Thankful for Family Mini pocket book

I am really excited to share with you all today a fun little book that you can really do alot with.  It's a mini book with tags and for mine i am making this to send with a little tag card inside with a message and also a tag to attach a gift card for them.  I chose lots of pretty fall papers and tags to decorate my book and also this gorgeous Arched window that i shaded with chalk inks.

Inside the book there are flaps on both bottom edges and I added cute papers to each and that is where the tags slip in.  For the ivory tag I made it like a little card so that I can write a message inside.

And just for a fun idea you can pop up the window to make it stand out more with 3D foam dots.  I added some under my flowers and also added a bit of ivory twine.  I think she is really going to like it

And this shows the tags inside the mini book.  They are a little tall so I cut them down first before I added the papers on them.  It makes it more of a surprise to have all those cute things inside and not be seen .... you could even add a couple of cute photos too.

This was a fun project you could do in an afternoon and there is also a smaller ATC size that is 

perfect for gift cards.  I will have to make that up to share too !!

Thanks so much for stopping over today and be sure and check back again in 2 weeks,

I have a few more fun fall projects to share.

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Arched Windows Set

GSLC Decorative Tags large

GSLC Tag Folder Small(coming soon)

Sweet lavender and chipboard

It's Teresa here sharing a sweet gift set I did with some of my favorite papers from 49th and Market.  I love the business card holder we have and I thought with the papers being printed with these super gorgeous flowers I could create a simple yet beautiful holder for her cards. 

I also had extra lavender papers that I used to make a cute card with the "Circle Doily Set".  This set has lots of pieces that you can stack or use separately for lots of cards to give away.  I painted mine with white chalk paint in thin layers until I got it nice and opaque.  I added a little bit of a sheer lavender ribbon across the middle and also a matching bow with roses.  The glittery white letters are from my stash. 

And here is just a closeup of the business card box and the flowers.  You could add more dimension by cutting out a second layer of flowers and adhering them to the others with 3D Foam dots.  Anyway you make it, you will have a wonderful gift for any of your friends or family :)

Thanks for stopping by for a little chipboard inspiration!!

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC

Business Card Holder

Circle Doily Set

49th and Market papers

Adhesive by Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L

Chase your dream card

Hi and welcome to our blog on this beautiful Sunday in August... wow... can you believe the summer is flying by so fast?  I am having lots of fun this summer and getting lots done around my house but thankfully at night when it gets cool we always have time for a ride or walking in the park.  

So today my share is inspired by this really cute laser cut called " Antique Bike Set  ".   I wanted to make it really vintage looking so I picked some striped paper from a 6x6 Bo Bunny pad I had and then did simple layers to create my 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card.  For the bike I used Versamark to ink up the front layer of my bike and then used these really fun Metal melts embossing flakes I had to cover the bike.  I use a pretty copper color to go with the blues and I love how the metal flakes look so weathered.  This bike set also comes with a layer for the large bike wheel so I used the paper that I stamped on for the sentiment and then glued it under the large bike wheel.  All of this I propped up with a thin layer of foam to make it stand out more on my card.   

And lastly for the sentiment I used a cute Penny Black stamp and used a dark navy ink to match the papers with.  The die cut is from Becca Feeken and it really looks cute.  Not that it would be easy to chase anyone riding this kind of bike :)  But it sure is cute!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy your Sunday...

Hugs and Smiles,  Teresa

Chase your dreams...

It's so nice that you stopped over today to see my newest card I made to share.  We have some brand new background stamps coming in 6 new styles so one of these beauties was the inspiration for my card today.  They work amazing with inks and I have yet to try them with paints yet but I bet they would be great on fabrics too or wood.  Be sure and keep and eye open for the release because you are going to love working with them...

 I started my card with a simple ivory base and just matted each of the squares with matching paper for the flowers i used.  And then I added the birdcage and the leaf sprays that I inked up to match the paper and the gold ink.  I had lots of little flowers and things that matched from my stash and if you ever don't you can always ink them with a dauber or spray them to match.  Getting messy is my favorite thing to do :)

Here is a closeup of the design of the foam stamp.  It's about 3x3 and fits perfect on a 6x6 card.  Or you can cut them down to customize it for a different size or a box.  How fun would that be?

And here is a closeup of the adorable little birdcage and the flowers. I used a neat embossing powder from Stampendous that had flakes of gold in it so that it came out looking like metal. And... I love how all the chippies give it such a wonderful 3D effect and it's great to be able to customize everything to be your favorite colors and styles.  You can probably tell one of mine is aqua and ivory. 

