Ginger Ropp's Easy Instagram Waterfall Mini Album

I found Ginger Ropp's awesome tutorial video over at Graphic 45 the other day and just loved it!  It is so easy to follow.  Her directions are explained very well.  I hope you have as much fun as I did creating these darling mini albums from her video.  They are great for Instagram photos.  She explains that in her video.  Enclosed at the bottom of this post is an insert to put inside the album and give as gifts that you may copy and print if you'd like.  Simply open the image and right click on it.  Click on "save image as" and there you can save it to your computer to print off later.  Here is the link to Ginger's video.  
http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2014/12/graphic-45-handmade-gift-guide-day-three.html 

Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet Candle Pillars

Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet

Covering candles is fun using the Graphic 45 papers.  These two candle pillars were given to me painted gold.  I added the painted pearl red trim and glittery poinsettias. 

I cut out the Nutcracker design and while holding the paper to the candle, I pinned using two tiny straight pins with one red bead in each through the paper into the candle at the two corners.  Then I Mod Podged the paper to the candle and fastened the other two corners with the tiny straight pins and beads.  I finished by pinning and hot gluing the poinsettias to the candle and pillar.   

Once Upon An Eerie Tale Picks Graphic 45

Graphic 45 Once Upon An Eerie Tale Pick

Here is a pick I made using the Graphic 45, Once Upon An Eerie Tale papers.  Fun!  I added it to my fall door decoration for the Holiday.  

 Fall Pick

G45 Bird Song

Graphic 45 Bird Song Papers Wall Grouping

Mail and Key Holder with Graphic 45 Papers

 

Mail and Key Holder with Graphic 45 Papers

First off, I would just like to say how much I love the Graphic 45 papers for scrap booking and their uses for just about any idea you can come up with. They all are beautiful!   For some really wonderful ideas using the Graphic 45 papers, check out the amazingly talented crafters over on Pinterest.  

I got this cute mail and key holder at Mangelsens in Omaha awhile back with the idea of using the Graphic 45 "Secret Garden" papers.  When my mother-in-law went into a care facility this past month, I thought she would like this to keep her mail, important papers and whatever else she would like to put into the holder.  I sure had fun making this and want to thank those whom I follow on Pinterest for their awesome ideas on these types of items and the tiny albums.  You all are just so talented!!  Thank you!

The following photos are close-ups of each item I covered and made.  Have fun making your own Graphic 45 treasure!

Graphic 45 is great in that they offer these really nice extras with their papers.  From tags to embellishments that match the papers beautifully.  The sky's the limit to your imagination.  

Tiny album using one of the Secret Garden papers.  I cut each of these out and made them into a ring album.  I added photos of her grandchildren and great grandchildren in each page. 

All of the Graphic 45 theme papers have pages of little extras.  A couple of the Secret Garden pages I used had cut outs to make this album.  This was a lot of fun to make.  You can get some really good ideas through videos others have shared on Pinterest on how to make the tiny albums.  

Those of you familiar with Graphic 45 will notice I used a scrap piece from the "Place in Time" Graphic 45 papers for the corner pouch to hold my niece's photo.  If you like, you can mix and match themes with the Graphic 45 papers too!  

I love these added cut outs in the Graphic 45 pages where my mom-in-law can write her treasured memories.  

I want to share with you the best video I found to make the paper flowers shown at the left in this photo.  Irma Soria shows you an easy way to make these.  Go to this link on youtube.   Thank you, Irma!

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=how+to+make+flowers+out+of+scrapbook+paper&vid=e21ab342050a131395f666303745b991&l=6%3A50&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DVN.608034817953369127%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqht388myRL0&tit=Paper+flowers&c=1&sigr=11aqkcac2&sigt=10dcof2j6&ct=p&age=0&&tt=b

Keepsake Recipe Page

Keepsake Recipe Page

I wanted to save the recipes given to me by my mom and mother-in-law in their own handwriting.  This page was made using Christmas holiday paper.  You can choose any design paper you'd like for this project.  I made this awhile back and honestly could not tell you what brand of scrapbook papers I used.  I started by making the recipe cards out of the red paper as shown in the photos.  You can use one of the recipe card templates below, if you desire or you can make your own. As you can see, I put in the words, "Recipes for Love."  You can put whatever you'd like.  "Mom's Recipes" or "Recipes of Love" to give you an example.

For the recipe holder, I cut the green paper to a 5" x 7" size and folded the edges in to make it the size you see here.  It is made just large enough to hold a recipe card size.  I then took the red paper and cut two strips about 3 inches wide each and long enough to measure the same as the green paper.  I folded that piece of paper into an accordion style the same way we learned to make a paper fan in school.  I measured again and cut the accordion strips to match the size of the green recipe holder.  Tape or glue one edge of the red accordion paper to the back of the green recipe cover as shown in the second photo.  Do this with the second red accordion paper on the other side of the green recipe cover.  Place the green recipe holder onto your layout and decide where you want it to go.  Now glue or tape to the back of the folded red accordion paper piece and place down onto your layout.  The rest is done as shown in the two photos.  You can use your imagination and design any layout you'd like.  Have fun saving those precious recipes in your loved one's handwriting to a scrapbook.



To print off the below images on card stock, double click on the image.  Right click on the opened image and click on "save image as".  Then choose a file on your computer to put your recipe card template into.  From this folder open the image and click on "print" from your "file" section where you see "file, edit, view, history", etc at the top of your screen.  

Courtesy of Print Shop 3.0

Flippin' Months

 

I really love the Graphic 45, Place in Time papers.  

To view these papers, highlight, then right click on the following website below.  Then click on "open in a new tab or window."

http://www.g45papers.com/products/place-in-time-category

I got my Place in Time paper tablet at The Scrapbook Page in Aurora, NE but you can go anywhere that offers scrapbook supplies and order from there.  You can also get them at the Graphic 45 website above.

The "Recollections Scrapbook Page Holder" stand can be purchased at Michael's Crafts.  They have two sizes.  One is a 12 x 12 size and the other is an 8 x 8 size.  You can also get extra refill pages there.  I used the 8 x 8.  I cannot find where you could order the stand online.  I had to physically go to Michael's to get mine.

As you can see in the photos, I cut down the 12 x 12 papers to fit to the 8 x 8 Scrapbook Page Holder.  I had a lot of fun creating a page for each month of the year.  Now when a new month arrives, I flip the page over to that month.  There are so many wonderful ideas for using the Place in Time papers at the Graphic 45 website and you can check out Pinterest for more ideas.  Have fun!