Artist & Aesthete

Hey y’all, today I have a new mini album to share! I love making mini scrapbooks, and it’s already been 2 months since I arrived home from my Alaska trip so I figured it was about time to document it, right? 😉 I had such a great time in Alaska! I used a flip book by Paper House Productions  for the album. I’ve actually had this album base in my stash for 1-2 years now and hadn’t decided on the perfect photos for it until now! It works so well for these. My only complaint is

Hey guys, I am up on the Tombow blog today sharing a new tutorial! I created a mini album scrapbook built into an envelope so that you can easily toss it into the mail to a friend! Grab the full tutorial on the Tombow USA blog here. #scrapbooking #tombow #tutorial

National Scrapbook Day is the first Saturday in May, and this year those of us on the design team are celebrating by showing the many creative ways you can use scrapbooking supplies! Today I am up on the Tombow blog sharing how I used scrapbooking supplies in my art journal! Tombow sent those of us on the design team a package filled with paper crafting goodies. I also made a mini album using some of the products which you can see here. Are you celebrating National Scrapbook

Hey guys, today I wanted to share this mini album I made! National Scrapbook Day falls on the first Saturday of May, and *Tombow sent those of us on their design team a package to celebrate the day! It inspired me to finally scrapbook these photos from my trip to Colorado last year (right before leaving for this years trip!!). Tombow partnered up with a few amazing paper crafting companies, and they sent us so many goodies! I want to thank them here and then I’ll get on to sh

As a scrapbooker, I think I’d have to say that one of my most favorite things to make is a mini album! I love using travel photos and making a small album to document the whole trip, rather than having 10+ 12″x12″ layouts. I know everyone doesn’t feel the same way, but I love them. If you’ve never made a mini album before, I think you should give them a try! I’m putting this blog post together for anyone wanting to put together a mini album for the first time, or anyone who j

Hey my friends! Today I have my latest mini album scrapbook to share with you! My Dad and I recently took a camping trip to Lake Easton, and obviously took a few pictures! For this mini album I used some supplies from my stash, but I also just bought some of Pink Paislee’s “outfitters” line, and I just love it and had to use some on this mini. I mean, just look at that leather badge that I used on my front cover!! love. Here are my pages: This mini album came together really

Hey guys, I recently shared this post over on Kristin’s blog and totally forgot to share it here! Ooops! Here it is now though. 🙂 At Christmas my parents got me a Heidi Swapp Minc machine (they know me well!), and one of the things I’ve been wanting to do is foil stamped designs! The Minc is a foil applicator and it foils laser toner designs. I used the new toner screen ink to add foiled stamping to this mini album with rukristin’s Basics Alphabet and Basics Months stamps. I

Another day, another mini album finished! I think making mini albums is definitely my most favorite way to scrapbook and document memories. I just love mini books. For this mini album, I grabbed some new supplies I got from Tombow. Tombow has partnered with May Arts and they sent me this fabulous hot pink metallic ribbon. I saw it and immediately thought of my Grand Canyon pictures. Is that weird? Maybe. But I was inspired. 😉 I used the ribbon as a way to bind my mini album

This past Saturday was National Scrapbook Day! Did you celebrate by pulling out paper and photos? I did. Well, sort of. I was busy all day Saturday, so I celebrated on Sunday. Close enough! This year Tombow partnered with a bunch of fabulous scrapbook companies, and as a Tombow Brand Ambassador I got to play with a few new products and goodies! I created this layout using the Attwell collection by Fancy Pants. The blues in this collection worked perfectly with my photos of th

Hey friends, Happy Wednesday! Today I plan on doing some outdoor things- I’ve got some flowers to plant, but I’m also hoping to get in a bit of scrapbooking time. I made this mini album earlier in the year and totally forgot to share it. But here it is! As you can (obviously) tell, I used photos from our trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. The cover is corrugated cardstock by American Crafts, And I believe the chipboard arrows and a few other embellishments I used in th

I’m still working on scrapbooking our epic trip last year across the western USA, I’ve been going back and forth between 12×12″ layouts and mini albums. I love both so I can’t seem to stick to just one or the other. I made this mini album using some of my photos from our stay at Yellowstone National Park. It’s sort of a mini album- it’s actually 6×9″, so it’s not that small. I cut down larger page protects and because I don’t have the Fuse tool, I just used my woodburner set

Apparently I am a very bad blogger because I totally forgot to share the second half of my December Daily album, and it’s almost February. Oops. You can find part 1 of my album here. This is the journal/mini album I made to use partially as a December Daily album, partially #30Lists and also a little bit of a Christmas art journal, all rolled up into one. I am using a recycled book for my album base. I used an old Readers Digest book, because I think the patterns on these ol

Today I am over on the rukristin blog sharing this but I just had to show it to you guys as well! This is the journal/mini album I made to use partially as a December Daily album, partially #30Lists and also a little bit of a Christmas art journal, all rolled up into one. I know, I know, it’s January, and everyone is moving on from Christmas, but I wanted to show you guys my album! I am using a recycled book for my album base. I used an old Readers Digest book, because I thi

I have one more art journal page to share with you for the day. This one is more scrapbook-y, but it is an art journal page in my altered book. You can scroll to the next post to see more of this weeks art journal pages. This is is my first project as part of the rukristin creative team and I think it turned out pretty good. 😉 I created this page all about where I’m at in my life right now. I think it’s important to document more than just events, and to document what you li

Hey guys, Happy Wednesday! I’ve been testing out a new blog feature here on the blog, Art Journal Wednesdays. The problem is that I don’t always have new pages to share, so I’m renaming this feature to “Paint + Paper” and I plan to share my art journal pages, scrapbooks, project life pages and card. That way it’s more open, and I can share things other than JUST art journal pages. I feel like I never share just layouts or cards anymore, so I’m excited for this feature. Today

Today I wanted to share with you guys the last of the pages from my December Daily album. I used this album to document my December, adding in photos, journaling, lists, art and anything else I felt like documenting! I’ve shared a little bit about my December album here on the blog already. If you want to, read more about it here: Putting together/Decorating my December album My December album days 1-7 My December album days 8-23 Here are days 24-31. Near the end of my book I

Hey everyone, Merry Christmas Eve! Are you ready for the Holiday? 🙂 Just fair warning, This is a long post. When I get up in the mornings (after playing on facebook and drinking tea) I’ve been spending time doing the days 30 Days of lists prompt and working in my December album, adding in photos and memories from the day before. I’ve shared a little bit about my December album here on the blog already. If you want to, read more about it here: Putting together/Decorating my D

I love both Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft and Hazel and Ruby, so I’m super excited to be doing a blog swap between the two. I hope you enjoy the blog swap and get inspired to grab some gelatos and masks! I wanted to show you how I created this textured title on my scrapbook layout. To get the full tutorial, hop on over to the Hazel and Ruby blog! Gelatos are definitely one of my most favorite mediums to work with, and combining them with Hazel and Ruby’s masks was pretty

Today I’m on the Love My Tapes blog sharing a layout I created using their awesome tapes! I used both fabric tapes and washi tape to create that sunburst paper. I combined that with some new supplies I got a GASC last month to create this fun layout using photos from our May beach trip. If you get a chance, hop on over to the Love My Tapes blog! #lovemytapes #scrapbooking