When the weather outside is frightful...

...it's a great time to stay inside and scrapbook! Hope you all weathered the recent snow and ice storms; wasn't it the perfect opportunity to scrap the day away?!

Here's a little project we wanted to share with you. Heidi Swapp always provides lots of unique products and her new mirror album and embellishments are no exception. The album is a mirrored front with a hard chipboard back. The inside contents are up to you! For our cover, we used glittered chipboard letters, a mirrored butterfly, and crystals from Prima.

Here's a look at one of the inside pages:

To create the weathered look of the "My Girl" title, we used a Ranger ink blending tool. If you love the look of inking with the infamous "cat's eye" shaped ink pads, you'll be in love with this tool. The foam applicator attaches to the bottom with velcro. The foam is specially formulated to resist ink so it is applied to your project rather than absorbed into the foam. It is great for creating muted ink tones on your papers as well as for inking the edge. Another plus for this little tool is it allows you to utilize all your larger ink pads for ink distressing... perfect for when you have a large ink pad in the "perfect color" for your project. (The applicator can also be used with felt strips rather than foam. The felt is used for applying adirondack inks... this allows you to add color to metal embellishments. Very cool technique!) The title letters are from a stamp set, also by Heidi Swapp.

We also want to share some sneak peeks of a couple of upcoming classes. Join us on February 5 to create Valentine cards for those special ones in your life. We'll be making eight cards using the new line of Basic Grey papers.
Also be sure to join us on February 21st to create this chocolate chipboard minibook. The book features pages of many different shapes and sizes; we'll be using Bella Boulevard papers and embellishments.