Hanging Calendar Mini in a Box

September is soon upon us, and we begin to really think about making Christmas gifts.

I'm sharing with you my latest project for Paper Architecture With Sabrina and it would make a very unique Christmas gift, customized by you for whatever purpose you want, to give as a gift. This 12 page hanging mini is great to use as a calendar, 12 Days of Christmas, 12 school years, a wedding album, a special event, and more.

Here are some photos of the project. With 12 pages I will not post all of the photos, but just enough to give you and idea of the project.

I have some different photos posted on "Paper Architecture With Sabrina" if you wish to see those. And here is a walk-through tour of the project.

Should you be interested in purchasing these instructions, click here to take you to my online Zibbet store.

Thank you for stopping by today and happy papercrafting!

Photo Display Using G45 French Country

-I'm so excited to finally get to this project! Thank you Laura Denison for allowing me to teach a class using your idea!

I've been waiting since February 2013 to make this project! When I saw Laura Denison's project on the Graphic 45 blog, and contacted her and asked if I could teach a class using her concept. She graciously gave me permission, and now I have room in my schedule for it! Since other papers have come out since Laura's creation, I decided that Graphic 45's French Country collection would work beautifully for this project. And here is my version of Laura's project.

I chose to use 8 cards rather than the 6 that Laura had created. There was room for more so I made a couple more. There are just so may lovely papers to use, I had to use more of them, lol.

The next few photos are from other angles to give you a better view and idea of all the cards in the display box/rack.

The next photo shows you the display box, or rack if you will, and you can figure out how it works from that.

A few of the details on this box are mentioned in the video toward the end of this post. But, in the meantime, I made a collage of photos for you that show each of the display cards individually, and you can see them first. I think you can easily figure out which ones are the backs and which are the fronts.

And now for a walk through the project in this video presentation.

Thank you for checking in to have a peek at this project. Happy papercrafting!

Clipboard Recipe Mini - Nov 2012 Stay-At-Home Retreat - Scrapbook Parade Class

I mentioned in an earlier post that Scrapbook parade is having a Stay-At-Home Retreat for those who are unable to attend the Honeymoon Bay Scrapbook Parade Retreat held Nov 22 through the 25th and wish to have some fun here at home. I've posted a couple of those classes already. Boxed Vintage Card set, here, and the Perpetual Calendar & Journal, here. Today I'm posting something that I've had ready for quite a while, but haven't posted yet.

A while back, when I made the first Stack-the-Deck Mini-album for a class, a customer asked if we'd ever do a mini for a cook book. as I thought about it I was inclined to think that I had to have something special about the mini to make it interesting. As I thought about using recipes I realized that I often wished I had a stand or clipboard or something to keep the recipe off of the counter and more easily seen while working. I would want a way to read the recipe card with out having to handle it too much while creating the recipe.

Ah ha! A clipboard cover to hold the recipe while the book acts as a stand! I also wanted to make the experience of putting it together more fun. So I thought that the pockets and tags should be pieced so that every bit of paper gets used and if someone makes a cutting mistake it would be no big deal as everything is pieced together any way.

So here it is.

You can see how I used a small clipboard to make the front cover with for this recipe mini. I also love that I found paper that has the same hounds tooth plaid pattern as the the chefs wear on their pants, but on a larger scale.

You can see how thick this mini is. For a Stack-the-Deck mini I wouldn't go any thicker than this. It has 10 pages which makes the spine a little loose when the mini is on it's side like this. This recipe book holds up to 100 recipe cards/tags!

In this next shot you can see one of the cards on the cover clipboard.

See how it is pieced together using two different papers?  And I love how the min acts as a stand with the clipboard for hands-off-the-card cooking/baking!

This next photo shows the book open to the first page.

The teal with black frame is part of a folded tag that is inserted into the page side pocket leaving the front side of the tag out on the front of the page. I could have taken a ton of photos for this album, but opted to leave at this since it's a paper piecing job in class and there is no need for page by page directions. Put each page is a pocket page holding a folded tag, and the other side of the page has two band pockets holding a card tag in each. I see I didn't take a photo of that for some reason.

This will be a great family favorites recipe mini to keep or to give as a gift to family members and friends. I look forward to the retreat. I'll be teaching 5 classes over those three days! It will be great fun!! I have two more retreat classes to post, but I'm waiting for some product to come in before I can make it.

Thank you for checking in and having a look. Enjoy dome crafting time, too!

Visiting Teaching January 2012 Clipboard

Just a quick post for today.

I purchased a few small clipboards a while back at a $1 store. I also had downloaded some mini-calendars a couple of weeks ago and knew they would work well for this project. I made a card for each month with a few questions to keep in mind when going out to Visit Teach, contact info to fill in, and a mini-calendar. The back of the card is white for further information to be written down for each month, if needed.

I took this photo of the clipboard before, but forgot to take an after photo of a completely refabbed/repurposed clipboard. Oh well.

Here are all of the cards. I tried to find colours and patterns that would work well for that particular month. Because I was making six of these, I kept it pretty simple, with no embellishments.

Here are the assembled Clipboards.

So there you have it. All text was printed off of my computer generated files. Nothing fancy, but a fun project none the less.

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your comment. Happy crafting everyone!!