Frame Mini Album with Cathy!

Hi!  So glad to have you join us today, it's Cathy hosting the blog.  I have a simple and quick mini album to share with you today that I created for my teenage daughter.  Samantha Walker's new Carta Bella Collection Summer Lovin' is so much fun and perfect for preserving my daughter's summer time memories.  Her plan is to add lots of 3x3 instagram photos.

 I purchased the fun frame at Michaels and removed the inside plastic pieces that hold the photo in.  I then cut the journaling card paper into 12 pieces and punched two holes through the whole stack with my crop-o-dile.  Next, add two one inch binding rings through all of them and hang from the top of the frame.  Easy peasy!

All you have left to do now, is to decorate the frame!

I cut three flowers using two of Samantha's rolled flower files.  I used the Summer Lovin' 6x6 pad for these.  Note: I only ended up using two of these on the frame.

I love how quickly these flowers go together...just roll around a pencil and glue with some super tacky glue.  I used Helmar's Quick Dry adhesive.

Click on the photos below to go right to these files in the Silhouette Online Store.

I glued the flower on and added a few stickers from the Summer Lovin' collection.  

It's a super fun and fast project.  My daughter loves it!

Thanks for joining us today at Samantha Walker!

Quilted Purse with Nicole

Have you seen all the cute new purses?!  I'm not a girly girl and rarely carry a purse, but these are so dang cute!  I plan to make some of these and fill them with some candy and gift cards to give to my girlfriends for presents this year.

Samantha already posted a wonderful tutorial about how to put the barrel purse together.  This is available as both a silhouette studio file and SVG through Silhouette. What I want to show is how I adding faux quilting with my favorite medium . . . vellum.  I know, I know, I need a twelve step program. ;)  Here is a look at the finished project and then I'll show you how I achieved the look.

I separated the body of the purse from the other elements in the file and cut these all from dark purple cardstock.

I then cut the exact same elements from vellum.  

Once the vellum was cut I then took each piece and laid it sideways on my scoring board.  

Carefully score at 1/2 inch intervals along the whole piece.  

Turn 90 degrees and score the exact same way.  Here is what it looks like after being scored in both directions.  

I now attached the vellum pieces to the base cardstock by using some liquid glue on just the notches.  

I knew I wanted to using machine stitching and that is why I took the time to glue the vellum to the base so it wouldn't move around so much as I sewed around the edges.  I added stitching to both of the larger pieces and along the edges of the oval and half moon ones.      

At this point I started to get really excited.  I love the effect of the scored vellum and it really was starting to look like quilted fabric. The straps I cut from a lighter shade of purple cardstock and then inked the edges lightly with some purple chalk ink.  

I did one last cut of the little furnishings in silver glitter cardstock.  

Here was the tricky part - assembly.  Samantha has already put together a wonderful tutorial here.  

I do want to mention that I put mine together with hot glue.  I don't always have the patience to wait for the liquid glue to dry and it helped when I put this one together since the vellum doesn't soak up glue as fast with it's smooth finish.  

Once assembled I topped it off with a seam binding bow, green leaves, and a vellum flower.  

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  There are three new purse styles to choose from and I hear there might be a few more coming.  Here are the two files I used below.  Click on the pictures and it will take you right to the file in the Silhouette Store.