~Handmade baby shower gifts and a little more chat~

Good morning my crafty friends!
It's another wonderful hot day inTN.

Purple Cows asked me to make a project
that involved a gift for a baby shower.
I am the first to admit I was stumped.

Then I got to thinking, what if we re-invented the wheel a bit?
EVERY new mom wants to share baby pictures.
I remember being a new mom with a wallet full of photos.

That lead me to think about how to make it more fun!
How to make it more crafty!
But also durable.

Then it came to me...HELLO Laminator! :)

I can make a mini book for all those first pictures...
but also make an awesome HOLDER for it!

So any mom could slip it into her purse or diaper bag
and not worry about it being ruined.

That's how I ended up with this project.
A mini album with a laminated wallet/pocket for the
mini album, that you could take anywhere.

What do ya think? Cute right? I like it :)
Of course I used my handy dandy Helmar
Adhesive Runner and 450 Quick Dry!
*I always do* LOL

Sometime soon Purple Cows will have the full tutorial and step
by step on how to make your own.
That's my project for the day. I am
pleased with the end result..now to find a new mom
who needs a baby book! LOL

~Have a GREAT Thursday~
I am going to bake cakes today for hubsters!
We are going to surprise him with a cake and ballooons
at work for his birthday. Oh he is going to kill me LOL

~Thanks for popping by~
~Pinky~

~Travel Fun w/ Paris Creativity~

Good morning my crafty friends! :)

As you know and is probably true in your lives,
I have MANY different friends.

Many ages and MANY diverse styles and tastes.Not all of them are the classic scrapbooking

vintage type of girls, some of them are the
Hello Kitty loving, glitzy bling-in', punk wearing type
of friends. WELL!!! I can't leave them out of my
crafting fun!~ hehe For one of those amazing

friends, I am making this flip album, for all of her

travel adventures. She just moved to TN and she is so fun
and sweet, I wanted to make her a flip book to put
her travel photos in.
So I pulled out my Paris Creativity
line because I felt it fit her more than my other
scrap style papers and embellishments.
I KNOW she is going to love it! And guess what? 100%
RECYCLED! I used that old book I found in the library
garbage bin, and I took the covers, cut them off,
filed the edges down and covered them with paper!
Here is how it begin....what a HUGE difference right?

I am going to add rings and many pages, but I wanted

to share the cover first and tell you to save those hardcover
books, or RESCUE some if you see them!

I cannot wait to do a vintage book BUT I
am so excited to see her face when she sees this one.
It's perfect for her style.

*Side note for my baseball friends*
We lost last night, it was a hard game too.
They played so discombobulated in the first 2
innings and came back full force in the last 2 but it
was too late. Very sad, but we play again tonight. :)

~Thanks for always stopping by and leaving comments~
~A appreciate your visits!~
~Pinky~