Hat Pin Book Tutorial & GIVEAWAY

Hello, Crafty Friends!! It's another gorgeous day in and out of my craft room!! And I want to share some of that gorgeousness with all of you!!

Speaking of GORGEOUSNESS in the craft room...

Today's project was made using GORGEOUS papers from DCWV's Royal Gypsy Stack. This entire stack is filled with beautiful patterns with a variety of rich blues. And as an awesome bonus... check out the awesome gold foil!!

Other Supplies Used

4"x 4" Paper Lace Pad (DCWV)

Eileen Hull Designs' Scoreboards Needle Book Die (Sizzix)

Creative Station Lite (Xyron)

Mat Board (Sizzix)

Crinkle Ribbon

Eyelash Yarn

Le Plume II MArkers- Pale Green, Violet, Light Blue (Marvy Uchida)

Water Brush (Pentek)

Glossy Accents (Ranger)

Magnet Disks

Metal Embellishment (Momenta)

Rhinestone

Scissors

Paper Trimmer

This sheet is just an awesome sample of what is included. 

It is also what started this whole project! I was flipping through the pages and found a gold foiled feather. It was part of a panel that had a beautiful sentiment. But the sentiment was too large to what had in mind.

I decided to use it anyway. And used my Marvy Le Plume II Markers and a water brush to color and shade my gold feather. I used Pale Green for most of the feather with Lt. Blue down the center. I added more Lt. Blue up top and Violet in the center for the "eye". Then just blended out all the colors with my water brush.

Once I got the colors to the intensity I wanted, I cut the feather out by hand.

Such a pretty feather needs something just as pretty to lay on...

I had this awesome die in my collection and had been wanting to make one for a while now.

So, I used a couple coordinating sheets from the Royal Gypsy Stack and layered it onto some Mat Board. Then ran through my Big Shot stacked on my die... and cut it all at the same time!

It not only cut my patterned paper, it separated the patterned paper pieces at the crease lines (which saved me time from cutting them apart), and it made crease lines in the mat board, all in one pass!!

Next, I ran the segmented pieces through my Xyron Creative Station Lite to add adhesive to the backside of the paper.

Then attached the patterned paper to both sides of my book cover and buffed down the sharp edges with a sanding block.

I added a line of clear liquid adhesive to the inside middle of the book. ONLY down the center.

Then added a 4"x 3.25" piece of felt.

I didn't worry about glue showing through... I simply ran crinkle ribbon down the middle, flipped it over and tied it off on the outside. Finishing off with a basic bow.

Then I glued the closure to the outside of the back side of the book. wrapped around front to see where it met and added a magnet on both the book and to the closure strap. (No picture of this step sorry! By the time I realized I did take a pic I had already glue it down and was on the next step)

Once, my glue had dried. I moved onto dressing up my front. I wanted the feather to be the focal point of the cover but it got lost in the patterned paper I chose.

I found the really pretty gold foil doily on the Paper Lace pad and it was perfect... it just needed to be trimmed down a bit. I cut about 2 inches off and attached it to my front cover.

Then added foam adhesive behind the feather and mounted it onto the doily. I tied eyelash yarn around the feather for more texture, then added a metal embellishment to the bottom of the feather.

And here is my finished book...

I also added a tiny rhinestone to the top of the closure. 

And...

Remember when I said I wanted to SHARE some GORGEOUSNESS??!!

Well, I am giving away this Hat Pin Book to one lucky person!!

But what's a Hat Pin Book without HAT PINS, right??!!

So... Included in this GIVEAWAY are three handmade hat pins!!!!

Each pin was handmade (by me) with Swarovski Crystals!

***Disclaimer***

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, affiliated, or endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any of their subsidiaries.

You do not have to "follow" or "like" to be entered in the giveaway but if you did, it would be greatly appreciated!!

Good Luck, Everyone!!

Hope you all have a GORGEOUS day!!

**UPDATE**

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED AND THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED IN A SEPARATE POST

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Cityscape Backdrop

Hello Crafty Friends!! I have another "SPIDEY" project to share with you all. This is a cityscape skyline backdrop for my son's upcoming birthday party. If you read the previous post about his birthday banner you already know that he absolutely wanted a Spider-Man themed birthday party. And, I was more than thrilled to take up the challenge.

For those of you who have read my post about with the Giant Cupcakes

you know I love to use mat-board for my over-sized party decorations. I do this for 2 reasons. 1) I do not possess the necessary tools or skills to make it out of wood. And, 2) Mat board is so much easier and lighter to handle and craft with.  

For the action signs I used Design on Cloud 9's Superboy & Supergirl cutting files and I slightly enlarged the backgrounds behind the wording.

 The BOOM is from the Supergirl file.

 Pow is from the Superboy file

Wham also came from the Supergirl file.

Each file has two sets of action words in addition to various superhero themed designs.

This picture is to show how HUGE this backdrop is. This is my 5 year old and my 1 year old in the picture hamming it up.

As you can see it is taller than she is!

And my 1 year old is barely peeking through the buildings. 

This scene is great on the floor but thankfully it's not going to stay here for long... I'm afraid my children will do some Godzilla action on this city and it'll be mangled before it's used for the party. So, back up and away it goes till later.

That's all I got for today. But this is the last week before the party and I'm going for one last push before then to crank out more Spider-Man/ Super hero themed party decorations. 

I'm hoping to get a little more done before the big day. Check back soon for more updates and progress!

And, Happy Crafting Everyone!!