I'll be back later today for my day 8 of Traci Bunkers Get your Art On.
MiMi Dibble
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Last week I shared with you the first half of my Camping Daybook that I made for our annual family camping trip to Lake Michigan. You can find part 1 here. This is the second half of the book. The first sunny day was super windy but that didn't keep us away from the beach. There was a dune that needed climbing. My niece was really afraid of the water but when uncle got done with her, she was fine. The next day at the beach was even more beautiful. The boys climbed the dunes several times and we could hardly get the kids out of the water. We always celebrate Ryan's birthday at family camping. As always, thanks for stopping by and I'd love to read your comments.
I'll be back later today for my day 8 of Traci Bunkers Get your Art On. MiMi Dibble THEscrapinator5000
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Day 6 and 7 of Get Your Art On consisted of making and filling a daybook for my son to remember his birthday this year. Here's the front and back covers. I used DCWV Celebration paper stack and bound it with rings. Here are the inside pages. I used a lot of the die cuts from the paper stack to decorate. I gave the book to my son and he loved it. Thank goodness! :) I hope you like it too.
Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to stop by Traci Bunkers blog and check it out. MiMi Dibble THEscrapinator5000 Every summer we have an annual family camping trip. We usually go to a campground on Lake Michigan for about 5 days. We got to the beach, eat s'mores, cook out, go for walks and have tons of fun. This year I made a daybook to show off all my fun pictures from our trip. I first showed you the outside of the daybook I created using digital scrapbook paper from Tsunami Rose Designs. I used this really cool wood plank paper. You can find the blog post with all the links to the zibbet store here. I hope you take a look. She has some really cute scrapbooking papers. I will be doing more guest blogging with her designs in the future so keep an eye out for that. Here is the cover of my camping daybook: I added some beads to the left over hemp on the binding and also on my tie. The beads are word beads, pony beads, wood beads and some homemade paper beads. This daybook is very different from my Summer Fun Daybook. This book is much thinner for one. The embellishments in this book are more simple with lots of homemade tapes, doodling, ripped papers, and handwritten journalling. We had a couple days of rain when we first got there. What do you do when you are camping and it rains? Well, you play with stickers, you draw in aunties junk journal, you paint your toes like aunties, you play video games with your cousins and you tolerate your mom while she makes you pose for all kinds of pictures. And then when it stops raining, the children are released into the wild to walk on logs, go for walks, chase birds and squirrels....the fire gets going and of course it's s'more time! Yum!!! I hope you enjoyed the first half of my camping daybook. I'll be back in a couple days with the rest.
Thanks for stopping bye and I do hope you'll leave me a comment and let me know what you think. MiMi Dibble THEscrapinator5000 These are the last section of pages in my Summer Fun Daybook. I had a lot of fun making this book, filling it up and sharing them with you. Your comments on this series have been really nice to read. Thank you so much for coming by. Who doesn't love ice cream? We went to a White Caps baseball game. The White Caps are a minor league team in our city. Ryan was in heaven. He LOVES baseball!!! We had a lot of fun. It was family night so they had lot of fun activities going on. Balloons, dancing, food, and the mascot Crash... On the left is my mom's birthday. As you can see on the lower picture, my husband is being an awfully daring comedian! On the right is a fun day with some old friends who were in town. The boys started football practice this summer and did a couple camps. On the right is the start of the next section about my art. I put a pocket on the page that holds some pictures of my favorite art projects I worked on this summer. This next page is just a little bit about how much the kids have grown over the last few years. I have a picture of them this summer and then one from the summer of 2006 to compare. I put the pictures on tags that pull out from the pocket. On the pocket I wrote their ages for both years. Fall canning and some yummies made from the all the tomatoes and raspberries from the garden. I sure learned a lot making this daybook. One, do not make them this thick. It's about double the size it should be. I do tend to make really dimensional pages and with so many pages in the book, it's just too fat! Second, always have a ribbon or some other kind of closure planned to hold your book shut. Third, really glue down all your pieces you decorate your front cover with. They will get beat up. What's next?I love these books. Daybooking, Smashing...it's the new way to scrapbook. I have three more I am working on to finish up my summer: 1. Camping daybook for our annual family camping trip to Lake Michigan 2. Ryan's birthday book 3. Beach daybook to document our week at Lake Michigan for the Blueberry festival Sneak peak at my Camping daybookIf you want to see a sneak peak at my camping daybook, head over to Tsunami Rose Designs blog. I used one of Daisy Collin's sketches and one of her fabulous digital printable scrapbook papers to make the cover. I will be a guest designer for Daisy again on the 25th. I hope you stop back by then. THANK YOU so much for stopping by. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my project! MiMi [email protected] The next seven pages of my daybook include my hubby's company party, my nephew leaving for boot camp, and my two new nieces. The first four pages are the company party. The next page spread that includes a couple random pictures and journalling along with my thoughts on the Olympics. The page on the left side is our goodbye party we had for my nephew who shipped off to Marine boot camp. The picture on the right is my new Great Niece. She is my first great niece and stinkin pickin cute! More of my adorable great niece Amaiya. The next two pictures show my other new niece. I am a happy auntie this summer for sure! The page on the right has two flip outs. The one on the top flips up and the one on the bottom flips to the right. I hope you liked my pages. