It's another Wreck This Journal Wednesday! Here are the pages I've finished since the post I made last week. :) I am loving this book! I will probably be a little sad when I finish it, but also feel a good sense of accomplishment too. lol There are a few things that I can't do until the snow melts, so at lest I know I have a while longer with it. :)
It's hard to see in the pictures, but it's tinted pink. :)
I don't want any food smeared in here. I'm afraid of what smells it might take on or things will mold! lol So I went for stickers instead! I have a huge sticker collection.
I love my staplers... one has blue staples and the other has green! I used two blue staples to keep these pages together. I used the green staples on the office supplies pages above. :)
I've been doing more pages in my Smash Book! Click here to see the first pages I ever did. This has been a lot of fun! I am really enjoying the "smashing" time that I create for myself in the afternoons. lol I have just been making pages of things that I like and even some with the memories from trips I've taken. :)
On these two pages I decided to do butterflies! I collected everything I could possibly find in my collection of scrapbooking things with butterflies on it. lol I also added in a few flowers for them to land on. ;) I had a small book of inspirational vellum pages and that's where "Just as I am" and "New Life" came from. There are various paper butterflies/flowers and some felt ones. I used my markers to add a few bright colors on the striped page and the green lines around the tree. The white sheet about flowers that attract butterflies was cut out of my old 2013 calendar. :) I used a thin black marker to add the stitching effect around the butterfly on the left page and to add the swirly stitch marks throughout the page too. I thought these ones came out pretty! Can't wait to show off my other pages too!
I have had a Smash Book laying around for months! Tonight, I finally decided to do a couple pages in it! Along with this Smash Book, I will be doing pages in Mess and also Wreck This Journal (when it arrives). I am hoping that I can get my creative juices flowing again. I've been feeling brain dead this winter. If you aren't familiar with Smash Books, here is a short video made by
K&Company that might help you better understand what they are for. Smash
Books can be homemade in any type of book, but K&Company has a
brand called SMASH that produces "Folios" in different themes as well as many different kinds of fun accessories to decorate your book. :)
The book that I decided on is called the Pretty Pink SMASH Folio! The design on the cover is what first caught my eye. I love the pages inside! They are very vintage looking, and that speaks to me! lol I've seen some great ideas on Pinterest for adding some color to the flowers on the cover. Just search "smash book" on Pinterest and you will find some great inspiration and examples.
The first two pages I did are covered in... bunnies! I have a deep love for all things rabbit. I have rabbit plushies, books, ornaments, artwork, and figures of various materials all over my bedroom and all kinds of pet rabbits outside. :) For these pages, I cut illustrations out of books that I bought on a few different trips to Salvation Army. I had the little purple inspirational card for many, many years. I drew the silhouette of a rabbit on a miniature canvas pennant. I also had some rabbit sticky "flags" that I bought on ebay last year. I used some fancy mini tape with buttons on it... I even had a bunny shaped paper punch! There is a silver brad in the top left corner of the first page. At the bottom of that page is a picture of a cute lop bunny from the package of an Easter candy bar. I save some odd things... but at least now I can "smash" them!
I think I did pretty well for my first smash session! Really, there isn't a right or a wrong with these kind of projects. That's the best part. You make your book however you want. It will reflect your own personality and creativity. :) As I do more pages I will update here on the blog! I will also be doing pages from Mess and Wreck This Journal like I mentioned before. Thanks for checking out my new pages! See you again soon!
I've seen the videos before, but I finally decided to try it. I made lip colors with Crayola crayons! It was very cool and super easy to do. I looked for a very simple recipe and found one with only 2 ingredients; crayons and coconut oil! I used the video below from Madisradd to help me out with the process. :) There are other videos out there and you can add other ingredients as well. Go take a look on YouTube! I also made some easy flavored lip balms too. I've got a base mixture that is easy to melt and add too. I decided to do this mostly because it looked really interesting, but
also because Christmas is coming up and I thought my 6 year old niece
would get a kick out of the idea that I made some of these from crayons. lol I
am making her an advent calendar this year. I will be doing a post on
that soon too! :) I thought she would love receiving these as some of her
little gifts.
First thing... you need a container!
I emptied out old and/or cheap makeup that I didn't use anymore. I was left with some great little jars and also eye shadow palettes. You can also buy containers in many online stores or craft stores! I will probably have a post up later about reusing old containers and how to clean them for use in "depoting" other products. :)
Next I got some of the things I needed according to the video. A pot and small glass container to melt my ingredients, measuring spoons and a stirring stick. Of course, don't forget your crayons! I also have a lip balm base (white jar with pink lid) and decide to make some flavored lip balms. The base is from Elements Bath and Body. To add color and shimmer to those lip balms, I sometimes use lipsticks (or in this case a cream blush stick) or eye shadows. The base is ready to add to and easy to melt.
To make the balms with the base from EBB, I also use candy flavorings and this pipette to put the mixture into the containers. :) The flavoring oils are very cheap and I bought them at Walgreens. There was a pretty big flavor selection. I have things like peppermint, watermelon, tangerine, mango, strawberry and banana cream. As a note, make sure not to get the melted base too hot before adding an oil. It makes it separate and not mix very well. You might see little bubbles of flavor oil.
My finished products! At the top is 4 different crayon lip colors. The swatches are below. The colors ended up being pretty buildable. I found that the blue was very soft. Perhaps from having too much coconut oil and not enough wax? I filled two tiny jars with the coral and light purple colors to add to my niece's advent calendar (one is at bottom right). I made the dark purple with crayons for myself. All of these obviously smell like coconut. The other lip balms in the center and to the right are made from the meltable base from EBB. The dark pink has the cream blush added to it for color and a little bit of hot pink eye shadow to make it shimmery. I added blueberry and pomegranate flavor oil too it. The lighter color just had a light pink eye shadow that added a little color and shimmer. I added butterscotch flavor to that one! It's brown, so it changed the color slightly.
