Paris here we come tutorial

Bonjour, today I have a tutorial for you lovely ladies! I saw this beautiful suit case over at The Shabby Tea Room blog back in July. I then went on a rampage looking for a template or tutorial with no success...sooo I decided to make my own tutorial.
Once, someone told me that the reason I make beautiful projects is because I buy all my embellishment.  Well,  today I'm proving that person wrong because I've made all the embelishments for this suit case.  A beautiful flower (that will be another tutorial coming soon), a grunge tag, my very own distressed vintage ribbon (this will also be a tutorial coming soon) and of course the suit case itself.
I wanted my suit case to have a French feel to it and I think I achieved the desired effect.
I hope you enjoy making one or more of these beautiful suit cases and be kind enough to leave me a comment to encourage new tutorials...

Au revoir!

Now for the tutorial:

Here's what you will need:
2 sheets of 12x12 paper
Glue
Scissors
Paper Cutter
Bone folder tool
Glue
Ruler
Pencil
Ink Pad
Stamps
Laces, Ribbons, Buttons, Tag, Floss and a pretty flower.
Optional: Velcro and a hinge or metal piece to act as a lock, 8 circles of coordinating paper folded in quarters for all corners.

Step 1: You can mix and match your paper
Cut- 2 pieces measuring 6x7
4 pieces of 2x7
4 pieces of 2x6
1 piece of 1.25 x 6 round the corners (optional)

Step 2: Using your ruler and pencil mark 1/4 inch of all the sides on the 6x7 pieces. Fold using your bone folder tool. Also, mark 1/4 on the 2x7 and 2x6 pieces along the narrow sides and fold with your bone folder tool. These tabs will be used for adhering all the parts together.

Step 3: Cut the small square that forms when you mark and fold all the sides of the 6x7 squares.

Step 4: Glue all the pieces together using the tabs we created. Now you have two boxes.

Step 5: Adhere lace vertically and lace or trim around each of your boxes. Inside and outside so they can look pretty once it opens.

Step 6: Cut a 6 inch piece of ribbon. Seal the ends with a lighter. Apply to both of the boxes, half on the top box and half on the bottom box.
Tip: Give a little room for the ribbon to flex so glue a little under half.

Step 7: Bend and shape the 1.25x6 piece of paper to resemble the handle. Adhere on the side you have chosen to have the handle.

Step 8: Now for the fun part, embellish your suitcase. I embellished mine with two vintage buttons and my very own vintage bias tape, I also made a beautiful tag and a flower made with stamped Muslin fabric, vintage jewelry and lace.

I hope I've made things pretty clear but if anyone has any questions don't hesitate to email me and I will try to help you.

Thanks for your comments they mean so much to me.

Para mis amigas hispanas por favor usen el translador locado en la parte de arriba. Gracias por sus comentarios!

What's Cooking Cupcake

Hi ladies, I'm in love with the new Melissa Francess Kitchen line. I made this super cute cupcake mini album to show case my two kids afterschool program; from what I hear they do a lot of cooking! I used the WHAT'S COOKING GOOD LOOKING kit featured this month at Divine Design Kits. The kit has 14 amazing papers all from Melissa Francess newest line, also cardstock stickers and other goodies! The best part is that is well under $20! Check it out by cliking on the link at the top of this page...

Enjoy!

Back to reality!

What a week! I never realized how challenging having a girl would be. My five year old daughter just started kindergarten and getting her ready in the morning along with my son and myself has been crazy to say the least! After dropping them off at school I head off to work- which has been extremely busy this last week. Let's not forget all the after school activities like soccer, back to school night, parent teacher conferences, etc!

I do complaint about my busy life but I love it! I wouldn't want to have it any other way. My kids are my life and I adore every crazy minute I spend with them!

Thanks for letting me share my "adventures" in parenting land with you!

I made this beautiful angel, inspired by the challenge at Let's get Shabby but I did not have the time to post it earlier.
Products used Melissa Frances crepe paper, pearls and lace, music sheets, a paper macche dress form from Michael's, Vintage Jewelry, K&Co. Madelline paper, lace and a thrift store find stand.
It was so easy and fun to make! it now sits with all my other dress forms...