Thank you for stopping by today and be sure and check the store for all the new things 

this month.... we have lots to share so be sure and check back soon!

Supplies:

GSLC Foam Stamp Set--- Coming Soon!!

GSLC  2" birdcage with solid back

GSLC Leaves and Flourishes Set

Welcome Little One ATC style

Hi and happy Sunday to all of you stopping by the Gypsy Soul blog today.  If you love making ATC size things then you are going to love what I have to share today.  The GSLC store has lots of these little cuties to make up to be anything that you want but I just got some brand new baby papers so I created a little mini book box and some little ATC Easels to put up in a babies room to decorate.

The papers had alot of cute bits to decorate all of these little things but before you start decide what needs to be painted and get that all done and dried with a good acrylic or chalk paint.  I used a light ivory for mine and tan for the easels.  Then you can measure and cut out the pieces to fit on the box and the little easels and it will go really fast.  I really love all of it but the cute little book box is one of my favorite to do by far.  And there are lots of frames in the store too that you can use for the top of your box to add a bit of whimsey to it.  I used the Flourished Frame Marie for mine. 

And inside we have an ATC mini book in the store that fits perfectly of course and I made a tiny one that can fit your favorite baby pictures from their first year.  I love the stick ons from this set and used alot of them.  Some I added extra 3D foam squares to give them just a bit more dimension.

And my last photo is of the ATC Easels and the cards that go with them.  This is such a neat thing and would make such a wonderful gift for the holidays.  You could even put past family Holiday pictures to share each year... How fun would that be.  

Below I put links to all these cute little chippies I used and hope you will try some for yourself.

  Big Hugs,  Teresa

GSLC ---ATC Book Box

GSLC ---ATC photo stands

GSLC--- ATC ticket journal

GSLC--- ATC Chunky ATC Blanks
GSLC---Flourished Frame Marie

Baby Papers: Echo Park

Adhesive: Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive, 3D Foam squares and tape runner

Summer Adventure Journals

Hi and thank you for dropping by to visit us today.... I am sharing two new travel journals that I made for my trips this summer.  I used papers and stickers by Echo Park and some of my favorite chippies from the GSLC store to go with it for the inside and front.  There are lots of them with a travel theme like this Discover word and the compass.  Inside I used the camera reels and it came out really cute!

Here is a closeup of the chippies.  I love all the wonderful details in these. They really stand out with the colors in the papers that I chose so I love that.

This journal contains lots of pages and pockets for pictures so on each of the pages I decorated them like this with fun tags and bits of chipboard to carry the theme throughout the book.

And since you get a couple of chippies in the same package I made a book for my sister for her adventures this summer too.  For this one I used a simple paper notebook just to journal so it went together really quick and it was super fun to make.  You can even have  arrows from the GSLC Arrow Shape Set.  There are lots of them to chose from in this set and you can chalk them, or paint them or do anything fun to make them match all the other sweet things you have on your projects.

For this book I used the "Adventure ahead" chipboard sentiment.  I love this one and I like to keep them natural for some things so just add a bit of chalk ink and glue it down... fast and easy!

And here is a supply list and links to the store so you can pick up a few for your projects.

This is a great summer project for kids too so plan an afternoon to make a few and have fun!

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Compass

GSLC Discover Travel Sentiment

GSLC Adventure Ahead Travel Sentiment

GSLC Photo Reel Minitures
GSLC Arrow Shape Set

Papers by Echo Park

Adhesives by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Photo books: Micheals Hobby store

A Special Wedding Book to share

Happy Sunday all you chipboard fans of GSLC.  Today I have a really fun project to make to keep all those pictures you have of your favorite wedding that you went to recently or a new wedding coming up for summer.  I used the "Art Journal" chipboard mini book to make the base of my project because it has so many pages in it that I can fill for pictures and other fun little chippies to add to it.  You have tabbed dividers and with a front and back and also single pages between each with corrugated paper and flat chipboard to fill with lots of pictures and other goodies from your stash.  I love that!

On the front cover of my book is one of the really pretty laser cuts design patterns that we have that you can cut apart, use to stencil or just use as a pretty decoration like I did.  This one is called " Posey Panel ".   Since there was so much talk about the wedding in England I was inspired to use lots of gilded embossing powders and inks to make this very fancy and elegant and a real treasure for my daughter to use.  The wedding papers and stickers are from Photo Play and it all went together really easy and was super fun to make.  Below are more pictures of the insides for you....

For the inside I used the stickers and tags and lots of black and white papers to make the pages.  The gorgeous chipboard frames in the store are perfect to add the detail I wanted around the words.

