DIY Button for your Scrapbook

There's just 2 days left before the retiring items are gone forever. I've been trying to scrapbook as much as I can with these retiring items. One item I will miss for sure is the Timeless Portrait Designer Series Paper.
This scrapbook page is made to remember the silly times my friend, Kelly and I had when we thought we made it to the Ninja Temple. After posing ninja poses outside a temple, a monk comes out to tell us we were at the wrong time.

In this layout, I made my own fabric buttons. It's very simple!

Here's how.
Take a button, trim enough Sticky Pages to cover the button, then trim enough fabric to cover and wrap around the button. TA-DA! this adds a new type of texture to your pages and cards. Give it a try!

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My scrapbook sequence

Where do you put your photos that are waiting to be scrapbooked?

I put mine in a photo album. But even the simpliest looking store-bought photo album needs work. I covered the front of my photo album with a piece of chipboard and dressed it up with a the Timeless Portrait designer series paper then accessorized and stamped the rest.

I decorate my photo album so I can be inspired to pick up the album and scrapbook the photos inside.

So today, as inspired by the album cover page, I started my scrapbook layout with the Timeless Portrait designer series paper (as found on the retiring accessories list.)

With this layout, I wanted to highlight the sequence of tagging two "lucky stumps" at a temple in Japan. There's a saying where if you tag the stumps 100 times, your dreams will come true. Too bad I didn't finish the 100 tags.

Perhaps if I flip to this page 100 times my dreams will come true.

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Iron Stampers Altered Item Project

The next Iron Stampers project is the one I’m most excited about! It’s a paper dress-form banner. When I first received my Stampin’ Up! Labels Collection Framelits, I had to think of what else I can craft besides fancy labels and frames. FRAMES! That’s what it was!

I thought if everyone is taking the cut out inside of the labels, I’m going to take the outsides! Piecing things together I discovered that I can craft out miniature paper dress-forms! The base of the dress-forms is also the leftovers of what was cut out making the dress-forms from the Big Shot Framelits.

Once I got the cut outs of the dress-forms, it was time for dressing up the forms! For a moment I felt like I was a fashion designer. There wasn’t much stamping involved in this project. The key was using embellishments! Lots and lots of them!

Labels Collection Framelits Dies 125598
Price: $32.95
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Iron Stampers Project

I mentioned in my yesterday post about Iron Stampers Project. I'm so excited about it that I have to give you a little teaser of what I crafted.

This is one of the 4 projects that I had to handmake. The other projects are one scrapbook page, one quick and simple card, and one WOW card. The Iron Stampers is a bi-monthly challenge that 3 Vancouver demonstrators are randomly invited to participate.

I will reveal the rest of this project after next Monday evening.

These are just a few of the fun activities on top of amazing meetings that are exclusive to demonstrators.

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