Tribute to The Girlfriend's Club

Bruised and battered paper flower

Close up of what hopefully can be seen as a bit of glimmer

I have been quite enamored by this series of weekly video blogs on scrapbooking by Leah Fung, Johanna Peterson and Donna Salazar for the past couple of weeks now. How sad was I to discover that they have decided to end "Leah's Scrapbook Room" just very recently. :'( It was very informative and packed with a lot of useful tips. Most of all, it inspired me to try a lot of things that I've never even dreamed of trying. So this is my little homage to the three girlfriends - my very first attempt at Donna's paper flowers. I used the extra pages from my teacher's record book. And a vintage looking button from my mom's jar of old buttons. I also tried to make my own glimmer mist from pearlized puff paint and hairspray.

To help you to remember

Waiting for the glue to dry...

The finished product

I helped my sister with this cork board she wanted to put up at her home, for posting her family's schedules, lists, etc. It's the first time I've worked outside (in the lanai, that is) and it this was in November so it was nice out. Most of the time, it's too hot to work outside, that you'd have to turn on the electric fan and everything just gets blown away.

A promise kept

The notebook I pretty-fied for my sister.

And a tiny one for me, too.

Used the Slice Design Guide (that tiny brochure-like thingie on the left) as inspiration for embellishing a small notebook I intend to use as a journal. I used the scraps from a notebook I embellished for my sister, which I promised to do for her a long time ago (oops). Well, at least I didn't forget.

One more recycled notepad

I decided to decorate this pad in a landscape format with a rubber stamp. My mom got it on sale (for really cheap) because (I think) the rubber image was off center. I used brute force to remove it and then stick it back on at the center, so now it's easier to work with. Made a tiny bookmark from the practice I did on a scrap piece of kraft cardstock and used watercolor pencil to color in the flowers. But only for the bookmark, I don't think I feel like coloring in all the images for the entire notepad. :P