Here is another set of pages with the stickers from the set.

Here is another of the frames.  This one reminds me of old victorian gingerbread on the outside of a house.  It's so pretty and so ornate.  The pictures are going to look so nice inside.  There is a huge selection of these frames in the store that you can see on this link HERE <<<<  And you don't have to make your books super fancy... the pictures and fun memories will do all the work.

Thank you so much for stopping by today... and enjoy your Sunday!

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Art Journal

GSLC Posey Panel

GSLC Florished Frame Karen
GSLC Florished Frames Evie

Papers by Photo Play (wedding)
Black and White cardstock
Adhesive, paper trimmer, scissors, ribbons, adhesive pearls

Happy Mother's Day from all of us at GSLC

So let me start by saying Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's out there and all of us at GSLC and we hope that you have a wonderful day today spent with your kids and family and maybe even get in a little crafty time to make something fun with them.

Today my project is something you can make as a gift or something to decorate for your own house.  We have an beautiful chipboard set called "the Flower Cart".  I thought about doing this alot of ways.  You could even put wood paper on to make it look more rustic or paint it in shades of brown to look like a weathered piece of wood but i wanted mine to be a neutral color so that i can change the flowers out if i wanted or even add a plant inside.  

So first i glued it all together and let it dry and then i painted the whole thing white with acrylic paint (2 coats) and let it dry again.  Then i took some texture paste in white and found a pretty wall paper stencil and added the design it to all the sides of the cart and let it dry.  Then i went over the whole thing again with white chalk paint.  

One of my favorite parts of this adorable little cart are these cute little wheels with all those pretty details in them.  I painted them white to match and when they were dry i hot glued them onto the sides and then added those cute little brads in the center of each of them.  For the flowers i bought some pretty aqua ones at my local hobby store and used a piece of styrofoam to hold them inside of the cart.  I added 2 aqua colored netted bows and tucked them inside the flowers to fill the space.  And it's all done!!  Now i can put it somewhere to add color in my house or give it to a special person in my life.  It was really super easy to make too.

Hope you liked this adorable Flower cart and be sure and check out the store for lots of new things to get a little crafty!!  

Happy Mother's Day.... Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Flower Cart

White Acrylic paint, texture paste in white, stencil, palette spreader, paint brush, hot glue gun, flowers

Mothers Day Photo Clipboards

Hi everyone can you believe that it's Sunday already.  I have a fun and quick project that you can make for Mother's day next month with one of my favorite products the Mini Clipboards.  I wanted to make something that you could give this year with a picture attached and then use it to decorate afterwards.  So these clipboards were the perfect thing.  I decorated them with Prima papers and flowers and lots of ribbon and they didn't take much time at all.

To make them simply measure around the chipboard piece and cut the paper to fit.  The clips are separate so you can glue the paper and decorate them first and then add the clips in the end.  This makes it really fast and easy and you can even stamp sweet sentiments on them like i did.

Using papers that have pretty patterns is also a fun idea and you can place them on your clipboard to really accentuate the sentiments that you pick to put on your clipboards.  And the colors are just beautiful and perfect for a gift for Mother's day.

 This one has a really cute design at the bottom and all I did was add flowers.

And you can get these cute easels at Micheals to send with it so they can set them up and show them off.  How is that for a fun and easy afternoon project?  

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you again in 2 weeks!!  

Teresa

Supplies:

GSLC Mini Clipboards

Paper:  Prima marketing

Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon.com
Adhesive, scissors, paper trimmer

My Baby Girls first Year Memory Box

Hi everyone, it's Teresa here today and I am sharing another fun box I created to store your photos but this time it is for the first 12 months's of my Baby Girls pictures that I have saved.  This is a fun and easy way to save all those pictures/memories you have and you can have fun using all those papers that you have saved in your stash to do create it with.  Mine is done with the "Trim Organizer Box" and it's the perfect size for photos and I love how all those tags have such a beautiful shape and make it that much cuter!

With this kit you get this simple box to make and 12 tags like you see above and below.  I used all my Echo Park Sweet Baby Girl papers and ephemera cards and tags to decorate the front and inside of the box and for each of the 12 months of the year tags.  Then inside I also added 5 1/2 inch squares of white cardstock to add pictures and record all the special memories of that first year.  

It's so fun to experience all the amazing things your kids learn and do the first year of their lives with you and it's so important to save them so when they grow up they can read about it and enjoy the memories that you cherished for them to read about.  So much is lost over the years and it's important that you write down how much you love them and care for them.  

