My Filofax Tabs

Hello and welcome to the blog. Today I'd like to talk about my newest obsession, my Filofax. I am loving this organizer and am having so much fun making tabs for it and figuring out how I want to organize it. 

The store where I work,  Simple Pleasures Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking starting carrying these this month and as soon as I got one I was hooked. My boss Cathy will ship these (or any products) so if you want to buy one make sure to call the store and see what we have in stock. 719-528-1338

Here are some of the tabs I've made for my Filofax

This was the first tab that I made, I used Memorybox stencils and Archival ink. I also used butterfly wash tape around the edges, this one came out simple but I love it

I used a Memory Keeper Punch to make the tabs in the side, labeled "Notes" this is a perfect punch for making tabs, the punch even comes with clear plastic tab covers, its awesome! We also sell the tab punch, stencils and inks at the store

For my next insert I used my round gel plate and Dina Wakley paints to create this fun page. I used several different stencils for the numbers and texture in the background. (this is my budget tab)

For my next insert, I used a combo of acrylic paints and Dina Wakley paints. My stamped images are from Stampotique Originals and I used Copic markers to color them. This is my opening page for my filofax

As you can see I love color, this insert is no exception. I used Tim Holtz Crazy Bird stamp set along with the die set (makes it easier to cut out these cool birds) and colored my images with Copic markers. For my background I used Dina Wakley Paints again and I added some washi tape and doodling. The tab for this page says "Store Cards" I will keep all those darn store cards behind this tab.

Last but not least, I created this insert with Wendy Vecchi crackle texture paste in white and also her regular texture paste, I used the paste through a bunch of different stencils.

Next I added Tim Holtz distress inks in several colors

you can see what colors I used in the photo below

you can also see that I added a tag at the top of this page

I added black cardstock letters cut out with Tim Holtz Word Play Sizzix Die

This tab is going to be my Budget Tab, I switched this one and the gelli plate one from above. That tab was changed to "lists"

So those are my tabs so far, I plan to hopefully make a few more but I think I'm well on my way to having my filofax organized the way I like it. 

All of the products in this post you can get at the store Simple Pleasures Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking

and this is our Facebook page where you can see more photos of Filofax ideas. 

Simple Pleasures Facebook

Take care and thanks for stopping by today

Altered Puzzle Week 13 - The Last Pieces

Hello and welcome back to the blog today. This is the week 13 post for the Altered Puzzle Challenge and the last post. Can you believe it's already the last post of this challenge? Wow! Suggestions on what we should do next?? Let me know int he comments section.

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

Our Facebook group is here:

Facebook Group

This week I'm doing some simple but fun pieces

To begin I used Tim Holtz distress paints and spread a few colors on my craft mat... I then spritzed with water and ran my two pieces through the colors

Doing this gives a marbled effect to my backgrounds, it's beautiful, I set those aside to dry completely

Next I took a die cut leaf and my puzzle piece and distressed the edges with some brown archival ink

I stamped the background with a stamp called Seaweed by artist Jo-Capper Sandon and stamped that onto my background.....
I then used a stamp called Reggie by artist Daniel Torrente, stamped and colored him and added him to my background along with my leaf
(both stamps from Stampotique Originals)

I used these little beads called Mini Prills to the bottom of my puzzle piece to imitate sand at the bottom of the sea

I used glossy accents as a glue for this and applied it to the bottom of my piece

I then dropped the "Prills" on top of the glue

Lastly I went around the edges with my Copper pen

 This is my first finished piece, I love those little pills on the bottom, they are so fun

For my next piece I used a couple of stamps from Stampotique as well, these are from the New August release 
One is called - Agatha Flower and the other is Agatha's Watering Can both are by artist Magda Polakow

I simply stamped them, colored and cut them out and glued them on (simple)

I used Distress Glitter in the middle of my flower to make it shine, I applied glossy accents as my glue and sprinkled the glitter onto the flower

Here are both pieces together

and here is the final completed puzzle

and close ups of each side

I have a secret to share with you, remember this piece from week 10? It was a piece that I had done complete as one piece
Well if you look at it closely, I accidentally created the piece upside down. The edge is on the left here and it should be on the right.... Want to know how I fixed it?

My friend Terri Richardson and I brainstormed and she came up with the idea to separate the cardboard top from the bottom
I used my Xacto knife and did just that... you can see here that I flipped the cardboard bottom around

Here I put the top decorated piece over the cardboard piece to see what I need to do to fix it and make the two pieces look right

I ended up decorated potions of the cardboard piece, like the rounded potion on the left, to match my top
Here you can see the top and bottom together after I colored the bottom cardboard piece

Next I glued the top piece to the bottom cardboard piece and cut around the edges to make it look like a piece that was always correct.
In the following photo if you look closely you can see how I had to make adjustments and cut the pieces. The edge is now on the left side of the piece, like it should be

So the piece went from this (upside-down)

To this

Here is the corrected piece in my puzzle

Pretty cool right? Thanks to my friend Terri for the suggestion!! 

Thanks everyone so much for joining me in this challenge, I really hope you had as much fun as I have with this. 

I'm so excited about my finished puzzle, I just love it!! 

I cannot wait to see your final puzzles. 

CHEERS!!!!

Altered Puzzles Week 12 - Back from Vacation

Welcome back everyone, I am home from a 15 day vacation and am pumped to get going on this challenge once again.

My family and I took  much needed vacation to California and we had a great time while we were there.

Now that I'm back let's get started on the next two pieces. 

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9
Week 10
Week 11

Our Facebook group is here:

Facebook Group

I am doing these two pieces completely different, fir the first piece I took a doily and placed it over my piece

Next I used my archival ink and a sponge tool to add blue

This is how it turned out, I love it!

I then added a bit of white with a paintbrush and white acrylic paint. I didn't use my white gel pen here because the gel pen doesn't work well over the gesso and ink

I also added a bit of torn wash tape

I used a Wendy Vecchi flower stamp to stamp some flowers and also colored them in with Copic Markers. I then cut them out

I also stamped my words onto scratch cardstock and cut them out. 

Here is my first piece, I used glue dots to adhere my flowers and rolled up the petals to give it a dimensional look

For the second piece I started with some distress ink for the background, I applied the mini ink directly onto the background

I then used a brown color for the edges, this time I applied with a ink blender tool

Next I spritzed water onto my fingers and dripped it onto my background

I then used archival ink and stamped a scroll word stamp onto the background
Check out that background too, after I used the water it came out so cool!!

I then used a Stamping Up stamp to add some flowers to the bottom

For my center piece, I stamped some grapes onto cardstock and heat embossed, I then colored them with copic markers
I then cut them out

I applied my sentiment and my grapes to the background using dimensionals

Here is my finished second piece

and here are my pieces together

and my entire puzzle

Check back next week for the final two pieces!! Have fun with your pieces this week and cya soon
CHEERS!!