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Till next time... MiMi THEscrapinator5000 The next section of my daybook has 5 pages that are garden/flower type pages. I have really enjoyed the gardens and birds this year. The first two page spreads are the flowers and garden the end of June. A couple pages from my nephew's visit this summer when there mom was away on business. We went on lots of bike rides and did some bug hunting. We collected things for them to put in their nature books I made them. These next two pages are a few pieces of art and sayings that inspired me this summer. It all spoke to me in different ways and I really wanted to put it all on a page. The dress form was a gift from Anne Hotchkiss over at This blog made possible by Coffee... Check out her blog, she makes super cute daybooks too. Pst...and she make a lot more of them than me....a lot!!! The next two page spreads are the July gardens. I love them because I used a lot of chipboard pieces and some felt. It really made them dimensional. This spead is garden themed too but is a adorable picture my mom took of a bird burried in the flower pot eating seads. We have lots of birds in our back yard. I really enjoy watching them. This is the center of the daybook. I challenged myself to make it a totally flat page. I chose pictures that I thought were super fun and that stood out to me this summer. I hope you enjoyed seeing these pages. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. :)
MiMi THEscrapinator5000 This is part one is a series of posts showing my pages from my Summer fun Daybook that I made back in June. I used this daybook* to document the fun things we did this summer. I have seperate daybooks for our two vacations and my son's birthday. Pages 1 - 3 are a weekend trip to the beach for Father's Day. Page 4 on the left side is my nephew's Smashing*. I made my nephews daybooks that we use for nature journals. They color in them, add stickers, draw things we saw, and we staple and paste fun things in them like rocks and feathers and sticks. The right side is my boys cooking. Ryan is on the top cooking breakfast with a friend who spent the night and Jarred is on the bottom cooking banana bread with his dad. Page 5 is of our day trip to Grand Haven, MI beach. We had a lot of fun going to the Rib Festival and walking along the boardwalk. They have a beautiful lighthouse there. The last 2 page spreads I am going to share today are from a weekend we spent with our family attending a Gus Maker tournament that my nephew played in. I hope you enjoyed seeing my pages. I had a ton of fun doing them. To be honest, I had way more fun doing this than I thought I would.
Thanks for stopping by. MiMi THEscrapinator5000 Last Friday was the launch of a new facebook group called Daybook* Delights. It has been a huge hit so far with almost 250 members in less than 3 days. I was asked to be one of the admins for the group and was very excited to accept. A couple months ago, I challenged everyone in another facebook group called SMASH*aholics to make their own Daybook*. It was a huge hit. People started posting their homemade books, sharing videos, helping eachother out and having a lot of fun with it. There was even a swap going in in conjunction with the challenge. SMASH*aholics is a huge group with over 1800 members. With that many members and so many of them going Daybook* crazy, it was easy to make the connection of a little sister group that focuses on Daybook* inspration. The origainal idea of a subgroup came from Kellie Winnell, the owner of the SMASH*aholics group. She suggested to Cathy Vee, one of the admins in SMASH*aholics and now the owner of Daybook* Delights, that she start a subgroup. Well, that's all it took and Cathy was off and running. Cathy got Kimm Landmesser, the owner of thebearyscrap.com, to help her brainstorm and work out all the details. What is a Daybook*?A Daybook* is a cross between a scrapbook or mini albumn, a Smash* book, and a journal. They are perfect for the non traditional scrapbooker. They are a mini Smash* book. It's a journal with pictures and embellishments. It's a less casual mini albumn. It's for travel or special occasions. It can be taken with you on weekend trips or thrown into a book bag for the day. It's whatever you want it to be and I LOVE IT! Here is my homemade mini book I made back in June to document all of our fun activities and our vacations this summer. The original Daybook* was created by Amy Tangerine. It's a mini book to be filled with memorabilia, pictures and journalling. You can find Amy's blog here. Check out the Daybook* Delights facebook group shout out at the bottom. How exciting!!! You can find the American Crafts blog here. They are launching a new Amy Tangerine line and featuring it on their blog right now. Got take a look, her stuff is just adorable. GiveawayTo help kick off Daybook* Delights charter, we are giving away this awesome Daybook* kit of Amy Tangerine goodies by American Craft. The goodies include a 5.5 x 8.5 Daybook*, 2 packs of dimentional stickers, a 6x6 pad of paper, fabric Thickers, a 24 pack of ribbon, die cuts and layered tags. To enter, become a member of Daybook* Delights group on facebook, leave a comment under the Giveaway photo on our facebook page telling us what you plan on doing with your next or first :) Daybook*. Anyone can win and you will have 2 weeks to join in on the fun. The drawing will end September 1 at 12pm PST or 3pm EST. Don't have a Daybook* and want one?You can make your own. With the huge Make Your Own Daybook* Challenge in SMASH*aholics, I did 3 tutorials on different binding options. Click here to go to the Daybook* binding options thread on this blog.