I think I am going to go back and add more goodies to my tags but here is just a simple version for you to start making your set with.

Aren't the prints in this paper line so cute... I can't wait to fill it up with pictures.

And here is just a card I did with the papers to go with it.  I was going to give it as a gift but I think I will use it for my daughter and either give it to her for her first daughter or the pictures I saved of her.

These boxes are really easy and fun to make so I hope you get a chance to stop in the GSLCuts store and see what is new and pick up a few for projects you need to make.  

Thanks so much for stopping by......Teresa

Supply List:

GSLC: Trim Organizer Box

Paper: Echo Park Sweet Baby Girl Collection

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Chalk Paint in white, scissors, paper trimmer, twine, ribbons, flowers

Vintage Style Perpetual Calendar

How wonderful that you stopped over today to see what is new with our projects on the blog.  I found a really neat Perpetual Calendar in the store last week and thought I had just enough time to make one up for this new year to try and stay organized.  It's a super great set in that it contains the box and all the tags for the dates and months and weeks.  And all the chippies to put on them.  It's amazing and was a really fun set to create with.

And I just bought a brand new line of paper from Prima that was filled with antique roses in gorgeous shades of pink and rose so I thought it would be perfect to use.  Above you can see all the days of the week chippies and the tags that I used for each of them.  And the paper line comes with lots of other goodies and you could really have fun decorating each of them.  Be sure and stay flat though because you only have so much room in the file box for each of the tags.

I am going to search around for more fun things to add on my tags but this is a good start :)

 I used this water colored pink paper for the numbers.  I had a super cute die cut that the numbers fit on perfectly and did them in white so that the numbers would stand out more.

And here is a quick view of the box and the different compartments it has for the tags.  I painted the box a vintage white first and then I traced and cut pieces of the paper to fit on the outside and inside layers.  I adore cabbage roses so I am very happy with the way this came out.  I hope you like it too!

Have a wonderful weekend...   Teresa

Supply List:

GSLC Perpetual Calendar

Prima Papers and stickers 2018

Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L

Scissors, paper trimmer,  chalk paint, Scotch quick dry adhesive

Summer Photo Box

Hi and thanks so much for stopping over to see what's new from our team to share on this gorgeous Sunday!!  I have a really fun share to show you today made with the card organizer  Box"( coming soon to the store) in the GSLC store.  I adore this big huge box and decided to make it a kind of picture/scrapbook box for all our summer pictures.  I might need a couple more but it was really fun and easy to make with the Summer Collection from Simple Stories.  Everything was so bright and cheerful and fit perfect on the box.

After you have glued the box together with your favorite adhesive then you can paint it to match your paper like I did.  Each box also comes with those cute dividers so I used lots of decorative papers to cover them and added some cute stickers too.  It all went together in less than an evening so that made it all the more fun to do.

Here is closeup's of the inside dividers that I did.  

And the insides below are square envelopes that I added.  I am going to put the bits and pieces of tickets and all that kind of thing in here so I don't lose it.  They are just a bit larger with the paper cut outs I used but I love the way they stand up so they can be seen.  And the sayings are just perfect.

Thank you so much for stopping by .... and hope you don't forget to put your order in >>> HERE.

Have a wonderful day,

Teresa

Be Mine Valentine's Day Wallhanging

Hi it's Teresa here on this gorgeous Sunday and I have a fun and simple Valentines make with you today.  I used the "Hearts Wallhanging Chipboard set" but I used it a different way instead of hanging all the hearts seperate I just overlapped each of the pieces on top of each other.  Now you can hang it up anywhere in your house to decorate and then you have a second one to make to give to a friend.

So to make it I started with some cute Valentine papers that I had and traced around all the edges of the chipboard pieces and then hand cut them to fit. You can use a nail file to soften the edges and then chalk around them to add more dimension.  For the striped paper I traced around the larger pink heart and then added an extra inch or so and then cut that out so that it added colors to shadow the pink heart.  The doily was just one I had from my stash.  

After all the pieces are dry you can glue them all together and put a book on them to keep it flat.

Then I added some liquid pearls around the edges and pretty flowers and ribbons to hang from the center.  For the wire that hangs I just punched 2 holes with a crop-a-dile and twisted white wire from the floral section of your local craft store.  This is a great project to use for left overs and you could easily use it to hang on your door this year!!  Hope you like it.  Have  an amazing day!!

Supplies:

GSLC Hearts Wallhanging Chipboard Set

Valentines paper

Flowers

Bias Ribbons

Liquid Pearls

Scissors

Adhesive