Having Fun With Paint!

Hello fellow crafters. My name is Angi from Cokie Pop Paper and I am the guest designer today on She's a Sassy Lady.

Today we are going to do a fun project that calls for you to PAINT! This fun technique has been used on a lot of creations out there in blog land recently. I decided to give it a try.

Since Halloween is just around the corner this paint project will feature a spooky, yet cute altered notebook. Let's get started.

First, I took an old altered notebook that I really didn't like and removed the old paper. That's o.k. if blotches and spots are on the front because it will be covered with your new paper and paint.

Use any brand of craft paint that you'd like and paint around the edges of your notebook.

Next, add your favorite paper to the center. I used Bo Bunny paper since it had a cute Halloween design.

I then took a little paint blotter and added paint around the edges of my patterned paper to try and give it a distressed look.

Add layers of coordinated color paper to the top to add to the design. Don't worry about your paint drying all of the way yet. It will look more clean and polished once your paint completely dries.

Now add your favorite ribbon to the spirals at the top. I used black & orange to match the paper.

You can add more fun to the inside of your notebook by adding more Halloween elements. I added more Bo Bunny designs to the inside of all of my pages like this.

I hope you all enjoyed my Halloween altered notebook project. For more inspiration please be sure to visit my blog - Cokie Pop Paper.

Have a Creative Day!
Angi

Sassy Paper Bag Album!

 Hi ~ I am Angi from Cokie Pop Paper and I am today's Sassy designer here at She's a Sassy Lady. I love altered projects. It's fun to take something ordinary and turn it into something FAB! My project today is a "Sassy Paper Bag Album"!

Materials You will need:

• 3 Paper bags
• Hole Puncher
• Ribbon, eyelets, book rings, or fibers
• Your favorite pattern paper
• A bunch of your favorite embellishments

First lay your paper bags on top of each other. Make sure that the middle bag is going the opposite way of the first and the last bag. Adhere your bags together. You can adhere them using stitching, brads, staples or eyelets. I love to stitch/sew them together for better durability.

Here's a close-up picture of the stitching and the holes that I punched in the bags. I punch from the outside going in so that I can a gauge a good distance between each hole for better spacing.

I also love the ready made built-in pockets that are formed when you put your paper bag album together. These pockets are great for storing mementos, cute tags, journal blocks, or any other keepsake.

Here's the paper bag album after it's put together and ready to decorate. Now it's time to make your pages. 

 With your paper trimmer cut enough patterned paper to cover each page. 
I cut each paper piece at 5" x 5.5".

 Adhere each of your papers to the cover and each page of your album.  Also make sure to cut and adhere some photo mats or pockets to store journal tags. You can also ink the sides to make the mats stand out.

 This is how one of my pages looks with journaling tags. 
I made the pocket to hold the journal tags with patterned paper. 

Now it's time to do more embellishing. I used various embellies from Me & My Big Ideas .

 I add my ribbon last after I make sure all of my patterned paper and embellishments are sturdy and secure. Add different color and textured ribbon to make it more colorful.

Decorate your pages any way you want. It's best to use coordinating papers that match well together. I used paper from a ColorBok kit so that all the papers would go well together. 
Here are 2 of my pages in a side by side view.

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 I will show more pages of this album soon once I get the video tutorial finished.
If I post everything then this tutorial will be 2 or 3 web pages long. (smile)

 I hope my paper bag album has inspired you to make one of your own. Thank you Sheila for allowing me to design for Sassy Lady today. I hope you come by and visit me sometime - Angi @ Cokie Pop Paper!

Disney Passport Mania

Happy Summer everyone! It's Angi from Cokie Pop Paper and I'm back for another Sassy Lady tutorial. This time the focus of today's project is on Disney. At my house - "We Love The Mouse"!

My two angels - Rebekah & Rachel love our trips to Disney World. My project today is called "Disney Passport Mania". Below are instructions to make your own passport.

These passports are great for:

1. Giving as a gift to someone that is going or just got back from Disney. You can even surprise someone by sticking airline tickets to Orlando and Disney park passes in them.

2. Great for holding your Disney mementos such as (park maps, tickets, brochures, etc.)
3. You can also stick this inside a page protector of your Disney album.
Now on to the project instructions:

First, grab an unused scrapbook that you have lying around and remove the white insert out of one of the page protector sleeves. These inserts are somewhat like thinner chipboard. They will serve as the base of our project.

 Place your white insert flat on a table. I took this insert from an 8" x 8" album. With my paper trimmer, I cut a strip of red cardstock at 8" x 4". You can adjust this cut depending on what size album that you took your white insert from. Adhere the red strip to your white insert using a Zig pen or other adhesive. Make sure you only adhere the sides and bottom of your red strip. This will serve as our pocket so we need to leave room in the middle to place our Disney mementos in.

Next choose 3 of your favorite Disney patterned paper.

Now cut one of your favorite papers to make another strip. I cut mine at 8" x 3-3/4". Then center and adhere that paper on top of your red cardstock to look like this.

Pick your second favorite Disney patterned paper to cut the last strip. This time cut it at 8" x 2" and adhere it to the top of your white insert like this.

Now we need to type up a cute sentiment or journal spot that will fit the occasion. I typed this up about Rebekah & Rachel. Then I used my Zig pen and adhered it to the left side of my Disney passport. You can use any cute font that you like. If you are looking for cute fonts check out:
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/

Now we need to make a Mickey face cut with the Cricut. For this I used the Disney Mickey Font cartridge and cut Mickey's face at 3". This cut can be found on pages 72 and 74.  I also added an "M" to the center of my Mickey Face to dress it up a bit. I then used adhesive to stick this next to the sentiment/journal spot on my passport.

We are almost done. Now we need to add some Disney mementos to our passport. You can stick anything into the red pocket such as Disney brochures, park tickets, park maps, airline tickets, etc.

To finish things off I wanted to add some ribbon. Either red or black ribbon would look great with this project. I decided to go with black sheer ribbon. I just wrapped it around my Disney passport and tied a bow in the center.

And once again here is the finished project. 

 I hope that you enjoyed my Disney Passport tutorial. Please visit my blog as I have more fun projects and giveaways to share with you all. My blog is Cokie Pop Paper. Hope to see you there!

Have a Creative Day!

Angi