Book Cover Welcome to The Southern Institute, I'm so glad you're here! Make sure you stay in the know... subscribe to our newsletter! Today is going to be fun! We have another guest with us who is sharing a great project! Larissa from mmmcrafts is visiting. Gotta get some of those shoes! Well, hello Southern Institutioners! So a bit about me. Make a Mini Memo Book Cover I love these inexpensive little 3.25 x 4.5 inch composition books. ), usually for less than a dollar US each. So here’s how to pretty them up with a nice re-usable cover. You’ll need: this templateprinterletter sized card stockscrap of decorative papercraft kniferuler glue (I used Fabri-Tac)optional bradoptional embroidery floss 1) First step is to print the template at actual size on the back of the card stock. 2) Use the provided spine pattern to trace and cut out a spine from a scrap of decorative paper. It will be a bit longer than the cover, so it will overlap nicely when you glue it on and it is a cinch to get it centered: There!
Maitri Libellule at Dragonfly Cottage... Photo Tile Coasters Last Christmas I almost had a breakdown... We had just moved in to our home the month before, but I didn't want to let that prevent us from having the holliest jolliest Christmas. My intentions were good. I wanted to make Christmas special for everyone, but I learned the hard way that I should have been planning ahead!! And that's how it happened. Well, with this project I created an anniversary gift AND a Christmas gift. While I was in Utah, my sweet cousin Michelle showed me a couple of projects using resin. Here's how I made these photo coasters... I started out with a trip to Home Depot. Next, I ordered some photos. Only 13 cents a print at Costco! I used a regular old Elmer's glue stick to paste each picture onto the tiles. I won't give a full tutorial on using resin because each product is a little different. After mixing the resin with the hardener, I just poured it on! Then it took them a full 24 hours to harden up! All done! Now these are stinkin' cute!! Happy weekend!
Maitri Libellule (periwinklenotes) Recycled magazine coasters My latest after-dinner-while-watching-TV project: woven coasters made from magazine pages. To make a coaster like the green one above: 1. Tear out 6 magazine pages. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Maitri's Heart Not a Scrapbook Scrap-booking (is there such a verb?) seems so forced, and well, last-century. Next time you have a lot of pictures to work with, why not make a little booklet? This makes a nice souvenir of a special day or trip, and is a wonderful, small gift. Heres how: In your favorite page layout program, divide the page into quarters. Layout the pictures following the guidelines shown above. Print out the first page of your booklet, and put the page back into your printer to print on the backside. Fold your double-sided page in both directions, as shown. You can continue to add pages, but you must add them in sequences of eight. All the photographs in this tutorial are courtesy of the talented photographer Jack_G, and are available through a Creative Commons license. Like this: Like Loading...
Cute Notebook just a notebook but it's all hopped up on cuteness. simple fun notebooks from wal-mart....with many many ribbons tied to the side. that's it. this is the mysterious crayon project! using old crayons...i made new ones. (you can make ice or bake in them too.) first break the crayons up and put the pieces into the shapes on the trays. set the silicone trays on a cookie sheet for stability. preheat your oven to 250-ish. put sheet of trays into the warm oven and check at 10 minutes. when all the crayons pieces have become liquid....they are done! remove the sheet from the oven and let cool for at least an hour...or 3 or 4. the liquid wax was beautiful! i was loving it! i wanted to pour it all over something and paint with it. maybe another time.... each letter crayon is about 2 inches tall. they are still crayons.... just now instead of being dull shaped old crayons in the bottom of the box they are adorable bright alphabet shapes. i love them. and now for the new obsession. it's SO EXCITING!!! and voila!
Bookworm Gift Basket Once upon a time there was someone searching for the perfect gift. They traveled far and wide throughout Blogland looking for the gift that would be perfect for their one true love. Suddenly, they stumbled across a blog with magical powers. The End For the bookworm in your life, whether they are your one true love or not, this is a gift sure to please! To make this gift you will need: Gift BasketComfy throw blanketA book, or two, or three :)Printable tags & bookmarksOptional items: cute mug, hot chocolate, book light, gift card to favorite bookstore Bookmarks: Gift Tag: The best way to print the bookmarks and the tags will be to save the images and then open in a program like Word and resize them to be the size you want. And now for the important part…the winner of the Smirk giveaway is…. Comment #14- Life with the Ellwoods! Thank you to everyone who entered, it was a lot of fun and I love all the Smirk products.
Vintage Map Notebook Along with the straight up Washi tape peel and stick style notebook covers which need no instruction, I also whipped up this pretty one and thought I'd share the how to with you, I love the look of woven anything and paper? well it just looks so cute using maps. You'll need two pieces of a Map/Atlas etc that have a mix of watery and land mass areas to give a mix of colours. I chose one piece with solely land and the other was mostly water. Mark up strips on the opposite side you want to use to avoid ugly black marks. Next I weighted the bottom of the Vertical pieces down with some cans and started weaving When you've woven enough to cover the book front and back, add some tape to the bottom of the woven pieces leaving enough of the tape to be able to fold over and seal the ends together. Repeat for the top and sides. Layer Double sided tape to completely cover the front and back, making sure the spine has tape adhered to it also. Excuse my Blue thumbs! Trim around the edges.