Thanks for visiting!

Is this a Divine Dream???

Wednesday was a really nice day for me...I actually took a sick day...I woke up early and I hit an antique store called Junkitz in Reno Nevada.  The store is awesome there are amazing things and collections but my favorite thing to look at are the buttons...just look at these amazing pictures...all the drawers and all the dressers were filled with beautiful buttons....

My favorite find was a bracelet made with lots of shinny vintage pieces...LOVED it! and of course had to have it!

Here is some eye candy!

Fancy Marie Antoinette Shoe..

Hi ladies, tonight I have a beautiful pair of shoes to share with you. These are for a swap over at Scrapbook.com and the requirements are to use a template that they provided. Lots of Divine Embelishments and Papers on these beautiful shoes...These are my practice shoes...

For these shoes I used Websters Pages Baby to Bride papers, Webster blooms and trims, my own vintage bias tape, white paper rose covered with Tattered Angels, Wrights pearls, Prima Lace Flower and Vintage Jewelry...Enjoy!

Fly away Butterfly...

Sometimes there are songs that touch you, that make you think, that dear daughter loves...This mini album was based on a song by Miley Cirrus called Fly Away. I wrote the lyrics on the first page and I really hope my daughter follows her dreams and makes all her wishes come true...

This mini was made using Maya Road canvas album and flowers, Divine Design Vintage Garden paper kit, Prima felt branch and chipboard, Tim Holtz alcohol inks, Websters pagers bloomers from the DDK June kit, molding paste and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.

Here is what I did:

First, remove the canvas cover then apply molding paste to the inside of the chipboard album and let dry.

Second, Spray canvas cover with Suede, Patina and Lemon grass Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist or TAGMM.

Third, apply Alcohol inks to the Prima chipboards, adhere along with Flowers, Rhinestones and pearls and cut out butterfly.

Fourth, glimmer mist the websters pages blooms with Suede T.A.G.M adhere

Fifth, Glimmer mist the pocket with Patina and Suede T.A.G.M.  Stamp using Staz On and Tim Holtz/Prima Stamps.  Sew on Jennie Bowlin button.  After molding paste is dry (make sure it's really dry) mix about a teaspoon of water and a drop of tea dye distressing ink then brush on the inside of the album.  Stamp and adhere another butterfly...remember this is the main theme.

Sixth, cover your page with Prima Paper, using scrap pieces cut two squares, distresse them and adhere.  Apply some lace after spraying glimmer mist.  Apply the flowers, Tim Holtz swirl and the dollar find metal word after your dab it with tea dye distressing ink.  For the opposite page do the same thing only apply a big flower- I found those flowers at the Fashion District in L.A. I glimmer mist them and distressed them with Tim Holtz inks...

Seventh, cover page with Prima Paper then cut another piece of paper that has flowers.  Adhere.  Paint/distress the chipboard (if you don't have a photo yet just adhere the left side).  Adhere some pearls and butterfly.  On the opposite side just cover with paper.

This page is a little bit more tricky if you never used molding paste.  You got to work fairly fast.  Cover page with Prima paper.  Cut a piece of lace that's slightly bigger than the page.  Apply some molding paste with a brush then add your lace, crunch it...let it dry.  While that page is drying make a small bunch of flowers; I glimmer mist a small bunch of white paper flowers with T.A.G.M in red velvet...

After molding paste is dry...with the help of my embossing gun I sprayed Patina TAGM and tea dye Tim Holtz distressing ink.  Apply pearl strand and distressed metal word.

The pocket was sprayed again with glimmer mist in patina and suede, I then stamped using a Prima stamp and applied a Maya Road velvet flower.

Lastly, distressed the back page with tea dye distressing mixture...

Enjoy!  this was a lot of fun!  I hope you guys make one of this and share it with me...

Believe...Divine Design Kits-July

Hi ladies, do you guys ever feel like you have a million and one thing to do but you can't seem to get anything done??? well that's me...I've been trying to post this layout for the last couple of weeks and no luck! So this no further delay I present you a layout made with papers and embelishments from the Let's get shabby kit; you can find it here.