ABC Week on Tombow

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If you have followed me at all, you will know I love making these notepads. They were also a huge hit at CHA. They are so quick and easy to make, fit into your purse and the perfect size for keeping track of things our minds so easily forget (esp. as we grow older. Ü)

I used Fancy Pants patterned papers. I love using double sided papers as it makes creating projects like this so easy. The "just a note" was created on my computer. I just made a sheet of them and then centered the sentiment with a circle punch and punched out. I used Mono Adhesive Permanent to adhere the papers to the notepad.

This is the first time I’ve made a tab closure. To give the tab more strength, I adhered Power Tabs to the end of the tab that went to the back, and then a Fastener Tab for the round end that goes to the front.

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Designer's Choice

This week on Tombow our challenge is Designer's Choice. These are my favorite challenges. Ü It gives us the creative license to really shine and show what we like to do the most.

I thought I would share one of the most popular make--takes I taught at CHA. This was the first time (of course it was only my second time at CHA and first time teaching what I had designed. LOL) that I had a line of gals waiting to take my classes.

For this make-n-take, we altered a composition notebook. Here is a peek at the front.

We also added papers inside the front and back covers as well as covered the back. You can see where we didn't have the inside patterned paper to clear to the binding. This helps the notebook to close.

Here is a close-up of the fabric flower made using Tombow's Mono Multi and Power Tabs:

A closer view of the tabs using Mono Adhesive Permanent (put a tab on the first bage and then every 20 pages after that)

 

 I hope this inpsires you to create an altered journal. If you do, please let me know as I would love to see it.

Happy V-owl-entine's Day!

How do you like my sentiment? HAHA! I even thought of that myself. This week on Tombow we are focusing on the Irojiten colored pencils. My favorite way to color is using colored pencils and Gamsol, so this is a fun challenge for me.
This is a card I created for CHA and those that took the class loved it. They had alot of fun coloring the image and using the Irojiten pencils for the first time.

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The colored pencils I used are:
Rain Forest: D03Autumn Leaf, D02 Chestnut Brown, P06 Ice Green, V06 Peacock Blue
Woodlands: P11 Rose Pink, P18 Celeste Blue, D15 Mustard, Lg02 Cork, D12 Maroon
Seascape: DL05 Verdigris
in addition:
Saddle Brown #977 was used to create the dots and dashes around the stamped image and Mono Adhesive Permanent to adhere all the pieces together.
I found out at CHA that the image from Stampavie is no longer available, but they do have a new owl image out. Patterned papers are by Echo Park.

Inky Antics at CHA

Here is the Inky Antics and Darcie's booth at CHA. Because of the death of Bruce's g'ma, this was the first time in several years that I didn't have anything at CHA. Thank you Michelle, Jovi and others for pinch hitting for me!

Now for some Darcie goodness:

I just love all the new little monsters!

Outside CA

Although I was inside most of the time, I did get to see a few sights while in CA. Unfortunately it was at night, so my pics are dark, but here are some pictures of some of the things I got to do and see.

Downtown Disney. I wish I had more pics and better ones. Need to figure out how to take pics in the dark. I had no idea I was so close to Disneyland! Only about 6 blocks. I seriously need to take Aaron with me next time.

Here is the Lego Store. I felt guilty being here wihout Aaron. Ü

On the second night I was there, my cousin Nancy and her coworker and friend Maria (I knew Maria from times she had come to visit in NE) came and got me and took me to the beach

After taking me on the beach we ate on the pier at a place called Ruby's.

the 3 of us shared this:

this is what I ate for breakfast every morning; oatmeal with granola, dried apricots and cranberries, toasted almonds and real maple syrup (yum!! started eating it at home too) PLUS yummy fruit! Oh my goodness the pineapple was soooo yummy.

then when I got home and checked out Pinterest I saw this and thought it was fitting for what I saw while in CA

I hope you enjoyed the pics I shared of my trip.