Mini Scrapbooks

I am guilty of over spending this year on craft supplies. It was like Pandora's box when I discovered Project Life, May of this year and it has rekindled my love for papers, stickers and other things. 

But being a mother now means my priorities have also changed, and to save up on my excess spending, I have decided to make DIY Christmas gifts. I want to make a mini scrapbook set for my closest friends and here's a tutorial that you might me able to use also 😊

I used a 12x12 scrapbook paper stock.

Then I cut it into 3 strips, with the size of 4x12 inches.

Then I used a peg board to put a folding mark on the sheets.

It looks like this when you fold the sheets. Just arrange the pages in alternate to give the inside page a variation.

Then you staple the sheets. I got this long stapler from National Bookstore long before because I had a dream of creating my own zine.

Just embellish the front and you can also personalize with stickers and ephemeras.

Here are samples of my other creations :)

Project Life

I discovered Project Life this May, hen we were organizing a craft fair for the mall where I work. I just googled the word "PL" and it was love at first sight. Since the kits are not available in malls I mustered enough courage to message one of my PL inspirations, ocdscrapper in instagram. She kindly told me where to get the materials locally. 

My search for the materials is on, and because I am a nanay, my budget didn't permit me to splurge on buying these new scrapbook materials. The albums and page protectors aren't cheap, and let's not even start with the journal cards. So I started small, I didn't buy the album yet which was already more than one thousand pesos. I just bought the page protectors, bought some paper at National bookstore and the single paper cards at Bee Happy Crafts and I started working. 

I was already making pages for my son's album (about 6 already) when the opportunity came for me and to buy online bacause we had a friend who was coming home from the States. Now, I already have my album (the cheapest one I can buy online) which holds all my creations and my son's photos. I have been hooked because working on the pages also takes me back to happy moments with my family and friends.

My first PL kit. Bought the wrong journal cards, the theme was zoo and have not used it yet. I have to print our visit to the zoo photos soon! 

My first DIY journal card which I placed at the beginning of my set.

My Bee Happy Craft haul. Cutting these was a challenge but it was fun. And such pretty papers.

Another DIY journal card for my mag ama.

Sharing some of my pages :)

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Leon's Happy Books

One of the things on my bucket list is to illustrate a children's book. And now that I have a 19 month old son, I have the perfect market for my illustrations and I thought, what is stopping me from making one?

So I picked up an old board book, painted gesso and gel medium and started cutting up photos and drawing.

Since we love to sing nursery rhymes, I wanted to do my favorite Filipino kiddie rhyme Ako ay may lobo. 

Throwback Thursday: Felt Creations

One of my officemates asked me to create these felt items for her daughter's birthday about 5 years ago. These also came with a canvas bag that they can decorate. Since my computer was recently revived, I took the chance of backing up these files and posting them again in my blog.

DIY: Flower Doily

This is an easy fun project from my friend Karen A., I told her that I'll post in my blog because it's so easy to make and it will really make a nice accent piece for your events. 

Special thanks to Nicole V. Who art directed this tutorial :)

Materials:

Doily and stapler

We used a small doily, the size of a coaster. You will need a longer stapler if you are using a big doily.

Gather 10 doilies together (you can do as much as 15) and staple in the middle.

Then you just fold the doilies, like forming petals.

Just alternate your folds to create a semblance of petals. And here's what the end project looks like.

You can get your doilies now at National Bookstore. But there are fancy ones (really pretty) at Tie Me Up Buttercup at the Lower Ground Level of Shang East Wing.

Craft Project: Personalize my planner

These past few weeks, I have discovered a lot of things. How planners have evolved and a surge of crafters around the world are doing it. Also, snail mail is back and penpals but in a more creative way and it makes me more excited to be a "newbie" in this community. 

And my blog is about these discoveries, learning, creativity, trials and errors of my diy projects and friends who visit my blog, I'm sure share the same passion.

But my recent discovery of beautiful planners and nice embelishments came with a price, so I decided to try and make myself a decent one. I went to National bookstore and found me a green planner (i told myself if my plan doesn't work at least I like the color) for P270 (about $5.50) used up my points so I only paid P70 for my new planner. 

These were my fabric options for the project but chose the one on the right because it's less likely to look dirty that the lighter colored fabric.

My weapon of choice is this Modge podge for fabric. This is also my first time to use this kind of glue so I didn't know what to expect.

Just spread the glue evenly. You have to do it in parts so the glue won't stick on different surfaces.

I started on the cover.

After the cover has dried, I started with riing on the inside which was challenging because of the pockets.

I just used a regular cutter and scissors to cut those pockets.

And I finally covered everything! It took me two days to dry the whole planner, because I also glazed the cover and inside pages with Modge podge.

And now I'm excited to place the personalized inside pages that I also worked on.