Don't want to make a Daybook* and but you still want one? No problem. Head over to Kimm's online store here and pick up an Amy Tangerine Daybook*. She will have the new line of Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go arriving the first week of September. She is taking preorders right now. I am really excited about this new group and Daybook*s. I am having a lot of fun with my Summer Daybook* and will be posting pictures soon. Hope to see you all at Daybook* Delights. MiMi THEscrapinator5000 These daybooks are so much fun to make. If I keep making all these tutorials on how to bind them, it am going to have a huge stack of books bigger than the one I have now. But hey, this is so much fun. I am really enjoying it. You can find the whole series of posts on making your own daybook or mini journal here. Here is a quick way to hand sew a book. You can use this for any kind of handmade daybook or journal. This is a seven hole, hand sewn binding method, using 8 1/2 by 11 inch papers. Besides your stack of cut to size papers and cover you are going to make your book with, you will need the following: scrap piece of cardstock to use as your template ruler needle mouse pad or sheet of craft foam paper piercer if you have one twine, needle point floss, yarn/fibers or nylon thread First, cut your paper and cover, stack them the way you want them and put aside. Take your piece of cardstock you will use as a template and cut it to measure the same height as your book cover. Fold it in half and then open it back up. Down the center line, measure 1 1/4 inches from the top and then every 1 inch after that. This will give you a top and bottom border of 1 1/4 inches. Poke holes at each of these marks with a paper piercer or needle. This is your template. Use your template to poke holes in your stack of paper. If you don't have a huge stack, you can poke them all at once. You can use a needle to poke your holes if you don't have a paper piercer. Use a mouse pad or craft foam sheet under your papers when you poke. Measure your thread to be about 2 1/2 times the length of the book and thread it in your needle. I used needle point floss and a needle point needle. Now the fun part! Start on the outside of the stack and stick your needle into the second hole. Come back to the outside through the third hole. Keep doing this in and out threading until you get to the bottom hole. At this point, this is what your book should look like. Now go back up the spine of the book the same way you went down. Start by going from the outside to the inside on the second to last hole. Continue in and out until you get to the top. It should end up looking like this. Tie a couple knots in your thread and you are done. This is a strong binding method that can be used for all kinds of materials and journals. I have used it to bind wall paper in art journals, felt, material and even leather pieces. If you want a very stong thread, instead of using yarn, twine or needle point floss, you can use nylon thread. It is readily available in the yarn section of most stores including Walmart. I hope you are enjoying this series of posts on making your own daybook or mini journal. I will be adding more posts later showing you some of the daybooks / mini journals I have made. You can find the complete series of posts here.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions on this or other posts. I'd love to help and to see what you've made. MiMi THEscrapinator5000 About a week ago, I made a daybook / mini journal to use this summer. You can find the full post here. I also posted some binding options yesterday which you can find here. Today I wanted to give a couple other options. The first is a different way to tie a 3 hole punch binding and the other is a ring binding. Three hole binding - second option Yesterday I showed you how to do a three hole binding where you tied it in the middle. This one is using that same hole measurements but you thread it different so you tie it at the top. Your holes are punched 1 inch from the top and bottom and then in the middle at 4 1/4 inches. Start threading from the outside to the inside at the top hole. Go back to the outside in the center hole and then back in to the inside at the bottom hole. This is what the inside of the book should look like at this point. From there, thread it back through the middle hole to the outside. It should now look like this on the outside. Tie it at the top and you are all done. Here's the inside... ...and the outside. Ring binding First thing you want to do is make a template. Punch your holes 1/2 inch from the edge and 2 inches from the top and bottom. Use your template to punch the holes in your paper and cover. Here's the inside... ...and the outside. The ring binding option will allow a lot more pages to be added to your book so it that is what you are looking for, this is the best option. I hope you are enjoying this series of posts on making your own daybook. I will be adding more posts later showing you other daybooks I have made. You can find the complete series of posts here.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions on this or other posts. I'd love to help and to see what you've made. MiMi Dibble THEscrapinator5000 |