out How to Create Coffin With Halloween Mini Album by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.

Art on the Go

Hi everyone... hope your having a wonderful summertime, and I know many of you are taking beautiful vacations. But, sometimes while your traveling you get that inspiration to get creative and today I have a fun mini art traveling kit that you can make and take with you to get messy with.

Today I'm up on Art Anthology's blog with this recylced mint tin made into a travel art kit. The tin was altered using so many of AA's gorgeous texture paints, seed beads & crackle varnish. 

Shown here is the top and bottom of the can with lots of yummy textures and colors. 

The canvases were created by making an accordian mini album to tuck inside the tin. Each page is prepped with either sticky back canvas, watercolor paper, clear gesso or black gesso all ready for you to get creative on. 

As you can see the album fits nicely inside with room for pen nibs, brushes etc. I hope this has inspired you to alter yourself a tin and get creative with it. Below is a Snapguide tutorial for a step x step process, and for a complete list of products I used please visit Art Anthology's blog. Wishing you safe travels during your vacationing !

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Love to Create - Anything Goes/Mixed Media

Simon Monday Challenge - Try To Contain Yourself 

Mixed Media Monthly - Travel

Rhedds Creative Spirit - Mixed Media Altered

Altered Eclectics - August Anything Goes Altered

Check out How to Create Mixed Media Art Travel Kit by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.

Embellishing with Die Cuts

Hi everyone... this month at Unruly PaperCrafts we are focusing on "Die Cuts". I chose to create this mini album utilizing many of my Sizzix dies and here are photos of some of the pages in the book.

Here are the dies that were used to help create this album: 

The album cover, using Weathered Clock and Gadget Gears

A page using Tattered Florals, Sewing Room & Wings

This gate fold page was embellished using Steampunk

With the help of Tag & Bookplate die I created this page

 And these two pages had an added element of little ATC sized photo mats with the help of the ATC & Corners die.

Take a moment and drop over to Unruly for beautiful inspiration and ideas for utilizing diecuts in your creations. Have a wonderfully creative month ! xoxo Toni

A Treasure Created From Trash

Well March is almost over but our "Trash To Treasure" theme is still going on at Unruly PaperArts. As crafters we are always looking for new ways to repurpose and give new life to throw away items. This month my design team project is a mini album created from a cardboard box. I used coffee sleeves from my local coffee shop to hold my photo tags and a cd.

This mini album is going to my daughters father so I wanted it to be more masculine without the flowers and blingy embellishments. Using an assortment of different paper lines I think I was able to capture a perfect keepsake. 

Recently on a visit to New York to visit my daughter we were able to take in so many wonderful sites and we took a ton of pictures. Even though this album is only 5 pages is holds over 45 photos, so I'm sure her father will enjoy going through the pictures. 

I used many embellishments and ephemera from T!m Holtz's Ideology packages. The distressed manila tags fit perfectly in each coffee sleeve. 

This month at Unruly we have the pleasure of having Rubber Dance Stamp company for our sponsor and so many of their stamps were perfect for my project. 

So glad I had an apothecary jar FULL of my distressed tags all ready to create with. For my tutorial on how I tea stain and distress these please check my SNAPGUIDE tutorial HERE. 

I also decided to put copies of the photos on a CD for the recipient so he could always make duplicates if he wanted. This was a really fun project, didn't cost much means most of it I had laying around the house. I hope you decide to play along with us this month at Unruly. Be sure to link up your project.  Drop by to get some wonderful inspiration of Trash to Treasure. Happy Crafting ! 

For a step x step tutorial check out my SNAPGUIDE  below

Check out How to Make Mini Album From Cardboard Box by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.

A Special Gift for A Special Someone

This month is my mom's birthday and I wanted to make her keepsake of family photos. I decided to use Maya Road's Clutch Purse mini album. This clutch provides a lot of room for many photos. I made the photos into wallet size and was able to fit 34 photos in it.

This is the inside which also was decorated with pearls & metal embellishments.

"I Am Roses" always work perfectly when spraying for your own custom colors.

I hope my mom will enjoy this mini album which is packed full of her family's memories. Happy birthday mommy... I ♥ you

 Below is a step by step tutorial on developing this mini album. For more projects check out my SNAPGUIDE website : http://snapguide.com/toni-burks-grijalva/guides/

Check out How to Make Purse Mini Album With Faux Leather Technique by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.

SENDING SOME LOVE FROM HOME

This accordion style mini album is for someone very special in my daughter's life... a very good friend that she met in college and they have remain in contact. He is in the Army and currently in Korea and has been missing home very very much. My daughter gathered lots of pictures from college days and current pictures they exchange back and forth and decided she wanted to send him something he could put on his desk or dresser. Something to help bring home closer to him.
Here is my process:
I first cut 5 sheets of chipboard, 5 strips of 1" cardstock that was scored down the middle. I used the card stock to attach the chipboard squares and this also provides more stability for bending back and forth.

Next I covered each with black card stock

The paper line of my choice was DCWV Timeless Treasures, I used the Distress It All to distress the edges. I find when using my Distress It All, it works better when you combine several sheets of paper at once. I then inked all edges with Black Soot DI.

Next I gathered several embellishments that were to be used. I find this is easier for me when doing a project like this, rather than stopping and searching for items of my choice. I just put a bunch of goodies in a can and go from there.

I really wanted it to be a fun album for him, so I included some interactive pages. This 5"x5" 5 page accordion album fits over 50 photos !!!

So here we go with a page by page blow... the photos don't really do the pages justice but maybe it will provide some inspiration for your next project.


PAGE 1



PAGE2



PAGE 3



PAGE 4 WATERFALL CARD

PAGE 5

PAGE 6 FLIP OUT BOOK HELD WITH MAGNETS



PAGE 7

PAGE 8

PAGE 9

PAGE 10 POP OUT BOX

 

I hope Marcus enjoys his little gift from home and Marcus we always keep you and all our wonderful soldiers in prayer. Thank you for your service... we ♥ u

 

Happy Creating

Toni